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Conservation work saves Blackwood Films
Film conservators at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) and Weissman Preservation Center recently completed a massive effort to slow or stop damage to thousands of hours of film – including…
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Technology speeds audio preservation
Students, faculty, and researchers can now access audio materials faster than ever before, and audio engineers working in Loeb Music Library’s Audio Preservation Studio (APS) are enjoying streamlined workflows –…
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Shaq holds court at HLS, talks business
Since signing with the Boston Celtics in August, Shaquille O’Neal has posed as a statue in Harvard Square, sang the “Cheers” theme song at the Cheers bar in Boston, and…
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Renovation reuses/recycles 96%
When work began on the lower level of 625 Mass. Ave., the challenge wasn’t simply to renovate a space that had once been library stacks into space for Harvard College…
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Fliss selected 2011-12 ARL Research Library Leadership Fellow
Susan Fliss, associate librarian of Harvard College for research, teaching, and learning, has been selected by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) as one of 25 individuals to participate in…
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SEAS will benefit from investment by Intel in academic research
Intel Corporation announced plans to invest $100 million directly into U.S. university research over the next five years to drive innovations in computing and communications. The first collaborative center will…
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Ten new recipients of student sustainability grants announced
The Office for Sustainability has announced the 10 recipients of this year’s 2010-11 Student Sustainability Grant Program. Now in its second year, the annual grant program was developed to inspire…
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Harvard Kennedy School’s Martha Chen is awarded “Padma Shri”
Martha Chen, lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, has been awarded a Padma Shri by the Government of India in recognition of her work around issues of employment,…
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Bioengineering in bloom
Thanks to an effort that began more than a decade ago, bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has finally taken root. In fact, with new…
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Microfluidics Lab provides new core facility for undergraduate teaching
With little more than a conventional photocopier and transparency film, anyone can build a functional microfluidic chip. A local Cambridge high school physics teacher perfected the process; now, thanks to…
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January Green Tip: What’s your green resolution?
January’s Green Tip of the Month from the Office for Sustainability urges the Harvard community to kick off the new year with a sustainable resolution! Why? Because Harvard has one…
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HSPH faculty, alumni reflect on progress one year after Haitian earthquake
HSPH’s Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, spoke to the Harvard Gazette about HHI’s response over the past year to the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which…
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Professor Barry Bloom named AAAS Fellow
Barry R. Bloom, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), is among 15…
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President Obama calls on Americans to volunteer as mentors
January is National Mentoring Month, an annual media campaign calling on Americans to mentor the estimated 15 million young people who are in need of mentors. A FoxNews.com story describes…
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Monica Toft named scholar for religion project
Monica Duffy Toft, associate professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, has been named a project scholar in a new interdisciplinary project at Georgetown University to study religious freedom.…
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Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center announces spring 2011 fellows
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, located at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is pleased to announce its spring fellows. “We start the spring…
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Q&A with bioengineer Amy Kerdok
Biomedical engineer Amy Kerdok, Ph.D. ’06, knows firsthand how much a technological solution can affect a person’s life. During her time on campus, Kerdok served as both “poobah” and women’s…
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Deans Smith and Hammonds to use Old Quincy as House renewal test project
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Michael D. Smith and Harvard College Dean Evelynn Hammonds today (Jan. 14, 2011) announced that Old Quincy House will be used as a…
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Topics in Bioengineering series kicks off Jan. 18 at SEAS
The Topics in Bioengineering (TIB) seminar series, sponsored by the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), will kick off on Jan. 18. The talks are open to anyone…
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Trouble in paradise: Hawaii’s affordable housing conundrum
With its picturesque island beaches, festive and colorful luaus, and a summery climate year round, many view Hawaii as the ultimate tropical paradise. “There is no question that Hawaii is…
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Arizona shooting spree casts light on gun violence in U.S.
Among the many issues raised by the Tucson, Arizona shootings that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, six people dead and more than a dozen injured on Jan. 8,…
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Exposure to PCBs, dioxin appears to stunt growth in Russian boys
Russian boys exposed to unusually high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are smaller than their peers, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health researchers published in…
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Gawande talks health reform with NPR, Colbert Report
Atul Gawande, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at HSPH, spoke with Tom Ashbrook of NPR’s “On Point” about health care and health reform on Jan.…
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Health care rationed in U.S., HSPH ethicist says
Daniel Wikler, Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and professor of ethics and population health, was interviewed Dec. 17, 2010, on Public Radio International’s “The World,” about health care…
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A pesky bacterial slime reveals its survival secrets
By rethinking what happens on the surface of things, engineers at Harvard University have discovered that Bacillus subtilis biofilm colonies exhibit an unmatched ability to repel a wide range of…
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Nominations open for Harvard Corporation members
As announced in December, the Harvard Corporation will expand from seven to thirteen members, as part of a broader set of changes involving the Corporation’s composition and work. All members…
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Two SEAS faculty win prestigious NSF CAREER Awards
Two members of the SEAS faculty recently received the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The honor is considered one of the most prestigious…
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Video: 2009 Pandemic H1N1 influenza: Perspectives on severity and response
Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology, gives a presentation about the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, discussing the challenges faced by public health professionals and the lessons learned to more effectively handle…
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Summers to resume teaching, academic research at Harvard Kennedy School
Lawrence H. Summers, who until recently served as assistant to the president for economic policy and director of the White House National Economic Council (NEC), returns to Harvard University this…
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Harvard hosts high schoolers for International Economic Summit
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Council on Economic Education (MCEE), the International Economic Summit Institute (IES), and Harvard University, along with funding support from the…