The Harvard Gazette

Year: 2011

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The late Professor David Owen's “In Defense of Scrooge," a humorous and historic ode to the iconic novella, was a Winthrop House annual tradition for many years.

The defense of Ebenezer

WHRB will rebroadcast professor’s witty rebuttal to Scrooge’s critics

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DateDecember 22, 2011

Shareholder report available Dec. 22

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DateDecember 22, 2011

John Huth, the Donner Professor of Science and creator of the popular “Primitive Navigation” course, spent most of last summer investigating mysterious lights known as underwater lightning. His experiments suggest that they may be the product of millions of single-celled microorganisms called dinoflagellates, which emit light when subjected to pressure waves like those caused by darting fish.

A possible aid for navigators

Research says microorganisms may create Pacific’s “underwater lightning”

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DateDecember 21, 2011

The Rev. Wendel W. Meyer, acting Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, delivers the last Morning Prayer of 2011.

Prayers for the season

At Appleton Chapel, a message of hope and concern

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DateDecember 20, 2011

An artist's conception of Kepler20e, one of two Earth-sized exoplanets recently discovered by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The first Earth-sized exoplanets detected, they were found by astronomers as part of NASA's Kepler mission.

Alien worlds, just like home

Harvard astronomers find first two Earth-sized planets in distant solar system

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DateDecember 20, 2011

Harvard Kennedy School faculty reflect on the death of Kim Jong Il

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DateDecember 20, 2011

An echo of Harvard in New Mexico

Coordinator suggests students look east during visits to Native American high schools

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DateDecember 19, 2011September 7, 2016

"Abuse of medications purchased from websites can pose unique challenges to physicians because patients who abuse these medications may not fit clinical stereotypes of drug abusers," said lead author of the article Anupam B. Jena, a clinical fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Use, abuse of Internet pharmacies

Study finds physicians need increased awareness

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DateDecember 19, 2011

Matthews Mmopi '11 was selected as one of 10 Rhodes Scholars from the Southern Africa region. At Oxford, Mmopi plans to pursue a master’s in philosophy in development studies.

Harvard grad and HMS student are Rhodes Scholars

South African and med student from Canada headed to Oxford

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DateDecember 19, 2011

Robert Blendon (from left), HSPH professor of health policy and political analysis, David Cutler, the Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics and professor in the HSPH Department of Global Health and Population, and Gail Wilensky, an economist and director of Medicare and Medicaid under President George H.W. Bush, were three participants in an hourlong panel discussion that focused on Congress’ failure to reach a budget agreement and the prospects for health care reform.

Health reform in the crosshairs

More system revisions appear inevitable, panelists say

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DateDecember 19, 2011

Graduate students and others will be able to take part in January @ GSAS, a series of more than 80 workshops, seminars, and classes on topics that range from how to write fellowship proposals, to using online citation tools when conducting research, to social events such as film screenings and tours of Harvard museums.

In January, a learning smorgasbord

More than 80 classes, workshops open to graduate students, others

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DateDecember 19, 2011

Shut down sustainably before holiday break!

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DateDecember 19, 2011

Stephanie Kayden, instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, took a philosophy course in Emerson 101 while a student at Harvard. Now, she's at the front of that very classroom, teaching a course on humanitarian studies.

A humanitarian comes home

HMS instructor teaches humanitarian studies in hall where she'd been a student

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DateDecember 19, 2011

Lights, Camera, Reaction

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DateDecember 19, 2011February 13, 2018

"Diseases such as Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's disease have different causative factors, but they share common themes — such as aggregation of misfolded proteins — and a unifying end point, the degenerative loss of neurons," says Harvard Medical School Professor of Neurology Dimitri Krainc. In this image, transmission electron microscopy demonstrates the fibrillar nature of huntingtin aggregates.

Slowing neurodegeneration in Huntington’s

Increase in regulatory enzyme may offer protection

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DateDecember 18, 2011

Harvard art historian Susan Dackerman discussed Albrecht Dürer during an “In-Sight Evenings” lecture. Dürer’s iconic woodcut of a rhinoceros, so enduring that it was the animal’s staple scientific image until the18th century, illustrated how much the artist influenced 16th-century science.

