Sciences Division
Fossil Day Natural History Museum
Nancy Hicks, a volunteer at the Harvard Natural History Museum, grasps an Ammonite fossil shell in honor of National Fossil Day. The number of hollowed rings in the shell indicate its large life span.
Leading Cosmology Professor Dies at 61
Professor of Cosmology John P. Huchra died Friday. He was 61.
Secondary Field in Energy and Environment May Be Offered
A new secondary field in energy and the environment will likely be available to students by next fall, following a review of the proposed requirements by a diverse group of faculty in the humanities and the sciences.
Science of Cooking Offers Feast of Lecturers
Sections of the Science Center were roped off yesterday to limit student crowds for “Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science of Soft Matter.”
Faust Supports Stem Cell Work
University President Drew G. Faust announced yesterday that she would continue to support stem-cell research at Harvard despite the setback of a recent court ruling.
Science and Cooking
The instructors of Science of the Physical Universe 27: Science and Cooking present a lecture at the Loeb Drama Center. (CORRECTION: The caption incorrectly stated that the image depicted Lowell Lecture Hall. The caption has been fixed to reflect the error.)
New Course Cooks Up Stirring Debates
How much is cooking an art, and how much is it a science? While it contains an objective, scientific part ...
Dean Smith's Letter to Faculty: Full Text
Full text of the letter to colleagues in which Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith discloses that Professor Marc D. Hauser has been found "solely responsible" by an investigating committee for eight separate instaces of scientific misconduct in his lab.
Harvard Faculty Dean Confirms Misconduct in Hauser's Lab
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith publicly confirmed for the first time in a letter to the Faculty that a committee had found psychology professor Marc D. Hauser responsible for eight instances of scientific misconduct in his laboratory.
Stanton To Become Undergraduate Education Asst. Dean
Currier House Resident Dean Katherine Stanton will become assistant dean in the Office of Undergraduate Education on Oct. 1, replacing Logan S. McCarty, who assumed a new position directing the physical sciences on July 1.
Yau To Support Math Students
Harvard Mathematics Professor Shing-Tung Yau, one of this year’s two winners of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, announced on Monday that he intends use his portion of the award to create a fund at China’s Tsinghua University to support the study of mathematics, especially among low income students.
Franklin To Serve As Physics Chair
Physics Professor Melissa Franklin will replace fellow Professor Christopher W. Stubbs as the chair of the Harvard Physics Department next year, marking the first time in history that the position will be held by a woman.
Today in Photos (04/08/10)
Photographs from the April 8th, 2010 print edition of The Harvard Crimson.
MIT Professor Honored As Scientist of the Year
MIT Professor Paula T. Hammond was honored as Scientist of the Year at the Harvard Foundation’s Albert Einstein Science Conference last Friday.
Obama Nominates Knighted Professor To Head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Roughly a week after winning the battle over health care reform, the Obama administration is set to nominate a Harvard knight to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to Associated Press reports attributed to sources within the administration.
FAS Waits For Dean’s Initiative
In the midst of last year’s financial crisis, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith assembled six “working groups” to establish top Faculty priorities.
Harvard Attracts More Potential Engineers
Though aspiring Harvard students may spend this week mired in uncertainty as they wait for admission decisions on April 1, one thing is almost certain: more admitted students than ever before will come to Harvard with the hope of pursuing engineering and applied science.
Harvard Physicist Runs For Congress
When Harvard nanotechnology researcher Michael P. Stopa went to the polls in 2008, there was only one name on the ballot for the Third District of Massachusetts’s Congressional seat—incumbent Democrat Jim McGovern.
Collections To Find New Home in Northwest Science Building
Five departmental collections in the Museum of Comparative Zoology are facing a yearlong move from their age-old home on Oxford St. into the basement of the Northwest Science Building, after a series of clouded administrative indecisiveness that prompted some confusion among the staff.
Wrangham Illuminates Link Between Fire and Evolution
Around 50 members of the Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior community gathered in the Harvard-Yenching Library yesterday afternoon to hear biological anthropology professor Richard W. Wrangham explain how the cultural invention of cooking food has contributed to human evolution.