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2010
- August 12, 2010 - New Nanoscale Transistors Allow Sensitive Probing Inside Cells
- August 4, 2010 - Foreclosure Reduces a Home's Sale Price by 27% on Average
- August 4, 2010 - Quantum Networks Advance with Entanglement of Photons, Solid-State Qubits
- August 2, 2010 - Exercise and Caloric Restriction Rejuvenate Synapses in Lab Mice
- July 29, 2010 - Adrian Staehli Named Loeb Professor of Classical Archaeology
- July 20, 2010 - Temperature Constancy Appears Key to Tropical Biodiversity
- July 19, 2010 - Jeremy Rau Named Professor of Linguistics and the Classics
- July 12, 2010 - Gita Gopinath Named Professor of Economics at Harvard
- July 9, 2010 - James Snyder, Jr., Named Professor of Government at Harvard
- July 9, 2010 - Mary Lewis Appointed Professor of History at Harvard
- July 8, 2010 - Tomiko Yoda Named Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities
- July 8, 2010 - Maternal Genes Predominate in the Developing Brain; Paternal Genes Gain the Upper Hand in Adulthood
- June 24, 2010 - Tactile Sensations Influence Social Judgments and Decisions
- June 17, 2010 - Study Finds Echoes of the Holocaust in Russia's Economy, Politics
- June 17, 2010 - Physicists Get an Up-Close Look at Synthetic Quantum Materials
- June 14, 2010 - Eric Nelson Named Professor of Government at Harvard
- June 10, 2010 - Matthew Nock Appointed Professor of Psychology at Harvard
- June 3, 2010 - Malika Zeghal Named Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor
- May 25, 2010 - The Star of Africa's Savanna Ecosystems May Be the Lowly Termite
- May 13, 2010 - David Charbonneau Named Professor of Astronomy at Harvard
- May 13, 2010 - David Charbonneau Named Professor of Astronomy at Harvard
- May 12, 2010 - Peter Der Manuelian Named Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology
- May 11, 2010 - Martin Puchner Named Professor of English and Comparative Literature
- May 6, 2010 - David Howell Named Professor of Japanese History at Harvard
- May 5, 2010 - Stephen Burt Named Professor of English at Harvard
- May 4, 2010 - Gu-Yeon Wei Named Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering
- April 19, 2010 - Being Naughty or Nice May Boost Willpower, Physical Endurance
- April 6, 2010 - Cold Atoms and Nanotubes Come Together in an Atomic 'Black Hole'
- April 1, 2010 - Experts to Debate and Prioritize World's 'Hardest Problems' in the Social Sciences
- March 23, 2010 - Gen Ed course brings together famed chefs and eminent academics
- March 9, 2010 - After a Fight with a Partner, Brain Activity Predicts Emotional Resiliency
- March 4, 2010 - New Evidence Hints at Global Glaciation 716.5 Million Years Ago
- March 2, 2010 - Device for analyzing biological reactions puts the power of a lab in a pocket
- February 22, 2010 - Simple math explains dramatic beak shape variation in Darwin’s finches
- February 17, 2010 - Christiane Amanpour, CNN's Chief International Correspondent, to Deliver Class Day Speech at Harvard
- February 15, 2010 - Marriage of Microfluidics and Optics Could Advance Lab-On-a-Chip Devices
- February 14, 2010 - Digging Deep into Diamonds, Applied Physicists Advance Quantum Science and Technology
- February 4, 2010 - Invasive Plants Are Beneficiaries of Climate Change in Thoreau's Woods
- February 2, 2010 - Amanda Claybaugh Named Professor of English at Harvard
- February 1, 2010 - 'Peter Pan' Apes Never Seem to Learn Selfishness
- January 28, 2010 - Using magnetic toys as inspiration, researchers tease out structures of self-assembled clusters
- January 27, 2010 - Barefoot Runners Ease into Low-Impact Landings
- January 20, 2010 - Some Mouse Sperm Can Identify, and Even Cooperate with, its Brethren
- January 14, 2010 - Potent Screening Tool Finds New Roles for Some Drugs in Rest, Waking
- January 14, 2010 - Sophie Morel Named Professor of Mathematics and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard
- January 13, 2010 - Heat and moisture from Himalayas could be a key cause of the South Asian monsoon
- January 11, 2010 - Ongoing Human Evolution Could Explain Recent Rise in Certain Disorders
- January 10, 2010 - Quantum Computer Calculates Exact Energy of Molecular Hydrogen
- January 7, 2010 - New Approach Precisely Tracks Evolution's Footprints in the Human Genome
- January 7, 2010 - Finding About How the Nervous System Learns and Encodes Motion Could Improve Stroke Recovery
2009
- December 17, 2009 - Scientists Use Light to Map Neurons' Effects on One Another
- December 3, 2009 - Researchers Demonstrate a Better Way for Computers to 'See'
- November 25, 2009 - Implant-Based Cancer Vaccine Is First to Eliminate Tumors in Mice
- November 24, 2009 - The Cause Behind the Characteristic Shape of a Long Leaf Revealed
- November 4, 2009 - Quantum Gas Microscope Offers Glimpse of Quirky Ultracold Atoms
- November 4, 2009 - Orphan Army Ants Join Nearby Colonies
- October 30, 2009 - Maria Gough Named Pulitzer Professor of Modern Art
