Year: 2010

  • Arts & Culture

    Unraveling Reconstruction

    Professor sifts post-Civil War writings for societal clues that give context to a troubled time in American life.

  • Campus & Community

    Back from Afghanistan

    A veteran, now a midcareer student at the Harvard Kennedy School, reflects on the values that his military peers bring to campus. Still, when a sharp noise splits the air, he ducks.

  • Campus & Community

    Aid groups that make a difference

    The Harvard Community Gifts Giving Fair brought to campus many local organizations whose missions are helping those in need.

  • Campus & Community

    Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility releases annual report

    Harvard’s 2010 annual report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, a subcommittee of the President and Fellows, is now available upon request from the Office for the Committees on Shareholder Responsibility.

  • Arts & Culture

    Ye olde information overload

    Before digital technology existed, scholars centuries ago beat their desks in frustration over being inundated with data too, according to Ann Blair, author of “Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age.”

  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: Kirkland House

    Holiday festivities are in high gear at Kirkland House.

  • Science & Tech

    Digital drive

    Across the University, digitization is rapidly changing the nature of scholarship, opening doors to information and collaboration, and redefining research and education.

  • Science & Tech

    Nearer, better

    Through analyzing the locations of authors of academic papers, researchers have determined that physical proximity of collaborators, especially between the first and last author, correlates with how widely the paper is cited.

  • Science & Tech

    Poor prospects

    Small and midsize cities in poor countries will be among those that suffer most from climate change’s droughts, floods, landslides, and rising waters, an expert on the world’s urban poor said in a talk at Harvard’s Center for Population and Development Studies.

  • Campus & Community

    Hyman to step down as provost

    Provost Steven E. Hyman, who spurred an expansion of interdisciplinary research at Harvard and has overseen the revitalization of the University’s libraries and many of its museums and cultural institutions, plans to leave his post after nearly a decade.

  • Campus & Community

    Law firm honors deceased partner

    Law firm Andrews Kurth LLP has created the Richard H. Caldwell Financial Aid Fund, named after its deceased senior partner Richard Caldwell, a 1963 graduate of Harvard Law School.

  • Campus & Community

    Rockefeller fellows chosen for 2011-12

    The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships Administrative Board has awarded fellowships to six graduating seniors.

  • Science & Tech

    Squeezing life into patients

    Engineers at Duke and Harvard universities have developed a “magnetic sponge” that after implantation into a patient can “squeeze” out drugs, cells, or other agents when passed over by a magnet.

  • Science & Tech

    Like computer science, only cooler

    More than 500 students in the introductory computer science course CS 50 descended on the Northwest Science Building for a music-thumping, popcorn-eating fair where students showed off their projects.

  • Campus & Community

    10 named to new Harvard Library Board

    President Drew Faust has announced the names of the first 10 members of the new Harvard Library Board, which will oversee the transition of the University’s vast library system to a coordinated structure.

  • Campus & Community

    Michael P. Burke appointed FAS registrar

    Michael P. Burke has been appointed the new registrar for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective Jan. 31.

  • Health

    Perspectives on global health

    Media mogul Ted Turner and Harvard School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk kicked off a new Internet-focused communication effort by discussing problems in global health.

  • Health

    Cholera strain tied to South Asia

    A team of researchers has determined that the strain of cholera erupting in Haiti matches bacterial samples from South Asia and not those from Latin America.

  • Nation & World

    Six years a hostage

    Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt offered a gripping discussion of her six years held hostage by the FARC rebel group during a discussion at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies.

  • Science & Tech

    ‘One-drop rule’ persists

    Harvard psychologists have found that the centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.

  • Campus & Community

    HIO seeks international art

    The Harvard International Office is seeking submissions of international art for an exhibit. The deadline is Jan. 9.

  • Science & Tech

    At last, the edible science fair

    Illustrating the tenacious bond between science and cooking, students used physics, chemistry, and biology to manipulate recipes and create foods that stretch the imagination.

  • Campus & Community

    At last, the edible science fair

    Final projects were displayed Dec. 7 for the “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter” science fair. Illustrating the tenacious bond between science and cooking, students used physics, chemistry, and biology to manipulate recipes and create foods that stretch the imagination.

  • Nation & World

    The politics of ballparks

    From Camden Yards to Fenway Park, Red Sox President and CEO Larry Lucchino has helped to push the idea of the American ballpark as a civic focal point since the 1980s. On Tuesday (Dec. 7), he shared his thoughts on “Ballparks, Politics, and Public Policy” at the Harvard Kennedy School.

  • Nation & World

    Inside a kidnapping

    New York Times reporter and author David Rohde discussed his seven months in captivity at the hands of the Taliban, which is the subject of his book, “A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides,” co-authored by his wife, Kristen Mulvihill.

  • Campus & Community

    How we get hooked

    Harvard Provost Steven Hyman gave Harvard’s neighbors in the community a taste of the University’s academic workings, with a community lecture on the biological mechanisms behind drug addiction Dec. 7.

  • Campus & Community

    Learning better

    In an event at the Harvard Business School’s Spangler Center, author Ellen Galinsky talked to principals, child-care providers, and parents about the “seven essential life skills every child needs.”

  • Science & Tech

    Caring for caring

    The art and technology of care giving — undervalued now — “cuts to the quick” of our humanity. Caring — for others, for ourselves, even for things and places — is at the core of our humanity. But how to cope with its demands in a medical setting was the subject of a two-panel conference,…

  • Campus & Community

    Executive director of Harvard Center Shanghai named

    Jeffrey R. Williams was named the inaugural executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai on Nov. 22.

  • Science & Tech

    Of two minds

    We resolve to exercise more and eat healthy, and then reach for a cupcake at the office holiday party. We pledge to put money away for retirement, but end up maxing out credit cards that charge 14 percent interest. According to Professor David Laibson, the reason for these struggles is that human beings are of…