Harvard Thinks Big – Doug Melton – Harvard Thinks Big … … Doug Melton Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University and co-Director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute Thursday, February 16, 2012 ### About Harvard University. Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. […]

Harvard Thinks Big – Act Big: Dare to See – Kaia Stern … … Kaia Stern Director of the Prison Studies Project/ February 16, 2012 Visiting Faculty at Harvard Divinity School Visiting Faculty in Sociology at Harvard University Visiting Faculty in African and African American Studies at Harvard University ### About Harvard University. Established in 1636, […]

Jewelry Trunk Show to Benefit CARE for Cancer Survivors Strong Fertility Center Program Supports Childbearing After Recovery Strong Fertility Center of the University of Rochester Medical Center will host a fundraising jewelry show 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29, to benefit patients of the Center’s fertility preservation program. The Trunk Show features jewelry from Stella & Dot. The […]

A look at the benefits of an aging society Though it’s easy to focus on the challenges of an aging society, Stanford’s Laura Carstensen, PhD, believes the benefits shouldn’t be overlooked. In a talk today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Carstensen, as outlined in aStanford Report article, discussed how we might gain from the talents and […]

Look for new roles for older citizens in an aging America, says Stanford’s Laura Carstensen The country’s percentage of older people is rising rapidly. But that’s not just a problem, says Laura Carstensen, an expert on aging, it’s also a chance to improve transportation, redesign the suburbs and gain from the talents and experience of […]

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announces major progress in doctors, hospital use of health information technology Kansas City, MO – Today, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the number of hospitals using health information technology (IT) has more than doubled in the last two years.  She also announced new data showing […]

HHS takes action to ensure equal access for the deaf and hard of hearing HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has entered into a settlement agreement with Advanced Dialysis Centers in Randallstown Maryland (“ADC”), to ensure individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing have equal access to programs and activities as required under Section […]

Student’s aim: A harvest of good Importing jackfruit could create markets, help Indian farmers Annemarie Ryu ’13 (from left) a pre-med anthropology concentrator and veteran Harvard public service traveler, has started Global Village Fruits, a for-profit social enterprise she hopes will connect jackfruit farmers in southern India with American consumers. Here, she is seen with […]

A life reborn, a story now told Escaping Cambodia, Aun Em built a new life at Harvard Medical School Aun Em, who is Harvard Medical School’s IT help desk coordinator, has lived by the code of always looking forward. This has guided both her life and her career at Harvard; Em and her family fled […]

Genes may travel from plant to plant to fuel evolution Evolutionary biologists at Brown University and the University of Sheffield have documented for the first time that plants swap genes from plant to plant to fuel their evolutionary development. The researchers found enzymes key to photosynthesis had been shared among plants with only a distant […]