- October 30, 2009 - For Gay and Straight Men, Facial Attraction Operates Similarly
- October 29, 2009 - Similar Molecular Tweaks Led Both a Shrew and a Lizard to Produce Venom
- October 26, 2009 - The Pain of Torture Can Make the Innocent Seem Guilty
- October 21, 2009 - Scientists Bend Nanowires into 2-D and 3-D Structures
- October 19, 2009 - Mark E. Richard Named Professor of Philosophy
- October 16, 2009 - Health Care is Only Part of the Puzzle; Social Scientists Analyze Society’s Health and Success
- October 8, 2009 - Scientists Decipher the 3-D Structure of the Human Genome
- September 23, 2009 - Caroline Elkins Named Professor of History
- September 16, 2009 - Genetic Sex Determination Let Ancient Species Adapt to Ocean Life
- September 15, 2009 - Marc Melitz Named Professor of Economics
- September 10, 2009 - Environmental Scientists Estimate That China Could Meet Its Entire Future Energy Needs by Wind Alone
- September 10, 2009 - Archaeologists Discover Oldest-Known Fiber Materials Used by Early Humans
- September 7, 2009 - Florian Engert Named Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
- September 3, 2009 - Erez Manela Named Professor of History
- September 3, 2009 - Carrots Are Better than Sticks for Building Human Cooperation
- August 27, 2009 - Szonyi Named Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
- August 27, 2009 - Roberts Named Professor of History of Art and Architecture
- August 27, 2009 - Outcome Matters More Than Intention When Punishing or Rewarding Accidents
- August 27, 2009 - Mice Living in Sandy Hills Quickly Evolved Lighter Coloration
- August 24, 2009 - Ham Named Professor of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics
- August 6, 2009 - Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Center for Research on Computation and Society Join Fellowship Programs
- August 3, 2009 - Two SEAS faculty receive 2009 IBM Faculty Awards
- July 30, 2009 - Freshwater Fish at the Top of the Food Chain Evolve More Slowly
- July 29, 2009 - Human Resource Managers, Not Legislatures or Courts, Defined Equal Opportunity and Discrimination in the Workplace
- July 28, 2009 - Maternal, Paternal Genes' Tug-of-War May Last Well Into Childhood
- July 24, 2009 - Melissa McCormick Named Professor of Japanese Art and Culture
- July 15, 2009 - Childhood Adversity May Affect Processing in the Brain’s Reward Pathways
- July 13, 2009 - Neuroimaging Suggests that Truthfulness Requires No Act of Will for Honest People
- July 10, 2009 - Ann Pearson Named Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
- July 9, 2009 - Harvard College Dean Announces New Office of Student Life
- June 16, 2009 - Individual Primates Display Variation in General Intelligence
- June 12, 2009 - Sevcenko Named Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
- June 12, 2009 - Damrosch Named Professor of Comparative Literature
- June 4, 2009 - Researchers Solve 'Bloodcurdling' Mystery
- June 4, 2009 - Harvard University Announces Groundbreaking Professorship in LGBT Studies
- June 2, 2009 - Ernest May, Harvard Professor and Eminent Historian of International Relations, Dies at 80
- June 2, 2009 - Trading Energy for Safety, Bees Extend Legs to Stay Stable in Wind
- June 1, 2009 - Harvard Scientist Says We are What We Eat - and What We Cook
- May 19, 2009 - Super-Recognizers, With Extraordinary Face Recognition Ability, Never Forget A Face
- May 19, 2009 - Kelsey Named Professor of History of Art and Architecture
- May 7, 2009 - Jerry Mitrovica Named Professor of Geophysics at Harvard
- May 7, 2009 - Mark Kisin Named Professor of Mathematics at Harvard
- May 5, 2009 - Quad Library to be Re-purposed for Student Social Space
- May 4, 2009 - Harvard Professor Michael Sandel to Deliver BBC Radio's Prestigious Reith Lectures
- April 30, 2009 - Some Vocal-Mimicking Animals, Particularly Parrots, Can Move to A Musical Beat
- April 20, 2009 - Cyclones Spurt Water Into the Stratosphere, Feeding Global Warming
- April 16, 2009 - Microbes Thrive in Harsh, Isolated Water Under Antarctic Glacier
- April 15, 2009 - Jehn to Lead Harvard College Writing Program
- April 10, 2009 - Samuel Hutchison Beer, Harvard Scholar of British and American Politics, Dies at 97
- April 7, 2009 - New Mexican Health Care Program Successful at Reducing Crippling Health Care Costs
- April 1, 2009 - Catalog, Handbooks, Q Guide Go to On-Line Only Versions
- April 1, 2009 - Report on Harvard House Renewal
- March 31, 2009 - A Mother's Criticism Causes Distinctive Neural Activity Among Formerly Depressed
- March 31, 2009 - Matt Lauer of NBC News to Deliver Class Day Speech at Harvard
- March 30, 2009 - Financial Aid the Key to a Record Admissions Year
- March 30, 2009 - Chetty Named Professor of Economics
- March 19, 2009 - Stranger Knows Best: Other People Know More About What Will Make Us Happy Than We Do
- March 16, 2009 - Friedrich Named Assistant Dean Responsible for Undergraduate Social, Extracurricular Planning
- March 10, 2009 - Harvard to Offer Undergraduate Concentration in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology
