Featured series 
Year: 2011
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Bucky on stage
Inventor and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller, thrown out of Harvard College twice in the early 20th century, returns in the center of a one-man play on the “history (and mystery) of the universe.”
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Beyond the lab and library
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is sponsoring a winter break grab bag of seminars, workshops, and recreational activities designed to help its students recharge and build skills.
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Kafadar nabs Turkish honors
Turkish President Abdullah Gül presented in December the 2010 Presidential Grand Awards in Culture and Arts to Harvard Professor Cemal Kafadar for history.
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HGLC seeks applications for public service fellowship
The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus is seeking current full-time Harvard student applicants for its 2011 Public Service Fellowship.
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NARSAD awards $720,000 to Harvard researchers
Twelve from Harvard are among 214 researchers named NARSAD Young Investigators.
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Institute of Politics director named
Trey Grayson, who is completing his second term as secretary of state in Kentucky, has been named director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard University. Grayson will assume his post on Jan. 31.
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Moving past any obstacles
Tomer Rosner is an accomplished Israeli civil servant and a midcareer student on a fellowship at Harvard. He’s also the only blind student at Harvard Kennedy School, but that’s hardly slowed him down.
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What made Darwin first
Evolution icon Charles Darwin rushed “On the Origin of Species” into print to beat the competition, but neglected to credit early thinkers on the subject, who let him know it after the book’s 1859 publication, leading to his appended “Historical Sketch” in later editions.
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Haiti: New Hospital
Harvard faculty work through nonprofit to bring health to world’s poor.
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Progress in Haiti ‘painfully slow’
A year after a devastating earthquake in Haiti, Harvard faculty members reflect on work done there and the difficult job that remains.
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AAAS announces 15 Harvard fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded 15 Harvard faculty members the distinction of being named an AAAS Fellow on Jan. 11.
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Checking in, saving lives
Harvard researchers have estimated the likely cost-effectiveness of post-discharge follow-up phone calls to smokers hospitalized with acute heart attacks. In a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the researchers suggest that phone calls to these discharged smokers encouraging them to quit would yield significant health and economic gains.
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Nominations open for Harvard Corporation members
As announced in December, the Harvard Corporation will expand from seven to 13 members, as part of a broader set of changes involving the Corporation’s composition and work.
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Congo: Rape as Strategy
Researchers from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative have been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for several years examining the roots of the violence against women that has plagued this war-torn region.
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Haiti: Home Visit
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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Haiti: Mother to Child
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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Expecting better
Harvard researchers in the Children’s Hospital Boston Informatics Program have created a model for predicting a drug’s tendency to cause birth defects.
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Slimy secrets
Harvard researchers have discovered that Bacillus subtilis biofilm colonies exhibit an unmatched ability to repel a wide range of liquids — and even vapors. The finding holds promise for developing better ways to eliminate harmful biofilms that can clog pipes, contaminate food production and water supply systems, and lead to infections.
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New Arboretum director hosts meet and greet
In his first month as the Arnold Arboretum’s new director, William Friedman is hosting two meet and greets and has established a Director’s Lecture Series.
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Gregory Verdine wins prize for cancer research
Gregory Verdine has won the 2011 American Association for Cancer Research Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research.
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Inside Dumbarton Oaks
More people are enjoying the treasures of Harvard-owned Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., in part because of the opening of new library and museum facilities, and because of fresh efforts to increase connections with Harvard’s Cambridge campus and reach out to political, educational, and cultural leaders in Washington.
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HBS faculty-authored book garners acclaim
“Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads,” a book by two Harvard Business School faculty members, has been named one of the best business books of 2010 by Strategy + Business magazine.
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Something to shoot for
A number of girls and boys from Cambridge and Allston-Brighton who, along with their families, cheered the Crimson to an 83-70 win over UMass. The game capped a series of three Community Days sponsored by the Harvard men’s and women’s basketball teams that offered free admission to Cambridge and Allston-Brighton residents over the winter break.
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Basketball player earns honors
Harvard sophomore Victoria Lippert earned her first league honors of the season this week (Jan. 3) as she was named Ivy League Co-Player of the Week for her performances last week for the Crimson.
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Tiny donors
In the first study to look at the potential for organ donation from dying infants in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) setting, Harvard researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Boston, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center demonstrated that an estimated 8 percent of NICU mortalities would be eligible for organ donation after…
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Sharp turns
Undergraduates in Engineering Sciences 51: “Computer-Aided Machine Design” spent a semester learning to design gadgets in SolidWorks, building candy-flinging catapults, and mastering the use of the soldering iron. Then came the final assignment: Transform a cordless power screwdriver into a functional all-terrain vehicle.
