Featured series 
Year: 2009
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Health
A look inside
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 that dwarf the double helix.
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Health
Three Harvard teams to receive $9 million each in federal funding for stem cell research
Three teams of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers are slated to receive $27 million over seven years in National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) grants for the development…
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Health
Harvard team reports major step forward in cell reprogramming
A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers has made a major advance toward producing induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, that are safe enough to use in…
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Campus & Community
Tom Cruises into lecture at Harvard Law
According to Harvard Law Record blogger Jessica Corsi, Cruise popped into celebrity attorney Bertram Fields’ guest lecture in professor Bruce Hay’s entertainment-law class. After announcing he had never heard his buddy lecture before, Cruise took a seat in the back of the class at Langdell South and even participated in the two-hour discussion.
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Nation & World
Focused on the future
Terry McAuliffe, a visiting fellow this year at the Institute of Politics, uses a Harvard stage to look at the future of the Democratic Party.
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Nation & World
Educational merits of TV
A lecture series at the Harvard Graduate School of Education explores the benefits of learning through entertainment. This most recent lecture featured Neal Baer, Ed.M.’79, A.M. ’82, M.D. ’96, executive producer of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” a network television crime drama.
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Arts & Culture
Old music new again
The Music Department honored Thomas Forrest Kelly’s longtime contributions to the study of chant and performance practice with a conference called “City, Chant, and the Topography of Early Music.”
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Arts & Culture
Updike papers acquired by Houghton Library
Harvard University has acquired a massive treasure trove of papers from one of its most famous literary graduates, John Updike ’54, the multifaceted novelist, short-story writer, poet, and critic who died last January.
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Campus & Community
U.S. study shows mammograms save lives
“The most effective method for women to avoid death from breast cancer is to have regular mammographic screening,” Dr. Blake Cady of Cambridge Hospital Breast Center and Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts told reporters in a telephone briefing…
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Campus & Community
Harvard buys Updike archive
Harvard University has acquired the manuscripts, correspondences, and other papers of John Updike, a celebrated member of the Class of 1954 who kept a Harvard library card and frequently visited the campus to research the contemporary culture that enlivened his acclaimed fiction.
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Campus & Community
Crimson look to helmets in fight against concussions
When the Harvard Crimson men’s hockey team takes center ice later this month, it will do so with another line of defense — a new hockey helmet designed by Cascade Sports in collaboration with NHL legend Mark Messier.
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Campus & Community
Running away with another victory
Harvard running back Cheng Ho ’10 ran for 132 yards on 21 carries and two touchdowns in the Crimson’s Oct. 3, 28-14 victory over the Lehigh Mountain Hawks.
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Campus & Community
Field hockey takes down Brown for fourth win of season
There wasn’t enough rain falling from the sky to stop the Harvard field hockey team on Oct. 3 as the Crimson took down the Brown Bears in overtime, by a score of 4-3.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Sandel Says Free Markets, Bonuses, Are Not Sacrosanct
In his Harvard University course on moral reasoning, Michael Sandel asks students to consider a wide variety of contentious issues, ranging from the financial bailouts to affirmative action.
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Campus & Community
Police captain heads for Harvard
Boston police Captain James Claiborne, who was once a candidate for commissioner of the department and was at one point the highest-ranking minority member on the force, is leaving to become deputy police chief at Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Men’s soccer escapes Yale in double overtime
The No. 6 Harvard men’s soccer team traveled to New Haven, Conn., Oct. 3 to defeat the Yale Bulldogs, 1-0, in double overtime.
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Health
Jack Szostak 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Jack Szostak, a genetics professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for pioneering work in the…
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Health
How does a worm build a throat?
Mention worms to most people, and they probably think of fishing, gardening, or trips to the vet. Mention them to Susan E. Mango, and she begins telling you how “absolutely…
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Health
Not having health insurance is expensive
New findings from researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) demonstrate that individuals who were either continuously or intermittently uninsured between the ages of 51 and 64 cost Medicare more than…
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Campus & Community
University Presidents Panel: Higher Ed after the Crash
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, on a panel with three other university presidents at the First Draft of History conference, noted that the crash has occasioned a moment of stocktaking, in which universities have been reminded the importance of keeping focus on the “the long view.” Universities, unlike corporations, should not be focused on the…
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Campus & Community
Claiborne and Giacoppo appointed HUPD deputy chiefs
The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is pleased to announce the hiring of two senior level managers, James Claiborne and Michael Giacoppo, to serve as deputy chiefs for operations.
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Campus & Community
‘Immortality Enzyme’ Wins Three Americans Nobel Prize
Three American scientists, including Jack W. Szostak, genetics professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, shared the Nobel Prize in medicine for research linked to telomerase, an “immortality enzyme” that allows cells to divide continuously without dying and could play a role in the uncontrolled spread of cancer cells.
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Campus & Community
Nobel Prize in Medicine shared by Harvard Medical School professor
Jack W. Szostak, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, is one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this year, with Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, and Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine….
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Campus & Community
Telomerase work wins Szostak Nobel Prize in medicine
Jack W. Szostak, a genetics professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for work on cellular structures called telomeres, which protect chromosomes from degradation.
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Campus & Community
After 100+ years, a first: homecoming at Harvard
The nation’s oldest university, which has been handing out homework since 1636 and handing off footballs since 1874, will host its first homecoming this fall, a potential new tradition designed to attract alumni to campus in years that The Game is played at Yale.
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Campus & Community
Match Game: A Modest Proposal on Revamping Law-Firm Hiring
Law Professor Asish Nanda (pictured) said he is leading a movement to reform the recruiting process that would entail transitioning law schools to a system similar to the method medical schools use to match students with residencies.
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Campus & Community
Understanding the Anxious Mind
Jerome Kagan’s “Aha!” moment came with Baby 19. It was 1989, and Kagan, a professor of psychology at Harvard, had just begun a major longitudinal study of temperament and its effects. Temperament is a complex, multilayered thing, and for the sake of clarity, Kagan was tracking it along a single dimension: whether babies were easily…
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Science & Tech
Donald Ingber awarded the 2009 BMES Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship for outstanding achievements, originality and leadership
Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., founding director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, has been awarded the Biomedical Engineering Society’s prestigious Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship for 2009.…
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Science & Tech
Invisible matters
A new study seeking to answer the question of why some galaxies are extremely dark compared with others may eventually help to explain the formation of all galaxies, according to…
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Arts & Culture
Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Business is about adapting and acting — and in an uncertain world, these authors prove that if you want to be a leader, you’ve got to have skills.