- March 10, 2009 - Cherry A. Murray Named Dean of Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- March 5, 2009 - Computer Scientists Deploy First Practical, Web-based Secure, Verifiable Voting System
- February 19, 2009 - Dan Aykroyd is Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year
- February 18, 2009 - Tuition to Rise 3.5 Percent at Harvard for 2009-10, Need-Based Aid to Jump 18 percent to $147 million
- February 11, 2009 - Ronald Sullivan Jr. and Stephanie Robinson Appointed Master and Co-Master of Winthrop House
- February 9, 2009 - Diverse 'Connectomes' Hint at Genes' Limits in the Nervous System
- February 6, 2009 - Howard Stone Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
- February 3, 2009 - Neural Mapping Paints A Haphazard Picture of Odor Receptors
- January 26, 2009 - The Genes in Your Congeniality: Researchers Identify Genetic Influence in Social Networks
- January 22, 2009 - Implants Mimic Infection to Rally Immune System Against Tumors
- January 21, 2009 - Financial Aid Leads to a Record Applicant Pool at Harvard College
- January 8, 2009 - Asani Named Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures
- January 8, 2009 - Researchers Control the Assembly of Nanobristles into Helical Clusters
- January 7, 2009 - Researchers Measure Elusive Repulsive Force From Quantum Fluctuations
2008
- In Many Fungi, Reproductive Spores are Remarkably Aerodynamic
December 23, 2008 - Harvard's John P. Holdren Named White House Science Advisor
December 22, 2008 - New Label-Free Method Tracks Molecules and Drugs in Live Cells
December 18, 2008 - Jacob Lurie Named Professor of Mathematics at Harvard
December 18, 2008 - Pain Hurts More if the Person Hurting You Means It
December 15, 2008 - Lamont Appointed Senior Adviser on Faculty Development and Diversity
December 8, 2008 - Drop in Cancer Deaths Tied Primarily to Gains in Behavior and Screening
December 2, 2008 - Quantum Computers Could Excel in Modeling Chemical Reactions
November 20, 2008 - Czernowin Named Professor of Music
November 17, 2008 - Surface Plasmon Resonances of Metal Nanoparticles in Array Can Have Narrower Spectral Widths
November 14, 2008 - A Single Gene Leads Yeast Cells to Cooperate Against Threats
November 13, 2008 - Evelyn Hu Named Professor Of Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering
November 6, 2008 - Global Warming Predicted To Hasten Carbon Release From Peat Bogs
November 6, 2008 - David Clarke Appointed As Professor Of Materials At Harvard
November 6, 2008 - Effects Of Climate Change Vary Greatly Across Plant Families
October 27, 2008 - Zooming Way In, Technique Offers Close-ups Of Electrons, Nuclei
October 1, 2008 - Financial Risk-Taking Behavior Is Associated With Higher Testosterone Levels
September 29, 2008 - University Hall Rearranged, College Expands Some Offices
September 15, 2008 - Navin Khaneja Named McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering
September 12, 2008 - Susan Mango Named Professor Of Molecular And Cellular Biology
September 11, 2008 - Sun Joo Kim Named Professor Of Korean History
September 4, 2008 - Samuel Kou Appointed Professor Of Statistics At Harvard
August 28, 2008 - Jamaican Lizards' Shows Of Strength Mark Territory At Dawn, Dusk
August 27, 2008 - Donhee Ham and Robert Wood Recognized in Technology Review's Prestigious TR35 Listing of the World's Top Young Innovators for 2008
August 19, 2008 - Herschbach, Bisson to Assume New Roles in Harvard College
August 19, 2008 - Sweet Named Administration, Finance Dean for Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
August 18, 2008 - Frans Spaepen Named Interim Dean of Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
August 15, 2008 - Tutschku Named Professor of Music
August 5, 2008 - Scientists Demonstrate Highly Directional Semiconductor Lasers Innovation Opens the Door to a Wide Range of Applications in Photonics and Communications
July 27, 2008 - Across Species, Genes Evolve To Minimize Protein Production Errors
July 24, 2008 - David Parkes Named Professor Of Computer Science At Harvard
July 22, 2008 - DARPA Awards Interdisciplinary Research Team $1.2 million Grant to Study Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering
July 17, 2008 - Ceremony to Mark Transfer of Bells from Harvard to Russia
July 8, 2008 - Scientists Find How Neural Activity Spurs Blood Flow in the Brain
June 26, 2008 - When Threatened, A Few African Frogs Can Morph Toes into Claws
June 23, 2008 - Harris Named Dean of Undergraduate Education in Harvard College
June 20, 2008 - Cluzel Named Professor Of Molecular And Cellular Biology, Applied Physics
June 11, 2008 - Danilov Bells, At Harvard Since 1930, Return To Russia This Summer
May 29, 2008 - Amazonian Indigenous Culture Demonstrates A Universal Mapping Of Number Onto Space
May 29, 2008 - A Common Aquatic Animal's Genome Can Capture Foreign DNA
May 29, 2008 - Mars' Water Appears to Have Been too Salty to Support Life
