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Campus & Community
SPH launches new Web sites:
The School of Public Health (SPH) has launched a new window onto its e-world with a redesigned home page that aims to direct visitors more quickly to where they want to go – for instance, a new Nutrition Source Web site unveiled this month that presents the latest scientific findings on nutrition and diet.
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Campus & Community
Residency requirement changed to enhance flexibility for new models of learning:
A minor change to rules governing residency requirements for Harvard degrees enhances the Universitys flexibility to explore different models of learning, the Presidents Office announced. The change permits certain exceptions to the Universitys requirement that students must spend one full year in residency in order to receive a degree.
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Campus & Community
Arch glance
Sever Halls curved doorway proffers a dynamic frame for this view of forked paths meandering off toward University Hall.
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Campus & Community
Nature, meet culture
A snow-encrusted glove, brand name and all, adorns (?) the branches of a hardy tree outside Wadsworth House.
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Campus & Community
Meat consumption may not impact breast cancer risk:
While for years it has been hypothesized that meat consumption is associated with breast cancer, a new study from Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) provides compelling evidence that diets high in animal protein may not be significantly associated with breast cancer risk. This finding is the latest result from the landmark BWH-based Nurses Health Study,…
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Campus & Community
Boys Choir of Harlem to participate in residency:
The Boys Choir of Harlem, the internationally acclaimed performing ensemble of the Choir Academy of Harlem, will participate in a residency at Harvard Feb. 4-8.
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Campus & Community
In brief
Temporary teachers sought As part of the Harvard School Vacation Program, Work/Life and Family Resources is looking for teachers or teacher assistants to work with school-age children of University faculty and staff for four days during the public school vacation from Feb. 18 to Feb. 21. Salary and hours to be arranged. For more information,…
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Campus & Community
President and Provost office hours
President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council notice for Jan. 8
At its seventh meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed the implications for the Faculty of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act and other recent and related government legislation and regulation. Deputy General Counsel Robert Iuliano and Professor Paul Martin, dean for Research and Information Technology in FAS were present for this discussion.
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Campus & Community
‘Paycheck changes for staff’ correction
A chart that accompanied the Dec. 12, 2002, Gazette article titled Paycheck changes for staff contained an error. The charts last two headings were inadvertently transposed. The corrected headings appear in the chart above. The Gazette regrets the error.
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Campus & Community
Police issue advisory:
On Dec. 21, at approximately 4:30 a.m., three Harvard Business School students were the victims of an armed robbery at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Bow Street. The victims reported that two males approached them from behind, produced two small handguns, and proceeded to take the wallet of one of the victims. One of…
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Campus & Community
Let it snow!
At least one figure in the Winthrop House courtyard was unfazed by one of the many snowfalls that has whitened Cambridge and the rest of New England recently.
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Campus & Community
Harvard College announces early admissions figures
Despite a substantial jump in Early Action applications to Harvard College this year, the number of admitted students remained at roughly the same level as the previous five years. A total of 1,150 students were admitted this year from a record pool of 7,620. Last year, 1,174 of 6,126 applicants were admitted.
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Health
Hundreds of thousands with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis could be saved
A study has provided the first hard evidence that outpatient community care in poor, urban shantytowns can work for the most difficult to treat form of tuberculosis. The multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment model could ultimately help save hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. Among those who completed at least four months of therapy, the percentage with…
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Health
Testosterone drives away the blues
In the 1940s, experiments showed that major depression can be relieved by injecting testosterone into men with low levels of that hormone. The treatment never caught on because the shots are painful, and effective antidepressant drugs started coming to market. More recently, however, testosterone patches and gels became available. In June 2000, the United States…
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Health
Study finds frequent consumption of alcohol linked to lower risk of heart attack in men
Men who drank moderate amounts of alcoholic beverages three or more times a week had a risk of myocardial infarction 30 to 35 percent lower than nondrinkers. The observational study, which tracked the drinking habits of nearly 40,000 men over a 12-year period, provides an important clue as to how alcohol helps guard against coronary…
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Health
Alzheimer’s disease: New theory on how it damages brain
Studies have shown that the buildup in the brain of certain toxic proteins, called amyloids, leads to the emergence of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Research has traditionally focused on how to eliminate or lower the levels of these proteins in the brain as a potential treatment for the disease. But now researchers believe that…
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Health
Meat consumption may not increase breast cancer risk
After following 88,647 women for 18 years, the largest and longest individual study of its kind to date, researcher Michelle Holmes and her co-investigators found no evidence that intake of meat during mid-life and later was associated with risk of breast cancer. Similarly, the data showed no reduced risk among women who were vegetarians. In…
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Science & Tech
Hypergiant star erupts
In the year 2000, the star Rho Cassiopeiae, n the constellation of Cassiopeia, lost more mass than in any other stellar eruption observed by astronomers. An international team of astronomers, led by astrophysicist Alex Lobel of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, observed the huge eruption, which blasted nearly 10,000 times the mass of the Earth…
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Science & Tech
New research questions competition in corporate charters
The dominant state in attracting the incorporations of publicly traded companies is, and has long been, the state of Delaware. Although home to less than one-third of one percent of the U.S. population, Delaware plays a central role in setting corporate governance rules for the nation’s publicly traded companies. “The widely accepted justification for the…
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Health
Men can reduce stroke risk by eating fish
Researchers tracked the diet and health outcomes of more than 43,000 male participants for 12 years. Using detailed food frequency questionnaires, participants were asked how often they ate fish, ranging from never or less than once per month to six or more times per week. The men in the study were also asked about four…
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Health
Hospital length of stay may not affect a newborn’s health
Researcher Jeanne M. Madden and colleagues used seven-and-a-half years of data on 20,366 mother-infant pairs with normal vaginal deliveries within a large Massachusetts health maintenance organization to determine the effects of reductions by the HMO in the postpartum length of stay and a subsequent state law establishing a minimum stay. The investigators measured the effects…
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Health
Many Americans hold incorrect beliefs about smallpox and smallpox vaccine
If physicians are reluctant to be vaccinated themselves against smallpox, large numbers of Americans will be unwilling to do it voluntarily. Also, if there are deaths from side effects of the vaccine, the public will be less willing to be vaccinated. “Depending on events, many Americans may be cautious when deciding whether or not to…
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Science & Tech
Young star cluster found aglow with mysterious X-ray cloud
Known as RCW 38, a star cluster covers a region about 5 light years across. It contains thousands of stars formed less than a million years ago and appears to be forming new stars even today. The crowded environment of a star cluster is thought to be conducive to the production of hot gas, but…
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Health
Replacing joints early may be better than waiting for some osteoarthritis sufferers
In a study, scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Toronto Western Hospital followed the progress of patients who opted to have joint replacement surgery. They found that those patients who had postponed having the surgery the longest — and therefore were experiencing the most pain and loss of joint function — also experienced…
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Health
Formin gene may explain a common cause of female infertility
Harvard Medical School researchers Philip Leder and Benjamin Leader have discovered that oocytes from female mice without the formin gene Fmn2 cannot correctly position the metaphase I DNA-spindle. This produces daughter cells with an abnormal number of chromosomes, the leading cause of female infertility, birth defects, and embryo loss. Genes of the formin family, including…
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Campus & Community
How not to get hooked:
Many people imagine that Buddhist meditation aims at tranquility as an escape from the emotional pangs of everyday life. Not so, says author and teacher Pema Chödrön. My word for the Buddhist path is courage, Ani Pema told an audience of 1,600 in the Memorial Church on Friday evening (Dec. 6). Tranquility is a lucky…