Sciences Division
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Changing the Culture
Harvard's new and innovative stem cell concentration focuses on the humanity behind the research to create classes that are anything but standard.
Eric Kandel discusses memory.
Eric R. Kandel ’52 speaks about the biology of memory at the Science Center yesterday. The Nobel laureate discussed the molecular basis of memory and answered questions from curious attendees.