May 29, 2008 - Engineers Demonstrate First Room-temperature Electrically-pumped Semiconductor Laser Source of T-rays
May 19, 2008 - Harvard Class of 2012's Record Year Nears End
May 15, 2008 - Undergraduates Develop 'Dirt-powered' Microbial Fuel Cells to Light Africa
May 14, 2008 - Aiming to Sway Voters, Candidates Emphasize Hot-Button Issues Across Party Lines
May 14, 2008 - Applied Scientists Develop New Technique for Fabricating Nanowire Integrated Circuits
May 8, 2008 - Fryer Named Professor of Economics at Harvard
May 7, 2008 - Molecular Espionage Shows a Single HIV Enzyme's Many Tasks
May 7, 2008 - Steven Levitsky Named Professor of Government At Harvard
May 2, 2008 - Weisz Named Professor of Psychology in Faculty of Arts and Sciences
May 2, 2008 - Zipser Named FAS Dean for Faculty Affairs
April 30, 2008 - Antras Professor Of Economics
April 24, 2008 - Molecular Analysis Confirms T. Rex's Evolutionary Link to Birds
April 24, 2008 - Kosslyn Named Divisional Dean for the Social Sciences
April 23, 2008 - Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke to deliver Class Day speech
April 9, 2008 - Jeremy R. Knowles, Chemist and Longtime Harvard Dean, Dies
April 4, 2008 - A Record Pool Leads to a Record-Low Admission Rate
April 1, 2008 - Scientists Learn What's 'Up' With A Class of Retinal Cells in Mice
March 27, 2008 - FDA Deadlines May Compromise Drug Safety by Rushing Approvals
March 26, 2008 - Common Aquatic Animals Show Extreme Resistance to Radiation
March 25, 2008 - Significant Multi-Year Renovations are Recommended for the House System
March 21, 2008 - Punishment Does Not Earn Cooperation or Rewards, Study Finds
March 19, 2008 - Harvard Announces 3.5 Percent Tuition Increase for 2008-09, 21.4 Percent Rise in Need-Based Scholarship Aid
March 19, 2008 - Introspective Experiences Inform Inferences about Similar People - but not Dissimilar
March 18, 2008 - Inhaled Tuberculosis Vaccine More Effective Than Traditional Shot in Study Using Experimental Animals
March 12, 2008 - Malkin Athletic Center to Upgrade Exercise Equipment
March 11, 2008 - Wrangham, Ross to Lead Currier House
March 7, 2008 - Hammonds Named Dean of Harvard College
March 4, 2008 - Roads not Taken Fade Quickly From View
February 19, 2008 - 'Humaniqueness' Differentiates Humans, Animals
February 19, 2008 - Harvard to Collect, Disseminate Scholarly Articles for Faculty
February 12, 2008 - Key "Impact Hunters" Catalyze Male Chimpanzees
February 1, 2008 - Suicide Risk Factors Consistent Across Nations
January 31, 2008 - Ansolabehere Name Professor of Government
January 22, 2008 - Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department Creates Mary Fieser Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
January 9, 2008 - Researchers use Neuroimaging to study ESP
January 2, 2008
2007
- Sulfur Dioxide May Have Helped Maintain a Warm Early Mars
December 20, 2007 - Childhood exposure to Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Negatively Affects Verbal Ability
December 17, 2007 - Wild Chimpanzees Appear not to Regularly Experience Menopause
December 13, 2007 - Close Relations Exhibit Greater Agreement On The Attractiveness Of Faces
December 12, 2007 - Female Lower Back has Evolved to Accommodate the Weight of Pregnancy
December 12, 2007 - Brandt Appointed Dean of Harvard
December 12, 2007 - David Maybury-Lewis, Eminent Anthropologist and Scholar of Central Brazil and Indigenous Peoples, Dies at 78
December 5, 2007 - Brain Systems Become Less Coordinated With Age, Even in the Absence of Disease
December 5, 2007 - Wolf Named Professor of Music
December 4, 2007 - Distinguished Harvard Classicist Zeph Stewart Dies at 86
December 3, 2007 - Masahiro Morii Named Professor of Physics at Harvard
November 30, 2007 - Kramer Named Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
November 28, 2007 - Moorcroft Named Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
November 16, 2007 - Mark Schiefsky Named Professor of the Classics
November 15, 2007 - Fairy Tales a 'Heady Elixir' for Children
November 8, 2007 - Roots of Fundamentalism Traced to 16th Century Bible Translations
November 7, 2007 - Engineered Weathering Process Could Mitigate Global Warming
November 7, 2007 - Rapid Communication Networks Less Likely to Shape Individual's Behavior
November 5, 2007 - Scientists Create Colorful 'Brainbow' Images of the Nervous System
October 31, 2007 - Harvard, Princeton, U.Va. Admissions Deans Tour with Accessibility Message
October 30, 2007 - Ancient DNA Reveals That Some Neanderthals Were Redheads
October 25, 2007 - Harvard Foundation Welcomes Andy Garcia
October 12, 2007 - Harvard Scientists Predict the Future of the Past Tense
October 10, 2007 - Manuscript Discovery Brings Medieval Music to Life
October 9, 2007 - Elizabeth Perry Named Director of Harvard-Yenching Institute
October 9, 2007 - Simplest Circadian Clocks Operate via Orderly Phosphate Transfers
October 4, 2007 - Beyond a 'Speed Limit' on Mutations, Species Risk Extinction
