Featured series 
Year: 2010
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Health
Constant temps key to biodiversity
New paper answers the long-standing scientific question about cause of tropics’ stunning biodiversity.
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Health
Two HSCI groups find residual genetic ‘memory’ in iPS cells;
Two groups of Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers have independently made similar discoveries about the characteristics of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), but they have reached somewhat different conclusions about the implications of the findings. Groups lead by CONTACT _Con-379F41B299 Konrad Hochedlinger at Massachusetts General Hospital and George Daley at Children’s Hospital Boston have each found that iPSCs retain…
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Health
Better odds
Test could predict which children with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia are best candidates for clinical trials of new therapies, research finds.
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Campus & Community
Academy of Management awards Noam T. Wasserman
Noam T. Wasserman, associate professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), has won the Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award from the Academy of Management in recognition of his second-year M.B.A. elective course “Founders’ Dilemmas.”
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Campus & Community
Six Harvard affiliates receive Damon Runyon fellowships
Six Harvard affiliates have been named recipients of fellowships by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on supporting exceptional early-career researchers and innovative cancer research.
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Campus & Community
HLS Professor Jonathan Zittrain appointed to SEAS faculty
Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain ’95 has been appointed to the faculty of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as professor of computer science.
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Nation & World
Business School boost
A group of college undergraduates from around the country took part in a weeklong summer program at Harvard Business School in June designed to help them explore the business school environment through the HBS case method.
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Campus & Community
Female Academics Less Satisfied Than Male Counterparts
In the survey, led by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, women reported less satisfaction with reasonableness of scholarship expectations for tenure, whether their institutions make raising children and the tenure track compatible and the way they spend their time as faculty, among others…
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Campus & Community
Green Team scores
In the three years since its inception, the volunteer Green Team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education — 15 students, faculty, and staff — has made significant strides.
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Science & Tech
Class act
Two floors of classrooms in Larsen Hall at the Harvard Graduate School of Education are the first in the world to win the highest LEED-CI rating.
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Health
A bloomin’ spectacle
A rare and curious plant from Sumatra’s rainforest has bloomed at Harvard.
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Health
‘Test and treat’ won’t stop HIV/AIDS epidemic, study finds
Implementing a program of universal HIV testing and immediate antiretroviral treatment (ART) for infected individuals could have a major impact on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Washington, DC, but a new study by led by Harvard researchers finds that it would not halt the epidemic, something that a previous report had projected. In a paper that will appear in the August 15 issue…
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Campus & Community
Partners to build Haiti hospital
Partners In Health, the Boston-based global health initiative that has been the face of health care in Haiti after the devastating earthquake six months ago, is building a new teaching hospital there.
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Arts & Culture
Oberon is so on
Oberon, the American Repertory Theater’s sister theater space, is turning up the volume with its summer schedule.
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Campus & Community
New CIO for Harvard
Harvard appoints Anne H. Margulies as chief information officer. A seasoned executive with 30 years of experience, her hiring marks her return to the University.
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Campus & Community
Harvard University appoints Anne H. Margulies as Chief Information Officer
Harvard appoints Anne H. Margulies as chief information officer. A seasoned executive with 30 years of experience, her hiring marks her return to the University.
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Campus & Community
Australia-Harvard Fellowships taking applications
The Harvard Club of Australia Foundation is accepting applications for its 2011 Australia-Harvard Fellowships, awards aimed at midcareer and senior Harvard-based science and technology researchers intending collaborative projects in Australia.
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Campus & Community
Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy awards Cordeiro Health Policy Summer Research Grants
Nine rising seniors pursuing a secondary field in health policy have been awarded Cordeiro Health Policy Summer Research Grants by the Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy.
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Arts & Culture
‘Mockingbird’ memories
At 50, a durable “To Kill a Mockingbird” still has power to enthrall.
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Campus & Community
Racing down the river
Master swimmers will race in the Charles River, where one Harvard professor sees an opportunity for lessons.
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Campus & Community
From scorched lot to library park
About 20 children participated in an interactive session at the Honan-Allston Branch Library that outlined the creation of Library Park, which is slated to open next year. Construction is to begin next week.
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Health
Throwing a genetic switch
Study finds that maternal genes in mice predominate in the developing brain, while paternal genes gain the upper hand in adulthood. Researchers also find 1,300 imprinted genes in the brain, far more than previously known.
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Health
Mom’s influence comes first
Genome-wide analysis of mice brains has found that maternally inherited genes are expressed preferentially in the developing brain, while the pattern shifts decisively in favor of paternal influence by adulthood. The researchers report having identified 1,300 genes active in the mouse brain that show some degree of parental bias, greatly expanding on the 45 previously…
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Campus & Community
Screams from Greek stage aim for doctors’ hearts
As medical technologies extend the lives of the sickest, medical schools across the country have struggled to find a way to help doctors better navigate new moral quandaries around death and dying.
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Science & Tech
Computer imaging that aids science
Miriah Myer, a postdoctoral fellow, is a computer scientist using technology to better model and clarify medical data.
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Health
Study finds higher STD rates among users of erectile dysfunction drugs
Users of erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs have higher rates of sexually transmitted disease (STD) than do non-users, Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have found after analyzing insurance records of more than 1.4 million U.S. men over age 40. The findings, published in the July 6th edition of Annals of Internal Medicine, suggest physicians who prescribe…
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Campus & Community
Ivy League, Harvard announce unintentional secondary basketball violation
The Ivy League and Harvard University announced today that Harvard has declared an unintentional secondary violation in connection with conversations in the summer of 2007 between current assistant men’s basketball coach Kenny Blakeney and members of the Harvard coaching staff that occurred before Blakeney was employed by Harvard. “Secondary violations” are by National Collegiate Athletic…
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Campus & Community
Here she is, Miss Massachusetts
Barely a month into the world as a new Harvard College graduate, Loren Galler Rabinowitz has already skyrocketed to success as the new Miss Massachusetts.
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Health
More Than Two Billion People Worldwide Lack Access to Surgical Services
More than two billion people worldwide do not have adequate access to surgical treatment, according to a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The Harvard researchers also found that people living in high-income regions have far greater access to surgery sites (operating theatres) than do those living in low-income regions and…
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Health
Rare variants in gene coding may up risk of autoimmune disorders
Rare variants in the gene coding of an enzyme that controls the activity of a key immune cell occur more often in people with autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes, Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital found in a multi-institutional study. The researchers’ report, published in the journal Nature, identifies a pathway…