Featured series 
Month: September 2009
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting, Sept. 2
At its first meeting of the year on Sept. 2, the Faculty Council welcomed new members, elected subcommittees for 2009-2010, and discussed the work of the Council in the new…
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a record-breaking gamma-ray burst located 13 billion light-years from Earth.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations will convene a Consultative Conference on International Criminal Justice at United Nations headquarters in Manhattan Sept. 9-11.
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Campus & Community
Harvard attorney Frank J. Connors Jr. passes away
Frank J. Connors Jr., an in-house attorney at Harvard for the past 24 years, died on Aug. 14.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard University Extension School
The Harvard University Extension School will celebrate its centennial anniversary this fall. A private convocation will be held Sept. 25, and a public panel on the future of technology is slated for Nov. 18.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Divinity School
On Sept. 10, at 4:30 p.m., a cow will cross the Yard — in celebration of the achievements of Hollis Professor of Divinity Harvey Cox, who retired in June.
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Campus & Community
Harvard police officer Burke dies
Alfred Lee Burke, Harvard University police officer for more than 30 years, died on Aug. 10 at the age of 68.
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Health
Concentrating on stem cells
New concentration is the latest example of the University’s commitment to and pre-eminence in the promising field of stem cell research.
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Campus & Community
Professor of orthodontics Lebret dies at 92
Laure Lebret, former associate professor of orthodontics at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, died on Aug. 23 at the age of 92.
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Campus & Community
Executive Vice President Lapp brings experience to Harvard
In high-profile positions in New York and at the University of California, Harvard’s new executive vice president established a reputation as a collaborative leader with a knack for creative problem-solving.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
The Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH), based at SEAS, launched its new Innovation Space Sept. 1. The space expands SEAS’s resources for experiential innovation education and provides Harvard’s undergraduate student innovators with the first dedicated environment for learning and working in teams on entrepreneurial projects.
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Campus & Community
Senior saves you the search for quiet spaces on campus
Caitlin Rotman ’10 reveals a few quiet spaces and tranquil places around campus.
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Campus & Community
President’s office hours 2009-10
President Drew Faust will hold office hours four times throughout the 2009-10 academic term.
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Arts & Culture
Up Close, part 2
In the fast pace of our daily lives we may overlook the details which, collectively, create a stunning backdrop for all that happens within the University. Hundreds of historic volumes stand as individual works of art inside the Houghton and Widener Libraries.
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Campus & Community
Class of 2013 experiences first convocation
An official convocation ceremony took the place of the traditional opening exercises for Harvard College’s Class of 2013. The service included some new and old traditions.
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Science & Tech
Humans and computers connect in Discovery Room
Chia Shen at the Scientists Discovery Room Lab is devising new ways for researchers to visually explore large data sets.
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Campus & Community
Faust delivers first Morning Prayers of academic year
Harvard President Drew Faust, following long tradition by leading the academic year’s first Morning Prayers service at Appleton Chapel, praised the sense of common purpose brought by a coordinated School calendar. “We have chosen a common calendar for the common good,” she said.
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Arts & Culture
Johnson at 300
Harvard’s Houghton Library, home to a comprehensive collection related to 18th century English literature, sponsored a three-day international literary celebration of lexicographer, poet, essayist, and moralist Samuel Johnson, born 300 years ago this year. His work has inspired centuries of scholarship and generations of fervent ‘Johnsonians.’
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Campus & Community
A leader inside and outside the lines
Women’s soccer co-captain Lizzy Nichols leaves her impact on and off the field for the Crimson.
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Campus & Community
What the end-of-life conversation can bring
Professor Holly Prigerson, director of the Center for Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care Research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, has confronted the issue professionally and personally. Last fall Prigerson and her co-investigators published a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association examining how end-of-life care discussions between doctors and terminal patients affected the…
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Campus & Community
Building a happy ending
Harvard Graduate School of Design students unite to help Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood bring back a local library that was demolished 50 years ago to make way for Boston’s Central Artery.
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Campus & Community
Class of ’13 launches into Gen Ed
As the newly arrived Class of 2013 settles into the brick dormitories of Harvard Yard, they are already distinguished as the first matriculating class to study exclusively under the new requirements of Harvard College’s Program in General Education.
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Nation & World
Managing disasters
The Kennedy School will offer a new course this fall on disaster recovery, largely focusing on New Orleans and the work the School has done there in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Campus & Community
A Stem Cell Discovery Could Help Diabetics
This week, scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) reported the first success in generating new populations of insulin-producing cells using skin cells of type 1 diabetes patients.
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Campus & Community
Fine Arts Library reopens
The Fine Arts Library (FAL) is now open in its temporary space in the Littauer Building in the North Yard.
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Campus & Community
Department of Music’s Marvin set to retire after the school year
The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) and the Harvard University Department of Music have announced that Jameson Marvin will retire as director of choral activities at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Harvard University Police Department releases security report
The HUPD has released a report which includes information on how to report a crime, HUPD’s crime prevention programs, and other important information about security and HUPD services on campus.