Featured series 
Year: 2010
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Campus & Community
John C. Nemiah
John Case Nemiah, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at both Harvard Medical School and Dartmouth Medical School, died on May, 11 2009, at the age of 90, in Nashua, New Hampshire. Widely beloved as a teacher, editor, academic leader and friend, he served as the Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the Beth Israel Hospital from 1968 to 1985.
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Campus & Community
Robert Smith
On November 25, 2009, Dr. Robert Moors Smith died two weeks before he would have been 97. A pioneer of modern anesthesia practice, he was considered the “Father of Pediatric Anesthesiology” in the United States.
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Nation & World
Tracing the roots of political thought
Going back millennia, Harvard’s Eric Nelson studies the emerging republican ideals that defined liberty and eventually displaced monarchy.
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Campus & Community
Invitation from President Faust
President Drew Faust invites the Harvard community to join her and Charlie Gibson, former host of ABC’s “Good Morning America” and now a visitor at the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, for a year-opening conversation on Sept. 21 at 4 p.m. in Sanders Theatre.
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Campus & Community
Stepping into action
Harvard’s pre-orientation programs point incoming freshmen to the city, the country, and the campus in an effort to give students a head start on adjusting to college life by building community through the outdoors, the arts, and more.
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Campus & Community
Class of 2014 Convocation
Harvard’s leaders welcomed the Class of 2014 Tuesday (Aug. 31), in a convocation ceremony filled with pomp and circumstance. They urged the new students to use their College years as a time to experiment, learn, and discover.
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Campus & Community
A message of inclusion
Harvard President Drew Faust opened the first Morning Prayers of the new school year with a message of inclusion for both the University and its students.
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Arts & Culture
‘Africans in Black & White’
The Du Bois Institute opens a new exhibit at the Rudenstine Gallery in conjunction with the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium and a 10-book series.
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Campus & Community
Summer the Harvard way
Harvard goes into overdrive in the summer months with a new crop of students ready to learn, and a variety of outreach programs developed for the local community.
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Health
I’ll get mine, Jack
A new paper suggests that the mutually beneficial relationships that species create are maintained mostly because of simple self-interest.
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Campus & Community
Access Harvard on mobile device
As of Sept. 1, members of the Harvard community will have everything they need to know about the University in the palms of their hands. Harvard has launched a strategic mobile initiative to package content from across the University for display on handheld devices.
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Arts & Culture
War’s artistic alchemy
Museum presentation discusses three German artists shaped in the cauldron of world war, and a younger fourth molded by the gender wars.
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Science & Tech
The speedup of climate change
Scientist discusses growing effects of global climate change with members of Harvard’s Class of 2014.
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Campus & Community
Making the big move
Families arrive at Harvard to move their students into dorms for the start of the fall semester.
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Science & Tech
Major moral decisions use general-purpose brain circuits to manage uncertainty
Harvard researchers have found that humans can make difficult moral decisions using the same brain circuits as those used in more mundane choices related to money and food. These circuits,…
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Campus & Community
A family welcome
College Dean Evelynn Hammonds welcomes families of the Class of 2014 to campus.
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Campus & Community
Telescope Detects Possible Earth-Size Planet
Harvard researchers working with NASA’s Kepler satellite reported Thursday that they might have spotted a planet just 1.5 times the diameter of Earth around a Sun-like star 2,000 light-years away…
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Arts & Culture
Hot, hot, hot
The American Repertory Theater presents a rollicking fall lineup, with surprises at every turn.
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Nation & World
A higher profile for African studies
Harvard’s Committee on African Studies has received designation as a National Resource Center by the U.S. Department of Education, raising the profile of African studies at Harvard and gaining federal funding for programs and student efforts.
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Campus & Community
Under 35, and at the top
Three 30-something Harvard researchers win TR35 technology honors for their innovative, world-shaping work.
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Health
The ties that bind
Harvard scientists say natural selection alone can explain “eusociality,” the cooperative social structure in many of Earth’s dominant species.
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Health
What’s right for me?
In a new study, Harvard scientists find that humans can make difficult moral decisions using the same brain circuits as those used on more mundane choices such as money or food.
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Campus & Community
The march is on
The Earthwatch Institute will bring its scientists to the Allston-Brighton community on Aug. 30 for a discussion titled “Saving the Penguins of Robben Island, South Africa.”
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Arts & Culture
A glimpse of lost language
Peabody Museum researcher finds 400-year-old document that contains numerical translations of a previously unknown Peruvian language.
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Campus & Community
Study Links Chronic Fatigue to Virus Class
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and Harvard Medical School link chronic fatigue syndrome to a retrovirus
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Campus & Community
Copyright scholar Kaplan dies
Benjamin Kaplan, the Royall Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School (HLS) and a former justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, died on Aug. 18.
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Arts & Culture
A life of transition
A new exhibition at Harvard’s Houghton Library explores the life of philosopher William James.
