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...support cells. It is now known that they can transmit signals through transient increases in calcium levels. “Astrocytes are often thought to play second fiddle to neurons but they play an ever increasing role in maintenance of the brain,” said Brian J. Bacskai, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and one of the authors of the study. The researchers used a mouse model for Alzheimer’s disease in the study to develop some of the pathology found in humans, including senile plaques. They selectively labeled astrocytes with a marker...
Former senior State Department official Paula J. Dobriansky became the most recent senior fellow to join Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. Dobriansky, who served as under secretary of state for democracy and global affairs under former President George W. Bush, will lead weekly seminars at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. “I’m just very excited, very thrilled to be here,” Dobriansky said. Dobriansky, who earned her Ph.D. in government from Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1991, will lead a weekly...
...itself extends not only into the physical space of its gallery but also into the personal space of the viewer.“The Space Within; The Time Without” is the brainchild of Xinran Yuan ’10, who is also a Crimson photographer, and Trevor J. Martin ’10. The two artists first conceptualized the installation in VES 130r: Shapeshifting, a directed studio course. Yuan and Martin created the exhibition after SOCH Art Gallery Curator O. Akili Tommasino ’10 approached them about installing site-specific pieces for the SOCH...
...implementation of the committee’s grand yet vague proposals.“When reports come out and call for very complicated and ambitious changes, there’s an extremely strong temptation to let things sink to the bottom of the ocean,” says Stephen J. Greenblatt, the English professor who chairs the Task Force.University President Drew G. Faust is not likely to succumb to that temptation, however. Lining the once bland, white walls of Massachusetts Hall, home to many of the University’s top administrators and a handful of freshmen, student work acts...
...parents push me to go out and meet a good Jewish woman,” claimed Anthony J. Sterle ’11. “And I’m not even Jewish...