October 1, 2007 - Even Without Math, Ancients Engineered Sophisticated Machines
October 1, 2007 - Male Voice Pitch Predicts Reproductive Success in Hunter-Gatherers
September 25, 2007 - Harvard College Hosts Concentration Fair Tuesday, Sept. 18
September 14, 2007 - Morgan, Bobo Return to Harvard
September 13, 2007 - Biohybrid of Elastic Film and Muscle Cells Packs a Punch
September 10, 2007 - Primates Expect Others to Act Rationally
September 6, 2007 - New Research Challenges Previous Knowledge About the Origins of Urbanization
August 30, 2007 - First Orchid Fossil Puts Showy Blooms at Some 80 Million Years Old
August 29, 2007 - Interaction of Just Two Genes Governs Coloration Patterns in Mice
August 13, 2007 - A Sensory Organ, Not the Brain, Differentiates Male and Female Behavior in Some Mammals
August 5, 2007 - Lee and Deborah Gehrke Appointed Co-House Masters of Quincy House
August 3, 2007 - Murthy Appointed Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
July 27, 2007 - College Science Success Linked to Math and Same-Subject Preparation
July 26, 2007 - Gates Receives European Culture of Peace Award
July 6, 2007 - Gross to Step Down as Dean of Harvard College
June 20, 2007 - Bruce Western Named Professor of Sociology
June 13, 2007 - Wandering Poles Could Explain Vagaries of Ancient Martian Shoreline
June 13, 2007 - Joost Vlassak Named McKay Professor of Materials Engineering
June 1, 2007 - Single Spinning Nuclei in Diamond Offer A Stable Quantum Computing Building Block
May 31, 2007 - Vadhan Named McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard
May 30, 2007 - Children can Perform Approximate Math Without Arithmetic Instruction
May 30, 2007 - In A First, Scientists Develop Tiny Implantable Biocomputers
May 21, 2007 - Harvard, Cambridge Establish Joint Center for History and Economics
May 21, 2007 - Rothschild Named Professor of History
May 21, 2007 - Harvard Faculty Approve New General Education Curriculum for Undergraduate Students
May 15, 2007 - Species Thrive When Sexual Dimorphism Broadens Their Niches
May 9, 2007 - Test Improves Prediction of Self-Injurious Behavior
May 8, 2007 - Leading Scientists Announce Creation of "Encyclopedia of Life"
May 7, 2007 - Giribet Named Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
May 3, 2007 - Beijing Restrictions Offer Case Study in Emissions of Key Atmospheric Gases
April 30, 2007 - Harvard Professor of Economics Awarded the John Bates Clark Medal
April 23, 2007 - Building Communities, Changing Lives: Harvard Mentors Go to Camp
April 19, 2007 - Ancient Amphibians Evolved A Bite Before Migrating to Dry Land
April 16, 2007 - Frank H. Westheimer, 95, Pioneering Harvard Chemist, Dies
April 16, 2007 - Cambridge to Host First City-Wide Wireless Sensor Network
April 5, 2007 - Officiating Bias, Influenced by Crowds, Affects Home Field Advantage
April 2, 2007 - Skocpol to Step Down as Graduate School Dean
March 27, 2007 - Harvard Announces Tuition Increase, Rise in Aid
March 22, 2007 - Joanna Aizenberg Named McKay Professor of Materials Science
March 22, 2007 - Moral Judgment Fails Without Feeling
March 21, 2007 - Plokhii Named Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History
March 15, 2007 - Despite Their Heft, Many Dinosaurs had Surprisingly Tiny Genomes
March 7, 2007 - Harvard College Sets Cambridge Queen's Head Opening for April 19
February 23, 2007 - Medieval Islamic Architecture Presages 20th-Century Mathematics
February 22, 2007 - Harvard Scientists, Gates Foundation, and South African Firm Partner to Develop and Distribute New Tuberculosis Vaccine
February 17, 2007 - Laurence Fishburne Named the 2007 Artist of the Year at Harvard
February 16, 2007 - New Initiative Rethinks Islam From Pakistan To Texas
February 15, 2007 - Prohibition Politics Forged Modern Allegiances
February 8, 2007 - General Education Task Force Issues Final Report
February 7, 2007 - In Tiny Supercooled Clouds, Physicists Exchange Light and Matter
February 7, 2007 - What Does it Mean to Have A Mind? Maybe More Than You Think
February 1, 2007 - Tian Named Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
January 28, 2007 - Task Force at Harvard Proposes "Compact" to Improve Teaching
January 24, 2007 - Richard Musgrave, Renowned Pioneer of Public Finance, Dies at 96
January 17, 2007 - Applied Scientists Create Wrinkled "Skin" on Polymers
January 16, 2007 - World's Largest Flower Evolved From Family of Much Tinier Blooms
January 11, 2007 - Eavesdropping on the Universe
January 8, 2007
2006
- DARPA Funds $2M Center for NEMS/MEMS Research at Harvard
December 19, 2006 - The End of Early Action: Steady as it Goes
December 15, 2006 - Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences Votes to Change the Name Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences to School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
December 12, 2006 - Harvard Museum of Natural History Announces Jane Goodall as the 2007 Roger Tory Peterson Medal Recipient and Guest Speaker on Sunday, March 18, 2007 at 2:00 p.m.
