As vice chairs of the Harvard College Fund’s Recent Graduates Committee, Eryn Ament Bingle ’95 and Thomas M. Reardon Jr. ’96, M.B.A. ’05 couldn’t help focusing on a nagging fundraising statistic: 60 to 70 percent of Harvard seniors give to a Senior Gift fund before graduation, but fewer than 20 percent of those same students make any gift to their college one year later.
The notion of “the right attitude” is so played out in the world of sports — in pep talks and SportCenter sound bites, for instance — that one might question whether it carries any weight. In the case of Harvard swimmer Elizabeth Kolbe ’08, who is one of America’s premier Paralympic athletes, the answer is a resounding yes.
Why do people suffer from the sins of others? Elizabeth J.A. Siwo-Okundi has long pondered this question as she has studied some of the most ambiguous and troubling passages in the Bible. A master’s of theology student at Harvard Divinity School, Siwo-Okundi has never shied away from difficult issues. Even while studying Old Testament stories of rape, human sacrifice, and war, Siwo-Okundi has found inspiration and even comfort; she has turned her discoveries into eloquent sermons that have won her national attention.
Today the University awarded a total of 6,966 degrees and 104 certificates. A breakdown of the degrees by schools and programs follows. Harvard College granted a total of 1,564 degrees.
Employment Services, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, is hosting its 10th annual career forum on June 10. The event will be held at the Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. It will be open to the public from 4 to 6:30 p.m. The career forum will open one hour earlier (at 3 p.m.) to internal candidates presenting a valid Harvard ID. Employees and recently laid-off employees will be able to receive individual attention from hiring representatives at this time.
In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university — and of our earlier history when bells of varying tones summoned us from sleep to prayer, work, or study — this ancient yet new sound will fill Harvard Square and the surrounding area with music when a number of neighboring churches and institutions ring their bells at the conclusion of Harvard’s 357th Commencement Exercises, for the 20th consecutive year.
Continuing its tradition of promoting and funding student research on Europe, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced its selection of nearly 50 undergraduates for thesis research grants and internships in Europe this summer.
In 1926, William Lawrence published his autobiography, “Memories of a Happy Life.” In 1967, his daughter, Marian Lawrence Peabody, then in her 90s, published “To Be Young Was Very Heaven.” These reminiscences show that although some things change, much stays the same, including certain rituals — and worries — around Commencement.
A biologist who has led groundbreaking research efforts on proteins, an art expert who leads one of the country’s foremost museums, an astrophysicist whose theories guide the study of galaxies and planets, and a social sciences professor who has shaped the course of East Asian studies received the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Centennial Medal on Wednesday (June 4) at the Harvard Faculty Club.
This morning’s orations bring together a young literature scholar on the eve of public service, a classics concentrator on her way to medical school (after a year of studying archaeology), and a U.S. Army officer who served in Iraq. In their own ways, the three orators represent Harvard’s diversity as it is measured by the immeasurable — the ineffability of experience. They represent the wide array of backgrounds that students bring to the University and the wide array of horizons that awaits them beyond Cambridge.
The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science has named four students winners of the award for the 2007-08 academic year.
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) is sponsoring more than 130 students traveling to Latin America for research and internships this summer.
The Herchel Smith Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship provides financial support to Harvard undergraduates engaged in scientific research at established research centers and laboratories in the United States or abroad.
The Harvard Committee on African Studies has awarded nine research grants to Harvard students for travel to sub-Saharan Africa during the summer of 2008.
The Class of 2008 recipients of the Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service will help others in locations from South Africa to Brazil, documenting human rights abuses, improving sanitation, and helping young women to gain economic autonomy.
Amidst humid temperatures and slightly overcast skies, the Class of 2008 gathered Tuesday (June 3) in a steamy Memorial Church for one of the first in a series of Commencement…
May 4, 1943 — At the Boston Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Boston firm of Perry, Shaw & Hepburn accepts the J. Harleston Parker Gold Medal for Houghton Library as the best architecture in New England for 1942. The City of Boston has given the award annually since 1923.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 27. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
HARVARD LGBT REUNION EVENT SET FOR SEPTEMBER “From the Closet to a Place at the Table: Celebrating 25 Years of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus” — the first-ever, all-School, all-class reunion weekend for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) alumni/ae, faculty, staff, and students — will be held Sept. 26-28. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Alumni Association, the three-day reunion will include symposia, parties, and social events to celebrate the caucus’s 25 years of advocating for Harvard’s LGBT community. For more information, visit http://hglc.org.
ACPE AWARDS HONORARY MEMBERSHIP TO HERZLINGER Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has recently been awarded honorary membership in the American College of Physician Executives (ACPE). An expert on consumer-driven health care, Herzlinger was awarded membership in recognition of her contributions to the advancement of medical management.
A memorial service for former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles will be held Friday (May 30) at 11 a.m. at the Memorial Church. The Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Knowles died April 3.
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has appointed Joshua Benton editor of its new Digital Journalism Project. A 2008 Nieman Fellow and former staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News, Benton will oversee the initiative designed to help journalists excel in the digital media age.
The Harvard Asia Center, the Harvard China Fund, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Korea Institute, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the South Asia Initiative recently announced the recipients of student grants for summer 2008 and the 2008-09 academic year.
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has announced this year’s Radcliffe alumnae award winners, who will be honored at the annual Radcliffe Awards Symposium on June 6 at the American Repertory Theatre’s Loeb Drama Center.
For the third year, several Harvard College students have been awarded Lester Kissel Grants in Practical Ethics to carry out summer projects on subjects ranging from the role of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, to the psychological and social consequences of the threat of deportation. The students will use the grants to conduct research in the United States or abroad, and to write reports, articles, or senior theses. Each grant supports living and research expenses up to $3,000.
This spring, while addressing fellow alumni, Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) President Jonathan L.S. Byrnes D.B.A. ’80 remarked, “The HAA was founded in 1840, and our first president was John Quincy Adams. Since that time, a select group of alumni has stepped up and provided leadership to benefit their fellow alumni and the University.
Five professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The awards, given annually, honor distinguished faculty members who have contributed to the advancement of scholarship in the fields of literature, history, or art.
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:
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