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Campus & Community
NAS elects five Harvard faculty members
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced this past Tuesday (May 1) the election of five Harvard affiliates among its 72 new members and 18 foreign associates. Members are chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
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Campus & Community
Fourteen faculty named to 2007 class of AAAS fellows, honorary members
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) on Monday (April 30) announced the election of 203 new fellows and 24 new foreign honorary members. Included among this new field of fellows and honorary members are 14 Harvard faculty members.
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Campus & Community
FBI director underlines importance of National Security Letters
At the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Thursday (April 26), Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert S. Mueller III outlined terrorism threats, described how the FBI was fighting them — and how at the same time the agency was protecting civil liberties.
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Arts & Culture
Scholar: Cave paintings show religious sophistication
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but for Catherine Perlès, cave paintings provide a link to understanding thousands of years of human history and thought. In examining cave paintings in Western Europe and archaeological sites in the Near East, Perlès said that the similarities and differences between the artifacts shows that, contrary to…
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Arts & Culture
Humanists gather with evangelical fervor
A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walk into a … humanist conference.
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 23. 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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Campus & Community
In brief
‘Women at the Top’ to examine first female presidents of Ivy League Third Eye Blind to headline Yardfest on April 28 A.R.T.’s ‘Harvard Night’ features food, talk Upcoming Arts First set to light up Harvard Square Arts First volunteers wanted Take a quick tour of ancient Egypt, Israel during Arts First Stressing stress: BHAC event…
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Berger lands Rome Prize Knoll to receive Wollaston Medal Blackstone Street, Cott awarded LEED Platinum Certification
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Arts & Culture
William White Howells
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 10, 2007, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late William White Howells, Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Howells is best known for his work on human cranial variation and the analytical use of multivariate statistical techniques.
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Campus & Community
Thomas Edward Cheatham Jr.
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 18, 2006, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Thomas Edward Cheatham, Jr., Gordon McKay Research Professor of Computer Science, was placed upon the records. Cheatham’s research and teaching bridged the divide between software theory and practice.
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Campus & Community
Grillo memorial service set for May 3
A celebration of the life of Hermes C. Grillo, professor of surgery emeritus, will be held May 3 at 3 p.m. in Memorial Church. Grillo died in Italy in October 2006.
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Campus & Community
OFA names Arts First grant winners
OfA grants for dance OfA grant for literature OfA grants for multidisciplinary arts OfA grants for music OfA grants for theater OfA grant for traditional cultural arts OfA grants for visual arts
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Arts & Culture
OfA announces undergraduate prize winners
The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have announced the winners of the annual undergraduate arts prizes presented in recognition of outstanding accomplishment in the arts for the 2006-07 academic year.
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Arts & Culture
Author, cultural critic Albert Murray awarded W.E.B. Du Bois Medal
Novelist, cultural critic, and poet Albert Murray has been awarded the Du Bois Medal by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. The announcement was made April 23 by the institute’s director, Henry Louis Gates Jr., in recognition of Murray’s “contributions to the arts, culture, and the life of the mind.”…
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Campus & Community
Kennedy School’s Rodrik claims SSRC’s inaugural Hirschman Prize
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) has selected Dani Rodrik, the Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, as the first recipient of its newly instituted Albert O. Hirschman Prize.
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Campus & Community
GSD awards waterfront project its Green Prize
Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced that the firm of Weiss/Manfredi will receive the ninth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design in recognition of the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park. Transforming a dilapidated brownfield site, the park creates a new landscape for art within the urban infrastructure, reconnecting the city to…
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Campus & Community
Sports in brief
League picks Shelly Madick pitcher of the week Second-place NEISA finish sends women sailors to nationals Baseball splits with Bears Gilligan Memorial Road Race changes date to May 5
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Campus & Community
GSD awards waterfront project its Green Prize
Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced that the firm of Weiss/Manfredi will receive the ninth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design in recognition of the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park. Transforming a dilapidated brownfield site, the park creates a new landscape for art within the urban infrastructure, reconnecting the city to…
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Campus & Community
SUP builds safe, exciting, productive summers for kids
As summer heats up and school lets out, public officials throughout the Boston area scramble for new ways to keep kids off the streets and out of trouble through summer jobs and activities. As in years past, Harvard undergraduates are answering the call, mentoring low-income children, and recruiting and working with teenage counselors throughout Boston…
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Health
Ursano: Stopping post-traumatic stress disorder before it happens
Mental health professionals are aware of the importance of understanding the kinds of illnesses — such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) — that can result from disasters both natural and human-made. But perhaps even more crucial, according to Robert J. Ursano, is that they understand the behaviors associated with such events.
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Health
Verbal beatings hurt as much as sexual abuse
Sticks and stones may break my bones, But names will never hurt me. …
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Campus & Community
Corpus team overcomes scanning snags
A multicolored tent made of tarps and rope and tree branches and duct tape rose above Yaxchilan’s unique pinkish stalactite stela. On the last day of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology’s expedition to the ancient Maya city of Yaxchilan, team members were doing something at which they had proven themselves adept: improvising.
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Campus & Community
Big cities are havens for aging population
The phrase “retirement communities” calls to mind a number of different kinds of places — high-end gated communities or whole cities built from scratch in Sun Belt states like Florida and Arizona. Or perhaps even dismal trailer parks under the hot breath of a developer who wants to turn the whole place into high-rise condos.
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Nation & World
Building homes — and understanding
From March 24 to April 2, a unique group of volunteers came together in the community of Ghor Al Safi, Jordan, to build two homes in that community through Habitat for Humanity Jordan. The group consisted of 12 women from Harvard University in the United States and 12 from Dar Al-Hekma College in Saudi Arabia.
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Campus & Community
PON honors business leader Wasserstein with Great Negotiator Award
The Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School (HLS) presented its 2007 Great Negotiator Award to Bruce Wasserstein, chairman and CEO of Lazard, an international financial advisory and asset management firm, on April 2. Wasserstein was selected in August 2006 to receive the award by the executive committee of PON — a network of…
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Campus & Community
MacKinnon: ‘Women are not human’
Women are not in charge. Worldwide, it is men — not their gender counterparts — who have power over families, clans, villages, cities, and nations.
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Arts & Culture
Corpus team overcomes scanning snags
A multicolored tent made of tarps and rope and tree branches and duct tape rose above Yaxchilan’s unique pinkish stalactite stela Monday (April 23). On the last day of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology’s expedition to the ancient Maya city of Yaxchilan, team members were doing something at which they had proven themselves…
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Campus & Community
OFA names Arts First grant winners
OfA grants for dance OfA grant for literature OfA grants for multidisciplinary arts OfA grants for music OfA grants for theater OfA grant for traditional cultural arts OfA grants for visual arts