Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has recently been named the recipient of three awards in recognition of his scholarship and for the cultural impact of “African American Lives,” the PBS series created and produced by Gates, New York’s Channel 13, and Kunhardt Productions. Since first airing in February 2006, “African American Lives” has struck a deep cultural chord, pushing African Americans and all Americans to search out their own identity and genealogy.
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced the recipients of the 2007 Harvard Medal: Phyllis Keller B.F. ’70, Carl H. Pforzheimer III A.B. ’58, M.B.A. ’63, and Richard Menschel M.B.A. ’59.
Sailing ties down third, final bid for nationals The Crimson sailing team qualified for nationals April 28-29 with a third-place finish (out of 12 schools) at the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Team Racing Championship on the Charles. Harvard recorded an 8-5 record in the final three rounds to finish two wins ahead of B.C. for the final qualifying spot. Fellow Ivy Leaguers Dartmouth (11-2) and Yale (9-4) earned the remaining berths.
Even with no postseason in sight, there were still enough strategic adjustments during Tuesday afternoon’s (May 1) season finale to make the Harvard baseball team’s last game of 2007 a dramatic one. And in the end, a successful one as well for the host Crimson squad, who protected a 4-3 edge versus Northeastern to close out the year at .500 (18-18 overall).
On a recent cold Monday morning, the Gutman Conference Center looked more like a kindergarten classroom than a high-end meeting facility. Construction paper, glue sticks, scissors, colored pencils, and crayons covered most of the room’s six round tables. And working at those tables was not a group of intent 5-year-olds but 33 adults busily crafting their creations.
What gives people the ability to tell right from wrong? Is the moral sense instilled in us by God? Is it inculcated through religious training? Or does moral judgment vary according to the culture in which we were raised?
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced this past Tuesday (May 1) the election of five Harvard affiliates among its 72 new members and 18 foreign associates. Members are chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Suppose you have a lot of information and you want to put it together so it makes sense. Here’s a suggestion from psychologists at Harvard Medical School — sleep on it.
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is launching a new School-wide initiative intended to inspire discussion, research, and ideas to overcome the incapacity of governments and others to act in time to prevent catastrophic events. The Acting in Time Initiative is designed to harness the expertise and insight of KSG and the University with the goal of understanding the reasons that particular problems are not being addressed and to help foster ways to move solutions forward.
Drew G. Faust, president-elect of Harvard University, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Lincoln Professor of History, has been named the recipient of the 2007 Harvard College Women’s Professional Achievement Award. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Women’s Leadership Awards.
Since the Presidential Instructional Technology Fellowship (PITF) program was launched in summer 2004. More than 200 graduate and undergraduate students have provided services to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Harvard Divinity School (HDS), Harvard Law School (HLS), Harvard Medical School (HMS), and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Approximately 600 courses at the University have been affected.
Students and administrators have declared Advising Fortnight a success. The two-week event organized by Harvard College marked the beginning of pre-concentration advising for the Class of 2010. First-years flocked to advising events — scores of them — held by every academic department and degree program, with attendance approaching 3,000.
When Benedict Gross was a graduate student in mathematics at Harvard, there was no Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. Teaching fellows who wanted to know what was the most effective way to help undergraduates understand their course work were pretty much on their own.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced this past Tuesday (May 1) the election of five Harvard affiliates among its 72 new members and 18 foreign associates. Members are chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) on Monday (April 30) announced the election of 203 new fellows and 24 new foreign honorary members. Included among this new field of fellows and honorary members are 14 Harvard faculty members.
At the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Thursday (April 26), Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert S. Mueller III outlined terrorism threats, described how the FBI was fighting them — and how at the same time the agency was protecting civil liberties.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 23. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
‘Women at the Top’ to examine first female presidents of Ivy League Third Eye Blind to headline Yardfest on April 28 A.R.T.’s ‘Harvard Night’ features food, talk Upcoming Arts First set to light up Harvard Square Arts First volunteers wanted Take a quick tour of ancient Egypt, Israel during Arts First Stressing stress: BHAC event to examine stress, coping skills Kansas Gov. Sebelius visits Harvard as IOP fellow ‘Hold Your Breath’ screening, Q&A at New Research Building PDK event to explore return of music, play to Afghanistan Maine vacation rental open to faculty, University officers
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 18, 2006, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Thomas Edward Cheatham, Jr., Gordon McKay Research Professor of Computer Science, was placed upon the records. Cheatham’s research and teaching bridged the divide between software theory and practice.
A celebration of the life of Hermes C. Grillo, professor of surgery emeritus, will be held May 3 at 3 p.m. in Memorial Church. Grillo died in Italy in October 2006.
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The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) has selected Dani Rodrik, the Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, as the first recipient of its newly instituted Albert O. Hirschman Prize.
Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced that the firm of Weiss/Manfredi will receive the ninth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design in recognition of the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park. Transforming a dilapidated brownfield site, the park creates a new landscape for art within the urban infrastructure, reconnecting the city to the Puget Sound waterfront. This is the first time the winning project has been located in the United States.
League picks Shelly Madick pitcher of the week Second-place NEISA finish sends women sailors to nationals Baseball splits with Bears Gilligan Memorial Road Race changes date to May 5
Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced that the firm of Weiss/Manfredi will receive the ninth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design in recognition of the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park. Transforming a dilapidated brownfield site, the park creates a new landscape for art within the urban infrastructure, reconnecting the city to the Puget Sound waterfront. This is the first time the winning project has been located in the United States.
As summer heats up and school lets out, public officials throughout the Boston area scramble for new ways to keep kids off the streets and out of trouble through summer jobs and activities. As in years past, Harvard undergraduates are answering the call, mentoring low-income children, and recruiting and working with teenage counselors throughout Boston and Cambridge in community-based day camps.
A multicolored tent made of tarps and rope and tree branches and duct tape rose above Yaxchilan’s unique pinkish stalactite stela. On the last day of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology’s expedition to the ancient Maya city of Yaxchilan, team members were doing something at which they had proven themselves adept: improvising.
The phrase “retirement communities” calls to mind a number of different kinds of places — high-end gated communities or whole cities built from scratch in Sun Belt states like Florida and Arizona. Or perhaps even dismal trailer parks under the hot breath of a developer who wants to turn the whole place into high-rise condos.
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