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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning June 8 and ending July 5. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
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Campus & Community
In brief
HMNH seeks Gallery Guides The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) seeks volunteers to share their enthusiasm for natural history with museum visitors in hopes of helping adults and children develop a greater understanding of the natural world. Gallery Guides will attend eight training sessions and will work with live animals. HMNH is looking for…
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
July 12, 1684 – President John Rogers dies in office during a total eclipse of the sun. July 18, 1780 – “Revolutionary” education? A young man visits Cambridge for the first time, passes oral exams in seven subjects, pays for all the instruction he has never received, and walks off with his bachelor’s degree the…
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Campus & Community
Sundrenched
The courtyard of the Bauer Center for Genomics Research is brilliant in the summer sun. The centers goal is to combine a variety of approaches to find general principles that help to explain the structure, behavior, and evolution of cells and organisms. For more scenes of summer, go to www.harvard.edu and check out H20 (Harvard…
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Campus & Community
Earth’s birth date turned back:
Our planet is 50 to 90 million years older than previously thought, according to new evidence found in meteorites.
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Science & Tech
Climate, asthma connected, according to research
Christine Rogers, a research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health, measures particulates – pollen grains and fungal spores – in outdoor air and correlates levels with asthma events. She also examines how those particulate levels might change over time because of global warming. “One of the most predictable effects of global warming is…
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Health
Emotions change with direction
If someone looks directly at you with an angry expression, you usually assume that person is mad at you. If she or he looks away, you become unsure. The person may be angry with someone or something else. In the latter case, the emotional part of your brain shows more activity. With fear, it’s the…
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Science & Tech
Australian shale tells tale of layered seas
Harvard researchers have found important clues about the Earth’s environment 1.5 billion years ago. Their results present quite a different picture from present times, in which oceans have oxygen-rich waters from top to bottom and are capable of supporting large animal life even in their depths. The findings are important not just for what they…
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Campus & Community
Groups, like people, can be intelligent
Few of us work or learn completely alone. And almost all of us who work in groups – offices, project teams, committees, classrooms – could do it better. Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor David Perkins puts forth his observations and suggestions in the new book “King Arthur’s Round Table: How Collaborative Conversations Create Smart…
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Science & Tech
Earth’s birth date turned back
Radioactive elements in rocks decay in a predictable way, like the ticking of a well-made clock that can run for millions of years. The decay marks a change in character of the elements; one type of uranium, for example, decays into lead. To measure the age of meteorites, and thereby deteremine the age of Earth…
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Health
Study finds neural stem cells are not rejected when transplanted
Most transplanted tissues are seen by the recipient as foreign and are attacked by the immune system, but certain parts of the body do not mount attacks against foreign tissue because doing so would be self-destructive. Michael Young, Ph.D., lead author of the study and an assistant scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute and assistant…
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Health
Researcher studies effects of terrorist attacks on office workers near WTC site
Since 1971, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has conducted 1,200 investigations into indoor air. Last fall, the agency undertook an investigation unlike all the others. Aided by a Harvard School of Public Health scientist, Ashok Nimgade, a NIOSH research team evaluated the physical and mental health problems of office workers near “ground…
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Health
Imaging technique tracks tumor escape into lymph nodes
For doctors as well as patients, detecting metastases can be a notoriously burdensome affair. Often, the only way to see whether a patient’s lymph nodes are invaded by cancer cells is to surgically remove and inspect them. In some cases, such as gastric cancer, this can mean several hours of sorting through the nodes in…
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Science & Tech
State-of-the-art solar model tracks eruption
The Sun may appear to be a bright, steadily shining orb, but it is actually a seething cauldron of hot gases prone to violent eruptions. The most dramatic eruptions are coronal mass ejections (CMEs), in which giant, bubble-shaped balloons of plasma and magnetic field lines blast outward at speeds of up to 1,500 miles per…
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Health
Close adherence to traditional Mediterranean diet promotes longevity
The traditional Mediterranean diet features an abundance of vegetables, legumes, fruits, nuts and cereals and regular use of olive oil (monounsaturated fats), moderate amounts of fish and dairy products (mostly yogurt or cheese), small amounts of red meat (low intake of saturated fats) and moderate consumption of alcohol, usually in the form of wine and…
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Science & Tech
Millions of Americans suffer from major depression
A Harvard Medical School study found high rates of depression throughout the U.S. population. The researchers analyzed the depression of over 9,000 Americans and evaluated depression’s effect on daily activities and treatment received, if any. Critics have theorized that depression has been reported as more widespread than it really is, said survey leader Ronald Kessler,…
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Campus & Community
Atwood awarded Radcliffe Medal:
When Radcliffe Medalist Margaret Atwood A.M. 62 studied at Radcliffe, pantyhose and birth control pills were future innovations and women were famously barred from Lamont Library.
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Campus & Community
Stories of the day: June 5, 2003: (Page 1)
Story by Alvin Powell, Beth Potier, and Ken Gewertz Page 1 2 3 4 Feast for the eyes, gluttony for the ear Much is made of the visual richness of Harvard’s Commencement ceremonies: the banners that flutter beneath the leaves of Tercentenary Theatre, the odd and colorful regalia invoking an ancient code of academic hierarchy,…
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Campus & Community
Center for Jewish Studies names prize recipients:
Harvards Center for Jewish Studies has announced the recipients of the 2003 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.
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Campus & Community
Breaking new ground for research:
Gerard Moufflet (left to right), chair, board of fellows, School of Dental Medicine Michael Ross, Boston City Council Eric Williams of the Boston Celtics Marjorie K. Jeffcoat, dean, UPenn School of Dental Medicine Bruce Donoff, dean, Harvard School of Dental Medicine and President Lawrence H. Summers participate in the groundbreaking at the future site of…
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Campus & Community
CID awards undergraduate student grants:
The Center for International Development (CID) has awarded 25 grants to Harvard undergraduate students to support international development internships and research projects this summer.
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Campus & Community
In brief
Admission increase at HMNH, Peabody Beginning July 1, the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology will increase the price of admission by one dollar. The new rates will be $7.50 for adults, $6 for seniors and college students, and $5 for children between the ages of 3…
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Campus & Community
Germanic Languages and Literatures announces awards:
The following students were awarded prizes this month by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures:
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Campus & Community
Du Bois letters come to Houghton:
Previously unknown letters written by W.E.B Du Bois (A.B. 1890, A.M. 1891, Ph.D. 1895) – the influential African-American scholar and leader of the early 20th century African-American protest movement – and his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois, an author and teacher, have been jointly acquired by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute and Houghton Library. The…
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Campus & Community
CBRSS announces grant, fellowship recipients:
The Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences (CBRSS) has announced that graduate students Nava Ashraf and Nicola Gennaioli, both of the Department of Economics, have been named the centers grant recipients. Given to graduate student associates who expect to complete their dissertation within the upcoming academic year, the award supports up to a…