Year: 2011

  • Campus & Community

    No quit in Crimson

    The season will continue for the Harvard men’s basketball team, despite a heartbreaking loss to Princeton on Saturday (March 12) that cost the squad a spot in the NCAA tournament. The Crimson will square off against Oklahoma State on March 15 in the National Invitational Tournament.

  • Campus & Community

    Allston’s retail profile rising

    New tenants, including 11 over the past year, have helped to bring Harvard’s vacant Allston properties back to life.

  • Health

    Protein that helps battle HIV

    Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard find that elevated levels of p21, a protein best known as a cancer fighter, may be involved in the immune system’s ability to control HIV infection.

  • Nation & World

    Empowering women in Africa

    On a visit to Harvard to participate in a two-day gender conference sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Malawi Vice President Joyce Banda discussed issues facing her African country, including women’s health, education, and the importance of promoting women leaders.

  • Campus & Community

    Heartbreaker

    What with all the lights, cameras, and raucous action pervading the John J. Lee Amphitheater in New Haven, Conn., this Saturday (March 12), one could be forgiven for thinking that the one-game playoff pitting the Harvard men’s basketball team against Princeton was a scripted affair. Unfortunately for the 2011 Ivy League co-champion Crimson, it was…

  • Science & Tech

    A quake data clearinghouse

    Within hours of the massive earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis had launched a web-based data clearinghouse, the Japan Sendai Earthquake Data Portal, to provide a site where disaster responders can find needed information.

  • Campus & Community

    Signing ceremony welcoming ROTC to Harvard

    Harvard University will again host a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus. The agreement, signed Friday afternoon, March 4, at Loeb House by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and President Drew Faust, will end a 40-year hiatus.

  • Campus & Community

    Touring the Yard with John Stilgoe

    Harvard professor John Stilgoe takes viewers on a tour of historic Harvard Yard and explores its many unique and exciting features.

  • Nation & World

    Understanding Obama

    Professor James Kloppenberg, author of “Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition,” took questions from five panelists on the impact of Obama’s presidency at an event sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard.

  • Science & Tech

    Student projects win $50,000 in grants

    Student entrepreneurs at Harvard have won $50,000 in grants to support further development of innovative ventures in the Harvard College Innovation Challenge.

  • Health

    Deep thinker

    Scientists are advancing in their understanding of the biology of the deep sea, which still remains largely unexplored and mysterious, according to Associate Professor Peter Girguis.

  • Campus & Community

    A sort of homecoming

    On Harvard’s annual Housing Day, freshmen receive their housing assignments for the next three years.

  • Arts & Culture

    Diary from a darkened room

    The eccentric diary of Boston recluse Arthur Crew Inman, published in 1985 by Harvard University Press, inspires a Hollywood film project.

  • Arts & Culture

    The timelessness of war

    In a collaboration with the American Repertory Theater and the Theater of War, members of the military and civilians attended a reading of the ancient Greek drama “Ajax and Philoctetes” and took part in a discussion about the psychological impact of war.

  • Campus & Community

    Acting minister appointed

    Wendel W. “Tad” Meyer, who joined the Memorial Church at Harvard University as associate minister for administration in December, will become acting Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church while the University seeks a permanent successor to the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes.

  • Campus & Community

    The voice of reform

    Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Harvard Kennedy School alumna who at great personal risk has played a key role in stabilizing and reviving her nation, will be the principal speaker at Afternoon Exercises of Harvard University’s 360th Commencement in May.

  • Campus & Community

    The lure of green

    More than 30 energy and environment employers connected with Harvard students at the Office of Career Services’ second annual Energy and Environment Expo.

  • Health

    The debate over mammograms

    The debate over whether routine mammogram screenings are useful diagnostic tools or potentially ineffective and wasteful was the issue of a Harvard School of Public Health forum on March 8.

  • Science & Tech

    Chen wins Lemelson-MIT Prize

    Graduate student Alice A. Chen received the prestigious $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize on Wednesday (March 9) for her innovative applications of microtechnology to study human health and disease.

  • Science & Tech

    Harvard Medical School researchers crawl a neural network

    Scientists can finally look at circuits in the brain in all of their complexity. How the mind works is one of the greatest mysteries in nature, and this research presents a new and powerful way for us to explore that mystery.

  • Campus & Community

    Aiding a pilot school

    Harvard-sponsored math night for elementary-school students and parents at Allston’s Gardner Pilot Academy was the latest collaboration in the University’s long partnership with the school.

  • Nation & World

    A thorny path to reform

    Edward Schumacher-Matos of Harvard Kennedy School moderated a panel discussion featuring three of the country’s foremost immigration scholars.

  • Health

    Web-crawling the brain

    Researchers in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School have developed a technique for unraveling these masses. Through a combination of microscopy platforms, researchers can crawl through the individual connections composing a neural network, much as Google crawls web links.

  • Science & Tech

    URES taps three SEAS grad students

    Three technology proposals from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have been selected for presentation at the University Research and Entrepreneurship Symposium (URES).

  • Campus & Community

    Scholarship sends student to India

    Isabel Salovaara ’12 will study abroad this semester in Delhi, India, as part of a scholarship from IES Abroad.

  • Campus & Community

    MPSA awards Daniel Carpenter

    The Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) has named Daniel Carpenter, Freed Professor of Government, the winner of the 2011 Herbert Simon Award for his career scientific contributions to the study of public administration.

  • Science & Tech

    Leslie Valiant wins Turing Award

    The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) today (March 9) named Leslie G. Valiant the winner of the 2010 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his fundamental contributions to the development of computational learning theory and to the broader theory of computer science.

  • Science & Tech

    The impact of plate tectonics

    A new research paper by Harvard geophysicists Brendan Meade and Jack Love-less says that the earth sciences principle of plate tectonics is applicable on a continental scale.

  • Nation & World

    The promise of journalism

    New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Rich ’71 receives the Goldsmith Career Award and suggests good days are still ahead for significant, game-changing journalism.

  • Nation & World

    The need for men to back women

    A two-day conference on gender examined various dimensions to empowering the lives of women in developing nations.