Tag: FAS

  • Campus & Community

    Delaney-Smith breaks Ivy League record

    Harvard women’s basketball head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith earned career win No. 515 on Friday to become the all-time winning Ivy League head coach with a 69-65 victory over Yale at Lavietes Pavilion.

  • Campus & Community

    With distinction

    FAS Dean Michael D. Smith recognized the hard work and contributions of 52 FAS employees during the fifth annual Dean’s Distinction Awards ceremony and reception, held in University Hall on Thursday.

  • Health

    Key connection

    Scientists have long suggested that the best way to settle the debate about how phenotypic plasticity may be connected to evolution would be to identify a mechanism that controls both. Harvard researchers say they have discovered just such a mechanism in insulin signaling in fruit flies.

  • Science & Tech

    Hierarchical differences

    Female academics are less likely to collaborate across rank, a Harvard study found.

  • Health

    Quality control

    A Harvard research team led by Kevin Kit Parker, a Harvard Stem Cell Institute principal faculty member, has identified a set of 64 crucial parameters by which to judge stem cell-derived cardiac myocytes, making it possible for scientists and pharmaceutical companies to quantitatively judge and compare the value of stem cells.

  • Science & Tech

    Grasping with the eyes

    A symposium on data visualization brought together experts from campus and beyond to show how technology in the arts, sciences, and humanities is helping people think in new ways.

  • Campus & Community

    Bloomberg named Commencement speaker

    Michael R. Bloomberg, M.B.A. ’66, an entrepreneur who built an information technology company into a global news and financial information service and served three terms as mayor of New York City, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvard’s 363rd Commencement.

  • Arts & Culture

    The leadership of Cesar

    Mexican actor Diego Luna came to town to premiere his latest film, “Cesar Chavez,” to the Harvard community before its nationwide release. The film marks Luna’s directorial debut.

  • Campus & Community

    Moments to seize

    Junior Parents Weekend drew more than 1,300 relatives and guests of the Class of 2015.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘In the Dark’

    Bathed in crimson light and huddled around an evening campfire, “Eve” and “Zade” — played by Taylor Phillips ’13 and Matt Bialo ’15 — take an apocalyptic stroll through a forest filled with a dark wonder and pathos in the Adams House Pool Theater production of “In the Dark.”

  • Health

    Alzheimer’s in a dish

    Harvard stem cell scientists have successfully converted skins cells from patients with early onset Alzheimer’s into the types of neurons affected by the disease, making it possible for the first time to study this leading form of dementia in living human cells.

  • Science & Tech

    Bringing order to the court

    New Harvard research points to a sharper method for evaluating basketball players.

  • Campus & Community

    Teaching with élan

    In a new master class series at HGSE, David Malan demonstrates why his course CS50, is wildly popular and what goes into creating memorable learning experiences for students.

  • Campus & Community

    A successful community experiment

    A Harvard program that welcomes high school interns to learn science in the lab often sets them on new academic and career paths.

  • Arts & Culture

    Calling the Oscars

    For the past three years, a Harvard College junior has employed statistics and percentages to predict many winners at the Academy Awards.

  • Arts & Culture

    Film as a force

    Three documentary filmmakers up for an Academy Award this Sunday all have ties to Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, a longstanding, multidisciplinary program with a strong commitment to nonfiction film.

  • Science & Tech

    Heads for steel

    In the Instructional Physics/SEAS Instrument Lab, a machine shop tucked in the basement of Lyman Laboratory, students learn to use a range of equipment — everything from lathes to laser cutters to 3-D printers.

  • Science & Tech

    Negative plus

    Led by Professor David Liu, a team of researchers has developed a technique to continuously evolve biomolecules that uses negative selection — the ability to drive evolution away from certain traits — to create molecules with dramatically altered properties.

  • Campus & Community

    Tiny stages, grand creativity

    The Harvard Theatre Collection is among the oldest and largest of its kind in the world. Within the climate-controlled subterranean reaches of Houghton Library are shelves, drawers, and boxes full of theater, dance, movie, and music items.

  • Science & Tech

    Sizing up the Big Bang

    Four experts, including Nobel Prize winner Robert Wilson, came together for a CfA program titled “50 Years After the Discovery of the Big Bang.”

  • Arts & Culture

    Cool with a capital C

    Hip-hop star and actor LL Cool J came to Harvard over the weekend, pulling double duty as host of the Cultural Rhythms festival and the Harvard Foundation’s Artist of the Year.

  • Campus & Community

    A hello in the snow

    Interim College Dean Donald H. Pfister touched base with students on a Harvard shuttle bus this week.

  • Arts & Culture

    A musical is born, slowly

    An experience in Uganda helping orphans get schooling is at the heart of “Witness Uganda,” a new production directed by Diane Paulus at the American Repertory Theater.

  • Campus & Community

    Kenneth Griffin makes largest gift in Harvard College history

    Harvard University announced today that alumnus Kenneth Griffin, A.B. ’89, founder and chief executive officer of Citadel, has made the largest gift in Harvard College history. The $150 million gift is principally focused on supporting Harvard’s financial aid program.

  • Health

    Lessening liver damage

    Harvard stem cell scientists studying the effect of nitric oxide on liver growth and regeneration appear to have serendipitously discovered a markedly improved treatment for liver damage caused by acetaminophen toxicity.

  • Arts & Culture

    Bach to Bach

    Joint exhibitions at Houghton Library and Loeb Music Library mark the 300th anniversary of composer C.P.E. Bach’s birth and the first publication of his complete works, as well as discoveries and acquisitions that were made along the way.

  • Campus & Community

    A museum as school lab

    Hundreds of Cambridge sixth-graders swarmed the Harvard Museum of Natural History for a look at prehistoric New England.

  • Arts & Culture

    Spotlight on black identity

    A new take on Black History Month at Harvard initiates a conversation about evolving black identity, through the lenses of Africa and art history.

  • Science & Tech

    Curves alter crystallization, study finds

    A new study has uncovered a previously unseen phenomenon — that curved surfaces can dramatically alter the shape of crystals as they form.

  • Science & Tech

    Robots to the rescue

    Inspired by termites’ resilience and collective intelligence, a team of computer scientists and engineers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has created an autonomous robotic construction crew. The system needs no supervisor, just simple robots that cooperate.