‘Our progress has made me prouder than ever to be part of the University — and determined to see us through this uniquely challenging period in our long history.’
After consecutive losses to No. 1 Boston University, No. 14 Yale, and No. 15 Boston College, the Crimson men’s hockey team snapped a three-game losing streak with a 3-2 decision against Colgate on Friday (Feb. 13) and a 4-2 shocker against the No. 5 Cornell Big Red on Saturday (Feb. 14).
Resilience has defined the Harvard women’s hockey team this season. After a slow start, in which the Crimson went 6-7-3 in their first 16 games, Harvard bounced back by winning nine of 10 — including five straight wins on the road. So on Tuesday (Feb. 17) night, when the recently ranked No. 9 Crimson saw a 1-0 deficit against the No. 5 New Hampshire (UNH) Wildcats rise to 2-0, it was not panic that radiated from Harvard head coach Katey Stone’s bench, but composed resilience to set things straight.
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Stephanie Robinson have been appointed master and co-master of Winthrop House. Sullivan has been a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School (HLS) since 2007. He is also director of the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute, with areas of interest including criminal law, criminal proceedings, legal ethics, and race theory. Prior to teaching at HLS, he was a member of the faculty at the Yale Law School, where, in his first year, he won the school’s award for outstanding teaching.
For their comprehensive series “A Mayor in Crisis,” Detroit Free Press staff writers Jim Schaefer and M.L. Elrick, in addition to their colleagues, are the winners of the 2008 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism, presented by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.
Undergraduate tuition at Harvard will increase 3.5 percent to $33,696 for academic year 2009-10. Need-based scholarship aid is expected to grow to a record $147 million, an 18 percent increase over what was planned for the current academic year. The total package (tuition plus room, board, and student services fee) will be $48,868, a 3.5 percent increase over last year.
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 9, 2008, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Elliot Forbes, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Forbes is well known for his revision and critical annotations of Alexander Wheelock Thayer’s Life of Beethoven.
A Korean Trade official, a member of the Northern Ireland civil service, a founder of AllWorld Network, and a British public policy scholar are among the incoming visitors being welcomed this spring at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS).
The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) recently announced 11 new fellows for the spring 2009 term. As representatives from academic, government, and business sectors in Asia, the fellows will pursue independent research at the Ash Institute’s Asia Programs.
In Tuesday’s (Feb. 10) matchup against the Boston College (B.C.) Eagles, in line with Bryant’s theory, the Crimson knew it would take an outstanding defensive performance against the No. 7-ranked Eagles to skate off the ice with their 13th Beanpot championship trophy.
In an attempt to gauge how well the Harvard Gazette addresses the needs, tastes, and desires of its readers, the paper is conducting its first-ever readership survey.
With months until spring’s anticipated return comes a beacon of yellow hope. Daffodils are an invigorating component in the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) efforts, and Harvard is again a key participant in Daffodil Days, the ACS’s annual flowery fight to help patients and eradicate cancer.
Harvard Medical School (HMS) invites junior faculty and postdoctoral fellows to apply for fellowships and grants as part of the spring 2009 Red Book Awards.
Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Association’s (HAA) candidates for the 2009 election to the Harvard Board of Overseers and the HAA Elected Directors.
The U.S. home improvement industry, much like the broader housing market, is experiencing a severe downturn, but prospects for growth are already developing, finds a new report released by the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.
In partnership with the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business at Harvard Law School, Harvard University Press (HUP) launched the Journal of Legal Analysis, its first foray into online, open access publishing, on Feb. 3.
Feb. 20-March 8, 1901 —French literary critic Gaston Deschamps gives a series of eight Sanders Theatre lectures in French on “Modern French Drama,” sponsored by the Cercle Français (French Club).
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 9. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
THREE HMS PROFESSORS ELECTED TO MICROBIOLOGY ACADEMY; STONE ELECTED TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING; KLEINMAN HONORED BY SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University recently announced the establishment of the Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall Fund. The fund will be used to expose Harvard undergraduates to European public affairs and encourage them to pursue international experiences that include Europe.
Academy Award-winning actress Renée Zellweger proves she is worthy of the shiny Pudding Pot that comes with being named the Woman of the Year by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
A new Web archive created by faculty, students, and librarians at Harvard brings original research on Leonard Bernstein and his Boston roots to the public for the first time. The material, which went live on the Web on Jan. 23, was collected during undergraduate seminars and over the course of an international Bernstein Festival at Harvard.
The Harvard Art Museum announced the appointment of José Ortiz as deputy director, effective March 2, 2009. Ortiz is currently deputy director/chief of finance and administration at the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. A skilled and innovative administrator, Ortiz has a strong record of managing world-class cultural institutions, combined with considerable business and private sector experience, including 13 years in financial services management.
Feb. 29, 1672 — President Charles Chauncy dies in office. Feb. 10, 1853 — Jared Sparks steps down as President; James Walker, Class of 1814, immediately succeeds him to become Harvard’s 18th President. Feb. 26, 1862 — President Cornelius Conway Felton dies in office. February 1900 — Through the efforts of the Cambridge Cantabrigia Club, the Radcliffe College Scholarship Fund reaches roughly $2,000.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 2. 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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