Month: June 2007

  • Nation & World

    Moveable feast

    Watch as the Harvard Ukrainian, Baker and Carriage Houses roll down Massachusetts Avenue during a high tech production carried out in low gear.

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    From the borderline

    Under a big tent set for lunch in breezy Radcliffe Yard on Friday (June 8), Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison offered a gathering of 950 graduates, fellows, and friends a brief meditation on the oblique efficacy of the humanities. She said these “creative, imaginative arts” counsel, goad, and interrogate American culture from its own borders.

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    Toni Morrison.
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    This month in Harvard history

    June 1913 — Having proved itself during a five-year experimental period, the Business School emerges from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to become an independent graduate school.

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending June 11. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

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    In brief

    Auction aims to expand day care vouchers for Oxford Street co-op The Oxford Street Day Care Cooperative is the only Harvard-affiliated day care that accepts state-issued tuition vouchers for families who cannot afford the high cost of day care. To help support the expansion of the voucher program, the co-op will hold a silent auction…

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    Newsmakers

    Khoshbins named interim Currier House masters Shah and Laura Khoshbin were recently named interim masters of Currier House for the 2007-08 academic year.

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    Arthur Maass

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 15, 2007, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Arthur Maass, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Maass was not only an eminent scholar, but also a devoted, effective, and popular teacher.

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    Eileen Jackson Southern

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 15, 2007, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

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    James Robert Hightower

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 1, 2007, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

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    Memorial services set for Carroll, Westheimer, Ketelhohn

    Carroll memorial set for today Charles “Chuck” Carroll, longtime Harvard Division of Continuing Education (DCE) employee and a Harvard graduate, died on May 21, after succumbing to a rare blood disease. He was 65.

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    Faust installation, Oct. 12

    Incoming President Drew G. Faust will be formally installed as Harvard’s 28th president on Oct. 12 at an outdoor ceremony in the Tercentenary Theatre. An academic procession, featuring representatives of universities from around the world, will begin at 2 p.m. The installation will begin at 2:30 p.m. The event will be open to all faculty,…

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    Weatherhead Center awards grants, fellowships

    The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs recently announced that it has awarded 27 grants to support Harvard College undergraduates and 12 to support Harvard doctoral students for research this summer. In recent years the Weatherhead Center has significantly expanded its support for Harvard students by increasing financial resources, expanding the number of student awards available,…

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    Winners of Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science named

    The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science (GIS) recently named two undergraduate and two graduate students as 2006-07 award recipients.

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    Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy awards 38 certificates

    The Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy has awarded 38 certificates in health policy to graduating seniors. The 38 students, who come from 14 academic departments, completed an interdisciplinary program of health policy course work and research as part of their work toward the A.B. degree.

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    Inaugural Dunlop undergraduate thesis prize is awarded

    The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government recently announced that Pablo M. Tsutsumi ’07 is the winner of the first John T. Dunlop Prize in Business and Government. Tsutsumi won the prize for his thesis titled “Domestic Intentions: International Repercussions: An Empirical Study on the Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley…

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    Dept. of Music announces fellowship, award winners

    Harvard’s Department of Music recently announced its fellowship and award recipients. Close to $220,000 will go toward fellowship and award programs for the department’s graduate and undergraduate students.

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    Harvard’s Farmers’ Market set to reopen June 19

    Beginning (Tuesday) June 19, the Harvard community can once again enjoy weekly access to freshly harvested fruits and vegetables, handmade breads and pastries, and other healthy, homemade options, when the Farmers’ Market at Harvard reopens. Started by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) in 2006, the market will be held between the Science Center and Memorial…

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    Mother/daughter graduate from Extension School

    They’re not exactly a “mother-daughter team,” but Rosemary Dowling, 79, of Dorchester, and her daughter, Rosemary McCarthy, 55, of Duxbury, graduated in tandem from the Harvard Extension School with their Bachelor of Liberal Arts (A.L.B.) degrees on June 7. Both Rosemarys worked on their degrees over the past 10 years, commuting together, and enrolling in…

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    Jay Harris named committee chair, adviser to dean

    Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) interim Dean David Pilbeam has named Jay Harris chair of the new General Education Standing Committee.

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    FAS names Bruce Western professor of sociology

    Bruce Western, a leading social scientist in the field of inequality, whose work is focused on incarceration and labor market stratification, has been appointed professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1. In addition to his appointment in FAS, Western will also direct the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and…

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    Crimson Summer Academy celebrates first graduating class at Commencement

    Harvard students weren’t the only ones commencing in Harvard Yard on Commencement Day (June 7) 2007. It was all smiles and cheers, and a few tears, at the afternoon exercises for the Crimson Summer Academy’s inaugural graduating class. The 30 Crimson Scholars, joined by their families, enjoyed the festivities of Commencement with a graduation ceremony…

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    Oceans are back on Mars

    Since spacecraft sent back the first close-up images of Mars more than 30 years ago, some experts have insisted that oceans once existed on the now dry, cold planet. Critics have maintained for decades that such an idea is the product of unrestrained imaginations. Now, a study published in today’s (June 14) issue of the…

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    In search of grammatical architecture behind words

    When not in a classroom or laboratory, Maria Polinsky spends time doing fieldwork off the southeast coast of Africa, in Madagascar. She studies Malagasy, a melting-pot language whose influences start in Borneo and now borrow from Swahili, Arabic, and French.

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    Harvard Board of Overseers announces newly elected members

    The president of the Harvard Alumni Association announced on June 7 the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the University’s 356th Commencement.

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    Researchers analyze ‘Africa effect,’ the slow growth of some economies

    African governments were instrumental in inhibiting the growth of their own economies in the late 20th century, according to a decade-long project conducted by African scholars and economists. Robert Bates, professor of government in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been immersed in this economic survey, helping the economists to understand that governmental role.

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    ‘Elder statesman’ brightens big day

    On Thursday afternoon (June 7), in the shade of a tree in the Old Yard, Philip Keene of Natick, Mass., sat in a wheelchair holding a small sign that read “1925.” Nearby was Thayer Hall, where he lived as a senior 82 years ago.

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    Honorary degree recipients and citations, 2007

    Three women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard’s 356th Commencement. President Derek Bok read the citations.

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    Commencement marked by solemnity, joy … sunshine!

    Gown-gown issues On Commencement Day, what’s under those black gowns? Don’t ask. But an informal survey of Harvard College footwear revealed high heels, sandals, running shoes, dress shoes for men (rare), and — most of all — flip-flops, the 21st century’s footwear for all occasions.

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    Barbara J. McNeil named acting dean of Harvard Medical School

    Barbara J. McNeil, the Ridley Watts Professor of Health Care Policy and Professor of Radiology, has been named acting dean of the Harvard Medical School effective July 1, President-elect Drew Faust announced today.

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    Gates urges graduates to tackle global inequity

    Microsoft founder Bill Gates returned to Harvard Thursday (June 7) to finally collect his degree — an honorary doctorate — and to urge the Class of 2007 to change the world for the millions who live in poverty and die of preventable diseases each year.

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