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All students, faculty, and staff who receive coverage from Harvard University Health Services will be able to receive the H1N1 flu vaccine by the end of November, according to Health Services Director David S. Rosenthal ’59.

Kicking a soccer ball often causes a throbbing toe and a loss of energy upon impact. But with Soccket—an idea developed by a team of Harvard undergraduates in Engineering Sciences 147, “Idea Translation: Effecting Change through the Arts and Sciences”—that energy can be stored in the so...

The Crimson women’s tennis team hosted the Harvard Invitational this weekend, while sophomore Holly Cao traveled to New Haven to play in the ITA National Indoor Championships. Cao, who qualified for the national tournament after winning the ITA Northeast Regional two weeks ago, faced...

The Malkin Athletic Center was an eventful place this weekend. During the two Harvard women’s volleyball games, a record was broken, one contest required overtime, another ended in a shutout, and a German accordion player performed the American national anthem on Saturday night. For th...

Being the underdog is a position Harvard women’s hockey isn’t terribly familiar with. But when No. 2 Clarkson (10-1-1, 4-0-0) came to Bright Hockey Center on Friday night, that’s what the No. 10 Crimson was. Harvard stuck with the Golden Knights, scoring first, but couldn’t hold on as Clarks...

Just five games into the season and with a split conference record, Harvard women’s hockey has already reached a historic achievement. The No. 10 Crimson (2-2-0, 2-2-0 ECAC) secured the program’s 500th win against No. 7 St. Lawrence (4-4-3, 2-3-0 ECAC) in a 3-0 decision Saturday afternoon a...

Two games, same story. Although the Harvard men’s hockey team (1-2, 1-2 ECAC, 1-1 Ivy) took a 3-1 lead in the first two periods against the Big Red (3-0, 3-0 ECAC, 2-0 Ivy), the Crimson yielded four goals in the final frame, ultimately succumbing to long-time rivals No. 5 Cornell, 6-3. Saturda...

Skating off the ice Friday night, the Harvard men’s hockey team must have been in disbelief. The Crimson had built a 4-1 lead over Colgate through two periods and looked poised for an easy win. But in the final frame, the Raiders surged back and Harvard watched its advantage quickly disinteg...

Having its best start to the season since 2005, the Harvard field hockey team (5-12, 2-5 Ivy League) couldn’t have found a more heart-breaking way to end the season.

NEW YORK—For the third-straight week, Harvard football came up against an easily-beatable Ivy opponent. And for the third straight week, the Crimson made it clear early who the best team on the field was. Harvard (6-2, 5-0 Ivy) went down to New York on Saturday and scored on its first two pos...

NEW YORK—As The Crimson indicated in Friday’s Around the Ivies column, Harvard football couldn’t rest on its laurels Saturday against Columbia. In the early weeks of the season, the Lions embarrassed their opponents and positioned themselves in the Ancient Eight’s upper echelon. This...

NEW YORK—If there has been a theme in the Ivy League this year, it has been that perseverance triumphs over talent. With projected stars such as M.A Olawale and Jordan Culbreath sidelined by injuries, Ancient Eight contests have been decided in hard-nosed fashion—by gutting it out in the t...

Harvard took the top ranking in the seventh annual Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), which was published this week by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, offering a comparison of over 1000 schools worldwide.

Officials at the University Health Services will advise all undergraduates to be vaccinated against swine flu in sharp contrast to Massachusetts policy and to a just-completed Harvard Medical School study that will recommend against mass immunization of young adults.

Once an Ivy League sleeper pick, the Lions have regressed after early success and are now fighting to stay out of the Ancient Eight basement. But it would be a mistake for the Crimson to take its trip to New York lightly. With its game against Penn, the Crimson’s dangerous companion atop the Iv...

One team came into the season with a veteran offense and the make-up of a dark horse Ivy League contender. The other came in with a title to defend and an untested quarterback. It was anyone’s guess who would still be undefeated at this point. Despite how the season has played out, Harvard (5-2,...

