Featured series 
Month: December 2009
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Campus & Community
Couple donates $1m for nursing program
Wellesley residents Burton and Gloria Rose recently presented Hebrew SeniorLife with a $1 million gift to support its Nursing Career Development Program, which allows certified nursing assistants who work for Hebrew SeniorLife to become licensed practical nurses…
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Campus & Community
Biotech firms, Hub hospitals strengthen ties
Two Boston teaching hospitals are stepping up research into cardiovascular disease in separate programs that illustrate the deepening collaboration between academic medical centers and the biopharmaceutical industry.
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Campus & Community
More vaccine but fewer takers, H1N1 surveys indicate
Pandemic influenza vaccine is getting much easier to find but more than half of American adults say they still don’t want it, and one-third of parents say they don’t want their children to get it either, according to two surveys.
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Nation & World
The Cold War observed
Medical sociologist Mark G. Field, a specialist in Soviet health systems, uses a final Harvard seminar to recall a 20th century life in war, Cold War, peace, and scholarship.
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Campus & Community
Doctors Seek Aid From Business Schools
Dr. Barton is one of 68 students enrolled in Harvard Business School’s Managing Health Care Delivery, a $22,000 non-degree program that launched in October and consists of three one-week courses spread out over nine months.
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Campus & Community
Skilled with scalpel and pen
There’s not much downtime in Dr. Atul Gawande’s days. In between cases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the 44-year-old surgeon researches articles for The New Yorker magazine and his best-selling books, but sits down for a little Q&A with the Boston Globe.
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Arts & Culture
Committee on arts announced
Harvard University President Drew Faust today (Dec. 21) announced the formation of a University-wide advisory committee on the arts, the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA).
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Science & Tech
Felice Frankel receives highest award granted by Photographic Society of America
Felice Frankel, a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Research Associate in Harvard Medical School’s systems biology department has been awarded the Progress Medal of…
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Campus & Community
Elizabeth Warren is the Bostonian of the Year
It seemed as if the banks and other firms got a $700 billion bonanza and the American taxpayer got the shaft. But along came this straight-shooting Harvard professor to oversee the bailout, someone who pledged to look out for the middle class and brought a sense of sanity to the economic crisis. For this we…
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Campus & Community
The Spark: Diane Paulus
It was nearing 2 a.m. on a spring night in 1990, and 24-year-old Diane Paulus was unwinding with a group of young actors who, like her, had just completed a round of acting classes with the legendary director Mike Nichols.
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Campus & Community
Widening horizons
No. 1-ranked Harvard women’s squash team heads to India over break to give clinics, sample culture.
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Campus & Community
FXB Center’s new director
Jennifer Leaning, a public health expert with extensive field experience in human rights crises, has been named director of the University’s François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).
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Health
Light maps neurons’ effects
Scientists come up with method to track neurons as they interact with each other.
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Campus & Community
A snapshot of Harvard’s emission reductions
In 2007, Harvard University pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, inclusive of growth, 30 percent by 2016, with 2006 as the baseline year. University-wide, GHG reductions are around 5 percent so far, including growth. The reductions are due to changes in Harvard’s energy supply and to activities and projects at Schools and units.
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Health
Natural flu-fighting protein discovered in human cells
Harvard researchers report having discovered a family of naturally occurring antiviral agents in human cells, a finding that may lead to better ways to prevent and treat influenza and other…
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Arts & Culture
How the West was written
Western poet Katie Peterson, a Radcliffe Fellow, shares her sense of desert life on a vast canvas with startling intimacy.
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Arts & Culture
Where the Renaissance still lives
At Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, more than 30 scholars gather for three to 10 months to pursue their studies on the Italian Renaissance: its music, history, economics, science, politics, and art.
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Health
Light used to map effect of neurons on one another
Harvard scientists have used light and genetic trickery to trace out neurons’ ability to excite or inhibit one another, literally shedding new light on the question of how neurons interact…
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Campus & Community
Poetry in motion
A novice poet learns her craft by presenting her work in front of open-mic audiences at Adams House.
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Campus & Community
HUL names deputy director
Helen Shenton, the head of collection care for the British Library, has been appointed deputy director of the Harvard University Library.
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Campus & Community
Tracking insects for work and play
Gary Alpert, entomology officer for Environmental Health and Safety, helps to manage pests and environmental standards at Harvard, but in his free time he’s an ant biologist.
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Science & Tech
Web wizardry
Harvard lecturer David Malan’s introductory computer-programming class spawns an array of imaginative new applications, reflected in the annual CS 50 Fair.
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Science & Tech
Accelerator Fund boon to research
The Harvard Office of Technology Development’s Accelerator Fund helps researchers advance their work to the point where it’s attractive to private industry.
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Campus & Community
The personal side of economics
Harvard’s newest tenured economics professor tries to craft policy solutions that match the ways that we behave.
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Arts & Culture
A tale of two continents
English professor Elisa New found her great-grandfather’s cane, and that spawned a twisting journey to find her family history, now relayed in a book.
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Nation & World
When the economy crashes
Harvard Business School exhibit examines “Bubbles, Panics, and Crashes: A Century of Financial Crises, 1830s-1930s.”
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Campus & Community
SmartTALK Family Night
Harvard-assisted SmartTALK evening at Dorchester school helps students to develop homework skills, with family participation.
