Physician and acclaimed novelist underlines immigrants’ contributions to Harvard and the nation, urges graduates to show courage, character in the face of hardship
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced on Nov. 20 an award of nearly $200 million from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to support applications and enhancements of large-scale DNA sequencing for biomedicine.
From the front steps of Baker Library at the Harvard Business School (HBS), you can see the ever-moving present: the glitter of traffic along Soldiers Field Road, the gliding Charles River, and, beyond the Weld Boat House, the distant bustle of Harvard.
The next Humanities Center ’20 Questions’ talk (date to be announced) will feature Louise Richardson, executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and author of the recent ‘What Terrorists Want.’ For more on the center, go to http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr/
The Open Collections Program (OCP) of the Harvard University Library has launched “Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930,” a Web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard’s libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.
America cannot walk away from Iraq without risking another world war. That warning was sounded at the Kennedy School forum Nov. 17 by Gen. John Abizaid, commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), the man responsible for U.S. military strategy in the Middle East.
Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Dean Kathleen McCartney announced that, as part of a multiyear doctoral funding opportunity, the School has guaranteed to pay full tuition and health fees for all doctoral students through the end of the third year. The announcement, made at a meeting of doctoral students in Askwith Hall, was received with palpable gratitude.
Upon the recommendation of the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the president approved and announced the following Standing Committees at the recent FAS Faculty Meeting. Standing Committees of the faculty are constituted to perform a continuing function. Each committee has been established by a vote of the faculty, and can be dissolved only by a vote of the faculty or, with the agreement of a particular Committee, by the dean and Faculty Council. The dean recommends the membership of each committee annually.
This past Monday (Nov. 27) at approximately 5:40 p.m., a female graduate student reported to the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) that she was robbed at the corner of Banks and Cowperthwaite streets.
Free flu shots are now available to all Harvard ID holders and HUGHP health plan members at Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) every Monday and Tuesday through Dec. 19, and at a range of times and days at additional Harvard locations in Cambridge and Boston.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 27. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
After careful evaluation, Harvard Transportation Services recommended and gained approval to provide all monthly transit passes at a 50 percent discount, beginning Jan. 1. This policy change equalizes the subsidy amount for bus, subway and commuter rail users, and softens the impact of the MBTA fare increase for many users.
‘Rojo’ takes first prize Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of Music Hans Tutschku recently won a first prize in the 2006 Musica Nova International Electroacoustic Music Competition for his work “Rojo.”…
So thoroughly convincing was the Yale football team’s owning of the 123rd annual showdown with the Crimson gridironers this past Nov. 18 at Harvard Stadium, it seemed as if the visiting Bulldogs had packed years of frustration into a single afternoon. Yale’s five-year drought against the Crimson may very well have fueled their 34-13 winning performance.
The number of Early Action applications to Harvard College increased this year by 3.5 percent. While numbers are still preliminary because the processing and reading of applications have not been completed, 4,005 students have applied compared with 3,869 last year. This is the fourth year in a row that about 4,000 students have applied early.
In order to make tickets widely accessible, the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) has launched a new program – 50 @ $15 @ noon – which offers 50 tickets at $15 for each performance during the 2006-07 season. The tickets will become available at noon on each performance day, either by phone or in person. Purchases will be limited to two tickets per customer and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. The program does not apply to performances for which tickets are no longer available. Information about availability will also be posted on the A.R.T. Web site at http://www.amrep.org.
Harvard Forest’s “Wildlands and Woodlands” proposal to conserve roughly half of Massachusetts as protected lands has received a boost from a new report detailing seven strategies to finance the ambitious proposal.
In July 1846, Henry David Thoreau was arrested in Concord and briefly jailed for evading a poll tax. His friend Ralph Waldo Emerson visited him, and peered through the bars.
Harvard Review has garnered recent recognition for both its writing and art design: Two pieces published in the literary journal have been selected for inclusion in The Best American series – a showcase for the year’s poetry, short stories, and essays since 1915 – while two of the journal’s covers have been chosen for Print magazine’s 2006 Regional Design Annual.
Master cells that give rise to the three main cell types in a human heart have been discovered by Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists working independently at two Harvard-affiliated hospitals.…
Harvard students and a recent graduate won seven of 32 Rhodes Scholarships awarded to Americans for 2007. The scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England, worth an average of about $45,000 a year. The 32 winners from the United States will join an international group chosen from 13 other nations and jurisdictions, extending from Australia to Zambia, Bermuda to Botswana. This year, Harvard has more Rhodes Scholars than any other school. The scholars will enter Oxford in October.
The board of directors of Charlesview Inc., the nonprofit owner of Charlesview Apartments in Allston’s Barry’s Corner, has taken a significant step toward the possible relocation of the Charlesview Apartments by voting to pursue a land swap with Harvard University. Under the proposal, Charlesview would exchange its land at the intersection of Western Avenue and North Harvard Street in return for a Harvard-owned 6.5-acre site further west along Western Avenue.
Elizabeth Mora, the University’s acting vice president for finance since April 1, has been named Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer, interim President Derek Bok announced today (Nov.20).
A sharp Yale football team took advantage of seven costly Crimson penalties and five turnovers (three fumbles and a pair of interceptions) to overwhelm the hosts, 34-13, in the 123rd playing of The Game Saturday afternoon (Nov. 18) at Harvard Stadium. The Bulldog defense limited league-leading rusher Clifton Dawson ’07 to 60 yards and a touchdown, while giving up just 64 net yards rushing.
Countering the widespread view of evolution as a process played out over the course of eons, evolutionary biologists have shown that natural selection can turn on a dime – within…
Scientists have found a new task managed by the antibody that’s the workhorse of the human immune system: Inside cells, immunoglobulin G (IgG) helps bring together the phagosomes that corral…
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found that eating more red meat may be associated with a higher risk for hormone receptor–positive breast cancers in premenopausal women. This…
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