Month: October 2013

  • Campus & Community

    Faust sets out University position on divestment

    After careful review and lengthy discussion on campus, Harvard President Drew Faust issued a statement making clear that she and the Harvard Corporation consider proposals to divest the University’s endowment of holdings related to fossil fuels to be “unwise and unwarranted.”

  • Nation & World

    On the frontiers of learning

    The president of edX, Anant Agarwal, sees the transformative possibilities of online education as also reshaping the way educators think about teaching and learning.

  • Campus & Community

    Dow Chemical-Nature Conservancy collaboration honored

    The Harvard Kennedy School will present the 2013 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership on Oct. 7 to the Dow Chemical Co. and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) for their groundbreaking collaborative work to incorporate the value of natural resources into the business bottom line.

  • Health

    Little improvement seen in antibiotic abuse

    Harvard research shows that while only 10 percent of adults with sore throat have strep, the only common cause of sore throat requiring antibiotics, the national antibiotic prescribing rate for adults with sore throat has remained at 60 percent.

  • Campus & Community

    The future is now for FAS

    Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith recently spoke about the priorities for the coming campaign and his vision for the FAS.

  • Science & Tech

    The Himalayas’ amazing biodiversity

    Can science and art join forces to conserve one of the world’s richest natural areas? UMass Boston biology professor Kamal Bawa and photographer Sandesh Kadur, a National Geographic emerging explorer, have joined forces to create a richly illustrated, scientifically accurate account of biodiversity in the Himalayas.

  • Nation & World

    A reflective Justice Breyer

    Stephen Breyer, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, visited Harvard Law School to celebrate his 20th anniversary on the judicial body and to chat with students and Dean Martha Minow.

  • Campus & Community

    Biography of a bronze

    September marked the 375th anniversary of benefactor John Harvard’s death, and the beginning of a course that uses his statue in Harvard Yard to instruct students about the realities of two vanished eras.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard kicks off football season

    “We are off to a solid start at 2-0, but we have a great deal of room for improvement …,” said a cautious head football coach Tim Murphy after the win over Brown University on Sept. 28. Harvard goes up against Holy Cross on Oct. 5. It won’t have another home game until Oct. 19.

  • Campus & Community

    Collaboration in innovation

    The thrill of discovery just isn’t the same when you’re alone. That’s one of the myriad reasons why collaboration is central to research at Harvard. Here, students, fellows, and researchers…

  • Nation & World

    The Supreme Court, redux

    Scholars from Harvard Law School reviewed some of the critical decisions the U.S. Supreme Court handed down in its spring rulings.

  • Campus & Community

    The beep ball player

    Aqil Sajjad is blind, but he loves sports. So he’s playing on beep ball, a sport that features a chirping baseball that is delivered by a sighted pitcher to a blindfolded batter.

  • Health

    Dream saga of WWII

    As part of a project by Professor Deirdre Barrett to resurrect a study started in 1940, a group of Harvard undergraduates probed the dreams of British officers captured early in World War II and held in a German prison camp.