Williams honored by Yale Divinity School with award of distinction Preston N. Williams, Houghton Research Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change, received the Yale Divinity School’s Alumni Award for Distinction…
Pinkett-Smith talk will aim to empower young women Actress and musician Jada Pinkett-Smith, who has starred in such films as “The Matrix” and “Ali” and who fronts her own band,…
Clicking kickers boot Brown, Holy Cross Men’s soccer grabbed its second consecutive victory over a nationally ranked opponent in impressive fashion this past Saturday (Oct. 14), outscoring No. 14 Brown…
The Kennedy School hosted the premiere of the CBC documentary “Abiding Liberal: The Life and Times of John Kenneth Galbraith” on Oct. 16. The program honored the life and work of the the greatly admired, long-lived, and politically significant Harvard economist, who died last April at 97.
The long-awaited Lamont Library Café opened for business this past Tuesday (Oct. 17) with a ceremonial ribbon cutting. Located on the main level of the library, the café seats approximately 100 and features a light menu of prepackaged sandwiches, salads, baked goods, coffee drinks, teas, and other beverages. The café will provide library users with an alternative study space that fosters group work in a relaxed setting where food and conversation are welcome, and will also fulfill a need for social space on campus.
Many studies have shown the nutritional benefits of eating fish (finfish or shellfish). Fish is high in protein and omega-3 fatty acids. But concerns have been raised in recent years about chemicals found in fish from environmental pollution, including mercury, PCBs, and dioxins. That has led to confusion among the public – do the risks of eating fish outweigh the benefits?
The Harvard University Art Museums Friday (Oct. 13) announced a major acquisition of Asian works of art through Walter C. Sedgwick and the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation. Three Japanese Buddhist sculptures and more than 300 early Chinese ceramics, previously on loan to the art museums, will enter the permanent collection of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum’s Department of Asian Art. Exceptional in their beauty, historical significance, and cultural value, the pieces will make a vital contribution to the art museums’ mission of teaching and research. These qualities and the objects’ early dates of creation make these works among the most significant to enter the general holdings of the art museums in many decades.
At its fourth meeting of the year on Oct. 25, the Faculty Council received a report from Professor Lisa Martin, the senior adviser to the dean on diversity issues, and…
For Harvard Medical School researchers and clinicians, nothing is in shorter supply than time – and time is money. For Sonya Shin, relief comes from the Eleanor and Miles Shore Fellowship for Scholars in Medicine.
When questioned closely by psychologists from Harvard University about their feelings, victims of childhood sexual abuse revealed some surprising impressions.
With fewer than one in 10 doctors making full use of electronic health records and as few as 5 percent of hospitals using one form of them, the U.S. health…
From graceful ballerinas to clumsy-looking birds, everyone occasionally loses their footing. New Harvard University research suggests that it could literally be the spring, or damper, in your step that helps…
At its third meeting of the year on Oct. 11, the Faculty Council discussed Dean Jeremy R. Knowles’ Letter to the Faculty on FAS finances and was joined by the…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 9. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
Anglican Bishop N.T. Wright, an internationally renowned writer and theologian, will deliver this year’s William Belden Noble Lectures – “The Gospel and Our Culture” – on three consecutive evenings, Oct. 23-25, at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Church.
Twenty years after winning the Nobel Prize in literature (the first African to be so honored), Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Soyinka continues to use his fame as a bully pulpit, and his magical turns of phrase as weapons. For decades, he has employed a polymath’s blend of plays, poems, novels, and memoirs to bring art to bear against artistic repression, political tyranny, and religious excess.
The preliminary proposal, released by the task force Oct. 3 for discussion by the FAS, is intended as a series of suggestions for how most effectively to replace the college’s present “core curriculum.”
Orchestra auditions for ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ The Lowell House Opera will commence open orchestra auditions this weekend for its March 2007 production of Richard Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier.” Established in 1938, the…
Heading into Saturday’s game (Oct. 7) against the host Harvard football team, Cornell’s Big Red led all of Division I-AA in protecting its quarterback, giving up just 0.3 sacks per game. After Harvard’s defense amassed seven sacks en route to a 33-23 Crimson win – the team’s fourth straight to stay unbeaten on the season – that statistical distinction has, let’s say, been reassigned.
Reginald Henry Phelps ’30, Ph.D. ’47, former associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), director of University Extension, and lecturer on German, died Sept. 28 in a nursing home in Westfield, Mass. He was 97.
Harvard University’s Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the Kennedy School of Government, recently announced that Michael Gerson, former speechwriter and adviser to President George W. Bush, and Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey and administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will serve as IOP Visiting Fellows in October and December, respectively. The weeklong fellowships will begin Oct. 16 for Gerson and Dec. 4 for Whitman.
Fourteen tribal governments were recently honored and celebrated as examples of excellence by Harvard’s Honoring Contributions in the Governance of American Indian Nations (Honoring Nations) awards program. Based at the Kennedy School of Government, Honoring Nations is administered by the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. The project’s goal is to understand the conditions under which self-determined social and economic development is achieved among American Indian nations.
Tozzer Library reached a milestone in its 140-year history last month with the acquisition of the quarter-millionth volume to its collection of anthropology, archaeology, and ethnology materials. To mark the occasion, the library is hosting “Codices, Chimpanzees, and Curanderas: From the Field to the Shelf,” an exhibition to celebrate the literature of anthropology and to display Tozzer’s newest book.
In the 1930s, years before man landed on the moon or even orbited the Earth, a very young Frederick I. Ordway III ’49 took an interest in space travel. One day Ordway returned home from school to find a copy of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories left by the family maid on a dining room chair. He raced to his room and read it cover to cover. Young Frederick wrote his parents a letter requesting the science fiction book “Lost on the Moon” for his 11th birthday. By the time he turned 12 he had joined the American Rocket Society as a student member. Before long, Ordway was a serious collector of science fiction, with a particular focus on the then-unmet dream of space travel. So intrigued was he that he joined pulp magazine fan clubs, actively acquiring duplicates and trading with other collectors.
William Robert Hutchison, Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America, Emeritus, died on December 16, 2005, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, in the presence of his immediate family. He was 75.
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, who finds joy in “discovering the sublime in the mundane,” has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Initiated in the 1960s, the Harvard-Yenching Institute’s Doctoral Scholars Program (DSP) now consists of two branches – Harvard-DSP and Non-Harvard DSP. Each year the institute invites Harvard departments of the humanities and social sciences to nominate candidates for Harvard-DSP scholarships. Although the candidates do not have to be faculty members or researchers, they must be from Asia.
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