Year: 2010

  • Health

    Major step in autism testing

    Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital and the University of Utah have developed the best biologically based test for autism to date. The test was able to detect the disorder in individuals with high-functioning autism with 94 percent accuracy.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘100 Reasons To Give’

    The Harvard Community Gifts campaign, which kicked off in December with a new theme — “100 Reasons To Give” — is accepting donations via payroll deduction until Jan. 21.

  • Nation & World

    Giant steps

    Scholars and editors debate and celebrate the legacy of their late mentor, Samuel P. Huntington.

  • Arts & Culture

    Don’t stop the music

    A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus and composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz explored the American musical in the 21st century during a discussion at Oberon.

  • Campus & Community

    Renewing Harvard’s library system

    Setting a fresh course for the future of the Harvard library system, University leaders have embraced a series of recommendations from the Library Implementation Work Group to establish a coordinated management structure and increasingly focus resources on the opportunities presented by new information technology.

  • Nation & World

    Innovative education

    In a speech, Arizona State president presents new ideas that could fuel higher educational innovation over the next 40 years.

  • Nation & World

    The outlook for Africa

    Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice argued that the United States’ continued involvement in African affairs is good for international stability and for the American idea in “The National Interest, Africa, and the African Diaspora: Does U.S. Foreign Policy Connect the Dots?” — the first of three W.E.B. Du Bois lectures on the black experience…

  • Campus & Community

    They ride by dawn

    With roots dating to 1890, an eclectic group gathers each fall for the cycling season, learning the rules of the road and having fun.

  • Campus & Community

    What’s possible

    The annual Arts & Humanities and Social Science Digital Technology Fair at Harvard’s Barker Center offers student and faculty a chance to explore the wide range of digital resources available for research and teaching.

  • Science & Tech

    New facilities for Wyss Institute

    Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering officially opens new, expansive facilities in Boston and Cambridge to host its fast-growing enterprise.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard encourages community to shop local this season

    Harvard University and the Harvard Square Business Association (HSBA) are teaming up again this holiday season to encourage the Harvard community to “think Harvard Square” and shop locally.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Overseer to perform at Nobel ceremony

    Harvard Board of Overseers member and virtuoso violinist Lynn Chang ’75 was selected by the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee to perform at the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 10.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Foundation honors Jagland

    The Harvard Foundation presented its annual Humanitarian Award to Thorbjørn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and secretary-general of the Council of Europe.

  • Campus & Community

    Book award named in Middle East scholar’s honor

    The Middle East Studies Association announced a new book award named for Professor Roger Owen of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

  • Campus & Community

    Two named Marshall Scholars

    Harvard seniors Kenzie Bok and Jonathan Warsh have received prestigious Marshall Scholarships, which will allow them to pursue two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom at the universities of their choice.

  • Health

    Partial reversal of aging achieved in mice

    Harvard scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute say they have for the first time partially reversed age-related degeneration in mice, resulting in new growth of the brain and testes, improved fertility, and the return of a lost cognitive function.

  • Campus & Community

    HBS’s Charles Christenson, 80

    Royal Little Professor of Business Administration Emeritus Charles J. Christenson died of natural causes at his Cambridge, Mass., home at the age of 80.

  • Health

    Critical finding for skin cancer treatment

    Researchers’ findings pinpoint a critical gene involved in melanoma growth, and provide a framework for discovering ways to tackle cancer drug resistance.

  • Arts & Culture

    Farrelly hilarious

    Directing, producing, and writing brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly offered insights on their filmmaking craft and comic talents at Kirkland House.

  • Arts & Culture

    Hip-hop Harvard

    A new book, “The Anthology of Rap,” celebrates the lyricism of rap and has earned its place in the Hiphop Archive at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘100 Reasons To Give’

    With Harvard Community Gifts: 100 Reasons To Give, you can support one or more diverse organizations with a donation through payroll deduction or by check.

  • Campus & Community

    Peering into their futures

    Three Harvard College seniors and a first-year Harvard Medical School student are among the 32 American men and women named as 2011 Rhodes Scholars.

  • Campus & Community

    The Game 2010

    The classic fall showdown as a second-half deluge lifts the Crimson

  • Nation & World

    A friend in the Middle East

    If American leaders want help disentangling — and possibly even solving — complex problems in the Middle East, they should look to Saudi Arabia for leadership, said Prince Turki Al Faisal, former ambassador to the United States, in a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics on Friday (Nov. 19).

  • Science & Tech

    Keeping creature company

    Rosado enjoys managing museum’s massive collection of amphibians

  • Arts & Culture

    “The Image of the Black in Western Art”

    Du Bois Institute’s exhibit and mammoth publishing effort

  • Health

    Helping Chinese with depression

    A treatment model designed to accommodate the beliefs and concerns of Chinese immigrants appears to significantly improve the recognition and treatment of major depression in this typically underserved group.

  • Campus & Community

    HSPH professor awarded for diabetes research

    Columbia University Medical Center presented the 2010 Naomi Berrie Award to Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, the James Stevens Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism and the chair of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health.

  • Health

    Rare find

    Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine have found that by mimicking a rare genetic disorder in a dish they can rewind the internal clock of a mature cell and drive it back into an adult stem-cell stage.

  • Campus & Community

    Rhodes Scholars announced

    Three Harvard undergraduates and a first-year Harvard Medical School student are among the 32 American men and women named Rhodes Scholars.