The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government (HKS) has announced the finalists for the 2009 Innovations in American Government Awards.
On a bright May afternoon, two third-year Harvard Law School students set out on one of their regular visits to Dorchester and Mattapan. They are a slightly odd couple: Nick Hartigan, an intense, fast-talking 225-pound former running back, and David Haller, a laid-back native of Arkansas, with a slow Southern drawl. But they have been drawn together on a mission of hope. For the past nine months, the students have been driving through Boston neighborhoods in a car bought on Craigslist, offering to use their legal skills to help families stay in their homes and fight foreclosure.
May 26, 1902 — The Harvard Corporation approves the construction of a temporary addition to the south side of Boylston Hall. Completed over the summer and measuring 83 by 33 feet, the add-on consists of a single large laboratory for elementary-chemistry classes and a general-use basement. The addition opens in the fall, with a stucco exterior to match Boylston’s rough granite finish. (Wigglesworth Hall will not occupy part of this site until the early 1930s.)
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 11. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online athttp://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
The Semitic Museum will host a lunchtime tour of “The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine” on May 21 at 12:15 p.m., offering a view of life in an ancient Near Eastern agricultural society. The exhibit — which displays family dwellings, palaces, and temples — is arranged in terms of the different types of ancient Israeli buildings and houses that were associated with the different levels of society.
Diana Eck, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society and member of the faculty of divinity, recently traveled to Scotland to deliver a series of Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh (April 27-May 7). The lecture series, which was established in 1888 through the endowment of Lord Gifford to four Scottish Universities (Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Aberdeen, and Glasgow), is the oldest lecture series in Scotland and has been described as “the highest honor in a philosopher’s career” as lectures focus on the intersections of religion, philosophy, and science.
The Rowland Institute at Harvard has selected two new junior fellows for the institute’s fellowship program:Christopher T. Richards, a teaching fellow and research assistant in organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard, and Yuki Sato, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has named Susan Rubin Suleiman to be the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the museum for 2009-10.
American Repertory Theater Artistic Director Diane Paulus’ production of “Hair” has been nominated for eight Tony Awards, five Drama Desk Awards, and four Outer Critics Circle Awards (including Best Director), in addition to several Drama League Awards.
The government of Japan announced its decision to award Edwin A. Cranston, professor of Japanese literature, the decoration of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, on April 29.
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Humanities Center Homi K. Bhabha will receive an honorary degree from the University of Paris VIII-Vincennes-Saint Denis on May 28.
A memorial service for Martin V. Marshall, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS), will be held on May 15 at 2 p.m. in the Class of 1959 Chapel on the HBS campus.
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 5, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Omeljan Pritsak, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Pritsak’s work transformed our understanding of East Slavic history.
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 5, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Jeremy Randall Knowles, Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and former Dean of the FAS, was placed upon the records. Knowles set the standard for selfless service and was a world leader in the study of catalysis by enzymes.
Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Emeritus Milton P. Brown, an expert in retailing and marketing who for almost half a century influenced thousands of M.B.A. students and executives through his skills as an extraordinarily talented teacher, died on April 25 in Exeter, N.H. He was 90 years old.
This summer, the Weissman International Internship Program will send a record 50 students abroad as interns, working in 25 countries across the globe. The interns will engage in a wide range of private and public sector opportunities, including ventures in art and architecture, business, environmental sustainability, foreign policy, human rights, international development, journalism, public health, science, and technology.
Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design Mohsen Mostafavi announced the appointment of Charles Waldheim as professor of landscape architecture and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at GSD, effective July of this year.
The Harvard men’s lightweight and heavyweight crews turned out impressive performances this past Sunday (May 10) at the EARC Sprints on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has created a new Web site to provide faculty, staff, and students with up-to-date information on cost-saving measures.
In a ceremony honoring students and faculty for exceptional contributions to improving intercultural and race relations, the Harvard Foundation presented 40 students and one faculty member with awards at the annual Harvard Foundation Student/Faculty Awards Dinner on May 4 in Quincy House.
Scott Ruescher of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) was honored by the Cambridge School Volunteers (CSV) with its annual Mack Davis Award on May 13. Ruescher is the program coordinator for the Arts in Education Program at HGSE. He was one of six volunteers to receive this award.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 4. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
Rakesh K. Jain, the A. Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology for Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and a member of the affiliated faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and Cumrun Vafa, the Donner Professor of Science in the Department of Physics, have been recently elected into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for excellence in original scientific research. They will be inducted into the Academy next April during its 147th annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Membership in the NAS is one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States.
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at the Harvard Kennedy School is accepting papers for the John T. Dunlop Thesis Prize in Business and Government, awarded to the graduating senior who writes the best thesis on a challenging public policy issue at the interface of business and government.
Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2009-10 academic year will be Spencer Lenfield ’12 and Melanie Long ’10, who were selected after a competitive evaluation of writing submitted by student applicants. The fellows, who join the editorial staff during the year, contribute to the magazine as undergraduate columnists and initiate story ideas, write news and feature items, and edit copy before publication.
Nearly 500 Harvard undergraduates will learn about other cultures by participating in high-quality international experiences this summer, thanks to the generosity of David Rockefeller, longtime University benefactor and member of the Harvard College Class of 1936.
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 (June 4):
The Harvard Extension School has announced four new concentrations in its Master of Liberal Arts (A.L.M.) Program beginning with the 2009-10 academic year. The new concentrations are international relations, legal studies, visual arts, and clinical psychology. The concentrations were selected upon careful consideration of Extension School course offerings, the number of Harvard instructors teaching these courses, and repeated requests from students to create the concentrations.
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