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The Asia Center is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2000-01 travel grants to Asia. This year, the Asia Center – together with the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Korea Institute, and the Concentration in East Asian Studies – has funded 43…

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala helped the Kennedy School of Government’s Class of 2000 bid adieu to Harvard Wednesday, dubbing them “full-fledged Policy Wonks” and urging them to strive to make the world a better place. Shalala, the nation’s longest-serving secretary of health and human services, delivered an occasionally humorous 20-minute speech…

Sixty women and men from around the world have been awarded fellowships to pursue advanced work at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. For the first time in Radcliffe history – due to Radcliffe’s formal merger with Harvard last year – all 60 fellows are eligible for stipends. “Our new-and-improved fellowship program has attracted some…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending June 3. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. May 28: Malicious destruction of property was reported at Dana Palmer House. May 29: An individual was issued a trespass warning at Agassiz Theatre. A…

The poems read by Heather McHugh, rich in internal rhyme and word play, portray scientists struggling to bring order to a world that stubbornly resists. Staff photo by Justin Ide

Jerome T. Murphy, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education since 1992, announced that he will step down as Dean in June 2001. After a year’s sabbatical, Murphy will return to the School and continue to teach as the Harold Howe II Professor of Education. During his eight years as Dean, Murphy presided over…

Eight men and three women will receive honorary degrees in Harvard’s 349th Commencement Exercises this morning, including Amartya Sen, who also will deliver this year’s Commencement Address along with Seamus Heaney, who will deliver a special poetry reading. In alphabetical order, the recipients are Nicolaas Bloembergen, Doctor of Science; Noam Chomsky, Doctor of Laws; Frank…

June 08, 2000 Today the University awarded a total of 6,165 degrees and 352 certificates. A breakdown of the degrees by schools and programs follows. Harvard College granted a total of 1,676 degrees. Bachelor of Arts Cum laude in field of concen- tration Cum laude Magna cum laude in field of concentration Magna cum laude…

30,000 people expected to attend morning exercises on Commencement Day 22,000 plastic Samsonite chairs and wooden chairs set up in Tercentenary Theatre 633-fold increase in the number of graduates from Harvard’s College, graduate, and professional schools this year (5,698 students as of June 6), compared to Harvard’s first Commencement in 1642 (9 graduates). 11,856 Harvard…

Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education Jerome T. Murphy (right) speaks to two of the six James Bryant Conant Fellows — Ling Hsiao (left) and Cheryl Campbell — during a reception honoring the recipients at the Faculty Club on May 31. Staff photo by Justin Ide

Taking refuge from a powerful nor’easter in Harvard’s best-known chapel, graduating seniors gathered in caps and gowns for the traditional Baccalaureate Service on Tuesday afternoon at the Memorial Church. The service, while solemn at times, was exuberant, humorous, and moving, filled with music, religious readings, and speeches. Not even the steady rain outside could dampen…

“I live in a place called Raheny,” says Sinead Walsh ’00, a tall fair-skinned woman with pale blue eyes. “Raheny is five miles away from town” – Dublin, Ireland – “and it’s also five miles away from Howth.” With the same joyousness that made her known in Ireland as the No. 2-seeded junior tennis champ…

Do you have a passion for art? Do you enjoy working with young people? Do you want to make a contribution to your community? If you answered yes, and you are able to spare a few Saturday afternoons, then consider joining a corps of dedicated volunteers to help lead guided discussions and hands-on creative art…

Whatever descriptive phrases may be applied to Ourania N. Tserotas, you may be fairly sure that “stick-in-the-mud” will not be one of them. Ourania Tserotas, who stands against a mural in Central Square, has organized the painting of other murals by schoolchildren. Tserotas sees art as one effective way to make statements about diversity and…

With only 365 of them per year and a goodly portion occupied with Christmas, Passover, Halloween, and the like, it’s not everyone who gets a day named after him. Michael Shinagel, senior lecturer in English, Master of Quincy House, and Dean of Continuing Education and University Extension, is one of the happy few. Yesterday, June…

