Month: May 2008
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Student work graces Mass Hall
Bringing home (literally) Harvard’s newly invigorated commitment to the arts, President Drew Faust has opened up Massachusetts Hall to an exhibition of selected artwork by talented undergraduates.
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This month in Harvard history
May 4, 1943 — At the Boston Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Boston firm of Perry, Shaw & Hepburn accepts the J. Harleston Parker Gold Medal for Houghton Library as the best architecture in New England for 1942. The City of Boston has given the award annually since 1923.
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Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 27. 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
HARVARD LGBT REUNION EVENT SET FOR SEPTEMBER “From the Closet to a Place at the Table: Celebrating 25 Years of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus” — the first-ever, all-School, all-class reunion weekend for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) alumni/ae, faculty, staff, and students — will be held Sept. 26-28. Co-sponsored by the Harvard…
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Newsmakers
ACPE AWARDS HONORARY MEMBERSHIP TO HERZLINGER Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has recently been awarded honorary membership in the American College of Physician Executives (ACPE). An expert on consumer-driven health care, Herzlinger was awarded membership in recognition of her contributions to the advancement of medical management.
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Knowles memorial set for May 30
A memorial service for former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles will be held Friday (May 30) at 11 a.m. at the Memorial Church. The Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Knowles died April 3.
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Benton named digital editor at Nieman Foundation
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has appointed Joshua Benton editor of its new Digital Journalism Project. A 2008 Nieman Fellow and former staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News, Benton will oversee the initiative designed to help journalists excel in the digital media age.
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Asia-related student research projects are awarded funding
The Harvard Asia Center, the Harvard China Fund, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Korea Institute, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the South Asia Initiative recently announced the recipients of student grants for summer 2008 and the 2008-09 academic year.
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Radcliffe honors Alumnae Award winners
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has announced this year’s Radcliffe alumnae award winners, who will be honored at the annual Radcliffe Awards Symposium on June 6 at the American Repertory Theatre’s Loeb Drama Center.
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Lester Kissel Grant recipients to tackle ethical issues
For the third year, several Harvard College students have been awarded Lester Kissel Grants in Practical Ethics to carry out summer projects on subjects ranging from the role of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, to the psychological and social consequences of the threat of deportation. The students will use the grants to conduct…
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HAA president Byrnes to step down, passes baton to Walter Morris
This spring, while addressing fellow alumni, Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) President Jonathan L.S. Byrnes D.B.A. ’80 remarked, “The HAA was founded in 1840, and our first president was John Quincy Adams. Since that time, a select group of alumni has stepped up and provided leadership to benefit their fellow alumni and the University.
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Panel addresses effectiveness of NGOs, gives mixed grades
The world watched recently as the continuing tragedy in Myanmar unfolded. Millions were displaced earlier this month by a cyclone that devastated the country’s Irrawaddy delta, leaving 134,000 people dead or missing.
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Faculty of Arts and Sciences names Walter Channing Cabot Fellows
Five professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The awards, given annually, honor distinguished faculty members who have contributed to the advancement of scholarship in the fields of literature, history, or art.
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Commencement information
To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning:
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Kennedy School’s student journals reflect their interests, policy passions
The array of Harvard Kennedy School student journals reflects the wide range of their many contributors. From politics to international affairs to economics to the environment, no major policy issues are left unexplored, allowing student voices to be heard on the most important political matters of the day.
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GSD students honored for work in research and housing design
The Joint Center for Housing Studies honored five Graduate School of Design (GSD) students for excellence in housing research and design at a May 8 event. “We are pleased to recognize these young scholars. Their work reminds us of the diversity and depth of information that characterizes the study of housing issues throughout the world,”…
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Bells ring in Commencement
A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next Thursday (June 5) in honor of Commencement. For the 20th consecutive year a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvard’s 357th Commencement Exercises.
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After 78 years at Harvard, Danilov Bells will return to Russia
After 78 years of refuge at Harvard University, iconic Russian bells saved from Stalinist efforts to eradicate religious artifacts will return permanently this summer to their one-time home, the Danilov Monastery in Moscow.
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Affordable Harvard: A year of financial aid initiatives
Last November, Louis McAlister sat in the back of a motel ballroom in Bluefield, W.Va., working on his laptop.
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Pharr receives esteemed Japanese imperial decoration at ceremony
The government of Japan conferred on Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, the decoration of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon,…
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A year of Allston planning
During the past academic year construction began on the Allston Science Complex, the first project in the multidecade extension of Harvard’s campus in the Allston neighborhood of Boston.
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Crib sheet to help navigate Harvard’s 357th Commencement
Restrooms: Restrooms for the general public are located in Weld, Thayer, and Sever halls. These restrooms are wheelchair accessible.
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Harvard Law School campaign surpasses goal
The largest campaign in the history of legal education exceeded its $400 million goal by more than $50 million earlier this spring.
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Bat die-off in Northeast still mysterious
There’ll be fewer bats in backyards across the Northeast this summer after a mysterious ailment drove starving bats from their caves in the dead of winter in a futile, desperate search for insects in the region’s frozen, bug-free landscape.
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Solar eruption seen in detail
On April 9, the sun erupted and blasted a bubble of hot, ionized gas into the solar system. The eruption was observed in unprecedented detail by a fleet of spacecraft, revealing new features that are predicted by computer models but difficult to see in practice.
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Study identifies food-related clock in brain
n investigating the intricacies of the body’s biological rhythms, scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have discovered the existence of a “food-related clock,” which can supersede the “light-based” master clock that serves as the body’s primary timekeeper.
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NIH awards Harvard Medical School $117.5 million, five-year grant for patient-centered research
The National Institutes of Health today announced that Harvard Medical School (HMS) will receive $117.5 million over the next five years for the establishment of a Clinical and Translational Science…
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HMS introduces wilderness fellowship
Snake bites, lightning strikes, hypothermia, tick bites, and avalanche injuries are not mishaps you ordinarily associate with Harvard Medical School (HMS), or with life in Boston.
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Experiment advances cell reprogramming understanding
The announcement last year by scientists in Japan, at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), and at the Whitehead Institute that they had each — independently — coaxed adult cells into reverting to an embryonic stem cell-like state was arguably the biggest news in developmental biology since the cloning of Dolly the ewe.