Facing two ECAC opponents this weekend, the Crimson men’s hockey team will attempt to replicate last week’s win over Dartmouth. Harvard (1-0, 1-0 ECAC) will face Colgate (2-2-3) tonight and archrival No. 5 Cornell (1-0) on Saturday. The two New York road contests will be the first games awa...

Continuing a promising pattern of leading higher education in sustainability, Harvard signed a 15-year deal this week that will ensure that 10 percent of the energy needs for its Cambridge and Allston buildings will be provided by wind power.

As Harvard students, we have the option to take time off and travel anywhere in the world. Timbuktu...Bora Bora...northern California? Junior Janie D’Ambrosia of Radcliffe heavyweight crew took a break from Cambridge this past spring to experience the latter. D’Ambrosia worked at Emandal, a...

Cheng Ho deserves better than this. After coming to the United States not knowing English, let alone football, he helped Harvard to back-to-back Ivy League titles in 2007 and 2008. With all the odds he’s already overcome, the senior running back deserves better than to watch his career end...

Harvard Medical School kicked off a three-day symposium on breast cancer in the developing world yesterday afternoon. The conference—also sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health, the Harvard Global Equity Initiative, and several affiliate hospitals—engaged faculty, stu...

It used to be that a date with Cornell was a near-guaranteed win for the Harvard women’s hockey team. The Crimson had the Big Red’s number of late, winning 10 straight contests over the last three seasons—including sweeping Cornell out of the last two conference playoffs. And when Harvard t...

Kwaku Nyamekye has spent much of his Harvard soccer career as an unsung hero, helping to cement the Crimson back line during the last four years. “For a defender to get recognition is a tough thing in soccer,” Harvard coach Jamie Clark said. “Shutouts are associated with goal keepers, and go...

It may have been senior night for the Harvard field hockey team last night at Jordan Field, but it was the underclassmen who gave the Crimson an opportunity to win the game. Down 4-2 to University of New Hampshire (12-6, 3-2 America East) in the second half, Harvard sophomores Carly Dickson...

Harvard inked a deal yesterday to purchase 10 percent of annual electricity consumed on its Cambridge and Allston campuses from a leading wind provider in New England.

As November brings low temperature and swirling winds to the Charles River, the average person might be hesitant to get on the water. But the Harvard sailing team is more than happy to stay on the river for another two weeks. Forced to overcome biting, difficult conditions this past weekend...

Too little, too late is becoming a trend for the Harvard field hockey team. After getting outscored, 11-0, in the first half of its past two losses against No. 4 Princeton and No. 9 Boston College, the Crimson (5-10, 2-4 Ivy) let Dartmouth (9-7, 4-2) gain a 4-2 advantage in its last conference h...

Competing during a holiday that thrives off of fear, the Harvard men’s tennis team was not intimidated in the Harvard Halloween Tennis Tournament over the weekend, recording eight wins overall in singles and doubles play. Co-captain Michael Hayes and freshman Tunc Kiymaz reached the f...

Last season, the Crimson women’s volleyball team defeated Columbia in two meetings but lost to Cornell twice. This season, Harvard had it out for the New York teams and entered each contest looking to prove that it is the better squad—and did so in a weekend sweep at the Malkin Athletic Cent...

The Dartmouth men’s soccer team (8-5-1, 3-2 Ivy) came to Cambridge on a mission to reassert itself as the Ivy League’s top team after entering into a tie with Brown following last week’s loss to Columbia. Accompanied by a legion of costumed fans, the No. 21 Big Green came from New Hampshire ho...

Even nature couldn’t defeat the Harvard women’s soccer team, which found itself in a 1-1 tie in the second half on Saturday at Ohiri Field, fighting both Dartmouth and a 29 mph wind. But the Crimson (8-6-1, 5-1 Ivy) was undeterred, and in the 87th minute notched the go-ahead goal to hold off t...

After a tough mid-season loss to Lafayette two weeks ago, the Crimson crushed another Ivy League opponent on Saturday. Harvard football (5-2, 4-0 Ivy) justified its place at the top of the Ancient Eight with a 42-21 victory over Dartmouth (1-6, 1-3) just a week after trouncing Princeton,...

