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.
David Galland Freiman, M.D. was born on July 1, 1911 in New York City, the son of Leopold and Dorothy (Galland) Freiman. After graduating from City College of New York, David attended the Long Island College of Medicine (now Downstate Medical Center SUNY), receiving his M.D. degree in 1935. David completed an internship in Internal Medicine, followed by an internship and residency in Pathology at Montifiore Hospital in New York. His first staff appointments were at the Massachusetts General Hospital (1944-1950) and Cincinnati General Hospital (1952-1956). In 1956, he returned to Boston as Chief of Pathology at the Beth Israel Hospital (now the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), a position he held until 1979. David Freiman died on December 10, 2003. He is survived by his wife, Ruth (Schein) Freiman, his children, Nancy and Len, and three grandchildren, Emily, Nathan and Eli.
On the last day in May, 1962, Professor Richard Howard received the following civil subpoena: “You are hereby commanded to appear in the United States District Court [and to] bring with you the entire card catalog of all books, pamphlets, monographs etc. now located in the Administration Building at Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain.”
Jerome Hamilton Buckley, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, was born in Toronto on August 30, 1917, and received his secondary education at Humberside Collegiate Institute where the principal called him “one of the most brilliant pupils” ever to attend the school.
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies has announced the arrival of its 2007 spring fellows. The center is dedicated to fostering the study of European history, politics, and society at Harvard. Visiting scholars play an active role in the intellectual life of the center and the University. While in Cambridge, the scholars conduct research, advise students, and give public talks.
Sponsored in part by Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OfA) grant program, more than 1,000 students will participate in 38 projects in dance, music, theater, and multidisciplinary genres at the University this spring. Grants are designed to foster creative and innovative artistic initiatives among Harvard undergraduates.
The late Eileen Jackson Southern, a music scholar and Harvard’s first black female tenured professor, is the subject of the latest painting in the Minority Portraiture Project, established in 2002 by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.
Now in its third year of operation, the Australia-Harvard Fellowship supports innovative researchers who may be planning collaborative work with Australian research organizations. Sponsored by the Harvard Club of Australia (HCA) Foundation, the fellowship aims to support learned exchange between the University and Australia.
The University operates the call-in number 496-NEWS for major School and University-wide closings due to inclement weather or other special circumstances affecting the Harvard campus.
Simple arithmetic supplies one of the most striking facts of Harvard history: since 1640, the institution has had only 27 presidents. The United States – nearly 140 years younger –…
Text as prepared for delivery Seven years ago, when I was named as the first dean of the new Radcliffe Institute, I said I was deeply honored to have been…
Drew G. Faust, an eminent historian and outstanding academic leader who has served since 2001 as the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will become the twenty-eighth president of Harvard University, effective July 1.
No matter how fiercely coaches may preach to their players about the virtues of shutting out the noise come game time, the clatter surrounding the annual Beanpot tournament – that madcap midterm examination of Boston collegiate hockey – is tough to shush. What with all the media coverage surrounding the 55-year-old event, together with the chance to skate in front of nearly 20,000 slap-shot happy fans in a building called the Garden, no less, the entire “pressure cooker” atmosphere of the four-game showdown is understandably something to behold. For homegrown icers, meanwhile, competing for the title of best in Boston is a particular honor.
Although yellow is not often associated with the drab winter months, Community Affairs has gone a long way in helping to change that perception on Harvard’s campus. This early spring, those efforts reach a milestone as Harvard celebrates two decades as a key participant in the annual Daffodil Days fundraiser.
Per University policy, Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) is required to charge market rent for its housing. To establish proposed rents for 2007-08, HRES performed a regression analysis on three years of market rents for more than 4,000 neighboring apartments, all of which were voluntary postings at the Harvard Housing Office by non-Harvard property owners. The results of this analysis were reviewed and endorsed by an external expert, Jayendu Patel of Economic, Financial, & Statistical Consulting Services. Furthermore, HRES conducted an additional study of private rental market apartments of similar size and quality to HRES apartments. The results of the market research demonstrate that market rents are increasing at a moderate but steady rate and that HRES rents must rise to keep pace.
For many college students, deciding what subject to major in can be a struggle. But for Peter Godfrey-Smith the decision seemed obvious almost from his first days as an undergraduate at Sydney University in Australia. “I knew when I was a first-year student that I was going to do philosophy,” he said. “There was such excitement in philosophy at that time. Philosophy departments, when they’re going well, can generate an enormous amount of intellectual energy.”
Recently released U.S. government guidelines for combating a potential avian flu pandemic closely resemble response strategies that have been under development by Harvard planners since October 2005. Both the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines – available online at http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/community/community_mitigation.pdf – and Harvard’s ongoing “what-if” planning say that the best protection against a flu pandemic would be “social distancing,” or limiting contact with people who are sick, and attending to personal hygiene, in particular, hand washing.
Feb. 12, 1974 – The Faculty of Arts and Sciences approves a three-year trial for a new undergraduate honors concentration in the Comparative Study of Religion, limited to 10 students per year.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 5. 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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