Physician and acclaimed novelist underlines immigrants’ contributions to Harvard and the nation, urges graduates to show courage, character in the face of hardship
Clausens’ memorial service scheduled for Dec. 15 Wendell Vernon Clausen, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus, died Oct. 12 in Belmont, Mass. He was 83 and had…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 13. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
Emma Dench, a classical historian whose interdisciplinary approach to ancient history has provided new insights into the Roman past and its contemporary relevance, has been appointed professor of history and classics in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective Jan. 1.
Boston legend Kip Tiernan, founder of Rosie’s Place and the Boston Food Bank and co-founder of the Poor People’s United Fund, the Boston Women’s Fund, Health Care for the Homeless, and Community Works, has given the first installment of her papers to the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute.
Each year, the Ashford family supports four exceptional incoming graduate students at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) with fellowships.
London-based ArtReview magazine recently ranked Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) faculty members Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, David Adjaye, and Rem Koolhaas in its 2006 annual “Power 100” list of the most influential people and organizations in the arts world.
From the English country estate of the Duke of Beaufort that bears its name, to the diversion of choice for countless summer barbecues, the sport of badminton enjoys (or is that suffers from?) a wide range of connotations. Here on campus, though, the sport is revered and practiced without much fuss by the Harvard Badminton Club for its pure blend of athleticism and speed. Indeed, watching the young club, which just three years ago joined the sport’s governing body for area clubs, the Northeast Intercollegiate Badminton League (NIBL), is to witness a wild mishmash of pingpong and volleyball – on steroids. A far cry from that laid-back game so often played with a beer in hand.
On a beautiful Indian summer afternoon this past Saturday (Nov. 11), the sounds of bagpipes echoed across Ohiri Field as the Harvard men’s soccer team warmed up to the score from “Braveheart” before their first-round match in the 2006 NCAA tournament.
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) senior lecturer Richard Cash, credited with saving millions of lives by promoting the use of oral rehydration therapy to treat cholera and other diarrheal diseases, has been named a joint recipient of the 2006 Prince Mahidol Award for “exemplary contributions in the field of public health.” An HSPH faculty member (Department of Population and International Health) for 27 years, Cash will receive the award from the king and queen of Thailand at a ceremony at the Grand Palace in Bangkok this January. Cash has focused his work on infectious disease problems in the developing world and on ethical issues in international health research.
The president of the international assembly turns to the delegates gathered before her and appeals for calm. Word has just come in of a tsunami that has struck India. Global support for reconstruction must be mobilized at once.
Through its visiting fellowships program, the Harvard Law School (HLS) Human Rights Program seeks to give thoughtful individuals with a demonstrated commitment to human rights an opportunity to step back and conduct a serious inquiry in the human rights field.
November 1956 – The Soviet invasion of Hungary prompts Harvard students to form the Committee for Free Hungary. Similar groups also quickly form at Radcliffe, M.I.T., and Yale. The Harvard…
Interim President Derek Bok will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 11. Sign-up begins at 2:30 p.m., unless otherwise…
Nairobi’s Kibera slum is home to as many as a million people, struggling to survive in a community of tin huts, dirt roads, and garbage. To make matters worse, ethnic tension periodically boils over, adding violence to Kibera’s toxic stew of poverty, AIDS, and despair.
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.
World-renowned scientist and author Jane Goodall will receive the 2007 Roger Tory Peterson Medal presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH). Goodall will deliver the Peterson Memorial Lecture March 18 at 2 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. A book signing at the museum (26 Oxford St.) will follow the lecture.
When Julie Freischlag was in grade school, her grandfather, a coal miner, told her that she was smart enough to become anything she wanted and not to let anyone tell her otherwise.
TED Prize awards Wilson a wish Edward O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus, has recently been named a recipient of the TED Prize, which awards $100,000 to the winner…
United Ministry at Harvard to sponsor lunchtime talks An umbrella organization of nearly 40 chaplains representing 26 of the world’s religious traditions, the United Ministry at Harvard is committed to…
Dawson slips past Marinaro in Penn loss In a 22-13 losing effort at Penn, senior running back Clifton Dawson picked up 119 yards on 16 carries to topple the Ivy…
The executive director of Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Eric Belsky, opened a national summit on rental housing policy Tuesday morning (Nov. 14) with a sobering assessment of America’s rental properties as increasingly unaffordable, rundown, and concentrated in blighted neighborhoods.
The founding director of Harvard’s University-wide ethics center, Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis F. Thompson, is stepping down at the end of this academic year, after 20 years of leading the institution’s efforts in education and scholarship in ethics.
Nerves that control the highest level of voluntary movements have been isolated and secrets of their growth revealed for the first time. During development, these nerves extend themselves from the…
Children as young as 5 prefer lucky individuals over the less fortunate, according to new research by psychologists at Harvard and Stanford University. This phenomenon, the researchers say, could clarify…
Scientists at Harvard University have developed a computer model that, for the first time, can fully map and predict how small proteins fold into three-dimensional, biologically active shapes. The work…
At its fifth meeting of the year on Nov. 8, the Faculty Council discussed general education, and received a report from Dean Theda Skocpol on the activities of the Task…
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