CC Wang of the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital died peacefully at his home in Lincoln, MA on the evening of December 14, 2005. Dr. Wang was 83 years old at the time of his passing.
Howard Wilson Emmons, Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, and Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, the father of and a leading contributor to modern home fire research, died in his 86th year on November 20, 1998.At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 16, 2006, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Howard Wilson Emmons, Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Emmons was the father of modern home fire research.
Actor, producer, and director Laurence Fishburne has been named the 2007 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation. Fishburne, the unanimous choice of the selection committee, will be awarded the foundation’s most prestigious medal at Harvard’s annual Cultural Rhythms ceremony on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 24) at Sanders Theatre.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 19. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
In conjunction with the exhibition “Overlapping Realms: Arts of the Islamic World and India, 900-1900,” the Sackler Museum is offering a workshop in Islamic art for children ages 9 to 12.
Daffodil Days, one of the University’s most popular and colorful fundraisers, is now accepting orders from the Harvard community for the bright bouquets, which cost $7 each and include 10 stems. For $25, the bouquet includes a limited edition, collectible Boyds Bear teddy bear.
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites Harvard undergraduates to make use of the library’s collections with competitive awards (ranging from $100 to $2,500) for relevant research projects.
“Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results” (Harvard Business School Press) by Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, based at Harvard Business School, and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, a senior institute associate at Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School, has been awarded the 2007 James A. Hamilton Award by the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).
“Managing Customers as Investments: The Strategic Value of Customers in the Long Run” (Wharton School Publishing), co-authored by Sunil Gupta, Harvard Business School’s Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration, has received the 2006 Berry-AMA Book Prize from the American Marketing Association (AMA) as the best book in marketing reviewed that year.
At its 10th meeting of the year on Wednesday (Feb. 21), the Faculty Council discussed legislative next steps for general education and was joined by members of the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development for a discussion of its Compact to Enhance Teaching and Learning at Harvard.
William Berenberg was born October 29, 1915, in Haverhill, Mass. He moved to Chelsea at a young age and was educated in the public high school before attending Harvard College as a day student. There he participated in basketball and baseball and was a member of the Phillips Brooks House. He compiled an excellent academic record, allowing him to be admitted to Boston University School of Medicine from which he received his MD degree in 1940. He came to Children’s Hospital as a pathology intern under Sidney Farber, following an internship year at the Brockton Hospital. His arrival at Children’s Hospital was five months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor and shortly before the death of Dr. Kenneth Blackfan, Children’s Hospital’s long serving Physician-in-Chief. That began a commitment to an institution that he both loved and served for 60 years.
The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the 12th funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With the support of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, a Kennedy School faculty committee will consider applications for one-year grants (up to $30,000) and larger grants for more extensive proposals to support advanced research by Harvard faculty members on issues of critical importance to Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. Grants can be applied toward research assistance, travel, summer salary, and course buyout.
Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), has announced the establishment of the Maisie K. and James R. Houghton Curatorship of Contemporary Art at the HUAM. This new position was funded by a gift from the Houghtons, and will be filled by its first incumbent, Helen Molesworth, when she begins her new role at the Harvard University Art Museums this month.
The Harvard University Department of Music has announced the appointment of Gunther Schuller as Fromm Visiting Professor of Composition. This is the second time Schuller has received this appointment.
Liu Dapeng (1857-1942), the subject of Henrietta Harrison’s book “The Man Awakened from Dreams” (Stanford University Press, 2005), seems an odd choice for a biography. A Confucian scholar and teacher in the village of Chiqiao in Shanxi province, northern China, Liu was poor and unknown, and, although a prolific writer, never published a word.
The producers of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Evan Eachus ’08 and Scott Wilmore ’08, will present Man of the Year honoree Ben Stiller with his Pudding Pot on Friday (Feb. 23) at 8:10 p.m. in the Zero Arrow Street Theatre, prior to the start of the opening night performance of “The Tent Commandments.” The theater is serving as the temporary home for the theatrical group while its Holyoke Street location undergoes major renovations.
A wind chill in the low single digits and streets that resembled the Greenland ice sheet could not keep this year’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year parade from being one of the most festive and raucous in recent memory.
Harvard women’s water polo kicked off its 2007 campaign with a 3-2 showing at the Brown-hosted Ivy League invitational this past weekend (Feb. 9-11), ultimately falling to the host Bears, 11-4, in the championship meet. The Crimson squad advanced to Sunday’s title game (Feb. 11) on the strength of three straight wins against Villanova, Dartmouth, and Penn.
Harvard’s top line of Julie Chu ’07, Sarah Vaillancourt ’09, and Sarah Wilson ’09 combined for 14 points to propel hockey past Northeastern, 8-0, in the consolation game of the 29th annual women’s Beanpot at B.C.’s Conte Forum on Tuesday night (Feb. 13).
Northeastern tallied two unanswered goals over the second and third stanzas to get past Harvard, 3-1, in the consolation game of the 55th annual men’s Beanpot this past Monday night (Feb. 12) at TD Banknorth Garden.
With all the subtlety of a slam dunk, the Harvard women’s basketball team shot into first place in the Ivy rankings following a two-game home sweep against Princeton and Penn this past Friday and Saturday (Feb. 9-10). Really, though, Harvard’s spirited play and subsequent rise to the top might be better characterized as a blindfolded slam-dunk. After an 0-6 start and four-game slide dating back to December, who saw this turnaround coming?
Ten months after professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to establish secondary fields as part of the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review, the College has approved and is now offering 28 of the optional programs to undergraduates.
Nearly 23,000 students have applied for admission to the Class of 2011. While the final number is yet to be determined, thus far 22,920 have applied, exceeding the previous record of 22,796 for the Class of 2009 and last year’s 22,754.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 12. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
The Faculty Fellowship Committee at Harvard Medical School (HMS) is sponsoring an information session March 5 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Waterhouse Room (first floor of Gordon Hall) on the subject of invitational research fellowships and grant opportunities for HMS postdocs and faculty.
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