Year: 2010

  • Nation & World

    The Postdocs

    Some physicists spend their lives obsessed with questions about the possibility of parallel universes, or of travel at the speed of light. Amy Rowat is obsessed with the mechanical properties of the tiny…

    6 minutes
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    Circling Saturn:

    Carolyn Porco is on a mission. As she explained to an audience of several hundred gathered at the Radcliffe Gymnasium earlier this month, in a lecture titled “At Saturn: Tripping the Light Fantastic,”…

    4 minutes
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    More ways of defining diversity

    A study by a student at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education suggests that university staffs and students value having a diverse campus, but doubt that strict racial preferences are the right way to develop it.

    4 minutes
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    Mathematician Sophie Morel:

    Sophie Morel turned 30 on December 16 of last year, the day after she was appointed a professor of mathematics in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a Radcliffe Alumnae Professor…

    4 minutes
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    Reducing malnutrition

    The world is going to fall well short of achieving the Millennium Development Goals to reduce malnutrition, and child and maternal mortality, by 2015.

    4 minutes
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    Ecosystems under siege

    Environmental panel discusses the problems facing the Earth, and what it would take to reverse the damaging trends.

    5 minutes
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    Faculty Council meeting held April 14

    At its 12th meeting of the year on April 14, the Faculty Council continued its discussion of the College’s academic dishonesty policy and discussed the voting status of senior lecturers. In addition, the council reviewed reports on the Ph.D. programs in systems Biology and social policy.

    1 minute
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    From lab trash to treasure

    Surplus and waste laboratory equipment from Harvard is finding new life in labs overseas through two student groups and a nonprofit started by a former Harvard graduate student.

    4 minutes
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    Bringing faiths together

    Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions celebrates its 50th anniversary of mining the commonalities of faith.

    4 minutes
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    Peabody awarded NEH grant

    The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology will soon put thousands of one-of-a-kind ethnographic and archaeological photos from around the world online for the public and researchers, thanks to a new $215,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

    1 minute
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    Harvard Neighbors Gallery calls all artists

    The Harvard Neighbors Gallery, located at Loeb House (17 Quincy St.), provides an opportunity for Harvard-affiliated artists to show off their artistic talents. This year, artists will be selected for four-week exhibitions (solo or group shows) between September 2010 and May 2011.

    1 minute
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    Easter at Memorial Church

    The Great Vigil of Easter at the Memorial Church, which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, is a time for new beginnings in the Christian faith, including baptisms. Its spiritual meanings are illuminated through the window of experience that the participants have shared.

    2 minutes
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    Bringing men’s lax back

    Third-year head coach John Tillman helps Harvard lacrosse return to national prominence.

    4 minutes
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    When cost-cutting backfires

    Chronically ill elderly patients, when asked to bear a higher share of health care costs, cut prescription drug use and office visits. Consequently, they were hospitalized more often, according to a Harvard Kennedy School study.

    4 minutes
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    Boston shines 2010

    For the eighth consecutive year, Harvard University is joining with Allston neighbors and local businesses to participate in the city of Boston’s citywide neighborhood cleanup event in Allston on April 23 from 8 a.m. to noon.

    1 minute
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    Lukas Prize Project Awards announced for 2010

    The Nieman Foundation at Harvard and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism recently announced this year’s recipients of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards for exceptional nonfiction.

    1 minute
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    Boulders that bowl over

    A new exhibit at Gund Hall shows how rocks are used to shape landscape design and to create art.

    5 minutes
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    Paula T. Hammond wins 2010 Scientist of the Year

    The Harvard Foundation presented the 2010 Scientist of the Year Award to Paula T. Hammond, the Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as part of its annual Albert Einstein Science Conference: Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics.

    1 minute
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    Two GSAS physics students named Hertz Foundation Fellows

    The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has awarded Hertz Fellowships to Adam Marblestone, a Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard Biophysics Program, and Tony Pan, a theoretical astrophysics Ph.D. candidate at Harvard.

    1 minute
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    Stalking the ‘big idea’

    One of the organizers of the first “Harvard Thinks Big” session reflects on why the program that had 10 professors speak for 10 minutes about their one big idea proved so successful.

    4 minutes
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    Often, we are what we were

    In his latest book, professor emeritus Jerome Kagan examines the temperaments of babies and how they can be predictors of adult behaviors.

    3 minutes
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    A la carte for freshmen

    Advising Fortnight sessions help freshmen to determine their passions, as they survey many academic areas in choosing their concentrations.

    4 minutes
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    PBK inducts Class of 2011 members

    The Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, elected 24 juniors at a private ceremony at Leverett House on April 13.

    2 minutes
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    Novel artificial pancreas controls blood sugar more than 24 hours

    An artificial pancreas system that closely mimics the body’s blood sugar control mechanism was able to maintain near-normal glucose levels without causing hypoglycemia in a small group of patients. The…

    6 minutes
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    János Kornai receives the highest Hungarian state decoration

    János Kornai, the Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard, on March 15 was presented with Hungary’s highest state decoration, the Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.

    1 minute
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    Stage set for theater festival

    The American Repertory Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston combine efforts to celebrate the joys of performance.

    3 minutes
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    GSD names Krzysztof Wodiczko professor in residence

    Harvard’s Graduate School of Design names Krzysztof Wodiczko, an authority on large-scale slide and video projections, as professor in residence of art, design, and the public domain.

    2 minutes
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    Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace

    John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School team up in this all-star collaboration on cyberspace. Whether the subjects are online censorship or surveillance, the wild frontier of the Web gets tamed in this tome.

    1 minute
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    The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse

    Siobhan Phillips, a junior fellow in Harvard’s Society of Fellows, revisits those well-known poetic masters — Stevens, Frost, Bishop, and Merrill — and analyzes how they transformed quotidian rituals into lyrical fodder.

    1 minute
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    Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School

    The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School has launched a revamped Web site. The enhanced site reflects the integration and program development that the center has accomplished over the past two years.

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