In Randy Bell’s ’00 Eliot House dorm room (above), the young filmmaker stands in front of a dartboard, which seems dangerously close to Bob Dylan, the subject of Rice and Bell’s film. Staff photo by Kris Snibbe

Glazer honored by CCNY Nathan Glazer, professor of education and social structure emeritus, was awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the City College of New York (CCNY), one of the colleges of the City University of New York (CUNY), at its commencement ceremony in Manhattan on Friday, June 2. Glazer is a 1944…

Glazer honored by CCNY Nathan Glazer, professor of education and social structure emeritus, was awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the City College of New York (CCNY), one of the colleges of the City University of New York (CUNY), at its commencement ceremony in Manhattan on Friday, June 2. Glazer is a 1944…

Destroyed by fire in 1956, and restored to its original design in 1999, the spire on top of Memorial Hall was rededicated at a ceremony on May 11. Cambridge Historical Commission executive director Charles M. Sullivan M.C.P. ’70 and commission chair William B. King ’54, L.L.B. ’59 announced a Preservation Award from the commission during…

The University will make significant new investments in the field of information technology, especially as it relates to the Internet and entrepreneurial studies. Income from a recent $7 million gift from Rufus W. Lumry III to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the Harvard Business School (HBS) will support the creation of the…

When Harvard senior Alex Kellogg finished his semester abroad in the spring of 1998, he went to the Nairobi airport with the rest of his class. But while they were saying farewell to Kenya, he was saying farewell to them. “I went to the airport and said goodbye. Then I flew to Sudan,” said Kellogg,…

The Business School (HBS) held a groundbreaking ceremony on June 1 for Hawes Hall. Hawes Hall will provide the Business School with a critical resource to continue its core mission of educating leaders. Designed to encourage the dynamic interchange between faculty and students, classrooms, technology, and gathering areas will enable interactive exchange with technology and…

A medical educator, a philosopher, and an historian received Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Centennial Medals at a ceremony on Wednesday, June 7, at the Faculty Club. The 2000 Centennial Medalists are Harold Amos, Ph.D. ’52, Stanley Cavell, Ph.D. ’61, and Jill Ker Conway Ph.D. ’69. The Centennial Medal was first awarded in…

It should be quite a scene next week in the small bayou town of Pass Christian, Miss., when Ted Grozier arrives.

Sharon Elliott Gagnon, A.M. ’65, Ph.D. ’72, has been elected President of the University’s Board of Overseers for 2000-01. She will assume the post after Commencement, succeeding Joan Hutchins ’61. Entering the final year of her six-year term as Overseer, Gagnon, who holds her Harvard doctorate in French literature, is a civic leader with wide-ranging…

This year, the Extension School’s Commencement Speaker award will go to Kimberly Parke, A.L.M. ’00, assistant director for undergraduate degree programs at Harvard Extension School. The title of her talk will be “The Pocket Value of a Liberal Arts Education.” The main address at the Graduate Certificate ceremonies, titled “Education as Citizenship,” will be delivered…

Harvard graduate students who are writing dissertations or engaged in major research on topics in practical ethics are invited to apply for 2001-02 Graduate Fellowships in Ethics. The deadline is Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2000. For an information packet, please contact the Center for Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, Mass. 02138;…

The Center for Ethics and the Professions has selected the Faculty Fellows in Ethics for the 2000-01 academic year. Six scholars who study ethical problems in government, law, medicine, and public policy were chosen from a pool of applicants from colleges, universities, and professional institutions throughout the United States and 25 other countries. Martha Minow,…

The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in The Memorial Church, has announced the appointment of The Reverend Mark D. W. Edington as the first Archie C. Epps Fellow and Chaplain to Harvard College. Named for Archie C. Epps III, senior associate dean emeritus of Harvard College, the…

It is indicative of Brooke Ellison’s perspective on life that when she talks about the worst thing that ever happened to her, she emphasizes what went right rather than what went wrong. Brooke Ellison and her mother. Among the blessings Ellison acknowledges is her mother, Jean, who has shared almost every moment of her daughter¹s…