Xiaowei Zhuang, whose creative and daring application of chemistry and physics to key questions in biology has enabled observation of single molecules and the creation of pioneering “molecular movies,” has been appointed professor of chemistry and chemical biology and of physics in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective Jan. 1, 2007.
Roy P. Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed inaugural director of the new Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University.
The Harvard University Music Department will present a concert of competition-winning orchestral works by graduate students Ulrlich Kreppein, Hannah Lash, and Bert Van Herck Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. in Paine Hall. The works will be performed by a 45-piece professional orchestra and conducted by New York-based contemporary music specialist Jeffrey Milarsky.
Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) will once again present a check for $12,000 to the “Hasty Pudding Theatricals Cultural Endowment Fund” to support Cambridge public schools and their arts programs. Launched four years ago, the fund allows Cambridge public school students to pursue experiences in theater, dance, and the visual arts that would otherwise be closed to them. The check will be presented Nov. 11 at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School prior to a 7:30 p.m. student performance of “Little Shop of Horrors.”
College sophomore named top entrepreneur by Business Week Harvard sophomore Allan Sahagun was recently named one of Business Week magazine’s “Best Entrepreneurs Under 25” for his social networking Web site…
Committing 14 penalties for a loss of nearly 100 yards against a team playing their best football of the season is hardly a formula for success. Luckily for the only recently careless Crimson, the team’s defensive corps stuck to the script – shut down the running game – with spectacular results. And for that (along with four forced fumbles), the Crimson got away with a 24-7 victory against visiting Columbia this past Saturday (Nov. 4) at the stadium.
St. Lawrence sweeps hockey, men nab first win A balanced St. Lawrence attack lifted the fifth-ranked Saints past No. 6 Harvard, 4-2, in women’s hockey action this past Saturday (Nov.…
Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Dean Kathleen McCartney recently named nine recipients of the School’s new Urban Scholar Fellowship program. By providing tuition and health insurance fees, the fellowship makes attending graduate school a reality for a select group of educators from urban school systems.
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents the first solo show of the photographs of the late Michael Rockefeller in the highlands of New Guinea from March to August 1961.
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.
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.…
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.
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…
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