Featured series 
Month: October 2013
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Nation & World
Lessons in an unappealing law
Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman ran a Socratic master class to dig beneath the 1927 Supreme Court decision upholding forced sterilization of “mental defectives.”
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Health
Improving cord blood transplants
They began with a discovery in zebrafish in 2007, and now researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have published initial results of a Phase Ib human clinical trial of a therapeutic that could improve the success of blood stem cell transplantation. This marks the first time that HSCI has carried a discovery from…
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Health
Catching up on health care
John McDonough of HSPH talks about the rollout of health insurance exchanges as part of the Affordable Care Act.
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Science & Tech
Putting a price on nature
An unusual collaboration between the Nature Conservancy and Dow Chemical Co. led to their receiving the Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership.
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Science & Tech
The search for other Earths
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are drafting the target list for NASA’s next planet-finding telescope, the orbiting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, which will search the Earth’s galactic neighborhood for planets that might support life.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Wesley Saunders earns honors
Junior Wesley Saunders has been named to the 2013 Lou Henson Preseason All-America Team, as announced Wednesday by the award committee.
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Nation & World
New avenues in education
Building on the University’s commitment to innovation and collaboration, the Graduate School of Education held an Askwith Forum Tuesday examining innovations in learning.
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Campus & Community
Let the challenges begin
President Drew Faust and Provost Alan M. Garber today announced the third President’s Challenge for entrepreneurship, renewing an invitation to all Harvard students and postdoctoral fellows to develop innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing social problems.
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Campus & Community
It’s hip in the square
Kristen Uekermann, an assistant director for faculty and academic affairs in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, blogs about fashion in Boston in her spare time.
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Health
New test for Down syndrome
Experts in child health gathered at Harvard Medical School on Tuesday for a symposium on how genome biology is changing children’s health.
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Arts & Culture
The things they carried
We get close to long-dead great writers by reading the works they left behind. But there is another way, which can be just as electric and emotional: to see or touch or just be near artifacts from their writing lives.
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Campus & Community
Cabot Library, re-imagined
The Science Center atrium and Cabot Science Library, already filled with bustling undergraduates, will undergo a transformation to support learning and teaching for the digital age while more effectively connecting the library to the atrium and plaza social spaces.
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Campus & Community
Harvard professor wins Nobel in chemistry
Martin Karplus, the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry Emeritus in Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, is one of three to share in the Nobel Prize in chemistry, the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced this morning.
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Campus & Community
Nobel in chemistry awarded to Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus, the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry Emeritus in Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology is one of three to share in the Nobel Prize in chemistry, the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced this morning.
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Science & Tech
A theory rewarded
Following the announcement of the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics, Harvard faculty who participated in the search for the Higgs boson said they were honored to have played a role in the discovery of the particle that proved theoretical predictions correct.
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Campus & Community
A welcome mat for veterans
In what has become a Harvard tradition, President Drew Faust and guest Gen. Stanley McChrystal led a list of those welcoming new Harvard students who have military backgrounds.
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Nation & World
Women on a mission
In Bosnia-Herzegovina, where memories of war are still fresh, mothers and grandmothers are working at the grassroots to build a peaceful future for their country, a scholar who is highlighting their stories in an upcoming book said in a talk at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
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Health
A tiny, time-released treatment
Targeted nanotherapy is the wave of the medical future, according to Omid Farokhzad, a Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital researcher who has two nanoparticle-based therapies in clinical trials and a slew of ideas for new ways to put the tiny capsules to work for human health.
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Science & Tech
Robots to the rescue
The Second Annual Northeast Robotics Colloquium highlighted Harvard’s work on the next generation of robotics.
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Campus & Community
Public Service Fellows gather
President Drew Faust welcomed the Presidential Public Service Fellows back to campus Oct. 2 with lunch at the Harvard Faculty Club.
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Science & Tech
Galileo’s reach
Some four centuries after Galileo observed spots on the surface of the sun, historians, musicians and actors came together at Harvard on Oct. 4 for an all-day conference to celebrate his discovery.
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Campus & Community
Barron task force launches consultation forums
The task force established to examine electronic communications will hold open and online forums through October.
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Campus & Community
Harvard alumnus wins share of medicine Nobel
James E. Rothman, a 1976 Harvard alumnus, won a share of the 2013 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for work illuminating the internal machinery that cells use to transport molecules.
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Nation & World
The case for blockbusters
Harvard Business School Professor Anita Elberse talks about how the entertainment industry is relentlessly pursuing success through what she calls a blockbuster strategy.
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Campus & Community
Six alums honored for service
Five alumni were recognized with Harvard Alumni Association Awards at a ceremony on Oct. 24.
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Campus & Community
Two named Aloian Memorial Scholars
Kathryn Walsh ’14, of Adams House, and Roland Yang ’14, of Kirkland House, have been named this year’s David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars.
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Arts & Culture
Colonial Korea, revealed
The Graduate School of Design hosted a conference on the history of Korean architecture, which still lingers in the shadow of Japanese modernism.
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Campus & Community
Alan Dershowitz: ‘Never boring’
In his final semester teaching, Professor Alan M. Dershowitz and his colleagues look back on his 50 years at Harvard Law School.
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Nation & World
Seeds of a shutdown
Panelists in an Institute of Politics forum on the federal government shutdown included Linda Bilmes of the Kennedy School and Joe Klein of Time magazine.
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Arts & Culture
At Du Bois awards, the stars aligned
The six medalists at the W.E.B. Du Bois awards included a White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, playwright Tony Kushner, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor, the commissioner of the NBA David Stern, and Hollywood director Steven Spielberg.
