Featured series 
Month: May 2011
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe rugby crowned national champ
The Radcliffe Rugby Football Club has been crowned the 2011 USA Rugby DII National Champion after an incredible matchup against Notre Dame.
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Campus & Community
Two Harvard students named Hertz Fellows
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announced the selection of its 2011-12 Hertz Fellows, including Harvard students Megan Blewett and Jesse Engreitz.
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Arts & Culture
What books mean as objects
Most literature professors focus on the interpretation of texts, but Professor Leah Price wants to explore other uses to which books can be put, in the evolving interplay between reading and handling.
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Science & Tech
Holder’s mission
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on May 6 talked to a Harvard audience about youth exposure to violence as a public health issue — and the need for a public health response.
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Health
First U.S. full face transplant patient
Dallas Wiens, who in March became the first person in the United States to receive a full face transplant, described the simple joys of holding his daughter, Scarlette, and smelling lasagna again as he prepared to leave Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital Monday (May 9) for his Texas home.
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Nation & World
Expanding student learning abroad
Harvard President Drew Faust announced grants to six faculty members who are designing new international experiences for undergraduates, from new summer school programs in Kenya to studies in global health to other programs in Italy, Argentina, and Germany.
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Science & Tech
Turn off the Lights
A sustainability music video produced by Harvard University students Akshay Sharma ’14, Maura Church ’14 and Molly O’Laughlin ’11 in anticipation of Earth Day 2011. It was presented at Harvard’s second annual Green Carpet Awards sustainability celebration and recognition event. Miranda J. Morrison ’14 also assisted with writing the lyrics.
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Nation & World
The influence of neighbors
Where we live and who we know can affect our voting patterns, Harvard researcher suggests.
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Campus & Community
Top 25 Innovations in Government announced
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School announced the Top 25 Innovations in Government in competition for the Innovations in American Government Award.
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Health
Health reform may require a crisis
ABC’s medical editor Timothy Johnson, M.P.H. ’76, predicted sweeping changes to the nation’s health care system, but not before a budget calamity caused by rising health care costs forces politicians’ hands.
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Campus & Community
Young pioneers of science
Four hundred eighth-grade students from the Cambridge public schools visited campus to discuss their science experiments with the Harvard community.
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Nation & World
Focus on Pakistan
What did Pakistani officials know about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and when did they know it? Were they complicit — or dumb? Or smart at playing dumb? Those questions were analyzed by a panel of foreign policy experts on Wednesday (May 4) at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Arts & Culture
Taming nature, then man
Humankind, after millennia of reluctance and ambivalence, surrendered finally to growing fixed crops — a precondition of modern states.
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Nation & World
Targeting leftover land mines
Computer scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have designed an elegant system that assists humanitarian mine hunters by augmenting the information from their metal detectors.
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Campus & Community
Spring spruce-up
Eighty from Harvard lend helping hands to the Allston-Brighton community during Boston Shines, the citywide cleanup effort.
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Nation & World
Lessons of the hunt
Harvard foreign policy experts say the death of Osama bin Laden is a blow to al-Qaeda, and a sign of the vitality and persistence of U.S. anti-terror expertise. But it will also renew the debate over U.S.-Pakistan ties and may even set the stage for a season of reprisals against American interests.
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Campus & Community
NHC names Jason Stevens a fellow
Harvard Assistant Professor of English Jason Stevens has been named a fellow at the National Humanities Center for the upcoming academic year.
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Campus & Community
Memorial service for Eli Shapiro
A memorial service for Eli Shapiro, the former Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Investment Management at Harvard Business School, will be held on May 7.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Foundation honors Kleinman, students
The Harvard Foundation honored Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and professor of medical anthropology and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, on May 3 with its 2011 Distinguished Faculty Award at the annual Harvard Foundation Student/Faculty Awards Dinner in Quincy House.
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Campus & Community
Registration for BSC summer course open
Registration is open for the Bureau of Study Counsel’s 14-day reading course in July.
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Arts & Culture
The humanities and war
Harvard President Drew Faust delivered the 2011 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, citing similarities between the Civil War and current conflicts.
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Arts & Culture
Celebrating the humanities
If scholars were celebrities, life might look a little bit like it does on the day of the annual Jefferson Lecture (May 2), with interviews and toasts in anticipation not of a concert or play but a speech on the humanities.
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Campus & Community
Class act
Jazz great Wynton Marsalis played with young musicians from Harvard and Cambridge Rindge & Latin School in a master class.
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Arts & Culture
Thesis by creation
On view through May 26, “Oh, Pioneers!” offers a moment in the sun to Harvard’s graduating painters, installation artists, and filmmakers.
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Nation & World
Tough talk on education
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie discussed his tough-minded approach to education reform during a talk at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Campus & Community
Second annual Burke Global Health Fellows named
The Harvard Global Health Institute has announced the selection of the second annual Burke Global Health Fellows.
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Arts & Culture
Reflecting other worlds
Documentary photographer Susan Meiselas, Ed.M. ’71, receives the 2011 Harvard Arts Medal as part of the annual Arts First Festival.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Foundation sends 1,000 blankets to Japan
The Harvard Foundation recently sent more than 1,000 new wool blankets and other relief items to the victims of the catastrophic March earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
