Featured series 
Year: 2011
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Science & Tech
Guiding discoveries to the public
Harvard’s Office of Technology Development tries to ensure that the public sees the benefits of Harvard’s research by licensing new technology to companies.
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Science & Tech
Innovate, create
From oddities like breathable chocolate to history-making devices with profound societal effects, like the heart pacemaker, Harvard’s combination of questing minds, restless spirits, and intellectual seekers fosters creativity and innovation that’s finding an outlet in new inventions and companies.
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Campus & Community
A break with the past
Harvard undergraduates and College administrators are looking back on winter break 2011 to evaluate the many new programs, and to ponder changes. One thing is already clear: winter break provided experiences not usually available to students during the semester.
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Campus & Community
Winter storm update: Normal business operations and class schedules to resume
Snow removal and storm related operations will continue this afternoon and tonight across the University to ensure roads, sidewalks, and buildings are accessible. Harvard will resume normal business operations and…
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Arts & Culture
The master’s chair
Liz Glynn is this year’s Josep Lluis Sert Practitioner in the Arts, a visiting artist position in place at VES since 1986. The idea: welcome a working artist for a week of intense interchange with students.
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Campus & Community
‘Made of fire’
Harvard wrestlers work toward a turnaround after an early-season losing streak.
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Campus & Community
Winter storm update: Modified scheduling and staffing plans
In response to the winter storm moving through the area, many Schools will either be canceling classes or operating on modified schedules on Wednesday. Students, faculty, and staff should check…
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Campus & Community
Help on the home front
Harvard programs assist employees trying to juggle careers and families, bridging coverage gaps.
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Arts & Culture
Identity issues
In what many participants called a “historic moment,” scholars from around the world gathered for three days at Harvard to explore issues of race, racial identity, and racism in Latin America.
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Nation & World
Haiti: 3 Years, 6 Months
Living in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, most of Haiti’s nine million people are subsistence farmers. Poverty and malnutrition are exacerbated by poor health care and a low vaccination rate.
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Nation & World
South Africa: Valley of 1,000 Hills
One of the continent’s richest nations, South Africa also has one of the world’s highest HIV infection rates and is home to the world’s biggest population of HIV-infected people, an estimated 5.5 million.
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Nation & World
Lesotho: The Pilots
The tiny African nation of Lesotho is among those hardest hit by the raging twin epidemics of ADIS and tuberculosis. Harvard faculty members are advising the government and helping to revamp clinics and treat patients in the far-flung mountain regions of this poor country.
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Nation & World
Mexico: Illuminating the Past
Harvard archaeologists from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have been working in the Maya city of Copán Ruinas, Honduras, for years, unearthing the secrets of the civilization that once built pyramids there. In recent years, these archaeologists began digging at a new site, Rastrojón, perched on a mountainside where it would be visible…
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Nation & World
Mexico: Ancient Wisdom Examined
Harvard archaeologists from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology have been working in the Maya city of Copán Ruinas, Honduras, for years, unearthing the secrets of the civilization that once built pyramids there. In recent years, these archaeologists began digging at a new site, Rastrojón, perched on a mountainside where it would be visible…
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Campus & Community
The Moore’s the merrier
It snowed on Julianne Moore’s parade, but the acclaimed actress and 2011 Woman of the Year didn’t let weather stop her from visiting Harvard for a tour, a roast, and the coveted Pudding Pot on Thursday (Jan. 27).
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Campus & Community
Daniel Bell, social scientist, 91
Daniel Bell, the Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University and one of America’s most dynamic thinkers, died on Jan. 25. He was 91.
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Nation & World
After the uprising
A pair of Harvard experts addressed unrest in Tunisia — and whether it will lead to a truly democratic government — in a panel discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Science & Tech
Big thinkers
Psychologists at Harvard University have found that infants younger than a year old understand social dominance and use relative size to predict who will prevail when two individuals’ goals conflict.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held Jan. 26
The Faculty Council met on Jan. 26 and heard reviews of the chemical biology program, the standing committee on writing and speaking, and the rules concerning honors.
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Campus & Community
Winter storm update: University resumes normal business operations
As of 11 a.m., the University has resumed all normal business operations across Harvard’s Central Administration. Students, faculty, and staff are still encouraged to take any necessary precautions while traveling…
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Arts & Culture
Hide and seek
A new Harvard exhibit aims to challenge how things are categorized by delving into the University’s vast museum and archival collections.
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Arts & Culture
American tune
Ethnomusicology graduate student Sheryl Kaskowitz talks about her dissertation on cultural shifts in the meaning of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America.”
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Campus & Community
Run (or walk)
Running and walking can do wonders for our physical, mental, and emotional health. At the launch of Harvard on the Move, President Drew Faust and a panel of University experts made the case that it should also be fun — even in winter. The first community walk is noon Feb. 1.
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Health
Adult kidney stem cells found in fish
It has long been a given that adult humans — and mammals in general — lack the capacity to grow new nephrons, the kidney’s delicate blood filtering tubules, which has meant that dialysis, and ultimately kidney transplantation, is the only option for the more than 450,000 Americans who have kidney failure.
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Campus & Community
HKS receives $600,000 from William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
The Harvard Decision Science Laboratory, a cross-faculty research facility based at the Harvard Kennedy School, has received a three-year, $600,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to support the lab’s scientific research in human judgment and decision making.
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Campus & Community
Winter storm update: Adjusted staffing plans
In response to the winter storm moving through the area late Wednesday and early Thursday, the University has adjusted its normal staffing plans. For further details, see the Harvard University…
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Nation & World
Raising the bar on disaster relief
One year after the deadly earthquake in Haiti, Harvard undergraduates and faculty from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are trying to develop a way to quickly provide shelter to victims of disasters. The Rapid Deployment Disaster Relief Shelter is one of a dozen initiatives funded by the new President’s January Innovation Fund for…
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Nation & World
Let the Word Go Forth
“Let the Word Go Forth” is a film of many faces and voices recreating President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address.
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Campus & Community
Walter H. Abelmann, professor of medicine, emeritus, 89
Walter H. Abelmann, professor of medicine emeritus at Harvard Medical School and member of the faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences Technology, died on Jan. 6. He was 89.
