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Campus & Community
Hoopes Prize winners number more than 80
More than 80 Harvard College seniors have been named Thomas T. Hoopes Prize winners for outstanding scholarly work or research. The prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes ’19. The recipients, including their research and advisers, are as follows:
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Nation & World
Bernanke touts nation’s economic resilience
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said Wednesday (June 4) that education is both the best hedge against economic uncertainty and a student’s greatest asset, and urged Harvard College’s Class of 2008 to use their education to live rewarding lives and make the world a better place.
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe honors Kouskalis ’08 with Fay Prize for ‘compelling’ thesis
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has named Harvard senior and sociology and economics joint-concentrator Eric Kouskalis winner of its 2008 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize. Kouskalis was chosen for the quality and impact of his senior thesis, which featured a compelling argument against the current methods for introducing and deploying computers into South African and…
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Campus & Community
Shalala to receive Radcliffe Medal
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced that Donna E. Shalala, president of the University of Miami and former U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services, will be awarded the 2008 Radcliffe Institute Medal at the annual Radcliffe Day luncheon on Friday (June 6) at 12:45 p.m. Barbara J. Grosz, dean of the Radcliffe…
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Campus & Community
Weinberg, Phillips honored at PBK ceremony
Late this morning (June 3), Adam Goldenberg ’08 — in a fashionable bow tie and flowing academic robes — joined a long line of gowned seniors in the shade of trees outside Harvard Hall. A few months before, the Vancouver, B.C., social studies concentrator had dressed a little differently (in pink tights and a yellow…
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Campus & Community
Three receive HAA medal for extraordinary service to University
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced the recipients of the 2008 Harvard Medal: Susan L. Graham A.B. ’64, Richard M. Hunt Ph.D. ’60, and Stephen B. Kay A.B. ’56, M.B.A. ’58.
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Campus & Community
Honorary degrees awarded at Commencement
Harvard University today (June 5) conferred honorary doctoral degrees on 10 individuals in recognition of their outstanding achievements in a broad range of fields. The degrees were awarded at this morning’s 357th Commencement Exercises. In addition, the University announced its intention to confer an honorary degree on Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on an appropriate future…
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Campus & Community
Fifty years of free-spirited living
In September 1958, Harvard College senior Alfred Hurd moved to 3 Sacramento St., an old Victorian mansion the University had bought less than a year before. The rambling three-story house — with its interior of arched doorways, stained-glass windows, and tiled fireplaces — was the locus of an experiment: Harvard’s first cooperative housing dormitory.
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Campus & Community
Text of J.K. Rowling’s speech
‘The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination’
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Campus & Community
Allston projects demonstrate commitment to sustainability
In the future, Harvard will go beyond traditional ivy and red brick to create campuses with more energy-efficient buildings that minimize water usage and produce low air emissions.
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Arts & Culture
Maggie Spivey: Archaeologist, comedian, princess
Walk past Maggie Spivey in the Yard or on the streets of Cambridge, and you might find her with head down, eyes glued to the ground. She’s not being anti-social, or lamenting a flubbed grade — this dynamic archaeology concentrator just knows that often the most fascinating stories can be found underfoot.
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Health
HSPH student takes aim at AIDS with statistics
Bethany Hedt has always been in love with numbers. Her challenge has been finding a way to feed that love while fulfilling an equally strong drive to help the people around her.
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Arts & Culture
Beatrice Viramontes is a maestro of gigs and digs
Despite her roots in the primarily Mexican-American East L.A. and a father who played traditional Mexican music on his guitar, Beatrice Viramontes says it “stressed her out” when her father performed at family parties and asked her to sing.
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Health
John Passanese eyes the alternatives
Yoga is a popular activity for many Harvard undergraduates looking to stay fit or reduce stress. For John Passanese, a Lowell House senior, yoga has additional importance — it can be an excellent tool for managing chronic pain. For more than 20 years, Passanese’s mother has suffered from multiple sclerosis (MS), a neurodegenerative disease that…
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Arts & Culture
Changing lives with music and science
When Bong-Ihn Koh’s mother brought home a cello piece by mistake, the young Koh got his hands on it and was hooked.
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Science & Tech
Mars’ water appears to have been too salty to support life
A new analysis of the Martian rock that gave hints of water on the Red Planet — and, therefore, optimism about the prospect of life — now suggests the water was more likely a thick brine, far too salty to support life as we know it. The finding, by scientists at Harvard University and Stony…
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Health
NIH awards HMS $117.5M, five-year grant for patient-centered research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has 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 Center (CTSC) that will transform patient-oriented, laboratory-to-bedside research at HMS and its affiliated hospitals.
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
June 1766 — Designed by colonial governor Sir Francis Bernard, the new Harvard Hall (still standing, with several later modifications) opens to replace its predecessor, destroyed by fire in 1764.
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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 June 2. 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
Highlights of the year that was
As Commencement closes another chapter of the Harvard story, here is a brief backward glance at some highlights of the year that was.
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Arts & Culture
The magic of J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling inspires the Class of 2008 with a heartfelt, fluent talk about the uses of failure and imagination.
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Nation & World
Nasredeen Abdulbari: ‘Lawyers are the cement of society.’
Nasredeen Abdulbari identifies no particular “aha!” moment when he knew what his life’s work would be.
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Campus & Community
Jesús Terrones: Soldier, activist, leader, family man
Jesús Terrones exudes a calm that commands attention. His voice has a quiet resonance. His eyes are a brown that border on black, at once intense and kind.
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Campus & Community
Yes, it was a magical talk
Call it magic, but the rain held off while Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling delivered the keynote address this afternoon (June 5) at Harvard University’s annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.
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Nation & World
Precocious pundit Alexander Burns is off to D.C.
While still an undergraduate, Alexander Burns already had an impact on political discourse in the United States. Beginning in 2005, the history and literature concentrator has been a principal contributor to a political blog sponsored by the history magazine American Heritage. The job has allowed him to explore the pros and cons of contemporary issues,…
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Campus & Community
In brief
Harvard LGBT reunion event set for September; Modern Greek Studies Program offering Ph.D. fellowship
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Nation & World
Black belt Lee battles in the arena of world politics
Born in the United Kingdom, but raised for most of her first six years in Hong Kong, transnational Harvard graduate student Yue Man Lee grew up a fervent lover of reading, travel, and food.
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Holdren honored as guest professor of Tsinghua University; Locke given innovation award; HBS’s Thomas McCraw receives Hagley book prize; Zhang awarded prestigious Merck Award
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Campus & Community
HMS technical staff member Andrew J. Hession, 52
Andrew J. Hession, an HVAC technician for Harvard Medical School (HMS) for seven years, died on May 26 of complications from heart surgery.