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  • Science & Tech

    Computer imaging that aids science

    Miriah Myer, a postdoctoral fellow, is a computer scientist using technology to better model and clarify medical data.

  • Health

    Study finds higher STD rates among users of erectile dysfunction drugs

    Users of erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs have higher rates of sexually transmitted disease (STD) than do non-users, Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have found after analyzing insurance records of more than 1.4 million U.S. men over age 40.  The findings, published in the July 6th edition of Annals of Internal Medicine, suggest physicians who prescribe…

  • Campus & Community

    Ivy League, Harvard announce unintentional secondary basketball violation

    The Ivy League and Harvard University announced today that Harvard has declared an unintentional secondary violation in connection with conversations in the summer of 2007 between current assistant men’s basketball coach Kenny Blakeney and members of the Harvard coaching staff that occurred before Blakeney was employed by Harvard. “Secondary violations” are by National Collegiate Athletic…

  • Campus & Community

    Here she is, Miss Massachusetts

    Barely a month into the world as a new Harvard College graduate, Loren Galler Rabinowitz has already skyrocketed to success as the new Miss Massachusetts.

  • Health

    More Than Two Billion People Worldwide Lack Access to Surgical Services

    More than two billion people worldwide do not have adequate access to surgical treatment, according to a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The Harvard researchers also found that people living in high-income regions have far greater access to surgery sites (operating theatres) than do those living in low-income regions and…

  • Health

    Rare variants in gene coding may up risk of autoimmune disorders

    Rare variants in the gene coding of an enzyme that controls the activity of a key immune cell occur more often in people with autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes, Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital found in a multi-institutional study.  The researchers’ report, published in the journal Nature, identifies a pathway…

  • Health

    With fasting, enzyme turns off body’s production of fats, cholesterol

    Fasting helps cause an enzyme with several important roles in energy metabolism to turn off the body’s generation of fats and cholesterol, Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have found.  The findings could lead to new approaches to treating elevated cholesterol and lipid levels. The researchers’ report, published today in Genes & Development, describes how…

  • Nation & World

    Meeting in the middle

    A group of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs met at Harvard Business School to explore the synergy between the two fields and the opportunities for moneymaking ventures moving forward.

  • Science & Tech

    Shape-shifting sheets automatically fold into multiple shapes

    “More than meets the eye” may soon become more than just for the Transformer line of popular robotic toys. Researchers at Harvard and MIT have reshaped the landscape of programmable matter by devising self-folding sheets that rely on the ancient art of origami. Click here to watch a video of the folding process. Using the…

  • Science & Tech

    A marriage of origami and robotics

    A Harvard and MIT research team demonstrates how a single thin sheet composed of interconnected triangular sections can transform itself into another shape, without the help of skilled fingers, in a kind of origami robotics.

  • Campus & Community

    Their sails are set

    About 100 current and former Crimson Summer Academy scholars gathered for a reunion barbecue, reveling in a rare chance to catch up with old friends, meet new ones, and reflect on how far they’ve come.

  • Health

    Using nanotechnology to improve a cancer treatment

    Harvard and Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers have devised a method that may allow clinicians to use higher doses of a powerful chemotherapy drug that has been limited because it is toxic not only to tumors but to patients’ kidneys.

  • Health

    Improving a cancer drug

    Researchers, led by Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor Shiladitya Sengupta, have devised a way to improve a low-cost, effective cancer drug, cisplatin, whose use has been limited by its toxicity.

  • Health

    The immune system and HIV

    Researchers gather to share information about the latest advances in understanding how the oldest part of the body’s immune system might help in the fight against HIV and AIDS.

  • Campus & Community

    A ‘green street’ for Allston

    Groups band together to create a “green street” in Allston that embraces sustainable landscaping.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard’s Institute of Politics announces fall fellows

    Six individuals have been selected for fall resident fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.

  • Science & Tech

    Living, breathing human lung-on-a-chip

    Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have created a device that mimics a living, breathing human lung on a microchip. The device, about the size of a rubber eraser, acts much like a lung in a human body and is made using human lung and blood vessel cells.

  • Science & Tech

    How touch can influence judgments

    Researchers find ways in which tactile sensations appear to influence social judgments and decisions in everyday life.

  • Campus & Community

    Yes, it’s free

    At a Harvard “lawn swap,” everything was free, including a lesson on the environmental advantages of reusing office supplies and other goods.

  • Campus & Community

    HBS professor says male job loss a long-term problem

    Three quarters of the seven million jobs that have vanished in the recession belonged to men. The male unemployment rate is now 9.8 percent, vs. 8.1 percent for women. The trend got Larry Summers, the president’s top economic adviser, speculating recently, “When the economy recovers five years from now, one in six men who are…

  • Campus & Community

    Staff art is focus at Radcliffe Institute

    This time, the Radcliffe art show at Byerly Hall is by staff members, and will be on display through the summer.

  • Health

    A long look at growing old

    The Glenn Laboratories hosted the annual symposium on aging, reviewing new developments in understanding the mechanisms of growing old.

  • Campus & Community

    Belsky named managing director of Joint Center for Housing Studies

    Eric S. Belsky, executive director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies, has been appointed managing director of the Center.

  • Campus & Community

    Putting, pitching, and playing

    Harvard opens mini-golf course, batting cages for the Allston community.

  • Health

    Be wary of the cassowary

    Nature writer Sy Montgomery talked about her hunt for the dangerous cassowary, as well as her passion for nature, during a presentation at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard professor a hit on Japanese TV

    One of the hottest television shows in Japan this spring revolved around Harvard professor Michael Sandel’s recorded classroom lectures about philosophy. NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, picked up in April the PBS show featuring Sandel’s lecture show, titled “Justice.” Rebranded as “Harvard Hakunetsu Kyoshitu (Harvard’s Heated Discussion Classroom),” the show quickly drew wide notice and topped…

  • Campus & Community

    Craig R. McCoy wins 2010 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence

    Craig R. McCoy, an investigative reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, has won the 2010 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence.

  • Campus & Community

    Six grad students named Rappaport Fellows

    Six Harvard University graduate students are among the 13 local graduate students who will spend the summer working in key state agencies as Rappaport Public Policy Fellows.

  • Campus & Community

    Soccer as global village

    In an increasingly globalized world, soccer both benefits and suffers from a player’s ability to leave his homeland and compete on an international stage.

  • Nation & World

    Questions on an oil-dark sea

    The gigantic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico resulting from the catastrophe on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig will change the way corporate officials think about future risks, Harvard officials say.