At 5 feet 4 inches, Brown goaltender Steffi Yellin is among the more petite players on the Bear’s roster. And as far as goalies go, she’s the most vertically challenged in all of Ivy League soccer. Against the host Crimson women’s team this past Saturday (Oct. 13), however, the talented sophomore played a mighty big game for her struggling Brown squad (3-7-1; 1-2 Ivy), fearlessly punching, whapping, and tapping a torrent of shots to thwart Harvard’s aggressive frontline.
The dusty old grand dame of Harvard theater has gotten a new lease on life, and what was once known as the Hasty Pudding Theatre has been reborn as the New College Theatre, a state-of-the-art facility boasting the latest in technology, ambience, and creature comforts.
In her first official public appearance since her installation as Harvard’s 28th president, Drew Faust joined more than 700 Allston Brighton neighbors at the Allston Brighton Family Football Day Oct. 13 at Harvard Stadium.
Felice Frankel, scientific imagist and researcher in Harvard’s Initiative in Innovative Computing, has been named the recipient of the 2007 Lennart Nilsson Award for scientific or nature photography. Frankel was cited for creating images described by Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, which oversees the award, as “exquisite works of art and crystal-clear scientific photographs — both fascinating and valuable to the general public and scientific community alike.”
The Eleanor and Miles Shore 50th Anniversary Fellowship Program for Scholars in Medicine has announced the selection of more than 90 junior faculty members, researchers, and clinicians as fellows for the 2007-08 academic year. Fellows generally receive between $25,000 and $30,000 for one year.
Acting for the city of Philadelphia, the board of directors of city trusts has awarded John Homans Professor of Surgery Joseph P. Vacanti the 2007 John Scott Medal. The award is given to men and women whose inventions have contributed in some outstanding way to the “comfort, welfare, and happiness” of mankind.
The lives of rural people of Bangladesh can be improved by utilizing absentee-owned fallow land more effectively and by employing the vitamin-rich fruits and leaves of the now ignored moringa tree. Those are the promises of the two prize-winning essays in an annual contest sponsored by the Kennedy School of Government’s Center for International Development (CID) and the Anwarul Quadir Foundation of Cambridge, Mass.
N. Stuart Harris, an emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, is also an active researcher doing groundbreaking research on hypoxia — a shortage of oxygen in the body.
How much of our decision making is controlled by rational thought, and how much is determined by more primitive brain structures? How do we rationalize decisions based on the latter?…
Konrad Oberhuber, curator of drawings and professor of fine arts from 1975 to 1987, died of brain cancer on Sept. 12 in San Diego. He was 72 years old.
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has recently announced the arrival of its 2007 fall fellows. The center is dedicated to fostering the study of European history, politics, and society at Harvard. Its visiting scholars play an active role in the intellectual life of the center and the University. While at Harvard, the scholars will conduct research, advise students, and give public talks.
The Program on U.S.-Japan Relations has announced this year’s class of program associates, which includes scholars, professors, government officials, businesspeople, and journalists from Japan, the United States, and elsewhere.
Harvard University’s Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the Kennedy School of Government, has announced that U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, D-Ill., and former Egyptian parliamentary member and human rights advocate Mona Makram-Ebeid will serve as IOP Visiting Fellows. Makram-Ebeid’s fellowship is under way; Moseley Braun’s fellowship will occur during the week of Nov. 12.
More than 140 Harvard employees will be honored Oct. 18 for reaching a milestone: 25 years of service to the University. The 53rd annual 25 Year Recognition Ceremony — a unique event in that it recognizes both faculty and staff from across the entire University — will be held at the Ropes-Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School.
As part of its evolving emergency communications procedures, Harvard University is making available text message alerts to students, faculty, and staff to be used only in the event of an extreme, campus-wide, life-threatening emergency.
On Saturday (Oct. 6) at approximately 12:05 a.m., a male graduate student and an unaffiliated male reported to the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) that they were the victims of an armed robbery at the corner of Broadway and Highland avenues.
A portrait of Harold Amos, who taught at Harvard for nearly half a century, was unveiled by the Harvard Foundation on Oct.4 at the Courtyard Café in the Warren Alpert Building at Harvard Medical School. Amos was a member of both the Medical School Faculty and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He was the first African American to chair a department at the Medical School. He chaired the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics twice, from 1968 to 1971 and from 1975 to 1978. Amos was a mentor to hundreds of students and many present-day faculty. For several years he served as the first director of the Minority Medical Faculty Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He died in 2003 at 84.
Elizabeth J. Perry, a scholar whose work has illuminated the study of Chinese politics, has been appointed director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, effective July 1, 2008.
The Ivy League has named senior safety John Hopkins its Defensive Player of the Week for his efforts in the Harvard football team’s 32-15 dismissal of host Cornell on Oct. 6.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
“Legends in Queer Performance: Can Theater Change the World?” The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics is now accepting applications from graduate students for its 2008-09 fellowship in ethics.
Daniel Carpenter’s new educational initiative will reaffirm the significance of the history of republicanism and its influence on the American political system. Carpenter is supported by an $875,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to launch a program at Harvard regarding American political history and political thought.
It was announced Wednesday (Oct. 10) that the prestigious 2007 IZA Prize in Labor Economics goes to Harvard’s Richard B. Freeman. He was praised by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Germany for “fundamental contributions that have monumentally shaped modern labor economics.”
At its third meeting of the year on Oct. 10, the Faculty Council held a discussion about the role of nonmembers of the Faculty and expectations of access and confidentiality in the regular meetings of the Faculty.
It’s happened only 28 times in 371 years, so when a new Harvard president is inaugurated, the occasion is bound to be a memorable one. And the installation of Drew Faust, scheduled for Oct. 12, is shaping up to be one of the most memorable ever.
The date of the memorial service for Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus, has been changed from Sept. 28 to Oct. 19. A memorial service for Wilga M. Rivers, professor of Romance languages and literatures emerita, will be held in Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church on Oct. 17 at 4:30 p.m. Rivers passed away in July at the age of 88.
Gusts of wind shook raindrops from the trees and fluttered the fall’s first yellow leaves onto the heads and shoulders of the Tercentenary Theatre crowd below, but in spite of…
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