Year: 2011

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Feb. 9

    At its ninth meeting of the year on Feb. 9, the Faculty Council approved a motion regarding mail ballots. They also heard an overview of the College Fellows Program, an analysis of pre-term planning, and an update on the General Education Program.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Poetic Urbanisms’

    An experimental exhibit at Harvard’s newest arts space gathers and displays overlooked images and ideas from city life.

  • Campus & Community

    Real Colegio Complutense seeks visual artists

    The Real Colegio Complutense (RCC) is calling all local visual artists to participate in its second annual art exhibit, also part of Harvard’s annual Arts First events from April 28 to May 1.

  • Campus & Community

    Gazette staffer wins poetry prize

    For the second year in a row, Sarah Sweeney of the Harvard Gazette has won a poetry prize from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund.

  • Campus & Community

    Anthology includes two articles by Blier

    Two articles by Suzanne Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and of African and African American Studies, have been included in an online anthology of The Art Bulletin.

  • Nation & World

    Don’t just sit there

    The first of a series of campuswide dialogues on teaching and learning called “Conversations@FAS: Redefining Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century,” featured A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus; Christopher Winship, the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology; and David Malan, lecturer on computer science.

  • Health

    Passion and the flowering plant

    The Arnold Arboretum’s new director, William “Ned” Friedman, has been intrigued by plants’ structure and origin — and captivated by their beauty — for three decades.

  • Campus & Community

    Learning to listen

    About 60 Harvard undergraduates from a wide range of ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds take part in Sustained Dialogue, a program that assembles students from diverse backgrounds and experiences to discuss often divisive topics such as race, class, gender, and sexuality.

  • Campus & Community

    Ernst Badian, professor of history emeritus, 85

    Professor Ernst Badian, John Moors Cabot Professor of History Emeritus, died on Feb. 1.

  • Campus & Community

    E.O. Wilson receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

    Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus and naturalist Edward O. Wilson has received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the ecology and conservation biology category.

  • Nation & World

    Focus on Egypt

    Harvard Kennedy School faculty members and scholars offer their varied perspectives on the situation in Egypt via a website that is being updated regularly.

  • Campus & Community

    HUPD Chief Riley discusses crime on campus

    HUPD Chief Francis Riley sits down with the Gazette to discuss crime and its prevention on campus.

  • Campus & Community

    Entertainment deals for students

    Outings & Innings, part of Harvard Human Resources, has provided faculty and staff with deals on events, activities, local goods, and more for over 30 years. Beginning Feb. 10, students can share in the savings as well, thanks to a new pilot program.

  • Campus & Community

    Sudden victory

    The Harvard women’s hockey team edged Northeastern in a Beanpot shootout and now heads for the final.

  • Science & Tech

    What ultra-tiny nanocircuits can do

    Engineers and scientists collaborating at Harvard University and the MITRE Corp. have developed and demonstrated the world’s first programmable nanoprocessor.

  • Health

    The ‘core pathway’ of aging

    Harvard researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified the root molecular cause of a variety of ills brought on by advanced age, including waning energy, failure of the heart and other organs, and metabolic disorder.

  • Health

    Genes tied to prostate cancer uncovered

    For the first time, researchers have laid bare the full genetic blueprint of multiple prostate tumors, uncovering alterations that have never before been detected and offering a deep view of the genetic missteps that underlie the disease.

  • Nation & World

    What it takes to lead

    Do leaders need competence, character, or both? And can such traits be taught? On Feb. 7, Harvard experts gathered to discuss the University’s role in fostering leaders in business, education, and the public sector in honor of Harvard Corporation member Nan Keohane’s new book, “Thinking About Leadership.”

  • Nation & World

    ‘That was his dream’

    A diverse Harvard community celebrated Interfaith Awareness Week during a moving ceremony at the Memorial Church on Monday (Feb. 7) evening, remembering the life and message of the late Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Campus & Community

    Huskies upend Crimson in Beanpot

    Northeastern flexed its offensive muscles on the way to a 4-0 win in the opening round of the annual Beanpot men’s hockey tournament at TD Garden on Monday (Feb. 7).

  • Health

    Two studies prove value of iPS cells

    A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers, in collaboration with scientists at Columbia University, have demonstrated that many iPS cells (stem cells created by reprogramming adult cells) are the equal of human embryonic stem cells in creating human motor neurons, the cells destroyed in a number of neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s.

  • Science & Tech

    Clues in clay

    Research by physicists from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Princeton, and Brandeis shows that clay vesicles provide an ideal container for the compartmentalization of complex organic molecules. The discovery opens the possibility that primitive cells may have formed inside inorganic clay microcompartments.

  • Campus & Community

    AIMBE inducts Ingber to College of Fellows

    The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced on Feb. 4 that its founding director, Donald E. Ingber, has been inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s College of Fellows.

  • Nation & World

    Spotlight on the international

    Harvard is one of the world’s most international universities, with students and faculty from around the world. Overseas research and study abroad opportunities abound.

  • Arts & Culture

    Saving snapshots of history

    Four Russian conservators visit the Weissman Preservation Center for 10 days to learn techniques to assess, treat, and preserve rare photos and other treasures.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard on the Move

    Harvard on the Move, a new fitness initiative, kicked off with a panel discussion at Sanders Theatre on Jan. 26.

  • Campus & Community

    London School of Economics awards Peter Godfrey-Smith

    The London School of Economics and Political Science has awarded Harvard Professor of Philosophy Peter Godfrey-Smith the Lakatos Award for outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science.

  • Arts & Culture

    The Weissman Center at work

    The Weissman Preservation Center, an arm of Harvard Library that recently hosted a group of Russian conservators for training, celebrated its first decade last year.

  • Campus & Community

    HLS appoints Gertner, Shay as professors of practice

    Harvard Law School has announced the appointments of U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner and Stephen Shay, deputy assistant secretary for international tax affairs in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, as professors of practice.

  • Campus & Community

    Julia Budenz, poet and Harvard staffer, 76

    Poet and Harvard staff member Julia Budenz died in Cambridge on Dec. 11 at the age of 76.