Featured series 
Year: 2010
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Campus & Community
Town, gown, and football
At Saturday’s Allston-Brighton Family Football Day, neighborhood residents met and mingled with each other and with Harvard staff members over dinner before attending the evening football game.
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Campus & Community
Fundraising holds steady
Against an ongoing backdrop of global economic uncertainty, Harvard University raised $596 million in cash through fundraising efforts in fiscal year 2010. These results represent a less than 1 percent decline from the $602 million in cash raised in fiscal year 2009.
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Campus & Community
John E. Murdoch, professor of history of science, 83
John E. Murdoch, one of the world’s top scholars of ancient and medieval science, died Thursday (Sept. 16) at age 83. He had been a member of the Harvard faculty since 1963, and professor of the history of science since 1967.
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Arts & Culture
Century of scientific breakthroughs
A lecture marks the path to a Harvard exhibit of 16th century art and science, still in the making.
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Campus & Community
Helping veterans to reconnect
Harvard employees help veterans transition from the armed services to the civilian workforce through mentoring, career counseling, and networking.
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Health
Poised for progress
A discovery by scientists at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute may lead to an effective way of operating the immune system’s internal “control panel,” improving therapies for a variety of diseases.
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Science & Tech
‘It is within our grasp’
Answers to questions about life in the universe is “within our grasp,” astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger said at an Origins of Life Initiative forum.
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Nation & World
Telling it like it was
Three former spokespersons discussed their time on the press firing line when they worked in the White House.
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Campus & Community
Baby, you can drive my Zipcar
New transportation options for Harvard affiliates are energy- and cost-efficient, and can be fun, too.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Sept. 15
At its Sept. 15 meeting, the Faculty Council nominated a Parliamentarian, reviewed proposed changes to the Rules of Faculty Procedure, and heard a report from the Harvard University Retirement Plans Investment Committee.
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Science & Tech
A clean break
Engineers’ finding could provide crucial clues about cloud formation, differences between natural and polluted environments, and climate change.
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Arts & Culture
The soaring sounds of music
Harvard’s newest professor of composition explores the limits of musical expression with her works and hopes to steer students to their own musical voices.
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Arts & Culture
The golden ruling
“In Brown’s Wake,” the new book by Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow, tackles the legacy of the landmark Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Adams House
Bow and Arrow Press of Adams House hosts a weekly “Party in the Press,” where residents take part in the historic process of printing.
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Campus & Community
Takemi Fellows take Harvard, tackle international health
The Takemi Program in International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health announced the names of its incoming research fellows.
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Campus & Community
Harvard in stitches
Knitting’s popularity continues to grow — even at Harvard, where at least 20 informal knitting circles meet once a week.
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Campus & Community
They save horses, don’t they?
A meeting with a wild stallion set Harvard curator Castle McLaughlin on a journey involving an endangered horse breed and a complex exhibition.
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Campus & Community
Mallika Kaur awarded Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship
The Harvard Committee on General Scholarships has awarded Mallika Kaur, M.P.P. ’10, the 2010-11 Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, which will support her travel, study, and writing on gender issues in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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Campus & Community
‘From Harvard Square to the Oval Office’ open for applications
“From Harvard Square to the Oval Office” is now accepting applications. The program, run by the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School, is open to all Harvard University graduate students, including international students.
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Arts & Culture
The 24/7 Baby Doctor: A Harvard Pediatrician Answers All Your Questions from Birth to One Year
This valuable handbook for new parents, written by McEvoy, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, offers evidence-based solutions and covers everything from spit-up to vaccinations.
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Campus & Community
Three doctoral students receive 2010-11 Julius B. Richmond Fellowships
Doctoral students Erin C. Dunn, Sky Marietta, and Matthew Ranson have been named recipients of Julius B. Richmond Fellowships from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Anesthesia instructor named 2011 Miles and Eleanor Shore Fellow
Harvard Medical School Instructor in Anesthesia Wasim Malik has been awarded the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology’s Miles and Eleanor Shore Fellowship for 2011.
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Campus & Community
The boys are back in town
Harvard charts new football season, with high hopes … and a cautious attitude.
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Campus & Community
Weatherhead Center welcomes 2010-11 fellows
The Fellows Program of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs welcomed a new group of fellows. The fellows include senior diplomats, military officers, politicians, journalists, international civil servants, officials from nongovernmental organizations, and business leaders from around the world.
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Arts & Culture
Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
Youngme Moon, the Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, says mediocrity in competition is rampant, but it’s adventurousness that spells success. Just ask Google or Apple.
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Campus & Community
Askwith Forum offers exciting guests, talks this season
The schedule for the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Askwith Forum features an exciting array of guest speakers — from Anne Sweeney of Disney Media Networks, to “Waiting for ‘Superman’” filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, and more.
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Campus & Community
Five SEAS computer science students named 2011 Siebel Scholars
Five students dedicated to the study of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences were named among the recipients of the 2011 Siebel Scholars awards.
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Campus & Community
E.O. Wilson to lecture, co-host conservation benefit dinner
E.O. Wilson will host a lecture and dinner with biologist Daniel H. Janzen on Oct. 1 to benefit Area de Conservación Guanacaste, 163,000 hectares of tropical treasure in northwestern Costa Rica.
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Campus & Community
The backdrop on retirement funds
David Laibson, who serves on Harvard’s Retirement Investment Committee, spoke with the Harvard Gazette recently about upcoming changes to the University’s retirement investment options.
