Month: August 2012

  • Nation & World

    Wedding digital with traditional

    Event showcases metaLAB summer projects displaying ways to access, annotate, and remix knowledge in the digital age.

    5 minutes
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    The tangled web around spiders

    A biologist with an affinity for spiders shared his passion, taking the audience on a tour of arachnids large and small and making a pitch for their conservation as natural pest control.

    2 minutes
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    New dean for GSAS

    Xiao-Li Meng, chair of Harvard’s Department of Statistics, has been named dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

    5 minutes
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    Taking a stand on diversity

    After the Supreme Court announced it will hear a major case on affirmative action in October, Harvard joined 13 other universities to file a friend-of-the-court brief supporting considerations of race in college admissions.

    2 minutes
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    Harvard carrying Dell on campus, online

    At Harvard’s Technology Products and Services, personal purchasers can now buy a selection of Dell notebooks, desktops, and displays on campus.

    1 minute
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    A Julia-worthy feast

    An extensive archive at the Schlesinger Library illuminates the life and work of Julia Child, whose writings and TV show brought the world of French cuisine to the American masses.

    7 minutes
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    The poetry of achievement

    Thirty high school students from the Boston area gathered for the Crimson Summer Academy’s annual poetry slam. The young scholars spend three consecutive summers on the Harvard campus, amid classes, projects, field trips, and cultural activities to achieve their dream: success at college.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Simplifying multidrug therapies

    As described in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a research team found that by studying how drugs interact in pairs, researchers can predict how larger combinations of drugs will interact.

    4 minutes
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    Pausing to celebrate

    More than 100 faculty, students, and staff from the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology turned out for a barbecue to celebrate the full-professor promotions of Kevin Eggan, Konrad Hochedlinger, and Amy Wagers.

    3 minutes
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    Amid the gold rush

    Harvard Olympians are making headway in the 2012 London Olympic Games.

    1 minute
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    O’Callahan a new director at HUHS

    Patrick O’Callahan has been named the new director of after-hours urgent care and the Stillman Infirmary at Harvard University Health Services.

    1 minute
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    Varsity status for women’s rugby

    Harvard will create a varsity women’s rugby team, to begin play in the 2013-14 season.

    1 minute
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    Estrogen and female anxiety

    Some women’s vulnerability to anxiety and mood disorders may be explained by their estrogen levels, according to new research by Harvard and Emory University neuroscientists.

    4 minutes
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    Mercury pollution, still spreading

    With mercury contamination from coal burning and other industrial processes spreading in the environment, a new book edited by a Harvard Medical School staff member offers an overview, touching on chemistry, biology, and public health.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    On bicycles built for 1,000

    The popular Hubway regional bike-share program, up and running in Boston, is expanding into the nearby communities of Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline, with Harvard playing a key role.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    From cradle to grave, through history

    In “The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death,” Professor Jill Lepore shows, with wit and wisdom, that our existential anxieties are anything but new.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Toward better aid

    Three Harvard specialist draw from field experience in a discussion of the past and future of humanitarian aid.

    9 minutes
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    A really cool treat

    Harvard employees enjoyed ice cream and the Olympics on Friday during a gathering sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice President.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Summer in the cities

    Planning and executing an outdoor festival for 1,000 people isn’t your typical teenage summer job, but 100 Boston-area teenagers employed as junior counselors in the Phillips Brooks House Association’s summer camps pulled it off without a hitch.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    APA honors book on literacy

    “Literacy and Mothering: How Women’s Schooling Changes the Lives of the World’s Children” by Robert A. LeVine, Sarah LeVine, Beatrice Schnell-Anzola, Meredith Rowe, and Emily Dexter has won the 2013 Eleanor Maccoby Award by the American Psychological Association.

    1 minute
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    A lighthearted lunch

    Close to 1,000 members of Cambridge’s senior community gathered in Tercentenary Theatre for the 37th annual summer luncheon.

    3 minutes
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    Daniel Aaron’s century

    A Harvard professor emeritus, who still goes to the office every day, turns 100 years old.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Lessons in boldness

    Greater Boston high school students learn the finer points of design as part of Project Link, a four-week summer program run by the Graduate School of Design.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Inspiring as well as educating

    Led by members of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and faculty from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, 83 teachers from around the world convened at Harvard last weekend for workshops and discussions to explore how the arts can help engage students across a range of subjects.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The long journey to asylum

    Behind the legal technicalities practiced at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, there are asylum clients with pain and persecution behind them, and hope ahead.

    9 minutes
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    Stars in the making

    A paper authored by Harvard’s Eli Visbal with colleagues from the California Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University suggests that it may be far easier than commonly thought to peer deep into the universe’s history and observe the telltale signs of the formation of the first stars and galaxies.

    3 minutes
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    Deep glow

    Dancers and scholars explored the art and science of bioluminescence during “Living Light” July 31 at the Science Center.

    4 minutes
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    Round and Round

    With their inspired and insightful eyes, the Gazette’s staff photographers bring life at Harvard full circle. [Photo Journal]

    2 minutes
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    A moveable feast comes to Harvard

    On Tuesdays, from 11:45 a.m. to 3 p.m., members of the Harvard community stop by food trucks parked on Oxford Street and try a variety of artisan dishes for their lunchtime reprieve. The trucks are part of a Harvard community outreach effort called the Harvard Common Spaces program.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Sweeping gestures, divine power

    Master of calligraphy Haji Noor Deen’s work is on display in the CGIS South building in an exhibit titled “Arabic Islamic Calligraphy in the Chinese Tradition: Works by Master Haji Noor Deen,” through Aug. 20.

    3 minutes