Harvard to digitize Cuba library collections
The Cuba Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University is pleased to announce that the Harvard Library has begun an important process of digitization of some of its most important Cuba-related resources. The digitization of the José Augusto Escoto Cuban History and Literature collection, ca. 1574–1920, is now underway. The Harvard Library houses t
A step forward in DNA base editing
Scientists at Harvard University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a new class of DNA base editor that can alter genomic structure to help repair the type of mutations that account for half of human disease-associated point mutations. These mutations are associated with disorders ranging from genetic blindness to sickle-cell anemia to metabolic disorders to cystic fibrosis.
Over nearly 80 years, Harvard study has been showing how to live a healthy and happy life
When scientists began tracking the health of 268 Harvard sophomores in 1938 during the Great Depression, they hoped the longitudinal study would reveal clues to leading healthy and happy lives. They got more than they wanted. After following the surviving Crimson men for nearly 80 years as part of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the world’s longest studies of adult life, researchers
Harvard’s Martin Karplus looks back on path to Nobel Prize
Martin Karplus ’51 is Harvard’s Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus. In 2013 he shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry with two colleagues. He maintains that the only real chemistry he does is in the kitchen. Karplus, 87, is at work on a memoir. The book will tell a story that moves from a sunny boyhood in Vienna (he was born in 1930, the scion of an accomplished Jewish family)
Drew Faust to step down as Harvard president next June
Featured series Wondering A series of random questions answered by Harvard experts. Explore the Gazette Drew Faust, who became Harvard’s 28th president in 2007, announced today that she will step down on June 30, 2018. Faust, an acclaimed author and historian of the Civil War and the American South, and the first woman to lead the University, announced her decision in a message to the Harvard comm
Harvard awards 10 honorary degrees at 366th Commencement
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Program, sharing Harvard’s 366th Commencement Day spotlight with a host of honorees at the top of their fields. Mark Zuckerberg, Doctor of Laws Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook in 2004, is the featured speaker at the Afternoon Program of Harvard’s 366th Commencement. Zuckerberg is Facebook’s chairman and C
Harvard Library lifts restrictions on digital reproductions of works in the public domain
News+ Harvard Library lifts restrictions on digital reproductions of works in the public domain The Harvard Library announced a new policy on the use of digital reproductions of works in the public domain. When the Library makes reproductions and they are openly available online, it will treat the reproductions themselves as objects in the public domain. It will not try to restrict what users can
Zuckerberg named Commencement speaker — Harvard Gazette
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, the social networking platform widely credited with transforming how almost 1.9 billion people interact, will be the featured speaker at the Afternoon Program of Harvard’s 366th Commencement on May 25. “Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership has profoundly altered the nature of social engagement worldwide. Few inventions in modern times can rival Facebook in its
‘Stem cell tourism’ growing trend — Harvard Gazette
Internet sites offer help for people suffering from a dizzying array of serious conditions, including: Alzheimer’s, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, atherosclerosis, autism, brain damage, cancer, cerebellar ataxia, cerebral palsy, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Crohn’s, diabetes, diseases of the eye, genetic disorders, Huntington’s, kidney disease, lupus, muscular sclerosis, muscular dystrop
Delving into dark matter — Harvard Gazette
Scientists widely accept that the extinction of the dinosaurs was triggered when a massive object smashed into Earth and touched off a global ice age that wiped out as many as three-quarters of all species. The question, however, is where that object originated. Harvard physicists believe they may have the answer, and their theory may prompt scientists to re-evaluate the decades-old conventional w
Rashida Jones named 2016 Harvard Class Day speaker — Harvard Gazette
Rashida Jones ’97, whose professional acting career began the year she graduated from Harvard College, returns to campus on May 25 to address the graduating Class of 2016 as part of the annual Class Day celebration. Accepting the invitation, Jones said, “I am truly honored to come back to campus and speak at Class Day 2016. Harvard was such a transformative place for me in so many ways. “It’s wher
Giving ‘good’ a rigorous inspection — Harvard Gazette
Imagine a green forest that separates two tribes of shepherds, each with distinctive beliefs and moral codes. One hot, dry summer, the forest burns down, and after the rains come, a lush new pasture grows between the tribal lands. Do they share — or fight? “This is the problem of modern morality,” said psychologist Joshua Greene. “It’s not good versus evil. It’s not about me versus us. It’s about
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