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October 07, 1999Matz, Seltzer Receive Award for Excellence in TeachingTwo Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) junior faculty members have received the Roslyn Abramson Award, given each year to recognize excellence in teaching. Ig Nobel Ceremony Honors Nutty 'Scientific' Research The First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony was held last week at Sanders Theatre – the Ninth First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, that is. SPH Researchers Find Fruits, Vegetables Reduce Risk of Stroke Harvard researchers have found that eating five servings per day of fruits and vegetables is related to a 30 percent lower risk of ischemic stroke in men and women. KSG Lectureship Created In Memory of Raymond Vernon A memorial service will be held for Raymond Vernon on Tuesday, Oct. 12, at 4:30 p.m. in the ARCO Forum, Kennedy School of Government, 79 J.F.K. St. A reception will follow the service.Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. has established a new lectureship at the Kennedy School to honor the life, career, and legacy of Vernon.
Sultan of Oman Professorship Established at KSG
As they continue enabling Harvard to advance teaching and research excellence, Harvard donors will establish a new record for higher education philanthropy when The University Campaign ends Dec. 31. Furtive Fundraising at GSE: A $3.4 Million Surprise When the Ed School exceeded its campaign goal last November, campaign co-chairs Elisabeth and John Hobbs decided that the time had come to honor Dean Jerome T. Murphy with a chair of his own.
Learning From Performers To Host Violinist Isaac Stern
The promise was made nearly six years ago. Harvard wrestling coach Jay Weiss was sitting in the home of Ed Mosley, one of the top high school wrestlers in the class of 1995. By the time he graduated from Calvary Chapel High School, Mosley would be an All-American, a two-time California State Champion and a Junior National Freestyle Champion. Dean Bloom Assails 'Patients' Bill of Rights' With a "Patients’ Bill of Rights" winding through Congress, School of Public Health Dean Barry Bloom issued his own declaration this week, asserting that the nation’s health priorities are backward and ought to focus on prevention, not treatment. An Inside Look at the Freshman Rooming Process Freshmen are explorers. As newcomers to the College, they arrive with an array of questions, all of which demand answers. But there is one question that rises in importance above all others, particularly in these, the first few weeks of the year: Researchers: High Cholesterol Is Risk Factor for Preeclampsia Elevated cholesterol levels appear to be a risk factor for preeclampsia, a team of Harvard researchers has found. Police Log The following is a portion of the incidents reported to the HUPD for the week ending Oct. 2. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Notes Provost to hold office hours for students Newsmakers Sociologist Patterson Receives Jamaican Award Laser Makes History's Fastest Holes The problem was to see how small a hole could be drilled inside a piece of glass, that is, without cracking the surfaces. History in the Active Voice As a boy growing up in Denver, Colo., Jim Kloppenberg played with toy cowboys and Indians, redcoats and revolutionaries, G.I.’s and Nazis. Jorie Graham: Ambassador for Poetry Returning students who happened to pass the Barker Center at midnight two weeks ago might have seen a solitary light burning in an upstairs window. Inside, Jorie Graham, the new Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, was reading manuscripts late into the night from students hoping to att her seminars in the art of poetry this fall. 'Irish Night' Celebrates New Chair for GSE Dean Murphy "Irish night" at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) last Thursday not only honored the school’s dean, Jerome T. Murphy, with an owed professorship that had been created secretly in his name, but it also featured Murphy’s favorite Irish-American writer and a veteran high school teacher – Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoirist. Institute of Politics Names Fellows for Fall Term 1999 Fall Fellows at the Institute of Politics to Discuss Nominations Sought for Honorary Degrees The Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees will be meeting during the fall and spring to consider nominees for honorary degrees in 2001. Members of the Harvard community are invited to submit names of likely honorary degree candidates. Nominations may be sent to Professor Hanna Gray, Fellow of the Corporation and Chair of the Advisory Committee, or Marc Goodheart, Secretary to the Corporation, at Loeb House, 17 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138. Stuntz, Scholar of Criminal Procedure, Named Professor of Law William Stuntz has been named professor of law at the Law School. Stuntz, currently the Class of 1962 Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, will join the faculty in July 2000. Fellows Named at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations is a University-wide interfaculty initiative that was established in 1997 and is housed in the Kennedy School of Government. The Center engages in three broad activities in the field of nonprofit studies: research, education, and practitioner engagement. Mark Moore serves as the Center’s faculty director and Christine Letts is its executive director. Happenings At Harvard Happenings At Harvard Employment Policies Committee Reports on Progress
It takes something beyond the scale of spectacular to capture the imagination of astrophysicists or astronomers, people for whom matters such as the speed of light and billions of miles are routine. Images from the new Chandra X-ray observatory have impressed space researchers enough that they describe them with a giddy glint in their eyes and use terms such as "beautiful," "awesome," and a "dream come true." Government Professor Edward Banfield Dies Edward C. Banfield, the George D. Markham Professor of Government Emeritus, accomplished author, and controversial expert on urban affairs, died Sept. 30 at his home in East Montpelier, Vt. He was 82. Incoming Students Get High-Tech Tech Support Remember when buying school supplies meant going to Woolworth’s for a loose-leaf binder, some No. 2 pencils, and a wooden ruler?
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