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  Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at Harvard
The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) is the focus of Harvard's long tradition of interdisciplinary materials research.
The Harvard MRSEC is funded by the National Science Foundation, and identifies new research areas to train and retain students in materials science and engineering.
Science by Candlelight: A Holiday Lecture for Children and their Parents
www.mrsec.harvard.edu   (191 words)

  
 At Harvard's Science Center, additions are part of the equation - The Boston Globe
Science is the growth field in academia today, and the architects of the addition, Andrea Leers and Jane Weinzapfel of Boston, were told to add as much new space to the original 1972 building as they could.
The Science Center was always a good place to work, study, or socialize, but it's a better one now.
The original Science Center was influenced by an unbuilt project, the Palace of the Soviets, designed for Russia by the great French architect Le Corbusier in 1931.
www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2005/01/16/at_harvards_science_center_additions_are_part_of_the_equation   (1092 words)

  
 Harvard NIEHS Center for Environmental Health
The Center was established in 1958 to promote interactions among physicians, biological scientists, physical scientists, and engineers working on environmental problems that influence human health.
The theme of the Center is the identification and prevention of physical and chemical hazards in the environment that influence biological systems, with particular emphasis on the health of humans.
The long-term objectives of the Harvard NIEHS Center's Community Outreach and Education Program (COEP) are to integrate and implement the outreach-related goals and mission of the Harvard NIEHS Center for Environmental Health with those of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
www.hsph.harvard.edu /niehs   (621 words)

  
 Science Center Director's Office
The function of the Executive Committee is to advise and consult with the Director of the Science Center regarding matters related to undergraduate science education, and take initiatives on such matters pertinent to this mandate.
Scheduling of all non-departmental classrooms, lecture halls, and public space in the Science Center (except the specialized computer classrooms, SC 120 and B11C, which are scheduled through FAS Computer Services at 5-1200).
This standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is responsible for review and approval of research involving living human beings as subjects, conducted by FAS investigators (faculty, staff, or student).
www.fas.harvard.edu /~scdiroff   (729 words)

  
 Harvard Green Campus Initiative @ greencampus.harvard.edu
Harvard University is committed to developing and maintaining an environment that enhances human health and fosters a transition toward sustainability.
Harvard’s Campus Sustainability Principles are intended to guide campus practices toward sustainability through the management of building design, construction, renovation, procurement, landscape, energy, water, waste, emissions, transportation, human health and productivity.
Harvard Submits Multi-Decade Master Plan Framework for Allston: Harvard University today (1/11/07) is filing a proposed Institutional Master Plan with the City of Boston detailing physical plans for an interdisciplinary campus in Allston.
www.greencampus.harvard.edu   (533 words)

  
 Harvard Science Center
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) is the hub of the Kennedy School of Government's research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues and science and technology...
The Bok Center's mission is to improve undergraduate education at Harvard.
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is a collaboration between the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) and...
sciencecenter.machscience.com /harvardsciencecenter   (812 words)

  
 Workshop Announcement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Workshop was held on Friday, 28 March 1997, 9 AM to 5 PM, at the Harvard University Science Center at One Oxford Street, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Science Center is 300 meters NNE of the Harvard Square "T" stop on the Boston subway Red line, just east of the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Cambridge Street.
The Science Center is a large, modern building with astronomical domes on top and a modernistic fountain in front.
cfa-www.harvard.edu /~aas/SPST/announcement.htm   (598 words)

  
 Harvard Geographical Information Systems
Harvard Library GIS Resources are available to Harvard students, officers and its affiliates.
Harvard Science Center: Arcview 3.0 is loaded on both PC and Macintosh machines.
Science Center Computer Resources are available to FAS students, officers and its affiliates.
www.gis.dce.harvard.edu /Software.html   (1475 words)

  
 Harvard Science Center - ABC Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Harvard Science Center Harvard Science Center The Science Center at Harvard University was built in 1973.
The Center for Cancer Biology The Armenise-Harvard Center for Cancer Biology is dedicated to the study of the basic …
Professor Evelynn Hammonds of Harvard University was recently tapped to helm a faculty task force to develop proposals to aid the advancement of female......(Continue Reading)
www.deksmultimedia.com /harvard-science-center.html   (441 words)

  
 Harvard GSAS Student Survival Guide
User Support is available in the form of User Assistants (UAs), who can be contacted by either coming to the Computer Services Help Desk in the basement of the Science Center or by sending email to grad-help@fas.harvard.edu or help@fas.harvard.edu or visiting http://www.fas.harvard.edu/computing/gethelp/student_help.html.
Harvard's computer store is the first stop for most students needing a computer.
The Technology Products Center is located under Holyoke Center at 26 Dunster St. Although the TPC benefits from educational discounts and provides extremely well priced back-to-school packages, it may not always be the cheapest option for your needs.
hcs.harvard.edu /gsc/guide/resources/f_computer.html   (713 words)

