Featured series 
Year: 2012
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Campus & Community
Midyear graduates recognized
More than 100 Harvard students, along with their families and friends, gathered in the Radcliffe Gymnasium on Dec. 6 to celebrate the 2012-13 Midyear Graduates Recognition Ceremony. The event recognized students who graduate in November or March, off the usual Commencement cycle.
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Science & Tech
Lessons for the next Sandy
Disaster relief dollars flowing to those affected by hurricanes like Sandy and Katrina represent an important opportunity to ensure that communities are better able to withstand the stronger storms and higher seas likely coming as climate change worsens, panelists said.
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Nation & World
Justice by committee
A research team made up of current and former Harvard students played a key role in the British trial centered on government atrocities during Kenya’s Mau Mau insurrection, lending support to an October court ruling that clears the way for the case to go to trial.
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Science & Tech
A notion to cool the skies
An international regulatory framework is needed to govern possible research and deployment of engineering approaches to counter climate change, an authority on environmental law says.
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Campus & Community
A call for creative know-how
The Dean’s Cultural Entrepreneurship Challenge aims to harness the University’s entrepreneurial spirit to help promote and sustain the arts.
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Science & Tech
For a day, geek is chic
Hundreds of students — hackers and newcomers alike — showed off their programming chops at Monday’s CS50 Fair, a raucous exhibit of mobile apps, websites, and other projects created for Harvard’s wildly popular computer science class.
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Campus & Community
John Milton Ward
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December, 4, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late John Milton Ward, William Powell Mason Professor of Music, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Ward was an inventor of many areas of research that later contributed to the broadening…
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Health
Extra chemo could be answer
Researchers have found that young patients with an aggressive form of leukemia who are likely to relapse after chemotherapy treatment can significantly reduce those odds by receiving additional courses of chemotherapy.
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Health
Solving a biological mystery
A team of Harvard researchers has shown that insects like crickets possess a variation of a gene — called oskar — that is critical to the production of germ cells in “higher” insects. That discovery suggests that the oskar gene emerged far earlier in insect evolution than researchers previously believed.
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Health
The bounty of EDEN
An associate professor at Harvard, Cassandra Extavour also heads up the Evo-Devo-Eco Network (EDEN), a collaborative group of researchers devoted to encouraging the study of nontraditional “model” organisms, ranging from sea anemones and crickets.
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Nation & World
Remember research, Faust urges
During Washington visit, Harvard President Drew Faust tells business, policy, and diplomatic leaders that they should maintain a strong research partnership between the federal government and higher educational institutions.
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Campus & Community
New life for McKinlock
The second House renewal test project, Leverett’s McKinlock Hall, is scheduled to begin in June. The project will result in greater common and recreational space for students, which will help foster community and nurture learning.
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Arts & Culture
The ongoing allure of Tolkien
In a question-and-answer session, Stephen Mitchell, Harvard professor of Scandinavian and folklore, explores the lasting appeal and the inspirations behind author J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic tale “The Hobbit.” Director Peter Jackson’s adaptation of the book for the big screen opens in the United States mid-December.
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Nation & World
How to build a nation
While the structures of state can be created by outsiders, national identities can only be created from within, and they commonly arise through shared language, culture, history, and ideals, political theorist Francis Fukuyama says.
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Campus & Community
McCartney named president of Smith
Kathleen McCartney, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development, will become the next president of Smith College next year.
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Arts & Culture
Good, but never simple
Delivering Harvard Divinity School’s Ingersoll Lecture at Sanders Theatre, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison discussed concepts of good and evil in her work and that of her contemporaries.
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Nation & World
30 million footsteps
Journalist Paul Salopek next year plans to begin a seven-year, 22,000-mile trip to follow the path of the first massive human migration around the world. He plans to begin in the Great Rift Valley in Ethiopia and finish in Patagonia.
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Campus & Community
Different perspectives
Professor Robin Kelsey talked about “performing for the camera” in a Harvard Allston Ed Portal lecture, part of its faculty speaker series.
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Science & Tech
AA benefits vary between sexes
A new study finds differences in the ways that participation in Alcoholics Anonymous helps men and women maintain sobriety.
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Arts & Culture
Girls who rock out
A film and a discussion at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library highlight Girls Rock Camp, which teaches girls and young women during summer sessions to find their inner musicians, shed some inhibitions, and celebrate themselves.
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Campus & Community
Two named Marshall Scholars
Harvard senior Aditya Balasubramanian and recent graduate Alex Palmer are among 34 students nationwide who were recently awarded Marshall Scholarships.
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Science & Tech
Reality of rising sea levels
Harvard Law School Professor David Barron offered a range of ideas as he addressed the challenges presented by rising sea levels.
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Health
Birth of new cardiac cells
In a study from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, researchers used a novel method to identify the new heart cells and describe their origins.
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Nation & World
Egypt’s revolution: A work in progress
Despite increasing dissatisfaction with the progress of political reforms, an Egypt expert said Monday that the nation’s revolution, which began during the Arab Spring uprisings, is still just beginning.
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Campus & Community
A director for Museums of Science and Culture
Dean Michael D. Smith of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced that Jane Pickering has been named executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture.
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Arts & Culture
An ancient statue, re-created
Harvard’s Semitic Museum is employing a high-tech response to the destruction of 3,300-year-old figures, using 3-D scanning to repair a ceramic lion that was damaged by the Assyrians.
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Campus & Community
A class open to the world
Michael Sandel’s discussion of ‘Justice’ connects Harvard students with those in four other nations
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Campus & Community
Corporation member steps down
Patricia A. King, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown Law Center, plans to step down from the Harvard Corporation at the end of December, the University announced today.
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Campus & Community
HHMI taps Erin O’Shea
Erin K. O’Shea, the director of the FAS Center for Systems Biology, has accepted the position of vice president and chief scientific officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She will also maintain her lab and involvement at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Blankets to warm the heart
When Madeline Meehan makes her annual donation to Harvard Community Gifts, she won’t just be providing handmade blankets to sick children, she’ll also be helping her mother’s labor of love. This is one of a series of Gazette articles highlighting some of the many initiatives and charities the can be supported through the Harvard Community…
