Tag: Jr.

  • Nation & World

    Committee named to lead Legacy of Slavery memorial project

    University names committee to lead Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Memorial Project.

    5 minutes
    A Harvard gate featuring the veritas shield.
  • Nation & World

    The gathering storm

    Experts assess the state of the nation amid a pandemic and a national reckoning with race during a talk sponsored by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research and PBS.

    10 minutes
    Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • Nation & World

    Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.

    At the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 7, 2015, the Minute honoring the life and service of the Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus, was spread upon the records. Professor Ramsey received the Nobel Prize in 1989 for inventing the separated oscillatory field method and the hydrogen…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Farish A. Jenkins Jr., 72

    Farish A. Jenkins Jr., professor of biology, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, dies at 72.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Stem cells make new heart valves

    Harvard researchers have coaxed adult stem cells into forming artificial heart valves that could one day mean fewer surgeries for children suffering from heart defects. The scientists, at Harvard-affiliated Boston…

    3 minutes
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    Newly found species fills evolutionary gap between fish and land animals

    Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a species that provides the missing evolutionary link between fish and the first animals that walked out of water onto land about 375 million years…

    1 minute