When art advanced science

Dürer became collaborator through his accurate crossover contributions

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DateDecember 16, 2011

Brothers David (front left) and Yakir Reshef (front right) developed a tool to evaluate massive data sets under the guidance of advisers Michael Mitzenmacher, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, and Pardis Sabeti, assistant professor of organismic and evolutionary biology.

Dealing with data

Researchers create versatile, sweeping data-analysis tool

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DateDecember 16, 2011

Donald Ingber, the founding director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, has been awarded the 2011 Holst Medal.

Donald Ingber wins 2011 Holst Medal

Prestigious prize awards his ‘groundbreaking’ research

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DateDecember 16, 2011

Why some TB cells resist antibiotics

Findings could lead to more effective treatment for global disease

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DateDecember 16, 2011

Harvard encourages staff, students, and faculty to shop local this holiday season. “In these hard economic times, it’s really important to support the businesses that people cherish in the Square,” said Denise Jillson, HSBA executive director.

Harvard encourages ‘shop local’

The University celebrates local merchants this season

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DateDecember 15, 2011

“Our new polling data clearly shows millennials are growing more concerned over the direction of the country and effectiveness of Washington, D.C., to solve problems,” said IOP Director Trey Grayson.

Harvard poll predicts Obama loss

Millennials view Mitt Romney as strongest Republican

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DateDecember 15, 2011

Andrea Henricks ’13 (left), a mentor at the Harvard Allston Education Portal, and 10-year-old Nora Lyons made lava lamps, which they presented at a Student Showcase and Open House. The Harvard mentoring program pairs Allston-Brighton children in grades one to 12 with Harvard undergraduates in weekly sessions throughout the semester.

Young minds well matched

Harvard mentors help Allston-Brighton youth develop Ed Portal projects

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DateDecember 15, 2011

Memorial service for Bernie Wolfman

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DateDecember 15, 2011

In 1924, Western Electric began conducting experiments to test ways of improving workers’ productivity. This photo shows the factory cabling department, ca. 1925. The experiments would eventually revolutionize the workplace.

Rethinking work, beyond the paycheck

During Great Depression, human relations movement took shape through HBS

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DateDecember 15, 2011

Adam Aja, an assistant curator at the Semitic Museum, is leading a project, powered with student participation, to preserve clay tablets with ancient writing on them by baking them. “This is the best treatment you can do," he said. "They’ll be as stable as any ceramic pot and can be handled.”

Baking in the details

Semitic Museum project conserves thousands of ancient clay tablets

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DateDecember 15, 2011

Helping women help themselves

Kennedy School program director works for gender equality

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DateDecember 15, 2011

Nieman Fellow and New York Times reporter Pir Zubair Shah speaks at a freshman expository writing class taught by novelist and veteran preceptor Jane Unrue (right). Pir — a Pakistani who grew up in the lawless South Waziristan tribal area — can never again return to his country after his reporting on the Taliban.

Dateline: Classroom

A Pakistani journalist explains the dangers of his trade

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DateDecember 15, 2011

Eliot House resident Wesley Mann '13 celebrates a foosball goal inside the Eliot House Grille with Jordan Sessler '13 (from left), Devan Kennifer '12, Elena Pepe '13, and Steve Tricanowicz '13.

‘E Pluribus Domus’

For Eliot House residents, Inferno Grille is Paradiso

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DateDecember 15, 2011

For Sunil Chauhan, an eye researcher at Harvard-affiliated Schepens Eye Research Institute and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, the Shore Fellowship means being able to hire an additional postdoctoral fellow to help in the lab. "This is a fantastic program," he said. "Now I can spend more time on writing."

Relief for the weary

Shore Fellowships allow young researchers to focus on key needs

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DateDecember 15, 2011

Honorees listen to President Drew Faust's talk, including Philip Sadler (left), Frances W. Wright Senior Lecturer on Celestial Navigation, and Katherine Kraft (far right), senior archivist at the Schlesinger Library.

A quarter-century, and still going strong

University honors faculty, staff for longtime service

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DateDecember 15, 2011

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