November 28, 2006 - Report Outlines Funding to Conserve Half of Massachusetts's Land
November 17, 2006 - Pressured By Predators, Lizards See Rapid Shift In Natural Selection
November 16, 2006 - Emma Dench Appointed Professor of History and Classics at Harvard University
November 16, 2006 - A Key Antibody, IgG, Links Cells' Capture and Disposal of Germs
November 13, 2006 - Connection Between Neighborhoods and Crime Extends Beyond Poverty
November 9, 2006 - Zhuang Named Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Physics
November 9, 2006 - Children Show Strong Preference For Those Smiled On By Fate
November 7, 2006 - Comprehensive Model Is First To Map Protein Folding At Atomic Level
November 6, 2006 - Project Uses Captive Voices to Fight Modern Slavery
October 26, 2006 - Harvard College Rededicates Hilles as Hub for Student Groups
October 19, 2006 - MAC Closing Shifted to Mid-March
October 12, 2006 - Spring in Your Step Helps Avert Disastrous Stumbles, Scientists Say
October 10, 2006 - Walter Johnson Appointed Professor of History at Harvard University
October 5, 2006 - Interactive Theatre Resolves Conflicts from Boston to Tanzania
October 4, 2006 - College Women's Center Welcomes Undergrads
September 28 - Condensed Matter Physicist Yacoby Named Professor at FAS
September 28 - Kavli Institute For Bionano Science And Technology Established At Harvard University
September 26, 2006 - Harvard to Eliminate Early Admission
September 12, 2006 - Harvard's Eliot Clock Tower Restored
September 11, 2006 - NASA Astronaut Stephanie Wilson '88 To Speak at Harvard
September 11, 2006 - Diversity Training Fails to Boost Minorities into Management
September 7, 2006 - Harvard University Engineers Demonstrate Laser Nano Antenna
September 6, 2006 - Harvard Task Force Will Examine Teaching Incentives and Rewards
September 5, 2006 - Frenches Donate $1.5 Million to Harvard Center for the Environment
August 31, 2006 - Rising Health Expenses are A Good Value, Researchers Say
August 30, 2006 - Nanowire Arrays can Detect Signals Along Individual Neurons
August 24, 2006 - Barenboim Delivers Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard
August 15, 2006 - New Type of Optical Microscopy Attains Near-Molecular Resolution
August 11, 2006 - Bloxham Appointed Divisional Dean for Physical Sciences in FAS
August 10, 2006 - Deep-Sea Sediments Could Safely Store Man-Made Carbon Dioxide
August 7, 2006 - Maria Polinsky Appointed Professor of Linguistics at Harvard
June 8, 2006 - Tamed 11,400 Years Ago, Figs Were Likely First Domestic Crop
June 1, 2006 - Losos Named Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
June 1, 2006 - Janet Browne Named Professor of the History of Science at Harvard
May 31, 2006 - Tests for 'Face-Blindness' Reveal Disorder may not be so Rare
May 31, 2006 - Harvard Appoints Sean Dorrance Kelly as Professor of Philosophy
May 26, 2006 - Chierchia Named Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics
May 17, 2006 - Harvard Team Takes Major Step Toward High Volume Production of Quantum Cascade Lasers
May 15, 2006 - Claudine Gay Appointed Professor of Government at Harvard
May 10, 2006 - Sorensen Named Humanities Dean for 2006 - 2007
May 9, 2006 - Harvard Appoints Michael Rosen as Professor of Government
April 26, 2006 - Invasive Species Harms Native Hardwoods by Killing Soil Fungus
April 25, 2006 - Kofi Agawu to Teach Music, African and African-American Studies
April 19, 2006 - Harvard Approves Sweeping Changes in Life Sciences Education
April 18, 2006 - Elkins Awarded Non-Fiction Pulitzer
April 17, 2006 - Some Like it Hot: Worms at Deep-Sea Vents Favor A Fiery 45-55°C
April 13, 2006 - Jacob Olupona Named Professor of African Studies, Religion
April 12, 2006 - Ants are Surprisingly Ancient, Arising 140-168 Million Years Ago
April 6, 2006 - Evolution Follows Few of the Possible Paths to Antibiotic Resistance
April 6, 2006 - Newly Found Species Fills Evolutionary Gap Between Fish and Land Animals
April 5, 2006 - Takao Hensch Named Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
April 5, 2006 - Harvard Financial Aid Outpaces Tuition Increases
March 24, 2006 - Henrietta Harrison Appointed Professor of History at Harvard
March 23, 2006 - Global Warming Yields Novel 'Glacial Earthquakes' in Polar Areas
March 23, 2006 - Admissions, Financial Aid to Move to Agassiz
March 22, 2006 - Jeyifo Appointed Professor of African and African-American Studies
March 22, 2006 - Lee and Deb Gehrke Named Acting Co-Masters of Quincy House
March 20, 2006 - Molecule by Molecule, New Assay Shows Real-Time Gene Activity
March 15, 2006 - Whites More Likely Than Blacks to Die Soon After Spouse's Death
March 1, 2006 - High School AP Courses do not Predict College Success in Science
February 17, 2006 - Godfrey-Smith Joins FAS As Professor Of Philosophy
February 16, 2006 - Susan Athey Appointed Professor of Economics at Harvard
February 9, 2006 - Harvard University Names Guido Imbens as Professor of Economics
February 9, 2006 - Sidanius Named Professor of Psychology, Afro-American Studies
February 2, 2006 - Indigenous Amazonians Display Core Understanding of Geometry
January 19, 2006 - Long-Term Memory Controlled by Molecular Pathway at Synapses
January 12, 2006
2005
- 'Armored' Bubbles Can Exist in Stable Non-Spherical Shapes
