Year: 2010

  • Health

    Genes linked to breast cancer drug resistance

    Harvard researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered a “gene activity signature” that predicts a high risk of cancer recurrence in some breast tumors that have been treated with…

  • Nation & World

    An orphanage regroups

    The family of a Harvard undergraduate in Haiti struggles to provide food, shelter, and safety to their orphanage complex there.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard opens Haiti relief fund

    Harvard University has established an emergency relief fund to assist employees who have been directly affected by the tragedy unfolding in Haiti.

  • Campus & Community

    Sperm Of A Feather Flock Together

    Males compete for females’ attention. It’s a pattern seen throughout the animal kingdom. But new research shows that kind of male-male competition persists even after animals have mated.

  • Campus & Community

    U.S. newborns are weighing less, study finds

    Birth weights in the United States are on the decline, a study has found. The report, released Thursday, found a small but significant decrease in average birth weights from 1990 to 2005, for reasons that scientists say are unclear…

  • Nation & World

    Judging the campaign finance ruling

    In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling striking down corporate limits on campaign financing, several Harvard faculty members weigh in on what the ruling means and where it’s likely to lead.

  • Nation & World

    Relief for Haitian city

    Putting aside their winter-break activities, an ad-hoc Harvard relief team in the Dominican Republic helps to ship boatloads of relief supplies to the coastal Haitian city of Jacmel.

  • Health

    U.S. birth weights dip

    A study that analyzed data from 36,827,828 U.S. babies born at full-term between 1990 and 2005 has found that birth weights decreased by up to 2.78 ounces during that time frame.

  • Health

    Study finds decline in birthweight of full-term infants

    Thirteen-pound babies may make headlines, but they aren’t the norm. In fact, U.S. infants are getting smaller, according to Harvard researchers at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute’s Department of…

  • Nation & World

    Students help Haiti

    When the massive earthquake hit Haiti, a group of Harvard students working on a water purification project in the Dominican Republic switched gears to help transport supplies across the border.

  • Campus & Community

    Undergrads act up

    A new collaboration among the A.R.T. Institute, Harvard’s Office for the Arts, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club offers students an intense, three-week immersion program involving graduate-level training in the dramatic arts.

  • Campus & Community

    Overseer and Elected Director candidates announced for 2010-11

    This spring, alumni can vote for a new group of Harvard Overseers and elected directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board.

  • Health

    Sperm competition, cooperation

    Some mouse sperm can discriminate between their brethren and the competing sperm from other males, showing an unusual behavioral complexity.

  • Campus & Community

    Scientists use nanotech to prevent heart disease

    Scientists at MIT and Harvard Medical School yesterday announced that they teamed up to create what they’re calling “nanoburrs,” nanotechology that sticks to arteries the way that pesky burrs in the woods stick to your clothes.

  • Campus & Community

    Thrills and spills

    Allston-Brighton residents flock to new ice skating rink, which Harvard opened in a former auto garage and showroom.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Love Story’ author Erich Segal, 72

    Erich Segal, the author of the Harvard-based novel “Love Story” and who once taught classics at the University, died of a heart attack on Jan. 17. He was 72.

  • Nation & World

    Medical workers gain momentum

    Harvard-affiliated doctors report on carnage, rescue operations in quake-ravaged Haiti, as medical teams gain traction.

  • Campus & Community

    PBHA vies for $1 million award

    The good deeds of Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) are being handsomely rewarded through a Facebook contest grant, and there may be more assistance in the wings.

  • Campus & Community

    Babette Whipple, former MGH psychology researcher, dies at 91

    Babette Samelson Whipple, former psychology researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), died on Dec. 18, 2009, after a short illness. She was 91.

  • Nation & World

    Harvard mobilizes relief fund

    Assistance mobilizes to aid earthquake-shaken Haiti, including groups of experts and medical personnel affiliated with Harvard.

  • Nation & World

    Timely course

    Why do societies and their governments fail so often to act in time to avert crises that appear in plain sight? What can be done to alter that pattern? Those questions served as impetus for a new intensive January session course, “Acting in Time,” at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard College to enroll small number of transfer students

    Beginning next fall, Harvard College will resume enrolling a small number of undergraduate transfer students from other colleges and universities.  The College’s transfer program was temporarily suspended in 2008. In…

  • Campus & Community

    Hasty taps Hathaway

    Actress Anne Hathaway is chosen as Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 2010 Woman of the Year, and will visit Cambridge on Jan. 28.

  • Campus & Community

    Corporation search committee invites nominations and advice

    Members of the Harvard community are invited to offer nominations and advice regarding the search for a new member of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s executive governing board.

  • Campus & Community

    A first for Harvard

    For the first time in Harvard’s history, more than 30,000 students have applied for undergraduate admission. Applications have doubled since 1994, and about half of the increase has come since the University implemented a series of financial aid initiatives over the past five years to ensure that a Harvard College education remains accessible and affordable…

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard opens skating rink in Allston

    Harvard University will open a free skating rink in Allston on Friday (Jan. 15). The 40-by-60-foot temporary indoor rink will be open to the public Fridays and weekends through March 28.

  • Health

    Zebrafish point the way

    A new technique for screening drugs’ effects on zebrafish behavior is pointing Harvard University scientists toward unexpected compounds and pathways that may govern sleep in humans.

  • Campus & Community

    Mathematician gains dual appointments

    Sophie Morel, a young mathematician whose research involves algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory, is named professor of mathematics in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). She also is named to the Radcliffe Alumnae Professorship.

  • Health

    Fishing for new medications

    A robust new technique for screening drugs’ effects on zebrafish behavior is pointing Harvard scientists toward unexpected compounds and pathways that may govern sleep and wakefulness in humans. Among their…

  • Campus & Community

    Xie to receive award from DOE

    Harvard Professor Sunney Xie was one of six recipients of the 2009 E.O. Lawrence Award.