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Nation & World
Italian government provides $1.5M for Sustainability Science Program at CID
The Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land, and Sea has made a $1.5 million gift to support the Fund for Sustainable Development at Harvard’s Center for International Development (CID), it was announced earlier this month. A document-signing ceremony was held May 9 at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG).
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Science & Tech
Making days longer than 24 hours
People at a research hospital in Boston have been living 24-hour, 39-minute days. They were part of an experiment to show that the 24-hour human sleep-wake cycle can be adapted to other biological rhythms like the longer days on Mars.
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Campus & Community
FAS approves new General Education curriculum
The Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences approved Tuesday (May 15) a motion that sets the stage for the implementation of the first complete overhaul of general education for undergraduates in nearly 30 years. By voting to put in place a new program in General Education, the FAS is replacing the Core Program established…
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Health
Addiction illuminates concept of ‘free will’
Whether humans possess free will or whether their actions are determined by something outside their conscious control is one of the most persistent problems in philosophy.
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Health
Water solutions
The pictures — of children with sunken eyes and shriveled skin; oxen being herded across a river where women clean their clothes and fill their pitchers; an African villager sipping water from a shallow puddle — made the point like no words could at the May 11 Center for International Development symposium “The Impact of…
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Campus & Community
GSD students troubleshoot local problems
Back in March, at Cambridge’s King Open School, Matthew Gillen and José Terrasa-Soler asked fifth-graders how to make the city a nicer place to live in.
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Campus & Community
Harvard wins Cambridge Go Green Award for Blackstone project
Harvard University has been awarded a city of Cambridge Go Green Business Award, which recognizes business and institutional leaders for their efforts to create a more sustainable city.
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Campus & Community
Heavyweights battle
The Harvard heavyweight crew scored a three-for-one this past Sunday (May 13) at the 62nd annual Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC) Sprints. In capturing three gold and a pair of silver medals, Harvard seized the Rowe Cup (given for the best-overall team), reclaimed the Worcester Bowl (given to the winner of the varsity eight…
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Campus & Community
Sports briefs
Black and White heavies to vie for national title The NCAA rowing committee has named the Radcliffe heavyweight crew as one of a dozen squads to receive a team-bid to the national championships May 26-27 at Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Coming off a 10-5 dual racing season and a fourth-place finish at…
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Campus & Community
Commencement exercises June 7
Morning Exercises 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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Campus & Community
Phillips Brooks House Assoc. celebrates public service and honors seniors with awards
The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) held its sixth annual Public Service Celebration on May 7 in the masters’ residence of Lowell House. A capacity crowd of 240, including PBHA public service leaders and volunteers, Harvard faculty and staff, and invited guests, attended the ceremony. The keynote address — traditionally comprising the reflections of three…
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Campus & Community
Professors Goldin, Sampson, students honored by AAPSS
The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) recognized its new group of fellows for 2007 at an April 29 ceremony held in Washington, D.C. The 2007 fellows include four Harvard students and Harvard faculty members Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics, and Robert J. Sampson, the Henry Ford II Professor of…
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Campus & Community
Center for Public Interest launches program for NYC youth
Eleven Harvard undergraduates will embark on an intense internship experience this summer, working alongside New York’s most innovative nonprofit organizations and government agencies to solve challenging problems facing children today.
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Campus & Community
Senior, junior named Joseph L. Barrett Award recipients
Two Harvard students were recently named Joseph L. Barrett Award recipients. Administered by the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC), the award commemorates Barrett (Class of ’73) and is given in recognition of promising young people at Harvard College who have enhanced the learning of others “with the vigor and openness so characteristic of Joe.”
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Campus & Community
Daniel Gilbert’s ‘Stumbling on Happiness’ lands top book prize
Daniel Gilbert’s pursuit of the scientific basis of happiness has won him the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, it was announced on Tuesday (May 15). “Stumbling on Happiness,” which draws on psychology and neuroscience, as well as personal experience, explores the various ways people attempt to make themselves happy. Gilbert, who is a professor…
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Nation & World
Weissman Program names interns for ’07
The Weissman International Internship Program, established by Paul (’52) and Harriet Weissman in 1994, provides sophomores and juniors with the opportunity to intern abroad in a field of work related to their career and academic goals. The Weissman Program enables students to develop a richer understanding of the global community in which they live and…
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Nation & World
SAI names 2007 grant, internship recipients
The South Asia Initiative (SAI) recently announced its study grants for Harvard graduate and undergraduate students. Sixteen students have also received SAI internships.
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Campus & Community
Kissel grant recipients to take on ethical issues
For the second year, Harvard College students have been awarded Lester Kissel grants in Practical Ethics to carry out summer projects on a range of ethical issues. The seven grant winners will conduct research in the United States or abroad, and write reports, articles, or senior theses. Three of the students will carry out their…
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Campus & Community
Memorial services
Musgrave memorial May 18 A memorial service for Professor Emeritus Richard Musgrave will be held on May 18 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Musgrave died Jan. 15 in Santa Cruz, Calif., at the age of 96.
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Arts & Culture
David Benjamin Lewin
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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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Lecturer Chapman named Levenson winner Lecturer on anthropology Judith Flynn Chapman has been named the junior faculty recipient of the Levenson Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Undergraduate Council. Chapman (who is also the Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Quincy House) was selected to receive the award by the Student Affairs Committee of the…
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Campus & Community
In brief
Conference to celebrate two decades for Safra Foundation The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics will celebrate its 20th anniversary this weekend (May 18 and 19) with panel discussions featuring former and current members of the center. The conference will kick off with a keynote address by Thomas W. Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen…
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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 May 14. 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
This month in Harvard history
May 5, 1960 — Fine Arts Associate Professor Seymour Slive begins a visit to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Moscow, and Odessa as the first participant in a faculty exchange program between Harvard and the State University of Leningrad. Slive spends most of the month studying the celebrated collections of The Hermitage in Leningrad and lectures…
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Campus & Community
HBS Professor Alfred Chandler Jr., pre-eminent business historian, dead at 88
Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard Business School (HBS) historian whose greatest accomplishment, according to HBS professor emeritus Thomas K. McCraw, was to “establish business history as an independent and important area for study,” died on May 9 at Youville Hospital in Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 88. In his long…
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Arts & Culture
‘By force of thought’
To say that János Kornai has led an interesting life would be an understatement.
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Campus & Community
Scholars probe changing legal, cultural status of animals
“We are in an animal moment in the 21st century,” Marjorie Garber announced to her audience in Harvard Hall last Wednesday evening (May 9).
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Science & Tech
Forty percent of world lacks clean water, solutions sought
The pictures — of children with sunken eyes and shriveled skin; oxen being herded across a river where women clean their clothes and fill their pitchers; an African villager sipping…
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Health
Pursuing a cholera vaccine
The reports from Dhaka are hopeful. It is 2005, and Dr. Firdausi Qadri and colleagues at the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, are testing a new cholera vaccine…
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Arts & Culture
Using arts to better the art of teaching
On a recent Saturday morning, music fluttered up and out of the basement of the otherwise quiet Science Center. Inside a windowless classroom, two dozen students sat and listened to one of their peers sing a song she had written as part of her homework.