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Science & Tech
Ambitious undertaking
U.S. Undersecretary of Energy Kristina Johnson said the United States plans to have 80 percent of its energy come from alternative and unconventional fossil fuels by 2050. She spoke as part of the “Future of Energy” discussion series sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
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Nation & World
‘Power Lunch’ comes to HBS
CNBC show “Power Lunch” interviews Harvard M.B.A. students to gain insights into prospects for Twitter’s future business model.
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Nation & World
Out of Africa
Harvard Africa Focus opens series of panels, lectures, and performances highlighting the continent’s life and culture.
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Arts & Culture
A march toward the arts
The relocation of the Silk Road Project to Harvard space in Allston is just the latest indicator that the University is expanding its commitment to the arts as a pivotal source of creativity.
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Arts & Culture
Medieval recycling
Radcliffe Fellow Robin Fleming peers into the history of early medieval Britain through the lens of material culture.
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Campus & Community
Bill Lee to join Harvard Corporation
William F. Lee, A.B. ’72, a Boston-based intellectual property expert and former Harvard Overseer who leads one of the nation’s most prominent law firms, has been elected to become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced today (April 11).
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Campus & Community
Seeing Harvard from all sides
Bill Lee, who is the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, has seen Harvard from many vantage points: He attended the College, has taught at the Law School, served as an Overseer and has been a proud Harvard parent – twice. As he prepared to join the Corporation, Lee sat down with the Gazette to…
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Nation & World
Doctor examines torture
Author and Harvard doctor Atul Gawande explored the practice of solitary confinement in a lecture at Harvard Law School.
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Campus & Community
Professor Nathan Keyfitz dies at 96
Nathan Keyfitz, professor of demography and sociology at Harvard from 1972 to 1983, recently died at the age of 96. Keyfitz was a leader in the field of mathematical demography and a pioneer in the application of mathematical tools to the study of population characteristics.
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Campus & Community
Harvard-based pay-for-study experiment shows students incentivized to actions, not results
A program that paid city students if they got higher test scores earned an F, a new study shows.
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Arts & Culture
Emily as art
A Harvard artist and wordsmith takes a turn at reimaging the poems of Emily Dickinson.
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Nation & World
Schools may flunk testing
During a presentation at a Harvard Graduate School of Education Askwith Forum Diane Ravitch, former proponent of educational testing, told the audience that the movement has gone too far, including punishing schools for unrealistic expectations.
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Nation & World
Reclaiming their future
The first visiting scholar for the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative examines the reforms needed to drive human development in the Middle East.
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Campus & Community
Study: Walking Seems to Lower Women’s Stroke Risk
Women can lower their stroke risk by lacing up their sneakers and walking, a new study suggests…
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Campus & Community
Radiation use may raise adult cancer risk
NEW YORK — Women’s risk of developing breast cancer may increase as much as 20-fold if they were treated with chest radiation for malignancies as children or young adults, according to an analysis of studies… In the second study on lifespan, Jennifer Yeh, a research fellow at Harvard School of Public Health, developed a mathematical…
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Nation & World
Understanding health care reform
With the debate on health care reform slowing after its passage, media outlets now turn to explaining how the massive legislation will be implemented.
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Science & Tech
Cold atoms and nanotubes come together in an atomic ‘black hole’
Carbon nanotubes, long touted for applications in materials and electronics, may also be the stuff of atomic-scale black holes. Physicists at Harvard University have found that a high-voltage nanotube can cause cold atoms to spiral inward under dramatic acceleration before disintegrating violently. Their experiments, the first to demonstrate something akin to a black hole at…
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Science & Tech
‘Settle down,’ warns E.O. Wilson
Esteemed biologist Edward O. Wilson called for renewed efforts to understand and conserve the planet’s biodiversity, in the first of three Prather Lectures being presented this week.
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Health
Electronic medical records not a panacea?
The implementation of electronic health record systems may not be enough to significantly improve health quality and reduce costs. In the April 2010 issue of Health Affairs, Harvard researchers from the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) report finding that currently implemented systems have little effect on measures such as patient…
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Science & Tech
Understanding tiny reactions
Scientists believe that tiny carbon nanotubes may also create something like atomic-scale black holes.
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Science & Tech
Looking for life beyond Earth
Scientist Carolyn Porco explored the deeper regions of the solar system and her work with the Cassini mission to Saturn during a talk at Radcliffe.
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Health
Childhood cancer survivors may face shortened lifespan, study reveals
Although more children today are surviving cancer than ever before, young patients successfully treated in the 1970s and 80s may live a decade less, on average, than the general population, according to a study by Harvard researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health. Depending on the type of cancer, the…
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Campus & Community
Special notice regarding Commencement Exercises
A special notice regarding Commencement Exercises for those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises offers guidelines for the May 27 event.
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Arts & Culture
Looking at ‘Invisible Cities’
Harvard students, in an eclectic art show, travel to real and imagined “Invisible Cities,” which simmer beneath the surface of the real.
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Science & Tech
Kicking the habit
Clean, renewable wind and solar power may be the most-preferred fossil fuel alternatives, but their land-hungry collecting requirements make them difficult options for replacing more conventional power sources, according to a British energy expert. David MacKay, chief scientific adviser to the United Kingdom’s Department of Energy and Climate Change and a professor of natural philosophy in the Department of Physics at…
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Science & Tech
An addiction to fossil fuels
David MacKay, physics professor at Cambridge University and scientific adviser to the United Kingdom’s Department of Energy and Climate Change, outlines challenges facing efforts to eliminate fossil fuels from the world’s energy mix.
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Campus & Community
Harvard College, MIT launch pilot program
Harvard College and MIT start pilot program that allows undergraduates at each school to access each other’s libraries.
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Campus & Community
Bill Gates to speak at Sanders
Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates will visit Harvard April 21 and will speak about the importance of giving back to the community.
