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The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the fifth funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, a KSG faculty committee will consider applications for small one-year grants (up to $30,000) to support advanced research by Harvard University faculty members on issues of…

William E. Gienapp, Harvard College Professor, professor of history, and a prominent authority on the Civil War, died Oct. 29 at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass., of complications related to cancer. He was 59. Passionate about baseball, Gienapp was known as a popular, engaging teacher whose lectures regularly packed halls with undergraduates.

For all the musing over the stadiums centennial this season, the outcome of Saturdays game against Dartmouth proved to be regrettably reminiscent. After all, it was Nov. 14, 1903, when the then Dartmouth Indians blanked the Crimson, 11-0, to break in the new stadium. And though the Crimson put up a good fight Nov. 1,…

University Health Services (UHS) will be providing free flu vaccines to members of the Harvard community beginning this month. The walk-in clinics are being held at the following locations:

Nature draws her, the rocks and the water and the trees the constant change that cycles around until its familiar again and comfortable.

IOP, Kennedy Library Foundation launch new award The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and the Institute of Politics (IOP) have announced the creation of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier…

Order of Academic Palms honors Nye Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. received the insignia of Chevalier in the Order of Academic Palms by M. Jean-David Levitte, French ambassador…

When Jane Gaines was studying film history in graduate school, tracking the achievements of the industrys early female pioneers was easy. There were exactly four: two French, Alice Guy-Blache and Germaine Dulac, and Americans Dorothy Arzner and Lois Weber. By the 1990s, however, scholars had unearthed, from deep in film archives around the world, evidence…

Whether the impending holidays bring joyful anticipation or stressed-out dread, Harvard employees can get a jump-start on the giving season with the Universitys 2003-04 Community Gifts Through Harvard Campaign, which launched this week and runs through November. The campaign, with a goal this year of $1 million, provides a low-stress, high-impact vehicle for improving the…

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 1. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Nov. 2, 1657 – By request of the Board of Overseers, the Great and General Court approves an Appendix to the Charter of 1650 clarifying the division of power between…

Gerald L. Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters at Washington University in St. Louis, delivers the first of The Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures inside the Barker Center. In this talk, Early concentrated on Jackie Robinson, a staunch civil rights activist, successful businessman, and the first African American to play in major league baseball. Early,…

Whether the result of a solar flare, the nearness of Halloween, or the lustrous alchemy of cloud, setting sun, and October light, the coming of dusk on Oct. 29 turned Harvard Square into a luminous spectacle.

Harvard researchers demonstrated how the first living cells may have formed in a series of experiments that indicate that clay can be an important catalyst for life.

Whether your heart winds up in the right place may be determined as early as the first hour of your life in the womb.

The Harvard University Alumni Association presented six awards this year to some of its most loyal longtime volunteers who work all over the world administering alumni services. The award is named in honor of Hiram S. Hunn 21 who did schools committee work for 55 years in Iowa and Vermont. At the Agassiz Theatre event,…

This is the third in a series of interviews with Democratic presidential candidates.

Harvard Colleges Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) donated $11,000 of its profits from its 155th production, Its A Wonderful Afterlife, to help launch the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Fund for Cultural Enrichment in Cambridge Public Schools. The fund will provide

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the fifth funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, a KSG faculty committee will consider applications for small one-year grants (up to $30,000) to support advanced research by Harvard University faculty members on issues of…

This is my fourth season on staff as craft artisan at the ART [American Repertory Theatre]. There are three areas of costuming that are my responsibility: craftwork, fabric painting/dyeing, and distressing.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 25. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave, sixth floor.

Harvard researchers have stimulated mice to increase their production of blood stem cells, a development with apparent human parallels that researchers hope will have immediate benefits in the treatment of blood cancers.

The Harvard-Yenching Library is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year – not all that old compared with its parent institution, created when John Harvard left his 300-plus book collection to the commonwealths fledgling college in 1638. But it is old enough to have been a constant in the lives of some of its most devoted…

Elizabeth Warren, a portrait in soft-spoken calm as she sips tea in her gracious office at Harvard Law School, is sounding an alarm.

Established even earlier than the venerable University across the street, the Old Burying Ground in Harvard Square, though beaten and battered over the centuries, persists as one of the citys most charming historic sites. The modest cemetery, located along Massachusetts Avenue and Garden Street between the First Parish and Christ churches and first fenced in…

Harvard University and its most valuable resource – its faculty – exist for its students, President Lawrence H. Summers told the parents of freshmen on Friday (Oct. 24), the opening day of Freshman Parents Weekend.