Featured series 
Year: 2009
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Health
Calorie reduction key to weight loss, not food type
Many popular diets emphasize either carbohydrate, protein, or fat as the best way to lose weight. However, there have been few studies lasting more than a year that evaluate the effect on weight loss of diets with different compositions of those nutrients.
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Campus & Community
HLS mock trial team takes top honors at Black Law Students Association event
The Harvard Black Law Students Association’s (HBLSA) Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial team won first-place honors at the Black Law Students Association’s Northeast Regional Conference this February. The team will move on to the National Conference in Irvine, Calif., on March 18.
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Nation & World
Looking at the world through a comparative lens
When Steven Levitsky talks politics, a boyish enthusiasm takes over. It’s hardly surprising. He fell in love with the topic at the age of 5.
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Nation & World
Taking on the ‘Godzilla Economy’
The president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas delivered a somber economic message Monday night (Feb. 23) during the annual Albert H. Gordon Lecture at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. But while Richard Fisher admitted that policymakers should have heeded the signs of financial stress long ago, he expressed hope that…
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Nation & World
Panelists disagree sharply about Germany’s progress
A group from the worlds of politics, business, and the academy gathered at the Harvard Faculty Club for a look at “Germany in the Modern World: Division and Unity,” a student-organized conference.
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Campus & Community
Crimson power back to tame Tigers
In basketball, embarrassment can be excruciating, but it can also serve as a powerful motivator. It took an embarrassing first half against Princeton (Feb. 20), in which the Crimson trailed 6-28 at one point, for Harvard to muster a bit of motivation.
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Campus & Community
Crimson take ECAC championship with wins over St. Lawrence, Clarkson
This season the Harvard women’s hockey team (17-9-3; 16-4-2 ECAC) didn’t quite match last year’s 27-1 regular season record, nor did they post a 22-0 record in the ECAC. But what they did do may be even more impressive — starting the season with a disconcerting 6-7-3 record, and ending it by clinching the 2009…
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Campus & Community
Women’s fencing undefeated in Ivy League Championships
The Harvard women’s fencing team — ranked fourth in the nation — extended its winning streak to an impressive 14 games, as the Crimson dominated the Ivy League Championships to advance to an overall record of 20-1.
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Campus & Community
Men’s lacrosse tops No. 5 Duke, 9-6
In just the second year under head coach John Tillman, the Crimson men’s lacrosse team — which went 6-8 last season — has already started with a bang as they upset fifth-ranked Duke on Saturday (Feb. 21), 9-6.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Swim School offered
The Harvard Swim School is a program for all levels of swimming and diving ability taught by members of the Harvard men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams, under the supervision of the varsity coaching staff. The purpose of the school is to give individualized instruction to children and adults, ages 5 and up.
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Campus & Community
Undergrad grants available through Schlesinger Library
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites Harvard undergraduates to make use of the library’s collections with competitive awards of up to $2,500 for relevant research projects.
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Campus & Community
Carr Center receives gift to support LGBT research
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is now offering the Traub-Dicker-HKS Summer Research Fellowship to support research by HKS students interested in human rights issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities.
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
Ca. February 1963 — In the latest of a long series of skirmishes with Harvard, Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci proposes that the Lampoon Castle be converted into a public restroom.
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 23. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Health
Alzheimer’s-associated plaques may have impact throughout the brain
The impact of the amyloid plaques that appear in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease may extend beyond the deposits’ effects on neurons — the cells that transmit electrochemical…
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Science & Tech
New committee to create University-wide conflict of interest policies and principles
A newly empaneled committee is about to begin an intensive review of University-wide conflict of interest (COI) “principles, policies and recommendations.” The committee, under the direction of David Korn, vice…
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Health
New ALS gene identified
A collaborative research effort spanning nearly a decade between Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and King’s College London (KCL) has identified a novel gene for inherited amyotrophic lateral…
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Health
Predicting risk of stroke from one’s genetic blueprint
A new statistical model could be used to predict an individual’s lifetime risk of stroke, according to the results of a study by Harvard researchers at the Children’s Hospital Boston Informatics Program.
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Health
Weight loss bottom line: Fewer calories
A new study by Harvard researchers and colleagues shows that eating fewer calories leads to weight loss, regardless of where those calories come from. Many popular diets emphasize either carbohydrate,…
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Health
Low-income women with diabetes at increased risk for postpartum depression
Researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the University of Minnesota have found that living just above the poverty line and having diabetes increases by 50 percent a woman’s chance…
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Health
Vitamin B and folic acid may reduce risk of age-related vision loss
Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have found that taking a combination of vitamins B6 and B12 and folic acid appears to decrease the risk of…
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Health
Patients are untapped resource for improving care, study finds
A 15-month study of 21,860 patients and 110 primary care physicians at 11 Harvard Vanguard health centers found that patients who received mailed reminders that they were due for colorectal…
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Health
Scientists identify antibodies effective against bird, seasonal flu viruses
Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported the identification of human monoclonal antibodies (mAb) that…
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Campus & Community
Allston update letter
Dear Colleagues, Friends and Neighbors: I am writing today to update you on our plans for development in Allston.
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
Feb. 28, 1902 — The Athletic Committee approves the formation of a swimming club.
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 16. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Arts & Culture
‘Egg & Nest’
World-renowned photographer Rosamond Purcell’s photographs of exquisitely elegant eggs and remarkable nests are on view at the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s new exhibit, “Egg & Nest,” on display through March 15.
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Campus & Community
James Franco well-done at Hasty roast
On the most superstitious day of the year, James Franco got lucky. With his roguish grin and trademark James Dean looks, the actor appeared stunned but happy during his Friday the 13th roast as Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Man of the Year, rubbing his Pudding Pot and declaring, “Now I’ve made it.”
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Arts & Culture
Briggs-Copeland reading features poets Klink and Richards
Tonight (Feb. 19) at 7, Houghton Library hosts Harvard’s first Briggs-Copeland Poetry Reading. The event, held in the Edison and Newman Room, will feature readings by Joanna Klink and Peter Richards, two of Harvard’s six Briggs-Copeland Lecturers. Bret Anthony Johnston, director of the creative writing program in the Department of English, will provide an introduction.
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Campus & Community
Flu shots still available
Free flu vaccines are still available to all Harvard faculty and staff through Harvard University Health Services (HUHS). The flu shots will be given on the third floor of HUHS in Holyoke Center during regular weekly office hours. Similarly, faculty and staff may also receive flu shots at satellite HUHS offices at the Longwood Medical…