Year: 2009

  • Campus & Community

    Jon Alpert wins 2009 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

    The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard will present the 2009 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence to veteran reporter Jon Alpert.

  • Campus & Community

    Getting involved

    “Since I realize that direct service is only one aspect of assisting, I became more involved with advocacy, working on education issues and with PBHA’s Student Labor Action Movement.”

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard helps fight hunger

    Volunteers from across the University are lending a hand to the Greater Boston Food Bank from November through May.

  • Nation & World

    ‘Call of Service’

    Harvard will begin a week of events and activities relating to service and outreach and involving Schools across the University community. The programs will help to highlight the richness of the public service landscape at Harvard and will introduce students to the many varieties and pathways into service around the University.

  • Campus & Community

    Dementia is a terminal illness, Boston study says

    Dr. Susan Mitchell of Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research and Harvard Medical School led a study of 323 patients with end-stage dementia at 22 nursing homes near Boston.

  • Campus & Community

    Robert D. Leffert

    Robert Leffert, who died on Dec. 7, 2008, at the age of 75, is remembered for being a spectacular physician who in his time at the Massachusetts General Hospital became a major force in rehabilitation medicine and also in the management of upper extremity disorders.

  • Campus & Community

    Charles Paul Segal

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 13, 2007, the minute honoring the life and service of the late Charles Paul Segal was placed upon the records. Segal is regarded as one of the most prolific 20th century interpreters of classical literature and poetry.

  • Campus & Community

    Service: Cambridge to Capitol Hill

    A Harvard education includes a healthy dose of service, as illustrated by students working in positions from Cambridge to Capitol Hill.

  • Science & Tech

    Stem cells: Mending a broken heart?

    Dr. Kenneth Chien speaks about a cardiac stem cell discovery that may be the first step on the path to regenerating healthy heart muscle.

  • Science & Tech

    Stimulus funds provide welcome research boost

    In remarks last month at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., President Barack Obama said not only do we need stimulus money to create thousands of jobs…

  • Campus & Community

    Seasonal flu vaccine update

    University Health Services (UHS) will conclude offering seasonal flu vaccinations in about two weeks as the University’s health care workers prepare for the arrival of the first doses of H1N1 influenza vaccine.

  • Arts & Culture

    Radcliffe redux, at 10

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study launched a yearlong celebration of its first decade with an interdisciplinary symposium, “Crossing Boundaries.”

  • Campus & Community

    Why One Vote Matters in the Senate

    Is this a healthy and expected consequence of Congressional politics? What might this say about how partisan politics has evolved? Is there a historical precedent that we might compare this to?

  • Campus & Community

    Study Finds Pro and Cons to Prostate Surgeries

    People intuitively think that a minimally invasive approach has fewer complications, even in the absence of data,” said Dr. Jim C. Hu, the study’s lead author, who is director of urologic robotic and minimally invasive surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

  • Campus & Community

    Stephen Lagakos, talented biostatistician with a common touch

    “His seminal contributions to the field of AIDS research helped provide crucial statistical foundations upon which we could better combat this terrible disease,’’ Julio Frenk, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, said in a statement issued yesterday.

  • Campus & Community

    Nichols among 10 finalists for Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award

    Senior Lizzy Nichols, co-captain of the women’s soccer team, was named one of 10 finalists for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award for women’s soccer on Oct. 5.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Arts Medalist named

    Composer, baritone saxophonist, and activist Fred Ho ’79 will be honored by Harvard University as the fall 2009 recipient of the Harvard Arts Medal on Nov. 13. He will perform in a tribute concert with the Harvard Jazz Bands on Nov. 14.

  • Campus & Community

    Gordon, Scales lead Crimson to victory over Cornell

    For the second straight week, the Crimson’s rushing attack, which leads the Ivy League, guided the Harvard football team to victory.

  • Campus & Community

    Web Ads Hidden Under Cloak of Invisibility

    Kraft Foods, Greyhound Lines and Capital One Financial have bought some strange ads on the Internet lately. What’s so strange about them is that they’re invisible.

  • Campus & Community

    Tweens convene for learning, support on body image

    In a study about weight and body satisfaction, researchers measured the height and weight of 4,254 schoolchildren from Nova Scotia and asked them how much they agreed with the statement “I like the way I look.”

  • Campus & Community

    Body’s Own Antioxidant May Slow Parkinson’s Decline, Study Says

    Today’s study “suggests a new approach in slowing down the rate of the disease,” said Schwarzschild, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, in an Oct. 9 telephone interview. “People live with Parkinson’s disease for decades. We want to make those decades much more manageable and keep people much more mobile….”

  • Campus & Community

    Women’s soccer downs Cornell, 2-0; extends winning streak to four

    The temperature may be falling, but the Harvard women’s soccer team is getting hot at just the right time. After an Oct. 6 victory in which the Crimson dominated Fairfield, 4-1, Harvard traveled to Ithica, N.Y., to defeat Cornell, 2-0.

  • Campus & Community

    Service of Thanksgiving for Drew Faust

    As the clouds cleared, the rain ceased and the sun began to break through, a new day in Harvard history dawned as the University’s first woman president, Drew Faust, was honored at a Service of Thanksgiving at the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.

  • Health

    For economic success, channel your inner bonobo

    Psychology Professor Marc Hauser dispels misconceptions about human and ape behavior with regard to patience, impulsiveness, and economic interactions in Harvard Museum of Natural History talk.

  • Arts & Culture

    Rare opportunity

    One of the most extensive collections of rare Chinese books outside China will be digitized and made freely available to scholars worldwide as part of a six-year cooperative project between the Harvard College Library (HCL) and the National Library of China.

  • Nation & World

    Fundamental realities

    Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich offers a list of “fundamental realities” facing the United States in the coming years in a talk at Harvard this week, as well as a list of ways to best confront them.

  • Campus & Community

    A Heroine of ‘Capitalism’

    Passionate and engaging, Warren has long been a fearless advocate for the middle class. She has been embraced by the left-wing blogosphere for challenging economic policymakers and has become a thorn in the side of the bankers and credit card companies, which, she insists, should be better regulated….

  • Campus & Community

    Scientists get closer to making safe patient-specific stem cells

    But many scientists think the safest approach is to replace the genes altogether with so-called small molecules. In a study published online today in the journal Cell Stem Cell, researchers from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute report that a single compound they dubbed RepSox can replace two of the four key reprogramming genes.

  • Health

    Three-dimensional structure of human genome deciphered

    Scientists have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the human genome, paving the way for new insights into genomic function and expanding our understanding of how cellular DNA folds at scales…

  • Science & Tech

    Wasteland and wilderness

    Harvard science historian and physicist Peter Galison is using part of his Radcliffe year to explore the intersections of forbidden wilderness and nuclear wasteland.