December 14, 2005 - Harvard College Creates Program for Research in Science and Engineering
December 14, 2005 - Ancient Humans Brought Bottle Gourds to the Americas from Asia
December 13, 2005 - Neuroscientist Randy Buckner Appointed Professor of Psychology
November 17, 2005 - Global Signaling Study Suggests Cancer Link to Protein Promiscuity
November 16, 2005 - Olfactory Input Dominates Reproductive Behavior in Mice
November 10, 2005 - Harvard Completes Construction of New Social Sciences Complex
November 10, 2005 - Bol to Lead Harvard's New Center for Geographic Analysis
October 20, 2005 - Harvard College Expands List of 'Permissible' Destinations for Sponsored Activities Abroad
October 5, 2005 - New Spaces For Students Get Boost From President, FAS Dean
September 26, 2005 - Nanowires Can Detect Molecular Signs of Cancer, Scientists Find
September 23, 2005 - Preschool Children Display Innate Skill With Numbers, Addition
September 19, 2005 - Suzy M. Nelson Appointed Associate Dean for Residential Life
September 15, 2005 - New Audiences to Experience "Justice," as Sandel's Course Will be Video Taped, Broadly Distributed: a Harvard College First
September 14, 2005 - Harvard Opens its Doors to Students From Schools Hit by Katrina
September 2, 2005 - Daniel Lord Smail Appointed Professor of History at Harvard
August 30, 2005 - Peru's Ancient Bureaucrats Used Knotted-string Devices as Ledgers
August 11, 2005 - Human Cerebellum and Cortex Age in Very Different Ways
August 1, 2005 - Divergent Life History Shapes Gene Expression in Brains of Salmon
July 20, 2005 - Study: Predatory Dinosaurs Had Bird-like Pulmonary System
July 13, 2005 - Martin Appointed FAS Diversity Advisor
July 13, 2005 - Retina Adapts to Seek the Unexpected, Ignore the Commonplace
July 7, 2005.shtml - Buchloh Named Rosenblatt Professor of Modern Art at Harvard
June 16, 2005 - Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard Announces 2005 Innovation Fellows
June 13, 2005 - Skocpol Named Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
June 3, 2005 - Erspamer Named Professor of Romance Languages and Literature
June 1, 2005 - Narayanamurti to Step Down as DEAS and Physical Sciences Dean
May 31, 2005 - Fehrenbach Named Professor of History of Art and Architecture
May 11, 2005 - Edward J.P. Hall Joins Harvard's Department of Philosophy
May 11, 2005 - Harvard Appoints Michael Hopkins as Professor of Mathematics
April 29, 2005 - Harvard Scientists Create High-Speed Integrated Nanowire Circuits
April 27, 2005 - Kuriyama Named Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History
April 20, 2005 - Horng-Tzer Yau Named Professor of Mathematics at Harvard April 14, 2005
- Harvard Begins Construction of Northwest Science Building
April 14, 2005 - The Silk Road Project Rhode Island School of Design and Harvard University, Announce New Educational Collaborations
March 23, 2005 - Harvard Sets 2005-2006 Undergraduate Tuition and Fees
March 23, 2005 - David Liu and Xiaowei Zhuang Named HHMI Investigators
March 21, 2005 - Sheldon White, Architect of Youth Policy and Programs, Dies at 76
March 19, 2005 - Faculty Vote - March 15, 2005
March 15, 2005 - Schier Appointed Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
March 2, 2005 - Jada Pinkett-Smith Named the 2005 Artist of the Year at Harvard
February 23, 2005 - Warming World Could Worsen Pollution in Northeast, Midwest
February 19, 2005 - Dunster, Mather Dining Halls to be Renovated
February 18, 2005 - Chinese Used Diamonds to Polish Sapphire-rich Stone in 2500 BC
February 11, 2005 - Sever Slated for Major Facelift
February 10, 2005 - Faculty Of Arts And Sciences and Harvard Law School to Renovate Hemenway Gymnasium
February 10, 2005 - Simulations Show How Growing Black Holes Regulate Galaxy Formation
February 9, 2005 - Ernst Mayr, Giant Among Evolutionary Biologists, Dies at 100
February 4, 2005 - Harvard Scientist Federico Capasso Wins 2005 King Faisal International Prize
February 4, 2005 - Harvard Plans New College Theatre in Shell of Hasty Pudding Building
February 3, 2005 - Harvard Scientists Discover How the Venus Flytrap Snaps
January 26, 2005 - Study Links Racial and Ethnic Gap in Youth Violence to Social Factors
January 25, 2005 - Harvard Biologists to Host 120 Cambridge Schoolchildren
January 13, 2005 - Dingman, Herschbach Take on New College Roles
January 6, 2005
2004
- Carolyn Abbate Named Professor of Music at Harvard University
December 14, 2004 - Harvard Scientists Investigate How the Brain May Encode Visual Information of Natural Scenes
December 13, 2004 - Harvard Computer Scientist Michael O. Rabin Wins EMET Prize
December 13, 2004 - McKenna Named Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures
December 8, 2004 - Brain Activity Reflects Complexity of Response to Other-Race Faces
December 8, 2004 - Subir Sachdev Appointed Professor of Physics at Harvard Universtiy
December 1, 2004 - Oral Saline Spray May Slash Spread of Exhaled Pathogens
November 29, 2004 - Erin O'Shea Appointed Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
November 19, 2004 - Endurance Running May Be Key to Evolution of Human Body Form
November 17, 2004 - Automated Scans Let Scientists Track Drugs' Broad Effects on Cells
November 11, 2004 - Brain Battles Itself Over Short-Term Rewards, Long-Term Goals
October 14, 2004 - FAS Unveils New Version of My.Harvard Web Portal
