The Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology is proud to announce the release of its inaugural report, Frontiers in Ophthalmology. This artfully designed report tells the story of the department's key accomplishments, major milestones, and impressive growth in patient care, research and education over the last several years. The growing, international collaborations among HMS ophthalmology affiliates and partners, as well as new initiatives that will ramp up efforts to fight blinding diseases on a world-wide scale, are given...

[Nature ]...“The world can’t punt this issue any longer,” says Robert Stavins, an environmental economist at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Stavins believes that negotiators will find some way to keep the Kyoto Protocol alive, if only in spirit, but he acknowledges that the meeting could also fall apart. “Some people would say that this is the death that is required in order to have a rebirth” in the negotiating process, he says.

On Thursday, November 17, 2011 in Fisher Family Commons in the CGIS Knafel Building, the winners of the 8th annual OIE (Office of International Education) International Photo Contest were chosen. Winning photographs will be put up in Lamont Library for the Spring 2012 semester. Do check out these amazing photographs from around the world in the Spring at Lamont!

***There were four winning photographs taken by students who spent time in Korea this past summer!...

Congratulations to Pat Alford, Peyton Nesmith, Johannes Seywerd, Anya Grosberg, and Kit Parker for an outstanding image from their recent publication entitled “Vascular smooth muscle contractility depends on cell shape” in Integrative Biology, 2011, 3(11), 1063-1070. The image was selected as the journal cover page. Great job all!... Read more about Congrats to Professor Pat Alford et al!!