Wendell Vernon Clausen, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, died on Oct. 12, 2006, in Belmont, Mass. He was 83 years old, and had been in declining health after suffering a stroke in August 2005.
Nancy Brigham Cyr recently joined the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research as the new institute administrator. She comes to the Du Bois Institute from Harvard University Health Services, where she served as budget director for seven years. Cyr has held several administrative positions at Harvard including department administrator at the Graduate School of Education and budget director at Radcliffe College. Additionally, she is a freshman adviser and a host to international visitors through the University’s International Office and the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government.
In a series of three talks last week (Oct. 24-26), novelist Walter Mosley explored the themes of redemption, forgiveness, and identity through his character, street philosopher Socrates Fortlow. The occasion was the annual Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures.
Community Gifts kicks off season of giving November marks the beginning of the monthlong Community Gifts through Harvard campaign – the University’s workplace charitable giving campaign. The goal for this…
Football bounces Big Green, stays alive in title hunt The Harvard football team earned its first shutout since the 2004 season this past Saturday (Oct. 28) with a 28-0 blanking…
The Joseph H. Flom Global Health and Human Rights Initiative at Harvard Law School (HLS) is a new partnership between the School’s Human Rights Program and its Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Promoting academic research (as well as engagement in practical measures related to that research) for the purpose of bringing a legal perspective to bear on the development and application of global public health and human rights norms, the initiative is now accepting applications for its Global Health and Human Rights Fellowship. The fellowship is a full-time, residential program for up to two full years. Global health fellows will have offices at either the Petrie-Flom Center or the Human Rights Program, and will participate in the intellectual life of both programs. The application deadline is Dec. 15.
With the Bay of Bengal in sight, they’re retyping 18th-century letters from the Adams family, which begot two American presidents. And they’re keying in diary entries written almost 400 years ago by John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. For both Harvard and the historical society, the joint digitization project is the first large-scale venture of its kind.
As political and social repression of blacks raged across the Jim Crow South of the early 1900s, black merchants and entrepreneurs quietly prospered in business, cracking the door to future civil rights.
Questions surrounding North Korea and its nascent nuclear weapons program took center stage Monday night (Oct. 30) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. Just hours before the North Koreans announced they would return to the six-party talks, a panel of defense experts and analysts discussed the range of policy options available to the United States.
Laurie Glimcher remembers going into her father’s laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as a child, seeing beakers full of liquids being stirred automatically, and wondering not just what was in them, but what her father would learn from them.
The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) recently announced the appointment of Helen Molesworth as its new curator of contemporary art, effective Feb. 5, 2007. Molesworth becomes the first full curator of contemporary art since HUAM established the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art in 1997.
Free flu shots are now available for high-risk adults every Monday and Tuesday from noon to 3 p.m. at Harvard University Health Services at Holyoke Center.
Starting in the second century B.C., the 4,000-mile Silk Road was a shifting network of trans-Eurasian trails and oases. For 1,500 years, it linked what is now China in the East to the Mediterranean in the West. The Silk Road – named in the 19th century – was a commercial highway but also a highway of ideas, technology, and language. And through commerce, it disseminated the products of culture: music, instruments, statuary, ceramics, and jewelry.
The John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School announced Oct. 17 a $1.25 million gift from the George Family Foundation that will provide 15 fellowships to students pursuing concurrent degrees at the Schools. The gift will also expand the Kennedy School’s leadership development programs.
Despite the 13th Amendment and the United Nations’ prohibition of slavery in 1949, millions of people continue to work under forced conditions. To help broadcast their plight to a wider audience and promote awareness of the crisis, Zoe Trodd and the group Free the Slaves have helped the slaves themselves speak out loud and clear.
A drug being tested now may kick off a new heart health revolution by raising levels of HDL, or “good” cholesterol, in the body, much as statins used today lower LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, according to a prominent cardiologist at one of the nation’s top heart hospitals.
The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard has announced its 2006-07 class of postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and visiting fellows. Each year, a small but distinguished group of scholars are named to spend an academic year at the center revising their dissertation manuscripts for publication (postdoctoral fellows) or giving seminars and consulting with other researchers on campus (visiting scholars and visiting fellows).
A former Israeli air force pilot and a former Palestinian guerilla brought a message of peace to the John F. Kennedy School of Government Tuesday (Oct. 24), saying both sides must abandon violence if the conflict is to be resolved.
“OOOOHhhh!” the audience of high school students gasped as one when the emaciated image of Joseph, a poor Haitian stricken with both AIDS and tuberculosis, flashed onto the screen at Cambridge Rindge & Latin Friday morning (Oct. 20).
U.S. News & World Report announced on Monday (Oct. 23) its 2006 listing of “America’s Best Leaders,” and Eric Lander, the director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, is among those recognized.
Out of the dozens of club offerings annually pitched and promoted to Harvard’s freshman class, what would possess Cambridge’s newest residents to sign up for rugby – that brutal pastime favored on the other side of the pond? More perplexing still, why are some of Harvard’s newest female students clamoring to join the scrum (and more often than not, sticking it out for four long years)? A longstanding desire to rebel, perhaps; or maybe it’s the sheer novelty of the sport; or another ticket to well-roundedness. The real answer, it seems, is not nearly so complicated. To tweak Carville’s famous phrase, “It’s the contact, stupid.” Or so proclaim a good majority of the Radcliffe Rugby Football Club’s (RRFC) team members, now 37 strong.
Harvard, Radcliffe crew have legs at Head of the Charles Radcliffe rowing grabbed a pair of fifth-place finishes in collegiate and lightweight eights at the 42nd annual Head of the…
More than one of every five people who take prescription drugs also use dietary supplements, like ginseng and gingko, without telling their doctors. Such combinations may lead to harmful results,…
The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) strives to provide individuals committed to invigorating the public sector in those regions of the world with educational opportunities to explore effectual and pioneering means of governance. For this reason, the program awards fellowships to enable individuals from Southeastern and East-Central Europe to pursue one of the following master’s degrees at KSG: master’s in public policy (M.P.P.); master’s in public administration (M.P.A.); master’s in public administration/mid-career (M.P.A./M.C.); and master’s in public administration in international development (M.P.A./I.D.).
Jennifer Arcila ’08 (Russian studies) traveled to Moscow to intern with the Carnegie Moscow Center. She translated the center’s online newsletters and publications from Russian to English, and assisted scholars…
For 39 Harvard students, summer vacation this year wasn’t a vacation at all. It was up to 12 weeks of full-time work in a variety of countries – the requirement for being in the Weissman International Internship Program.
Harvard postdoctoral scholar in English Laura Thiemann Scales is among seven scholars recently awarded fellowships for the 2006-07 academic year at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
Ethics center accepting fellowship applications for 2007-08 The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University is currently accepting applications from graduate students who are writing dissertations or…
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