Physician and acclaimed novelist underlines immigrants’ contributions to Harvard and the nation, urges graduates to show courage, character in the face of hardship
Kelly Stone, co-founder with her sister, actress Sharon Stone, of the philanthropic agency Planet Hope, visited Harvard last week as a guest of the Harvard Foundation and the Harvard public service organization Phillips Brooks House Association.
The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, has announced the appointment of Kent M. French as the second Archie C. Epps Fellow to Harvard College.
Scientists visiting Harvard this month gave an audience of 180 a glimpse into the future of medicine – a world of implantable arteries, “bioartificial” organs, and replacement cells for failing hearts.
The annual Día de los Muertos festivities at the Peabody Museum and Geological Lecture Hall were, as usual, full of life. Frightening and amusing puppet theater, music, and Mexican food made for a whirl of sights, sounds, and aromas to please all ages.
Alan J. Stone, the University’s Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs since 2001, announced today (Nov. 8) that he will step down at the end of the 2006-07 academic year.
You would not expect someone being honored with an award named for the first woman tenured in the Harvard Faculty of Education to be even a bit down on education for women.
Nov. 13, 1875 – New Haven, Conn., hosts the first Harvard-Yale football game, which Harvard wins, to the delight of some 150 student boosters from Cambridge. November 1903 – After…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 30. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
Eight new fellows have been selected for the 2006-07 Administrative Fellowship Program. Of the eight fellows, four are visiting fellows and four are resident fellows. Visiting fellows are talented professionals drawn from business, education, and the professions outside the University, while resident fellows are professionals currently working at Harvard who are identified by their department and selected by the fellowship program review committee to have the leadership potential to advance to higher administrative positions.
Ash Institute receives Mexican Presidential Award President Vicente Fox of Mexico presented the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) with a Presidential…
From the looks of Brown’s dominating 9-4 win in the first day of action at this past weekend’s Northern Championships (Oct. 28-29) at Blodgett Pool, it appears the Bears were taking no chances against the host water polo club. It was the Crimson, after all, who edged Brown, 8-7, with 54 seconds remaining in triple overtime the previous week.
With winter around the corner, the recent digitization of Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra’s (HRO) recorded oeuvre ought to make fans of Verdi and viola players alike quite content over the dark, cold, long haul. Going back over 30 years, the newly completed archive – spearheaded by longtime HRO conductor James Yannatos – includes every available performance by the storied symphony. And though there are some gaps in the collection, it comprises nearly 100 of HRO’s Sander’s Theatre performances. That’s more than 200 hours of symphonic music.
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has awarded its highest honor for the promotion of high public health standards among vulnerable populations to William H. Foege, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
For at least the past five years, the primary message of those seeking political and financial support for stem cell science has been that the research offers enormous hope of leading to treatments and cures for a myriad of diseases, including diabetes, cancer, heart disease, Parkinson’s, and even paralysis following spinal cord injury.
In 2004, German police captured a man they believed had kidnapped a young boy. They questioned him for two days, and then, fearing for the child’s safety, a senior officer authorized an interrogator to use pain, if necessary, to get information.
When you’re fighting flu or any other infection, your body mobilizes battalions of cells to defend against the invading viruses or bacteria. But once the invaders have been defeated and…
Marsha T. saw the lights of pain coming. They flashed and zigzagged before her eyes. Her visual field shrank into a tunnel. A registered nurse, she knew what was next.…
Reflections on terror, imagined and real, are making a visit to Boston this month, during an intentional confluence of events that explore the Soviet-era gulag.
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.
Dunn memorial on Nov. 3 at the Memorial Church A memorial service for Charles W. Dunn, the Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures Emeritus, will be held…
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…
Highlighting her leadership in opposing marketing to children, the American Psychological Association (APA) has awarded Susan Linn, instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), its prestigious Presidential Citation. The award was presented Oct. 28 in Boston at the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood’s fifth annual summit, “Consuming Kids: Marketing in Schools and Beyond.”
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.
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