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Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), the student-led public service agency at the University, has named Gene Corbin as its next executive director, PBHA President Rini Fonseca-Sabune 04 announced yesterday (May 14). Corbin, a senior research associate at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) with several decades experience in public service management and student leadership, assumes…

Drawing on the collection of the Loeb Music Library, the new exhibition In Her Own Hand: Operas Composed by Women, 1625-1939, features little-known scores by women composers, and follows the development of opera from the Italian courts in the 17th century, to the courts of the Holy Roman Empire and the German princely states in…

Theres no shortage of college aspirations among low-income high school students. What distinguishes low-income kids from their middle class peers is follow through.

The Program on Justice, Welfare, and Economics at Harvard University has announced its graduate student fellowship recipients for 2003-04. This interdisciplinary initiative promotes research that connects freedom, justice, and economics to human welfare and development. Dissertation fellowships and research grants seek to develop a new generation of scholars whose work encompasses ethical, political, and economic…

Teaching fellow Zahr Said changes the way her students think. Benjamin Friedman, a professor of economics, once visited a student in the hospital to help her catch up on class work. Mathematics preceptor Dale Winter makes sure all his students understand calculus, no matter how long he must stay after class.

For the past 10 years the Weissman International Internship Program, established by Paul (52) and Harriet Weissman in 1994, has provided nearly 170 sophomores and juniors with the opportunity to participate in an international internship in a field of work related to their academic and career goals. The internship program strives to enable students to…

Based on the latest information from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Harvard University is adjusting its policies regarding travel by students, faculty, staff, and visitors to or from the SARS-affected areas of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. These particular changes will most immediately affect Commencement, reunions…

The Harvard mens heavyweight crew knocked off the favored University of Wisconsin by capturing its 22nd title at the Eastern Athletic Rowing Conference Regatta this past May 11 at Worcesters Lake Quinsigamond. The Crimson rowers conquered the blustery 2000-meter course in a time of 6:04.1, besting the Badgers by a length and a half. Dartmouth…

On the corner of Brattle Street and James Street in Cambridge, just outside the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studys Gilman Gate, is a black sign on a black pole, naming the square in honor of Radcliffe recycling pioneer Scott Sandberg.

In conjunction with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTWs) recent online housing survey, an open house will be held Saturday (May 17) for members of the Harvard community to learn about affordable housing. The event, which will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Middle East Restaurant in Central Square,…

“No!” “No!” “No! No! No! No!” Shouting in unison, the women gathered in an empty Gund Hall room to kick, punch, and shout in explosive, carefully choreographed moves, as if rehearsing some sort of angry, punk-rock chorus line.

HBS installs solar panels Harvard Business School (HBS) has been awarded a grant for up to $172,800 from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) to install photovoltaic solar energy panels on…

Late May 1970 – Veteran football coach John M. Yovicsin announces that for reasons of health he will retire at the end of the 1970 season. After the gridiron, Yovicsin…

Career Forum 2003: Resources for the Current Economy, will be held June 17 at the Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy St.

At its 16th meeting of the year, the Faculty Council heard a report on the year now concluding from Dean William C. Kirby. The council also discussed with Dean Benedict Gross (mathematics and undergraduate education) the possibility of collecting data for the CUE Guide via an online questionnaire. In addition, the council discussed with Dean…

What would be the opposite of social justice? Gregory Nagy asked his Extension School Introduction to Greek Literature class last Thursday (May 1) evening.

The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Center of Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities has launched a faculty fellowship program designed to promote and support the careers of exceptional underrepresented minority junior faculty. The two-year, nondegree-granting program provides specific funding intended to assist participants with their professional development as faculty member researchers and clinician/teachers at…

With the temperature over 80 degrees a while back, it was time for these Harvard students lounging by the Memorial Church to remove the shoes.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences recently announced its newly elected fellows and foreign honorary members. Among this years class of 187 fellows and 29 foreign honorary members – honored for their achievements in business, science, and the arts – are 13 Harvard faculty members.

William C. Kirby, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has announced this years Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. Chosen for their eminence in history, literature or art, this years Fellows are Svetlana Boym, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature and professor of comparative literature Jorie Graham, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and…

Harvard University has lifted its moratorium on travel to Singapore, based on travel advice from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), effective May 6. The University on April 30 lifted its travel moratorium for Vietnam and Toronto, Canada, based on travel advice from the World Health Organization (WHO).

Oxford Street benefit concert Oxford Street Cooperative, the University’s affiliated day care, is sponsoring an afternoon concert for children and adults on May 17 at the House of Blues. Starting…

Its here again, and it is SO welcome after a winter when at times even the arts seemed to be sleeping. Well, they woke with a banner and a flourish. The banner hung behind a series of class acts on the Holyoke Center stage, including tuneful troubadours and academic a cappella singers. The flourishes were…

Summer is a-coming and the winter is away-o, sang Lynn the Fool just after dawn on Thursday (May 1). The bells on her jesters cap jingled as she entertained several dozen students from Lowell House, gathered on the Weeks Footbridge to celebrate May Day with their traditional waltz.

Its common knowledge that the United States is in the thick of a funding crisis for the arts. Less well understood is how the lack of funds affects arts education and still lesser known is how these consequences differ from urban to suburban school districts. These issues were tackled by a panel last Monday (May…

Driven by its unmatched military might but undermined by increasing global interdependence and by the structure of American democracy itself, America is embarked on an unfamiliar journey to world empire.

On May 15, 2003, 24 Harvard College juniors will be inducted into Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The juniors, who were elected to the undergraduate honor society on April 11, will participate in a dinner ceremony confirming their membership in the 223-year-old chapter.

Andrew Murray stands before his audience on April 30, a pingpong ball in hand. Not to play in a tournament, but to illuminate a point. The professor of molecular and cellular biology is giving a talk in the Science Center about cells and their chromosomes.

Cutting back dramatically on calories leads to a longer life, at least for species ranging from yeast to rats. But whether not eating the pudding gives the same advantage to humans has yet to be proven.