Harvard may reorient its long-term fundraising strategy to focus more attention on unrestricted funds rather than earmarked gifts, University President Drew G. Faust said in an interview last week, giving voice to a policy that has become increasingly important in the midst of the rec...

In 2008, an overtime loss on the final day of the regular season left the Harvard men’s soccer team green with envy of Dartmouth, which gained a share of the Ivy title with Penn after the Crimson’s loss. This year, the teams are again battling for position atop the Ivy League, but this time Har...

After three-plus years of college, things start to get repetitive—especially around this time of year. I won’t have to leave my room this weekend (although I will) to know what’s going on out in the street. A gaggle of costumed, sleep-deprived overachievers will descend on Cambridge, usi...

Just over midway through the first period in the Harvard women’s hockey team’s exhibition game against McGill on Saturday, Jillian Dempsey readied herself for a faceoff in the Martlets’ zone. The puck dropped, and Dempsey pounced. The freshman zipped a pass behind her to co-captain Kath...

What a difference a year makes. This time last October, Harvard was scrambling to fill the goalie position, looking to three untested netminders to act as anchors of the team’s defense. But with the return of star goaltender Kyle Richter—as well as the recent rise of up-and-coming junior R...

The ninth-ranked Harvard women’s hockey team, having won the previous two ECAC Hockey regular-season and Ivy League titles, looks to continue a tradition of success in the 2009-10 season. Despite having graduated its top three offensive contributors last year, the Crimson plans to ca...

A female Harvard University employee reported that she was attacked while walking on Grant St. near DeWolfe St. on Tuesday.

Nina Kucharczyk puts a new spin on being busy, even for a Harvard student. Aside from balancing classes, clubs, and a social life, the New York native is competing on not one, but two varsity athletic teams. Officially recruited for lacrosse, Kucharczyk recently joined the field hockey te...

Nines were wild last night. For the second game in a row, Harvard field hockey surrendered nine goals as ninth-ranked Boston College (13-4, 1-3 ACC) defeated the Crimson (5-9, 2-3 Ivy) 9-1 last night. “It definitely wasn’t our best game,” sophomore forward Allie Kimmel said. “I think we jus...

Harvard men’s basketball may not carry much weight in the sporting world, but its head coach certainly does. Coach Tommy Amaker held his third annual coaches clinic Sunday, welcoming to Lavietes Pavilion over 100 hoops coaches from across New England. Clinic participants—each involve...

Randomly selected Harvard undergraduates and their friends will report their popularity and flu-like symptoms as participants in a new Harvard Medical School study seeking to explain how social networks affect the spread of diseases.

Theodore R. Sizer, former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and innovative educational reformer, died last week of colon cancer at his Harvard, Mass., home at the age of 77.

During the 2009 spring season, one of the most compelling stories about Harvard men’s lightweight crew was the dominance of its freshman boat. The Crimson rookies blew by the competition week in and week out, until they were finally handed a second-place finish by Princeton on April 25.

It only took a minute and a half for the Harvard football team to begin erasing the bitter memory of last week’s loss to Lafayette. In Saturday’s contest against Princeton (1-5, 0-3 Ivy), the Crimson (4-2, 3-0 Ivy) used three plays in its first drive—a pair of one-yard rushes and a 77-yard bo...

For the last three minutes of Harvard field hockey’s matchup with Princeton, it looked as if the scoreboard at Jordan Field might need a few extra lights. But thankfully for the scorekeeper, the Tigers attack halted before it could reach double-digits. Playing in a light drizzle before a c...

The Harvard women’s soccer team’s (7-6-1, 4-1 Ivy) 1-0 loss to Princeton (6-6-3, 2-2-1 Ivy) on Saturday at Ohiri Field had all of these features. The deciding tally came from Tiger freshman Jen Hoy, who scored with less than five minutes to play.

In the Crimson’s mid-week matchup against Providence, Harvard was able to claim victory anyway, but against Princeton (7-5-2, 2-2) on Saturday, the setback was more costly. No. 9 Harvard (10-3-1, 2-1-1 Ivy) could not score again in regulation and surrendered the game-winning goal in th...

