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…
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.
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