Featured series 
Year: 2009
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Nation & World
Wanted: Doctors for Africa
Esther Mwaikambo is used to starting small. Until her teaching hospital was started in 1997, there was only one medical school in Tanzania, graduating 25 to 40 doctors annually.
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Campus & Community
‘Aura’ migraines a stroke risk
Young women who have migraines with auras are twice as likely to have a stroke, researchers have confirmed. The investigators from the US, France and Germany did not find any link between migraines and heart attacks or death due to cardiovascular disease but there was a 30% increase in the risk of angina (heart pain).
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Campus & Community
The college transition
Freshman Parents Weekend involves first-year students and family in sessions designed to smooth the transition to college.
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Campus & Community
Women’s volleyball looks to keep pace in Ancient Eight
The Harvard women’s volleyball team, which split its recent games with a 3-0 sweep of Brown (Oct. 23) and a 3-0 loss to Yale (Oct. 24), is embarking on a four-game home stand.
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Campus & Community
Crimson stay unbeaten in Ivies
Homecoming was all about highs and lows in Harvard’s 37-3 blowout of the Princeton Tigers on Saturday (Oct. 24).
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Campus & Community
Crimson fall in OT to Princeton
Andre Akpan ’10 moved two steps closer to becoming the all-time leading scorer for men’s soccer at Harvard after scoring his ninth and 10th goals of the season on Oct. 20 and Oct. 24.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Medical School releases iPhone app to protect against swine flu
As the threat of the swine flu (otherwise known as H1N1) pandemic become more serious and President Obama declares a national emergency over the rapidly spreading virus, Harvard Medical School is hoping to help educate people with its new iPhone app. The Swine Flu app, which is currently available on the app store, costs $1.99.
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Science & Tech
To tell the truth
Harvard University study suggests that the pain of torture can make even the innocent appear guilty to those interrogating them.
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Campus & Community
UHS to open final seasonal flu clinics
After a dwindling supply of vaccines forced the suspension of seasonal flu clinics, University Health Services (UHS) officials said today (Oct. 26) that it had acquired additional doses and would be able to reschedule several clinics.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 21
At its fourth meeting of the year on Oct. 21, the Faculty Council spoke with President Drew Faust, reviewed the Dean’s Annual Report, and discussed a report from the Standing Committee on pedagogical improvement.
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Campus & Community
Study says 1 in 5 children lack vitamin D
At least 1 in 5 US children ages 1 to 11 don’t get enough vitamin D and could be at risk for a variety of health problems including weak bones, the most recent national analysis suggests. By a looser measure, almost 90 percent of black children that age and 80 percent of Hispanic children could…
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Health
Darkness with the light
Adult survivors of childhood cancer have an increased risk of suicidal thoughts, even decades after their cancer treatments have ended, according to a study led by Harvard researchers at Dana-Farber…
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Nation & World
Geoffrey Canada’s good works
Geoffrey Canada was honored with the Robert Coles “Call of Service” Lecture and Award for his work. The annual event is sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House Association and recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the public service realm.
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Nation & World
In praise of public service
Even while extolling the virtues of public service, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick focused on the pitfalls of public life during remarks in an Oct. 22 Harvard Kennedy School forum on “Inspiring Public Service.”
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Campus & Community
Few turning to civilians’ police board
The report was conducted by a team of researchers led by Christopher E. Stone, a professor of criminal justice at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Stone said the review board and the police department’s internal affairs system are suffering for a variety of reasons, some of them quite simple: They are not keeping…
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Campus & Community
NIH Heart Institute Director Heading for Harvard
Elizabeth Nabel; director of the $3 billion National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; told staff in a memo today that with “bittersweet emotions” she is leaving at the end of this year to become president and CEO of the Harvard University-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Faulkner Hospital in Boston…..
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Campus & Community
Harvard may alter some expansion plans
Harvard president Drew Faust indicated yesterday that there is a strong possibility the design of its much-anticipated $1 billion science complex, at the heart of the university’s expansion into Allston, may be scaled back as Harvard grapples with new financial realities….
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Health
Finding the seat of language?
A team of Harvard and University of California, San Diego (UCSD), researchers report having pinpointed an area of the brain where three essential components of language — word identification, grammar,…
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Campus & Community
Theodore Sizer dies at 77
Onetime Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Dean Theodore Sizer, who spent half a century as a teacher, education reformer, leader, author, and mentor, died Oct. 21 at his Harvard, Mass., home. He was 77.
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Nation & World
Making a difference
Harvard President Drew Faust shares her thoughts on public service work with U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan.
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Campus & Community
Homecoming kickoff
The College Alumni Programs office of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) invites alumni and their families to join classmates and friends this weekend (Oct. 23-24) for the kickoff of the Harvard College Homecoming celebration.
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Campus & Community
Save with Harvard’s Vendor Fair
Harvard University Strategic Procurement will host seminars Oct. 29 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on how to cut costs, work more efficiently, and be green.
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Campus & Community
Faust takes the long view
President Drew Faust addresses the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, discusses tough economic times, recommitment to expansion, and ties with Allston neighborhood.
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Nation & World
‘Human Rights as Public Service’
The Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy celebrated its 10th anniversary in a forum Oct. 21 that examined what has been achieved in the past decade and what remains to be done.
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Nation & World
Clash of two worlds
Noted Turkish scholar Baskin Oran explores Western impact and Turkey in a six-part lecture series.
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Health
Nanowires go 2-D, 3-D
Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, scientists have determined how to introduce kinks into arrow-straight nanowires, transforming them into zigzagging two- and three-dimensional structures with correspondingly advanced functions.
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Campus & Community
Funds available for faculty conducting research on Kuwait and the Gulf
The Harvard Kennedy School is now accepting applications for the fall 2009 funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund.
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Campus & Community
Phys Ed: Is Running Barefoot Better for You?
Daniel Lieberman, PhD, a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University, studies and periodically practices barefoot running. His academic work focuses in part on how early man survived by evolving the ability to lope for long distances after prey, well before the advent of Nike shoes. There “is good evidence that humans have been…
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Campus & Community
Teachers’ house calls make pupils, parents feel at home
Boston, which is working in partnership with Harvard University, began its program two years ago and has expanded it to five elementary schools. It followed Springfield’s effort, which launched about five years ago as a partnership among that city’s teachers union, a middle school, and the Pioneer Valley Project, a faith-based community-organizing group that works…
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Arts & Culture
Deep into indigo
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma examines the educational value of indigo through a number of disciplines.