After coming up short against Ivy League-leading Penn (16-4, 7-0) 3-1, the Harvard volleyball team (8-11, 4-4 Ivy League) sought to go over .500 in conference play when it took a two-game road trip against Brown (5-13, 1-6) and Yale (18-4, 6-1) this weekend. The Crimson swept Brown 25-23, 2...

Oh, Canada. Facing off against McGill in a preseason exhibition game, the Harvard men’s hockey team battled to a 3-3 tie with the Canadian squad at Bright Hockey Center on Friday. Although the Crimson outshot McGill, 49-18, and had 13 powerplay chances—including a few minutes of 5-on-3 pl...

Though the warm rain outside was a memory that it’s still fall in Cambridge, fans of Harvard women’s hockey got their first taste of winter Saturday afternoon. The Crimson took the ice against collegiate competition for the first time this year, defeating McGill, 4-1, in exhibition acti...

Renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and his non-profit organization, known as the Silk Road Project, received the inaugural Thelma E. Goldberg Arts in Education Award yesterday at the culmination of a three-day residency at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Determined to establish a direct bus line between Harvard Square and New York City by mid-November, a transportation service company that currently runs bus routes throughout the northeast is still facing one important barrier: the city of Cambridge.

The Harvard football team’s practices this week had the feel of uncharted waters. Coming off its worst loss in three years—a rather shocking 35-18 home defeat at the hands of the Patriot League’s Lafayette College, the Crimson (3-2, 2-0 Ivy) looks to rebound tomorrow at 12:00 p.m. as it take...

Harvard University Health Services has stopped giving seasonal flu vaccines at its Holyoke Center headquarters and most other sites around the University, due to an unexpected shortage.

The early bird catches the worm, right? That’s what the Stanford Cardinal thought back in June. As of six days ago, the adage was proven false–and in Harvard’s favor. Tight end Blake Barker, the top high school football recruit in Massachusetts, decommitted from the Palo Alto, Calif. schoo...

A small group of alumni from the Harvard Class of 1969 renewed its criticism of compensation paid to University endowment managers in a letter sent to President Drew G. Faust yesterday, citing the nearly 30 percent investment loss sustained this past year.

Cruising home from Harlem on Saturday, the Harvard women’s volleyball team must have had Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” playing over the team bus’ speakers. The Crimson (6-9, 2-2 Ivy) played to a tune of a 3-0 shutout of Columbia on Saturday after outperforming Cornell 3-1 during th...

A tie, in sports, can spark nearly every reaction. There are victorious ties, heartbreaking ties, and I-can’t-believe-we-played-this-entire-game-just-to-tie ties. When the No. 8 Harvard men’s soccer team tied 1-1 with Cornell this past Saturday, the reaction was mostly one of relie...

Harvard University Health Services reported about 50 new cases of students with influenza-like illnesses during the period of September 12-18, placing Harvard at the national average for new flu infections on college campuses.

As summer came to an official end this past weekend, so too did a losing streak. Just not Harvard’s. On Sunday night at Nickerson Field across the river, Boston University (3-4-2) gave the Crimson (1-5-1) another preseason loss in front of 244 fans and those watching on Fox Soccer Channel.

Last night at Blodgett pool, the Harvard men’s water polo team fell to No. 19 Brown 10-8 in overtime. The Crimson (2-5, 1-1 CWPA) stayed in the game with solid defense and a few timely goals, but in the end, missed opportunities prevented the team from getting the win. “We came out strong right f...

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AMOR PERFECT UNION: The Core That You Need to Take  MA - Sep 17, 2007 By LOREN AMOR Back in May, the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced that it was replacing the long-standing Core Curriculum with a new ...

hristopher J. L. Murray ’83, former director of the Harvard Initiative for Global Health and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, joined the faculty of the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle on May 1.

A leading expert in law and economics has accepted an offer to join the Harvard Law School faculty, the school announced last week.

Stern Lessons For Terrorism Expert  MA - One of Harvard’s federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), which reviews the plans of University researchers who hope to study human subjects, ...

