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Tag: Research
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Helping Chinese with depression
A treatment model designed to accommodate the beliefs and concerns of Chinese immigrants appears to significantly improve the recognition and treatment of major depression in this typically underserved group.
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HSPH professor awarded for diabetes research
Columbia University Medical Center presented the 2010 Naomi Berrie Award to Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, the James Stevens Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism and the chair of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Brian Marsden, astronomer and comet predictor, 73
Brian Marsden passed away on Nov. 18 after a prolonged illness at the age of 73. He was a supervisory astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and an associate of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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Harvard prof wins prize for criminology study
The 2011 Stockholm Prize in Criminology has been jointly awarded to John Laub of the National Institute of Justice and Harvard’s Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Robert Sampson for their research showing why and how criminals stop offending.
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Biology researcher’s on a roll
Florian Engert, a new professor of molecular and cellular biology in Harvard’s Bio Labs, works and plays hard.
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Medical School’s Jocelyn Spragg, 70
Jocelyn Spragg, faculty director of diversity programs and special academic resources in the division of medical sciences at Harvard Medical School (HMS), as well as a research scientist, educator, mentor, and tireless promoter of educational opportunities for underrepresented students, died Nov. 2.
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Early marijuana use a bigger problem
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have shown that those who start using marijuana at a young age are more impaired on tests of cognitive function than those who start smoking at a later age.
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Harvard professor INET grant recipient
The Institute for New Economic Thinking has selected James Robinson, David Florence Professor of Government at Harvard, and his research partner Steven Pincus of Yale University, to be awarded a project grant through the institute’s Inaugural Grant Program to research the events leading to the British Industrial Revolution.
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Harvard students win in Collegiate Inventors Competition
Harvard doctoral candidate Alice Chen won first prize in the Collegiate Inventors Competition, while several other Harvard students took home second and third prizes.
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A new Center for Primary Care
Backed by a $30 million gift, Harvard Medical School’s unit will serve as a docking point for students, residents, fellows, and faculty from across HMS and its affiliated teaching hospitals.
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Smelling the light
Harvard neurobiologists have created mice that can “smell” light, providing a new tool that could help researchers better understand complex perception systems that do not lend themselves to easy study with traditional methods.
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Call for applications for postdoctoral fellowship in autism
Harvard Medical School and the Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation are accepting applications for the Nancy Lurie Marks Postdoctoral Fellowship in Autism. Two fellowships will be awarded, effective January 2011.
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Du Bois Institute welcomes fall fellows
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, has announced the appointment of 14 new fellows for fall 2010.
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Figuring out suicidal behavior
Matthew Nock is a new professor of psychology at Harvard who uses scientific research to try to determine which medical treatments help to prevent suicide.
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Khanna to head South Asia Initiative
The South Asia Initiative welcomed Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, as its new director.
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It all adds up
New mathematical modeling by scientists from Harvard and other institutions reinforces the view of cancer as a complex culmination of many mutations.
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Challenge of finding a cure
A large, multidisciplinary panel has recently selected 12 pioneering ideas for attacking type 1 diabetes, ideas selected through a crowdsourcing experiment called the “Challenge,” in which all members of the Harvard community, as well as members of the general public, were invited to answer the question: What do we not know to cure type 1…
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Two faculty receive Science of Generosity grants
Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and Assistant Professor of Psychology Felix Warneken have received grants of $149,000 and $150,000, respectively, from the Science of Generosity, an initiative at the University of Notre Dame.
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Toffel awarded for environmental research
Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Michael W. Toffel has won the Emerging Scholar Award from the Academy of Management’s Organizations and the Natural Environment Division.
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Center for the Environment welcomes 2010-12 fellows
The Center for the Environment welcomes an incoming group of environmental fellows for the 2010-12 academic years. These four new fellows will join a group of five scholars who will be beginning the second year of their fellowships.
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Mallika Kaur awarded Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship
The Harvard Committee on General Scholarships has awarded Mallika Kaur, M.P.P. ’10, the 2010-11 Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, which will support her travel, study, and writing on gender issues in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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The 24/7 Baby Doctor: A Harvard Pediatrician Answers All Your Questions from Birth to One Year
This valuable handbook for new parents, written by McEvoy, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, offers evidence-based solutions and covers everything from spit-up to vaccinations.
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Three doctoral students receive 2010-11 Julius B. Richmond Fellowships
Doctoral students Erin C. Dunn, Sky Marietta, and Matthew Ranson have been named recipients of Julius B. Richmond Fellowships from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.
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Anesthesia instructor named 2011 Miles and Eleanor Shore Fellow
Harvard Medical School Instructor in Anesthesia Wasim Malik has been awarded the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology’s Miles and Eleanor Shore Fellowship for 2011.
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Weatherhead Center welcomes 2010-11 fellows
The Fellows Program of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs welcomed a new group of fellows. The fellows include senior diplomats, military officers, politicians, journalists, international civil servants, officials from nongovernmental organizations, and business leaders from around the world.
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Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
Youngme Moon, the Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, says mediocrity in competition is rampant, but it’s adventurousness that spells success. Just ask Google or Apple.
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Five SEAS computer science students named 2011 Siebel Scholars
Five students dedicated to the study of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences were named among the recipients of the 2011 Siebel Scholars awards.
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NARSAD awards professors for breakthrough schizophrenia research
Associate Professor of Psychiatry Marc J. Kaufman and Associate Professor of Psychology Dara Manoach, both of Harvard Medical School, are among 42 innovative researchers awarded NARSAD 2010 Independent Investigator grants for schizophrenia research.
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The problematic growth of AP testing
New book suggests that Advanced Placement teaching has expanded so much that it now serves many students who can’t handle the rigors of its coursework.