October 4, 2004 - DNA Lends Scientists A Hand, Revealing New Chemical Reactions
September 29, 2004 - Researchers Find Signs of Grain Milling, Baking 23,000 Years Ago
September 28, 2004 - Computer Scientists Develop Wireless System to Monitor Volcanoes
September 23, 2004 - Harvard's FAS to Install Full Wireless Internet Access in Dorms
September 22, 2004 - Scientists Find Nanowires Capable of Detecting Individual Viruses
September 22, 2004 - Harvard Planting 71 Trees Along City Streets Adjacent to Campus
September 16, 2004 - Scientists Reinvent DNA as Template to Produce Collections of Organic Molecules
August 19, 2004 - Wang Named Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
August 18, 2004 - New Research Explains Lag in Onset of Common Type of Vertigo
August 2, 2004 - Scientists Pinpoint Molecules That Generate Synapses
July 23, 2004 - Parents' Native Tongue Doesn't Color Infant Perception of Objects
July 12, 2004 - Sendhil Mullainathan Named Professor of Economics at Harvard
July 7, 2004 - Ancient Chinese Used Machine to Etch Patterns on Jade Burial Rings
June 10, 2004 - O'Brien Named Harvard College Deputy Dean
June 3, 2004 - Alcock to Lead Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
May 17, 2004 - Harvard Engineers Propose 'Molecular Car'
May 14, 2004 - Harvard Undergraduate Kyle Clark's Dynamic Flight Simulator Wins "Best in Show"; Model Could Become the Basis of A Future CyclePlane
May 6, 2004 - Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard Launches Innovation Program; Selects 2004 Innovation Fellows
May 5, 2004 - Insulin-Producing Pancreatic Cells are Replenished by Duplication
May 5, 2004 - Technique Pinpoints Tuberculosis, Malaria Genes Prone to Evolving
April 28, 2004 - Harvard Releases Report on Review of Undergraduate Education
April 26, 2004 - Alan Nawoj, A Graduate Student in Computer Science at Harvard, Wins Prestigious AFCEA Ralph W. Shrader Scholarship
April 26, 2004 - Harvard Computer Scientist Salil Vadhan '95 Wins 2004 Young Investigator Award From the Office of Naval Research
April 19, 2004 - Improvements in Loker Commons
April 14, 2004 - Hanna Gray to Receive Harvard Honor
April 5, 2004 - Harvard Scientist Federico Capasso Wins Tomassoni Award
March 29, 2004 - Physicists Observe Information Exchange Between Quantum Dots
March 25, 2004 - Harvard College Sets 2004-2005 Undergraduate Tuition and Fees
March 23, 2004 - Researchers Find Unwanted Thoughts Come Back in Dreams
March 22, 2004 - Structural Quirk May Explain Odd Magnetism Of Neptune, Uranus
March 10, 2004 - New Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines to be Made Available to Researchers
March 3, 2004 - Award Winning Actor, Comedian George Lopez
February 24, 2004 - Millennia of Human Contact Linked to Unusual Canine Cognition
February 14, 2004 - Harvard Senior Christine Susan Mulvey Awarded the 2003 Colonel and Mrs. S.S. Dennis, III Scholarship
February 12, 2004 - Scientists Clarify How Cells Repair Oxidative Damage to DNA
February 11, 2004 - Edwards Named Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
January 27, 2004 - Harvard's Lene V. Hau Wins 2004 Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award From the American Association of Physics Teachers
January 26, 2004 - New Lewis and Clark Artifact Found at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University
January 15, 2004 - Monkeys Unable to Master Grammar Crucial to Human Language
January 15, 2004 - Harvard Biologists to Host 120 Cambridge Schoolchildren
January 6, 2004
2003
- Harvard Scientist Federico Capasso Awarded the 2004 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize by the American Physical Society
December 18, 2003 - Harvard Scientist Federico Capasso Wins IEEE Edison Medal
December 18, 2003 - Harvard Uses IBM Technology to Create Crimson Grid for Collaborative Research
December 17, 2003 - Light Propagates Via Wires More Slender Than Its Own Wavelength
December 17, 2003 - Tiniest Droplets Come From Taps that are Triangular, Not Round
December 12, 2003 - Scientists Use Rubidium to Hold Photons in a Frozen Light Pulse
December 10, 2003 - Scientists Pinpoint How Fish Save Energy by Swimming in Schools
November 27, 2003 - Fash Named Peabody Museum Director
November 6, 2003 - College Appoints New Assistant Dean
September 23, 2003 - Changing the Face of Biology: Harvard-Led Team Will Study 'Modular Design' in Living Systems With Support from NIGMS Center of Excellence Grant
September 15, 2003 - Extracurricular Spaces in Radcliffe Quadrangle Area Planned: Options Call for QRAC, Hilles Alterations
September 12, 2003 - Obituary: Franklin L. Ford, Former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, at 82
August 31, 2003 - Kane Named Harvard Registrar
August 14, 2003 - Governor Swift to Receive Harvard Honor
April 10, 2003 - Benedict H. Gross Named Dean of Harvard College
April 8, 2003 - Cambridge School Opens State of the Art Microscopy Suite
March 27, 2003 - Harvard Sets 2003-2004 Undergraduate Tuition and Fees
March 20, 2003 - Undergraduate Education Review Working Groups, Chairs Announced
March 6, 2003 - Harvard Black Men's Forum Honors Phylicia A. Rashad Former Cosby Show Star to Receive Woman of the Year Award
February 26, 2003 - Edwards to Head Harvard International Programs
February 19, 2003
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