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Month: October 2011
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Nation & World
Settling in, stretching out
Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and University President Drew Faust welcomed the families of first-year undergraduates to campus Oct. 14 for the start of Freshman Parents Weekend, a two-day program of lectures, tours, and open houses.
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Exemplary service
Dorothy Stoneman ’63 accepted the 2011 Robert Coles “Call of Service” award from the Phillips Brooks House Association Oct. 15 at the Memorial Church. The award recognized Stoneman’s achievements as the founder and chief executive officer of YouthBuild USA.
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Beautifying dorm grounds
More than a half-dozen freshmen joined Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds, Freshman Dean Thomas A. Dingman, and members of the College’s operations staff to create garden spaces in the areas between Greenough and Hurlbut Halls, and the dean’s office. The landscaping project was part of a new push to get students involved in the campus community.
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Know your gnomon
Professor John Huth of Harvard’s Department of Physics gave a one-hour overview of his popular General Education course, “Primitive Navigation,” to freshmen and their families on Oct. 14. The talk was part of the annual Freshman Parents Weekend program of lectures, tours, and open houses.
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Harvard 375th – History in Photographs
A look back at photographs of Harvard through the years.
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Alumni honored with Hiram Hunn Award
The Harvard Admissions Office has recognized select alumni with the Hiram Hunn Award.
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Initiative challenges drug crisis
Taking aim at the alarming slowdown in the development of new and lifesaving drugs, Harvard Medical School is launching the Initiative in Systems Pharmacology, a comprehensive strategy to transform drug discovery by convening biologists, chemists, pharmacologists, physicists, computer scientists, and clinicians to explore together how drugs work in complex systems.
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Wanted: Ways to battle corruption
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics is offering $8,000 in prizes for novel ideas on how to monitor and undercut institutional corruption.
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Harvard’s 375th Anniversary Celebration
On Friday evening, October 14th 2011, in Tercentenary Theatre, Harvard’s extended family of faculty, students, staff, alumni and invited guests gathered together for a festive evening featuring fabulous desserts and a memorable musical performance. The Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra performed, accompanied by a chorus of over a hundred student voices followed by a solo performance by…
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7 billion, and climbing
U.N. official Babatunde Osotimehin says that educating women and girls worldwide is a critical step in slowing population growth.
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375th party under the umbrellas
Harvard writers and photographers ventured to all corners of the campus and captured the University’s 375th anniversary celebration.
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Harvard surgeons perform hand transplant
Fourteen Harvard surgeons, supported by 36 anesthesiologists, radiologists, nurses, and other medical personnel at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, worked for 12 hours to give a new pair of hands to a 65-year-old Revere man who lost both arms below the elbows and both legs below the knees as a result of a septic infection…
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The 99 percent solution
Occupy Wall Street, the inspiration for hundreds of similar economic protests, is “an angry work in progress” that drew experts’ attention during two programs at Harvard.
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Gauging the effects of the BP spill
Research into the effects of last year’s massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico highlights the flexibility of the community of microbes living in the ocean’s depths.
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Zakaria to speak at Commencement
Harvard names Fareed Zakaria, an alumnus who is a thought leader on international affairs, as principal speaker for the 361st Commencement in May.
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Answer to today’s trivia question
Question: Who was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Harvard? Answer: Helen Keller, in 1955 Read about Keller’s life of letters and philanthropy. For more information…
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Standing as a community
More than 50 students, faculty members, and administrators gathered Wednesday night to commemorate National Coming Out Day and to memorialize the BGLTQ students nationwide who committed suicide in recent years following harassment.
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Progress in quantum computing
Engineers and physicists at Harvard have managed to capture light in tiny diamond pillars embedded in silver, releasing a stream of single photons at a controllable rate.
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One-stop service
While many members of the Harvard community were enjoying their summer break, the University’s parking, housing, and ID services were unified into one beautifully renovated Campus Service Center.
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Dialing down sickle cell disease
Flipping a single molecular switch can reverse illness in an animal model of sickle cell disease, according to a study by Harvard researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
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Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 12
At the Oct. 12 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members met with Provost Alan M. Garber to ask and answer questions as representatives of the faculty. They also discussed the Harvard Library.
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Harvard, then and now
Published to commemorate Harvard’s 375th anniversary, “Explore Harvard,” a collection of contemporary and historical photographs, showcases the myriad intellectual exchanges that make the University a citadel of learning.
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Harvard’s year of exile
It’s little known, but Harvard wasn’t always in Cambridge. During the American Revolution, the College temporarily turned its campus over to the new colonial army, and moved inland to Concord.
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Teaching the teachers
Charged with enhancing undergraduate education in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning annually assists scores of faculty members and teaching fellows.
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Study locally, think globally
A new Harvard Medical School topic helps to train future physicians in the expanding field of global health.
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Fight fiercely, Harvard
Boxing has longstanding roots at the University. A required sport in the halcyon days of Theodore Roosevelt, today the Harvard Boxing Club is keeping tradition alive, but with a modern twist — its inclusion of women.
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A look inside: Quincy House
Quincy House residents get down and dirty in the Mimi Aloian Pottery Studio.
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Where (tiny) form follows function
A professor studies how the structure of large proteins influences how we feel heat, examining how the proteins behave and interact with molecules around them.
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Health care changes ahead
Open enrollment begins Oct. 27 at Harvard. Until Nov. 9, faculty, staff, and retirees can make changes to their benefits, elect a new vision care plan, and review 2012 rates and features for Harvard’s health plans.
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Widening national security concerns
A new collaboration between Harvard Law School and the Brookings Institution hopes to help define the widening, post-9/11 reality of what constitutes a threat to society.
