Year: 2012

  • Health

    Problem with generic meds

    Researchers from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital have found that some patients who receive generic drugs that vary in their color are over 50 percent more likely to stop taking the drug, leading to potentially important and potentially adverse clinical effects.

  • Campus & Community

    Next step for South Asia Initiative

    In response to the South Asia Initiative’s demonstrated commitment to the advancement of South Asian studies and programs, the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost at Harvard have formally renamed it the South Asia Institute at Harvard University.

  • Campus & Community

    Shareholder report available Dec. 20

    The 2012 Annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a subcommittee of the President and Fellows, will be available upon request on Dec. 20.

  • Nation & World

    EdX expansion set for spring

    EdX, the online learning initiative founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced its spring course and module offerings, including four at Harvard.

  • Campus & Community

    A week in the life of Leverett House

    Established in 1930, Leverett House is the largest residential House at Harvard. These photos explore a week in the life of Leverett House.

  • Campus & Community

    Using privilege helpfully

    Acknowledging one’s privilege — and using that advantage to help level the playing field for everyone — is essential in the fight against racism and sexism, activist Peggy McIntosh told a crowd of Harvard faculty and staff in the second of this year’s FAS diversity dialogues.

  • Science & Tech

    Climate change on world stage

    In a question-and-answer session, Professor Robert Stavins discusses the recent international conference on climate change, and the prospects for nations to reach agreement on a plan to confront it.

  • Campus & Community

    Wonders of Wintersession

    Wintersession and Winter Break offer many chances to try out a new skill or return to a passion.

  • Campus & Community

    Barry’s Corner plan filed

    Following several months of community discussions, Samuels & Associates has filed a proposed plan for the Barry’s Corner Residential and Retail Commons project.

  • Nation & World

    Gun violence in America

    The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School should galvanize Americans to view gun violence as a public health crisis, says David Hemenway, professor of health policy and author of “Private Guns, Public Health.”

  • Campus & Community

    Charles ‘Henry’ Foster dies at 85

    Charles H.W. “Henry” Foster, a 20-year associate of the Harvard Forest, a Harvard College alumnus, and for decades one of the nation’s leading environmental policy experts, died of cancer on Oct. 4 at the age of 85 in Needham, Mass.

  • Nation & World

    Sir Alex leads the way

    The manager of iconic Manchester United, the recent topic of a Harvard Business School case that examined his famous career and the keys to his effective brand of leadership, visited Harvard this fall to engage with HBS students in the classroom.

  • Campus & Community

    Pickles, prisms, and scientists

    Celebrating its 11th year of public engagement, the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ (SEAS) Holiday Lecture Series dazzled and delighted audiences on Dec. 8 with a show guaranteed to kindle curiosity about the natural world.

  • Science & Tech

    Corn in a changing climate

    Harvard researchers have concluded that omitting the adaptive ability of crops from assessments of potential damages from a warming climate could substantially overestimate losses to U.S. maize yields.

  • Science & Tech

    A military base, reborn

    Harvard design students imagine multiple futures for a longtime New England military base.

  • Health

    Battle cries of freedom

    A Countway Library exhibit at Harvard Medical School brings the suffering of the Civil War to light.

  • Nation & World

    Getting down to business

    Advancing America’s economic competitiveness should be a top priority for elected leaders, Harvard Business School professors Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin told a group of new members of Congress attending a weeklong Harvard Kennedy School crash course on the policy issues they’ll face in Washington.

  • Arts & Culture

    Carolling at Memorial Church

    Each year in December, Harvard’s Memorial Church presents members of the University community and beyond with the gift of song.

  • Arts & Culture

    A musical gift

    Each year, the Memorial Church offers the gift of song to the Harvard and Cambridge communities, with two moving services of carols. The Dec. 17 service is scheduled for 8 p.m.

  • Arts & Culture

    A too-short life, examined

    D.T. Max, author of a new biography of David Foster Wallace, sat down with professor and critic James Wood to discuss the writer’s legacy and his brief time at Harvard, a catalyst for the breakdown and recovery that inspired much of Wallace’s masterpiece, “Infinite Jest.”

  • Campus & Community

    Seeking healthy inspiration

    More than 100 students packed Harvard’s i-lab in Allston Tuesday evening (Dec. 11) for the kickoff of the Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge, a $75,000 contest seeking new ideas to improve the world’s health.

  • Campus & Community

    895 admitted through Early Action

    Harvard College has admitted 895 students to the Class of 2017 under the Early Action program, an increase of 16 percent over last year.

  • Nation & World

    Holmes’ suite home

    In a pioneering first, the Harvard Law School Library has used its eight collections on celebrated jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to aggregate a hyperaccessible digital “suite” that scholars and the public can search, browse, and tag.

  • Campus & Community

    Joining the quarter-century club

    Harvard feted 139 faculty and staff — physics professors and dining hall checkers among them — for their longtime service to the University at the annual 25-Year Recognition Ceremony.

  • Campus & Community

    Freshmen take Winter Fest break

    Winter Fest, planned by the First-Year Social Committee (FYSC), provides a low-key, winter-themed, relaxing social event every year, allowing hundreds of freshmen to socialize with their classmates and take a well-deserved break from studying for finals.

  • Campus & Community

    Social choice fund to be established

    Harvard University announced today its intention to create a social choice fund.

  • Campus & Community

    Women’s hockey dominates

    Co-captains Jillian Dempsey ’13 and Laura Bellamy ’13 showed their leadership with their play on the ice as they powered the women’s hockey team to a convincing 8-1 win over Providence College Dec. 7.

  • Campus & Community

    The pop-up, over-the-top library

    Through Dec. 21, the Labrary, a student-designed pop-up space at 92 Mt. Auburn St., shows off projects that imagine the future of libraries.