Year: 2012

  • Campus & Community

    Coming Home to Cabot House: Krystal Tung ’13

    Find out why Cabot House resident Krystal Tung ’13 says that the place where she lives is also the place where she explores, creates, connects, and, above all, learns.

  • Arts & Culture

    Love Poems

    Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham celebrated the legacy of Harvard poets such as T.S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, and Wallace Stevens, with a student performance of their verse in “Over the Centuries: Poetry at Harvard (A Love Story).”

  • Nation & World

    Educating Harvard, MIT — and the world

    Harvard and MIT are joining forces to launch edX, an open-source, online education platform. Leaders from both universities discussed how they hope to transform teaching and learning on campus and around the globe.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘Breaking Boundaries’ at Arts @ 29 Garden

    “Breaking Boundaries: Arts, Creativity and the Harvard Curriculum” was featured at Arts @ 29 Garden, which is an interdisciplinary space where Harvard faculty, students, and visiting artists come together to make art that enhances, embodies, and re-imagines learning.

  • Campus & Community

    MIT and Harvard announce edX

    Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced the launch of edX, a transformational partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.

  • Campus & Community

    Embracing the arts

    The 20th anniversary of Harvard’s Arts First festival, presented by the Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Office of Governing Boards, featured 100 music, dance, theater, and multimedia events in a dozen venues.

  • Campus & Community

    A heroic return

    After a three-year hiatus, the Harvard Heroes Recognition Program — which celebrates Harvard staff members who make extraordinary contributions “above and beyond” — will return in a ceremony June 5.

  • Nation & World

    Middle class woe

    The American middle class has been battered by the loss of well-paying jobs for the 70 percent of the workforce without a college degree and failed by would-be protectors in government and private institutions, said panelists in a Harvard forum on April 27.

  • Campus & Community

    Exemplary women

    Faculty, students, and staff gathered at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on April 26 to honor Emmy Award-winning producer Rebecca Eaton and Harvard undergraduate Naseemah Mohamed ’12, the recipients of the 2012 Women’s Leadership Awards.

  • Arts & Culture

    Tradition of the powwow

    The Harvard University Native American Program sponsored the annual Harvard Powwow celebration that brought together Native American singers, dancers, and drummers at the Radcliffe Yard on Aprl 28.

  • Campus & Community

    Meserve, Fisher to lead Overseers

    Richard A. Meserve, J.D. ’75, has been elected president of Harvard’s Board of Overseers for 2012-13 and Lucy Fisher ’71 will become vice chair of the board’s executive committee.

  • Science & Tech

    Rethinking mitosis

    The mitotic spindle, an apparatus that segregates chromosomes during cell division, may be more complex than the standard textbook picture suggests, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

  • Science & Tech

    ‘Warming hole’ delayed climate change

    Climate scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered that particulate pollution in the late 20th century created a “warming hole” over the eastern United States — that is, a cold patch where the effects of global warming were temporarily obscured.

  • Campus & Community

    Preacher, scholar, friend

    Jonathan Walton, a professor of religion and society specializing in the effects of media and technology on religion, is looking forward to his new role as Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church.

  • Campus & Community

    Sharing a passion for science

    Harvard scientists are participating in the Cambridge Science Festival, 10 days of events where experts in technology, engineering, and math share research with the public.

  • Campus & Community

    Counter named Living Legend

    Professor S. Allen Counter will receive the Museum of African American History’s 2012 Living Legends Award alongside Massachusetts First Lady Diane B. Patrick and baseballer Jim Rice.

  • Campus & Community

    Seeing again, for the first time

    Mahzarin Banaji delivered the final Diversity Dialogue of the year titled “Blindspot: The Hidden Biases of Good People.”

  • Campus & Community

    Junior named Truman Scholar

    Katherine Warren ’13 has been named a Truman Scholar for the state of Washington.

  • Arts & Culture

    Tommy Lee Jones receives Arts Medal

    Actor John Lithgow ’67 hosted the annual Harvard Arts Medal ceremony, which recognizes a Harvard or Radcliffe graduate or faculty member who has achieved excellence in the arts and has made a contribution through the arts to education or the public good. The medal recipient was actor Tommy Lee Jones ’69.

  • Science & Tech

    Barbecue’s beginnings

    Steven Raichlen, author of “The Barbecue Bible” and “Planet Barbecue,” discussed on barbecue’s origins among early humans and barbecue customs around the world in a recent Harvard talk.

  • Health

    Berries keep your brain sharp

    A new study by Harvard researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) finds that a high intake of flavonoid-rich berries, such as strawberries and blueberries, over time, can delay memory decline in older women by two and a half years.

  • Arts & Culture

    Hard-earned gains for women at Harvard

    Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, professor emerita of history and American studies at Smith College, examined the shifting gender landscape at Harvard during a talk at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held April 25

    At the April 25 meeting of the Faculty Council, its members approved the Harvard Extension School courses for 2012-13 and Courses of Instruction for 2012-13. They also heard a review of the Ph.D. program in biostatistics and updates on College Standing Committees.

  • Campus & Community

    Seamus Heaney, set to music

    Nobel Laureate and onetime Harvard professor Seamus Heaney will reprise a 1986 poem at Commencement this year, celebrating Harvard in its 375th year – and inspiring a new a cappela work by Richard Beaudoin.

  • Campus & Community

    Funding opportunity

    The Phillips Brooks House Association’s ninth annual Summer Urban Program auction raised funds to run 12 summer day camps for low-income children and teens from the Greater Boston area.

  • Science & Tech

    Decision, decisions

    Two of Harvard’s leading social scientists discussed the way that humans make decisions, and whether having more choices really makes us happier.

  • Health

    Bacteria beware

    Harvard researchers have identified pathways of naturally occurring molecules in our bodies that can enhance antibiotic performance.

  • Campus & Community

    Walton named Memorial Church minister

    Harvard President Drew Faust announced on April 25 the appointment of Jonathan L. Walton as Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, succeeding the late Rev. Peter J. Gomes.

  • Arts & Culture

    At his own speed

    Artist David Michalek, creator of “Slow Dancing,” a temporary installation on the façade of Widener Library, discussed the evolution of his work during a talk at Boylston Hall.

  • Nation & World

    Business as a force for change

    Business can be an engine for solving social problems — especially poverty — said Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus in a talk at Harvard Business School.