Tag: Harvard University

  • Nation & World

    When China’s doors reopened

    Retired diplomat Nicholas Platt ’57 weighs in on China then and now, and on the durability of U.S. ties to that nation.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard extends benefits in advance of health reform deadline

    Harvard University is extending medical and dental benefits to eligible employees’ dependents who otherwise would become ineligible for continued coverage. This extension began June 1.

  • Arts & Culture

    The last notes

    In place since 1967, Appleton Chapel’s Opus 46 organ will be dismantled to make way for a new instrument.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard and Banco Santander announce letter of intent

    Harvard University and Banco Santander announced a letter of intent today that will enable Harvard to support master’s candidates and visiting fellows from China through participation in Banco Santander’s Marco Polo Program.

  • Campus & Community

    Bill Lee to join Harvard Corporation

    William F. Lee, A.B. ’72, a Boston-based intellectual property expert and former Harvard Overseer who leads one of the nation’s most prominent law firms, has been elected to become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced today (April 11).

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard launches on iTunes U

    Harvard University today launched its own content on iTunes U, a dedicated area within iTunes that allows students, faculty, alumni, and visitors to tap into the University’s wealth of public lectures and educational materials on video and audio.

  • Nation & World

    Harvard in Japan

    As President Drew Faust becomes the eighth Harvard president to visit Japan, faculty members are sending back dispatches about cultural and historical aspects of her visit.

  • Nation & World

    Beyond boundaries

    As a global university, Harvard not only attracts students and faculty from around the world, it sends them out, to teach and work, extending Harvard’s influence far beyond its local boundaries.

  • Health

    It’s all in the cortex

    Research suggests that the brain’s lateral prefrontal cortex plays an important role in showing how well someone can rebound emotionally the day after an argument.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard study of Charlotte schools finds teacher training, not degrees, help kids learn

    Harvard University researchers who have been studying a North Carolina school system to learn what makes teachers effective are reporting their findings.

  • Campus & Community

    Holloway goes to Washington

    When President Obama delivers his first State of the Union address tonight (Jan. 27), Harvard freshman Janell Holloway ’13 will be watching from the first lady’s box in the U.S. House chamber.

  • Nation & World

    An orphanage regroups

    The family of a Harvard undergraduate in Haiti struggles to provide food, shelter, and safety to their orphanage complex there.

  • Campus & Community

    Taming the energy beast

    Greenhouse gas emissions drop 10 percent as Harvard eyes 2016 goal.

  • Nation & World

    Harvard, University of Johannesburg join forces

    Education is a force for liberation, President Drew Faust told an audience Thursday (Nov. 26) at the University of Johannesburg at Soweto, where she announced that Harvard and the host university were developing an initiative to train school principals in some of South Africa’s most desperate regions.

  • Health

    Cancer vaccine success

    A cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals, scientists report this week (Nov. 25) in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

  • Science & Tech

    Wasteland and wilderness

    Harvard science historian and physicist Peter Galison is using part of his Radcliffe year to explore the intersections of forbidden wilderness and nuclear wasteland.

  • Campus & Community

    Fundraising results signal continued strength

    Despite a global economic downturn, Harvard University raised $602 million through fundraising efforts in fiscal year 2009.

  • Science & Tech

    Harvard launches major initiative to help design international climate agreements

    Harvard University announced in early July a two-year project to help identify key design elements of a future international agreement on climate change, drawing on the ideas of leading thinkers from academia, private industry, government, and advocacy organizations, both in the industrialized world and in developing countries.

  • Campus & Community

    Eileen Jackson Southern

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 15, 2007, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

  • Campus & Community

    For Kinsella, patience truly is a virtue

    Sarah Kinsella is in many ways the kind of young Renaissance woman that a university admissions committee jumps at — an aspiring doctor who will be heading to medical school at Georgetown in the fall, but also a musician and someone deeply involved with both church and family.

  • Science & Tech

    Single spinning nuclei in diamond offer a stable quantum computing building block

    Surmounting several distinct hurdles to quantum computing, physicists at Harvard University have found that individual carbon-13 atoms in a diamond lattice can be manipulated with extraordinary precision to create stable quantum mechanical memory and a small quantum processor, also known as a quantum register, operating at room temperature. The finding brings the futuristic technology of…

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    May 1967 — More than 800 guests fill the Palmer Dixon Tennis Courts to celebrate John Finley’s 25th anniversary as Master of Eliot House.

  • Campus & Community

    In a first, scientists develop tiny implantable biocomputers

    Researchers at Harvard and Princeton universities have taken a crucial step toward building biological computers, tiny implantable devices that can monitor the activities and characteristics of human cells. The information provided by these “molecular doctors,” constructed entirely of DNA, RNA, and proteins, could eventually revolutionize medicine by directing therapies only to diseased cells or tissues.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard wins Cambridge Go Green Award for Blackstone project

    Harvard University has been awarded a city of Cambridge Go Green Business Award, which recognizes business and institutional leaders for their efforts to create a more sustainable city.

  • Campus & Community

    Learning about early learning

    On a recent cold Monday morning, the Gutman Conference Center looked more like a kindergarten classroom than a high-end meeting facility. Construction paper, glue sticks, scissors, colored pencils, and crayons covered most of the room’s six round tables. And working at those tables was not a group of intent 5-year-olds but 33 adults busily crafting…