Featured series 
Year: 2011
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Science & Tech
Solar’s time still on horizon
Bruce Sohn, president of the power company First Solar, says that reducing the cost of solar energy is on the horizon, but solar power has to grow dramatically if it is to replace fossil fuels.
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Campus & Community
Laughing matters
“Tonight Show” host and Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Jay Leno was on campus Friday (Feb. 4) to receive a Pudding Pot and a tour of Harvard, complete with serenade, presidential visit, and even a pie in the face.
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Arts & Culture
A window into African-American history
Commemorating February as Black History Month, this collection of historical and contemporary photographs offers glimpses into the dynamic lives of African Americans over time.
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Nation & World
An ‘extraordinary moment’
The protests that have rocked the Arab world in recent weeks have left many observers wondering if the region’s citizens will achieve self-government after decades of dictatorial rule. As Egyptians continued to demonstrate, a crowd flocked to the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics Feb. 3 to hear several Harvard analysts’…
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Science & Tech
Applied knowledge
Five recent graduates of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences talked to current students about life beyond Harvard in the first of a series of engineering-themed career events hosted by the FAS Office of Career Services.
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Campus & Community
Call for applications for two I Tatti fellowships
Villa I Tatti is currently accepting applications for two fellowships.
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Campus & Community
Harvard honors MLK
A celebration of the life and mission of Martin Luther King Jr. will be held on Feb. 7, from 7 to 8 p.m., in the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.
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Campus & Community
Elizabeth Cropper awarded I Tatti Mongan Prize
Elizabeth Cropper, dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art and president of the Renaissance Society of America, has been awarded the I Tatti Mongan Prize.
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Campus & Community
Initiative on Contemporary Islamic Societies receives $156,000 grant
Harvard’s interdisciplinary Initiative on Contemporary Islamic Societies, led by Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, was recently awarded a $156,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
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Campus & Community
HMS professor receives honors for reconstructive microsurgery
Julian Pribaz of the Department of Plastic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School has been chosen as the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery’s 2011 Harry J. Buncke Lecturer.
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Campus & Community
HBS’s Herzlinger addresses House Republican Conference
Regina E. Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently addressed the annual House Republican Conference retreat in Baltimore regarding health care.
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Campus & Community
Harvard College senior wins Churchill Scholarship
Jonathan P. Wang ’11 has won the prestigious Churchill Scholarship for students in science, math, and engineering.
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Campus & Community
Melvin R. Seiden, I Tatti Council member, dies at 80
I Tatti Council founding member Melvin R. Seiden died suddenly on Jan. 14.
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Health
Killing the ‘fiery serpent’
International health workers are on the verge of eliminating guinea worm disease from the planet, marking the second time humanity has eliminated a malady that once plagued millions.
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Campus & Community
Finding a campus rhythm
Sgt. Kevin Bryant has studied everything from the Bible to Buddhist meditation to kenpo karate. As HUPD’s diversity and community liaison, he brings an appreciation for Harvard’s many cultures to his police work.
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Arts & Culture
Troubled youth
Linda Schlossberg’s debut novel, “Life in Miniature,” depicts a mother’s mental illness and a daughter’s coming of age.
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Arts & Culture
In the Light of Evolution: Essays from the Laboratory and Field
Jonathan Losos, Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America, edits this collection of essays by leading scientists, including Harvard’s Daniel Lieberman and Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard historian Janet Browne, and many others.
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Campus & Community
A look inside: Currier House
Unlike the other undergraduate residences at Harvard, Currier House on the Radcliffe Quadrangle is named solely for a woman.
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Campus & Community
Medical School mends its ways
Harvard Medical School has just kicked off its five-year, $20 million Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan and expects to start realizing savings as soon as the spring.
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Campus & Community
History in the making
When the Berlin Wall fell, student Mary Lewis knew she should study the past. Now a professor, she is an authority on how France evolved.
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Arts & Culture
Art by degrees
Three Harvard graduates, now practicing artists, bring home lessons learned, along with a quirky exhibit.
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Arts & Culture
Scholarship beyond words
Harvard classes and a new journal embrace an emerging wave of doctoral learning beyond the written word that uses film, photo, audio, and other communication channels.
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Arts & Culture
Glimpses of screenwriting
Harvard grad Roland Tec, a filmmaker, writer, director, producer, and Harvard graduate, explored the inner workings of his craft during a January arts intensive.
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Nation & World
Shock amid the service
A winter break trip to the Navajo Nation in New Mexico shows the realities of poverty to a group of Harvard undergraduates.
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Arts & Culture
An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France
Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Visual and Environmental Studies, studies how topography, the art of describing local space and place, developed literary and visual form in early modern France.
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Arts & Culture
What Is Mental Illness?
Richard McNally, a professor of psychology, explores the many contemporary attempts to define what mental disorder really is, and offers questions for patients and professionals alike to help understand and cope with the sorrows and psychopathologies of everyday life.
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Nation & World
Turning on the lights
Like much of Africa, Liberia relies on ineffective, dirty sources of energy. Coming off a fellowship at Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, Richard Fahey has one big goal: to transform the country’s electrical grid from the bottom up.
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Campus & Community
HRES establishes 2011-12 rents for Harvard University housing
In accordance with the University’s fair market rent policy, Harvard Real Estate Services has announced the proposed rent for Harvard University Housing for 2011-12.
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Campus & Community
From Russia, with love
A Harvard student leader travels to Russia for a firsthand look at how that country’s government works.
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Nation & World
Changing how teachers improve
A new initiative headed by a Harvard scholar aims to transform the way teachers improve their performance, and to overhaul the nation’s public schools in the process.
