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…
Hellenic Studies receives Onassis International Prize The Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University has been awarded a 2006 Onassis International Prize for its ongoing commitment to the promotion of…
Julia Sweeney, Grammy-nominated former star of “Saturday Night Live,” went looking for God – and found out there was no God. “And that’s the good news,” she said.
Strengthening African governance is the goal of a new ranking system in development at the Kennedy School of Government. Drawing heavily on the pioneering work of the director of the Belfer Center’s Program on Intrastate Conflict Robert I. Rotberg and generations of his students, a team of researchers under his direction will create an annual Index of African Governance.
Rodney Gove Dennis, who died on Oct. 12 after a short illness, wrote poetry and made music while curating manuscripts at Harvard’s Houghton Library. In his retirement he reconnected with the study of Latin using his poetic skills to translate the works of Catullus, Tibullus, and the Medieval Latin poet Giovanni Pontano. His life was like a diamond, brilliant and many-faceted.
Harvard University has launched the Harvard China Fund, a new University-wide initiative under the direction of William C. Kirby, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of History and director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.
Sixty years ago, as a junior at Harvard, Leonard Bernstein ’39 already had a reputation among undergraduates for his precocious performances with the Works Progress Administration orchestra. He also cut classes, doodled instead of taking notes, and suffered unlikely lapses in scholarship. The future composer of wide fame got a “C” in at least one core music course.
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.
October 1941 – In “The Undergraduate” column of the “Harvard Alumni Bulletin,” Dana Reed ’43 reports the passing of one more Harvard tradition: “Bill Young, head cheer-leader, announced that two…
Dennis memorial service today Former Harvard College Library staffer member Rodney Dennis, who joined the Houghton Library in 1963 before being named curator of manuscripts at the library from 1965…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 16. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
Pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq may be the impetus Iraqis need to set aside their differences and their arms to join together for the good of their country – or it may spark a bloodbath targeting those who cooperated with American forces in hopes of establishing democratic government.
Harvard’s defensive unit forced four consecutive turnovers over a 6-and-a-half-minute span covering the second and third quarters this past Saturday (Oct. 14) to stifle the visiting Lafayette football team and come out victorious, 24-7. With the win, the 15th-ranked Crimson extend their unbeaten streak to 5-0 (2-0 Ivy).
For 79 minutes and 33 seconds, the Harvard women’s soccer team outran, out-shot, out-dribbled, out-passed, and, quite frankly, out-performed their Holy Cross counterparts.
The Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics recently welcomed its faculty fellows and senior scholars for 2006-07. The faculty fellows, who study ethical problems in business, government, law, medicine, and public policy, were selected from a pool of applicants from universities and professional institutions throughout the United States and several other countries.
Reporters, editors, and analysts from both mainstream and new media outlets gathered last weekend (Oct. 13-14) at the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and discuss an industry in the throes of massive change.
The Peabody Museum and the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston will host a celebration of the traditional Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Nov. 2 at the museum. A unique blend of Mesoamerican and Christian rituals, the holiday for remembering and celebrating the dead is separated into All Saints’ Day (Nov. 1), which is usually dedicated to children, and All Souls’ Day (Nov. 2), which is dedicated to adults. The free event will feature a puppet performance, a special altar installation, music, and traditional Day of the Dead refreshments.
If the United States is going to maintain a leadership position in stem cell research, there has to be more emphasis on teaching modern science in schools and less political concern “about what ‘kind’ of science to teach in the schools,” Debora L. Spar, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, told those attending a Stem Cell Leadership Summit Friday (Oct.13).
Lizabeth Cohen, the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, recently announced the names of undergraduate and graduate students awarded grants for the current academic year. Established in 1965, the Warren Center aims to further the study of American history at Harvard and to share the University’s rich historical resources with scholars from the United States and around the world. Grants for Harvard students have been an important part of the center’s program since 1971.
In a win-win for Harvard students, student groups, and a gem of 1960s architecture, a former library left largely empty after its collections were consolidated has been reincarnated as a hub for Harvard student organizations.
The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the ninth funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With the support of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, a KSG faculty committee will consider applications for one-year grants (up to $30,000) and larger grants for more extensive proposals to support advanced research by Harvard University faculty members on issues of critical importance to Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. Grants can be applied toward research assistance, travel, summer salary, and course buyout.
Hadzi memorial service on Oct. 30 A memorial service for Dimitri Hadzi, professor of visual and environmental studies emeritus, will be held Oct. 30 at 3 p.m. at the Memorial…
Ever wish you could get rid of that tattoo of barbed wire around your wrist, or the forearm-length dragon you once thought of as so stylish or macho? It’s not…
Education met hands-on science on Boston Harbor’s Thompson Island on Oct. 9, 2006, as roughly 100 Harvard undergraduates fanned out from beach to beach collecting insects to be included in…
Toward the end of his speech Monday (Oct. 16) at Harvard Law School’s Austin Hall, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff joked that speaking to university audiences might not seem the most favorable route to gaining public support for the Bush administration’s policies in the war on terror. “Of course there’s a lot of skepticism,” he said, “as there should be.” But open expressions of skepticism were muted, and for the most part the secretary was welcomed politely and even warmly by the audience of more than 100.
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