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Starting this month, the Harvard Divinity School&rsquos Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) will be hosting the directors of some of the world&rsquos leading museums at regular intervals.

One is certainly among the most accomplished and well-respected actors of his generation, while the other is a former childhood star who burst upon the American scene when she was just a first-grader. Anthony Hopkins and Drew Barrymore this week have been named the 2001 Man and Woman of the Year by Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, a research center based at the Kennedy School of Government, will introduce its 2001 spring fellows and visiting faculty on Monday, Feb. 5, at 4:30 p.m. in the Taubman Building, Kalb Seminar Room T-275, at the Kennedy School. The event is open to the…

Former U.S. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander has been named the Roy M. and Barbara Goodman Family Visiting Professor of Practice in Public Service at the Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced.

Harvard computer experts got a glimpse of an educational future filled with virtual experiences and real-time information-gathering last week, along with a warning that education, not technology, should drive the coming changes.

With a nod to failed predictions of the past, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg Tuesday painted a picture of Harvard in the 21st century as a place in even greater demand, with more adult students, and with learning occurring in different times and places.

Logan McCarty: Opera singer, chemist

Exhibiting striking humility for a man often referred to as a great American hero, former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn modestly poked fun at himself and his image during an appearance at the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) on Tuesday night.

Harvard musicologist Reinhold Brinkmann has received the 2001 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, Germanys most prestigious award in music. The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts will present the award to Brinkmann at a ceremony in Munich on May 31.

Jun Liu remembers being interested in mathematics as early as age 12. It was a hard interest to pursue in the waning years of the Cultural Revolution in China. Computers were not available to him. He didnt own a calculator. Mathematics books were difficult to find.

The Tennis Camps at Harvard (TCH), offering adult and junior sessions, will be opening its 11th season on June 11 at the Robert M. Beren Tennis Center at Soldiers Field.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Jan. 27. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

Feb. 24, 1789 — From the “Journal of Disorders” of Eliphalet Pearson, the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages: “Mr. James [. . .] found Mackey was drunk…

In response to a recent rise in teenage violence in and around Boston, the Harvard Injury Control Research Center at the School of Public Health (SPH) is helping launch a major new project aimed at pinpointing causes and potential solutions for this disturbing growing threat. The Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center (HYVPC) is funded through…

The telephones of tomorrow are sitting on 100 desks across the University today in a pilot program that could give Harvard greater flexibility in deciding where and when to install a phone and simultaneously put the University at the leading edge of an eventual nationwide switch in telephone technology.

Leverett House residents take to the snow for a game of football that scores all the way around

It is a standard albumen print, labeled Palmyre, Sculpture dun chapiteau, Syrie, and signed in the lower right by the Bonfils studio. The caption refers to the capital of a fallen column that dominates the foreground, and locates it at a tourist site in Palmyra, Syria. Except for a child apparently sleeping on the capital,…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 14, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 17, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

One of the questions Civil War historians have argued over is the extent to which ordinary enlisted men cared about the issues behind the conflict.

When School of Public Health (SPH) doctoral student Mark Hickman goes to medical school in September, he will not be commuting. He is flying off to the green farming terraces of the village of Dhulakiel in Nepal where, on a swath of land jutting from the side of a Himalayan mountain, engineers are laboring in…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Medicine on December 20, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records. Manfred Leslie Karnovsky, Harold T. White Professor of Biological Chemistry,…