Featured series 
Month: June 2011
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Science & Tech
In the Arboretum, another world
The Arboretum is so serene and languid it can seem almost imaginary. On a warm summer day, dogs and runners and bicyclists all share the nearly silent space under the shade of giant and rare trees of odd shapes and sizes.
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Campus & Community
Surrounded by nature & reflected in it
From the oversize windows in the room called “the Fishbowl” at Currier House, you can see lush green grass and blossoming trees on alternate sloping hillsides.
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Campus & Community
Ramanathan honored as Pew Scholar
Harvard University’s Sharad Ramanathan, assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology, has been named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.
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Campus & Community
Justice Goes Global
Michael J. Sandel, the Harvard University political philosopher, is a rock star in Asia, and people in China, Japan and South Korea scalp tickets to hear him..
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Campus & Community
TV time tied to diabetes, death
People who spend more hours in front of the television are at greater risk of dying, or developing diabetes and heart disease…
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Campus & Community
Century-old tortilla chip in a Harvard collection
Harvard has been collecting things for a long time, probably beginning with the donation of a library by its namesake, John Harvard…
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Campus & Community
Celebrating arts, athletics, scholarship
These photos offer an in-depth look into life at Winthrop House.
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Science & Tech
Hyper-public spaces
A symposium sponsored by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society explored the design of public and private spaces in the digital realm.
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Health
How ovarian cancer spreads
Harvard Medical School researchers find that ovarian cancer cells use mechanical force to move through tissue and colonize additional organs.
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Campus & Community
Cordeiro Health Policy Summer Research Grants announced
The Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy has announced the 2011 recipients of the Cordeiro Health Policy Summer Research Grants.
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Science & Tech
History shines through the glass
Researchers are examining the Harvard Semitic Museum’s collection of ancient glass for clues about the people who made it and their interactions with other societies through trade.
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Health
A living laser
In a new report, Harvard researchers Malte Gather and Seok-Hyun Yun describe how a single cell genetically engineered to express green fluorescent protein can be used to amplify the light particles called photons into nanosecond-long pulses of laser light.
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Campus & Community
Human cell becomes living laser
Scientists have for the first time created laser light using living biological material: a single human cell and some jellyfish protein.
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Arts & Culture
Around the world in many ways
Historian Joyce Chaplin is completing her latest book, on the history and influence of circumnavigation. For her, globalization is an old story.
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Health
New face for chimp-attack victim
A Connecticut woman who was badly disfigured when she was mauled by a pet chimpanzee in 2009 received a full face transplant during surgery at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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Campus & Community
The stream of experience
Since creation of the House system by Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell in the 1930s, the cultures and traditions of the residential Houses have been continually transformed by students and members of the Harvard community. During the school year, students engage in a range of activities such as staging a performance about race relations in…
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Arts & Culture
The artistic side of science
The new Transit Gallery in Gordon Hall at Harvard Medical School lets students and staffers appreciate the fine arts while getting from place to place.
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Science & Tech
Tut, tut!
Ralph Mitchell, a Harvard professor and authority on cultural heritage microbiology, investigates “fingerprints” left on the walls of Egyptian King Tutankhamen’s tomb by ancient microbes.
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Campus & Community
Blumenthal tapped for top spot
David Blumenthal, the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, has been named chairman of the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System.
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Health
What makes them special
Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, examine why a select group of long-term type 1 diabetes survivors show so few complications.
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Science & Tech
Finding the genetic trail
Harvard Medical School researchers have traced the influence of genes from sub-Saharan Africa in European, Middle Eastern, and Jewish populations, quantifying the intermingling that occurred over many generations.
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Campus & Community
A gathering of goals
A growing community of campus support groups, especially minority affinity groups, are helping the University to understand and embrace diversity.
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Campus & Community
The way we were
Donald Freeman Brown ’30, who is 102 and a retired archaeologist, digs back into the days of “ancient” Harvard.
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Health
No cheeks, no problem
Harvard biologist Alfred W. Crompton shows that dogs drink not with a messy scoop of the tongue, but in a way similar to that of cats — by using adhesion and inertia to pull water from the bowl into their mouths.
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Health
VHA vs. Medicare: And the winner is …
A Harvard Medical School-led study shows that cancer care provided by the Veterans Health Administration for men 65 years and older is at least as good as, and by some measures better than, Medicare-funded fee-for-service care obtained through the private sector.
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Health
Increasing odds for survival
A duo of drugs, each targeting a prime survival strategy of tumors, can be safely administered and is potentially more effective than either drug alone for advanced, inoperable melanomas, according to a phase 1 clinical trial led by Harvard investigators at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
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Nation & World
The threat of nuclear terror
Joint U.S.-Russian assessment, produced in part through Harvard Kennedy School, warns of ongoing threat from nuclear terror, and says quick action is needed to avoid attack.
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Health
It doesn’t add up
An important new finding by Harvard researchers indicates that cellular mutations responsible for an organism’s successful adaptation do not, when combined over time, provide as much benefit as they would individually be expected to provide.