  
 Harvard University - Science Center Director's Office   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Science Center is home to 3 academic departments, a library, innumerable offices, laboratories, and other resources.
The first floor is open 24 hours a day, but access to the rest of the building after 5pm is limited to Harvard University ID holders and others with proper authorization.
The Science Center Director's Office schedules the 15 classrooms and 5 lecture halls.
cambridge.zami.com /business?BUSID=5140   (100 words)

  
 Harvard RSI Action --> Print the site
RSI Action is a GSAS student group open to all Harvard students (graduate, undergraduate, professional schools) providing preventative education, advocacy and support for students with RSI (and those hoping to avoid it).
Harvard clerical and technical staff with problems are encouraged to contact the union (HUCTW), at 617-661-8289.
Harvard RSI Action is a GSAS student group for graduate students in all Harvard schools, and for undergraduates too.
www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu /printable.html   (12008 words)

  
 Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
The mission of the Center for Brain Science (CBS) is to understand neural circuits.
With these tools, researchers in the Center learn the structure and function of neural circuits; discover how these circuits change during development and aging, how they vary between individuals, and how they govern behavior; and deepen our understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders, and their therapies.
Members are drawn from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard-affiliated hospitals.
cbs.fas.harvard.edu   (169 words)

  
 Of Ants and Earth  -  Harvard Magazine (March-April 2003)
Drawing on Harvard's enormous collections of insect type specimens, collected over generations, whole libraries of such images can be assembled for instant high-resolution comparison with similar species.* A researcher with an Internet connection, working in the field, can reduce the time it used to take to identify specimens from months to, literally, minutes.
His grail is to see this "bigger science," properly directed and funded, scaled up so that the work that went into Pheidole can be vastly accelerated, yielding a comprehensive "encyclopedia of life" within the next quarter-century.
With that foundation, he convened a meeting at Harvard in October 2001 of like-minded scientists and representatives of organizations from around the world to discuss, and advance, the encyclopedia project.
www.harvardmagazine.com /on-line/030390.html   (2138 words)

  
 Aging Research Centre (ARC) Home Page
On November 8th, 2000 the Center for Research and Education in Aging, which has a mission of "investigating the basic processes that cause aging, with the goal of improving and extending human health span." will be officially launched.
From September 30th 1999 to October 1st 1999 the Buck Center for Research in Aging in Novato, California, held an inaugural symposiam on aging to celebrate the opening of the center.
John Glenn's science experiments that pertain to the study of aging.
www.arclab.org   (5312 words)

  
 STATS.org - home page
When a newspaper compared cigarette smoking to using infant formula, we suspected that there’s got to be something screwy with the science, which is, in fact, the case.
Her article on attempts to cure autism through chemical castration is a must read.
A "pseudonymous surgeon/scientist" going by the name of "Orac" provides a lot of analysis of bad science in the public realm, including Vaccines and Autism, the notorious RFK article from Salon "Deadly Immunity," and chelation and lupron treatments for autism.
www.stats.org   (1204 words)

  
 Harvard Film Archive: Premieres
Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar, celebrated for his brilliant plays with melodrama, camp, kitsch and for his self-conscious and politically inflected control of cinematic form, will be speaking at Harvard University on Tuesday, October 12 at 6 p.m.
at the Science Center, Lecture Hall B. The event, titled "The Pleasure of the Cinema: A Conversation with Pedro Almodóvar," is free and open to the public.
The director will give an overview of his work, with special reference to his cinematic and cultural models and to questions of aesthetics and politics.
www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/04_fall/almodovar_visit.html   (167 words)

  
 Harvard Libraries: Science Libraries
General science library supporting undergraduate education, interdisciplinary studies, and research in pure mathematics and theoretical statistics.
Environmental Research Resources at Harvard." The Center also houses the Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives, which collects the libraries and papers of major figures and organizations in international environmental policy, related scholarship, and cultural perspectives on the environment.
Its collections are available in Cabot Science Library as of June 20, 2005 -- including approximately 64,000 volumes in the fields of geology, geophysics, mineralogy, structural geology and tectonics, economic geology, geochemistry, stratigraphy, regional geology and environmental geology.
lib.harvard.edu /libraries/listings_sciencelib.html   (1203 words)

  
 IQSS: The Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
The Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
Our scientific mission is: (1) to create, and make widely accessible, statistical and analytical tools for the social and health sciences; and (2) to use these tools for understanding and solving major problems that affect society and the well-being of human populations.
We use the term "social science" to refer to areas of scholarship dedicated to understanding, or improving the well-being of, human populations.
iq.harvard.edu   (201 words)