One of Harvard Law School’s most beloved sons swooped into Cambridge yesterday evening for an intimate, high-dollar fundraising event with about 150 of his former professors, classmates, and their friends.

Sports Psychology: More Than Games  MA - But at a place like Harvard, where most competitors will see their athletic careers culminate in Crimson, the lasting effects of a learning experience must ...

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 MA - While many Harvard tailgaters were carousing last Saturday in a Boston parking lot, nine sober students were waltzing and foxtrotting in an Ohio ballroom. ...

Junior defensive end Brad Bagdis was named the 2007 captain of Harvard football at the team’s annual year-end football awards dinner last night at the Harvard Club of Boston. 13 Crimson players also received All-Ivy League honors, including six first-teamers.

WESTWOOD, Calif.—Most Los Angeles first-timers are given their requisite 15 minutes of fame, but the visiting Harvard men’s soccer team only got 1:55. That was all it took for UCLA midfielder Sal Zizzo to scorch Harvard’s left side and fire a shot into the far post past Crimson junior goalk...

In the words of Binghamton head coach Paul Marco, “both halves were worth the price of admission.” On Saturday, the Harvard men’s soccer team faced off against the Bearcats in its first game of the NCAA tournament. The Crimson triumphed over Binghamton 2-1, but only after essentially play...

What should have been a day of celebration for Harvard turned into a solemn affair today, as Penn (5-4, 3-3 Ivy) upset the Crimson (7-2, 4-2 Ivy) 22-13 in front of 7,819 at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, Penn.

After having some slow offensive starts this season, the Harvard women’s soccer team (3-8-1, 2-1-0 Ivy) couldn’t wait even four minutes to put one in the back of the net. The Crimson got a goal from sophomore midfield Rachel Lau at the 3:45 mark of the game and played conservative soccer thr...

The Harvard men’s soccer team entered the contest against Yale on Saturday at Ohiri Field on a sour note—coming off of a four-game stretch over which it went a dismal 1-3. But the Crimson left the field with the taste of victory once again.

Last season, the Harvard men’s soccer team ran into trouble when it didn’t score first. The Crimson fell in six such games—against Vermont, Boston University, Brown, Yale, Cornell, and Holy Cross, But this season, Harvard (6-4-0, 1-1-0 Ivy) has taken huge steps to make sure it can recove...

It may not be a match-up of giant heavyweights, but the Harvard men’s soccer team’s match against the University of Pennsylvania this weekend is the first hurdle toward an elusive Ivy championship for both teams. Penn has not won since 2002—and only once since 1981—while the drought for t...

So maybe it wasn’t a win, but the second half of a tough loss was the best played and most exciting stretch Harvard women’s soccer fans have seen in this young season. The Crimson (0-5-0) gave No. 11 Penn State (3-2-2) a big scare on Friday at Ohiri Field before eventually losing 3-2 in double-o...

As the Harvard women’s soccer team plays host to three teams this weekend, it will be hoping its guests will be just gracious enough to let it emerge with its first victory of the season. This weekend, the Crimson (0-4-0, 0-0 Ivy) hopes to break into the win column at the annual Harvard Invita...

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In Professor Christopher F. Noe’s accounting class at MIT, nearly a third of his students are from out of town—or, well, down the street. Indeed, roughly 45 Harvard students trekked down Mass. Ave. this semester to take “Corporate Financial Accounting and Reporting” at MIT, according to th...

Despite traveling with only six wrestlers, the Harvard wrestling team finished at a respectable 18th out of 50 participating teams in the Midlands Championship, hosted by Northwestern at the Welsh-Ryan Arena just before the holiday weekend.

Student satisfaction with Harvard’s residential dining halls has reached an all-time high, yet students still hanker for greater menu variety, including more seafood and vegetarian entrees, according to the biannual survey conducted by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS).

It took a near-perfect performance to finally end the Harvard men’s basketball team’s perfect start. Behind guard Justin Chirea’s 7-for-10 shooting from behind the arc, Central Connecticut State (CCSU) stormed past the Crimson (5-1) for an 87-79 victory on Saturday afternoon at Lavi...