  
 History - Cabot Science Library - Harvard College Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Godfrey Lowell Cabot Science Library is Harvard University's principal general science library, with special emphasis on research collections in mathematics, statistics, and science-related interdisciplinary studies.
The Geological Sciences Library was created in 1962, with the merger of several collections, including the Mineralogy Library, the Rotch Mining Library, and the Kirk Bryan Geomorphology Library.
The library became a unit of the Harvard College Library in 1984, and in 1987 was rededicated in honor of Bernhard Kummel, Professor of Geology at Harvard from 1952 until his death in 1980.
hcl.harvard.edu /libraries/cabot/history.html   (274 words)

  
 The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Before planning to drive a car to Harvard Square and the Weatherhead Center, you should think about where you are going to park.
Take the Harvard Square exit (a ramp to the right) and cross the Charles River.
Continue north on John F. Kennedy Street to the fourth set of traffic lights, which brings you to the center of Harvard Square.
www.wcfia.harvard.edu /tools/index.htm   (703 words)

  
 Harvard Extension School: Using FAS Accounts
If you would like your FAS e-mail account to be the address where instructors and administration contact you, please update your e-mail address via online services.
To print from any of the laser printers located in the Science Center, you must have both an FAS computer account and money in your printing budget.
You may use Crimson Cash, which is a debit account accessed through your Harvard ID number, to transfer money to your printing budget.
www.extension.harvard.edu /2006-07/resources/computer/fas.jsp   (334 words)

  
 Paul Bloom
(Cambridge, MA) The Harvard Secular Society and the Center for Naturalism are pleased to present "Bodies and Souls," a lecture by Yale psychologist Paul Bloom, author of the recently published Descartes Baby, on Monday, February 28, 7 pm.
He is co-editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, one of the major interdisciplinary journals in the field, and has published over seventy chapters and journal articles in psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and neuroscience.
The Center for Naturalism (CFN) is a Boston-based 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization devoted to increasing public awareness of scientific naturalism and its implications for social and personal well-being.
www.naturalism.org /paul_bloom.htm   (459 words)

  
 International Humanist and Ethical Union | The world union of Humanist organizations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The IHEU-Appignani Center for Bioethics has opportunities for up to five interns to promote its Bioethics Conferences and assist in United Nations Lobbying.
The IHEU-Appignani Humanist Center for Bioethics and The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies present Human Rights for the 21st Century: Rights of the Person to Technological Self-Determination - May 11-13, 2007 in New York City.
IHEU member organization Atheist Centre, organizer of the sixth World Atheist Conference, has announced the programme for the conference, which will be held at the Siddharta Auditorium of the Siddhartha Arts and Science College in Vijayawada, India on 5, 6 and 7 January 2007.
www.iheu.org   (842 words)

  
 Educational Programs at the MRSEC and NSEC at Harvard University
The RET Program offers opportunities for teachers of science and technology to work with research scientists and engineers at Harvard University.
Welcome to the educational programs at the Harvard MRSEC and NSEC based at Harvard University, including participants from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California-Santa Barbara, and the Museum of Science, Boston.
These activities are designed to bring the excitement of our current studies in materials, nanoscience and engineering to the public as well as provide opportunities for researchers to be directly involved in these collaborative and interdisciplinary investigations.
www.eduprograms.deas.harvard.edu   (219 words)

  
 NewsWatch: A Consumer's Guide to the News
The Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational organization that conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media.
The Media Center at the American Press Institute is funded by a grant from the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation with the aim of helping the newspaper industry adapt to the new technological environment created by the Internet.
Pew Center for Civic Journalism is funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts to encourage print and broadcast news organizations to directly engage citizens "in dialogues that lead to problem solving." They provide grants to news organizations to encourage them to practice civic journalism.
www.newswatch.org   (1821 words)

  
 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center
Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications
The NSEC combines "top down" and "bottom up" approaches to construct novel electronic and magnetic devices with nanoscale sizes and understand their behavior, including quantum phenomena.
Through a close integration of research, education, and public outreach, the Center encourages and promotes the training of a diverse group of people to be leaders in this new interdisciplinary field.
www.nsec.harvard.edu   (92 words)

  
 Radcliffe Institute For Advanced Study - Harvard University
A major exhibition that reinterprets the history of American women and of American business continues its national tour at the Los Angeles Public Library.
Frank Dobbin, professor of sociology at Harvard University and current Radcliffe Institute fellow
The Radcliffe Institute is committed to dialogue about important issues and events and enriches Harvard University's intellectual life through a robust program of lectures, conferences, colloquia, exhibits, and performances.
www.radcliffe.edu   (656 words)

  
 FAS Center: Systems Biology Research and Resources at Harvard
Our overall goal is to combine a variety of experimental and theoretical approaches to find general principles that help to explain the structure, behavior and evolution of cells and organisms.
We are the home of the Bauer Fellows program, the Bauer Core facilities, and faculty belonging to departments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
We are part of a university-wide initiative in systems biology, which also comprises the PhD program in Systems Biology and the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School.
sysbio.harvard.edu /csb   (159 words)

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