Despite the 13th Amendment and the United Nations’ prohibition of slavery in 1949, millions of people continue to work under forced conditions. To help broadcast their plight to a wider audience and promote awareness of the crisis, Zoe Trodd and the group Free the Slaves have helped the slaves themselves speak out loud and clear.
A drug being tested now may kick off a new heart health revolution by raising levels of HDL, or “good” cholesterol, in the body, much as statins used today lower LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, according to a prominent cardiologist at one of the nation’s top heart hospitals.
The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard has announced its 2006-07 class of postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and visiting fellows. Each year, a small but distinguished group of scholars are named to spend an academic year at the center revising their dissertation manuscripts for publication (postdoctoral fellows) or giving seminars and consulting with other researchers on campus (visiting scholars and visiting fellows).
A former Israeli air force pilot and a former Palestinian guerilla brought a message of peace to the John F. Kennedy School of Government Tuesday (Oct. 24), saying both sides must abandon violence if the conflict is to be resolved.
“OOOOHhhh!” the audience of high school students gasped as one when the emaciated image of Joseph, a poor Haitian stricken with both AIDS and tuberculosis, flashed onto the screen at Cambridge Rindge & Latin Friday morning (Oct. 20).
U.S. News & World Report announced on Monday (Oct. 23) its 2006 listing of “America’s Best Leaders,” and Eric Lander, the director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, is among those recognized.
Out of the dozens of club offerings annually pitched and promoted to Harvard’s freshman class, what would possess Cambridge’s newest residents to sign up for rugby – that brutal pastime favored on the other side of the pond? More perplexing still, why are some of Harvard’s newest female students clamoring to join the scrum (and more often than not, sticking it out for four long years)? A longstanding desire to rebel, perhaps; or maybe it’s the sheer novelty of the sport; or another ticket to well-roundedness. The real answer, it seems, is not nearly so complicated. To tweak Carville’s famous phrase, “It’s the contact, stupid.” Or so proclaim a good majority of the Radcliffe Rugby Football Club’s (RRFC) team members, now 37 strong.
Harvard, Radcliffe crew have legs at Head of the Charles Radcliffe rowing grabbed a pair of fifth-place finishes in collegiate and lightweight eights at the 42nd annual Head of the…
The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) strives to provide individuals committed to invigorating the public sector in those regions of the world with educational opportunities to explore effectual and pioneering means of governance. For this reason, the program awards fellowships to enable individuals from Southeastern and East-Central Europe to pursue one of the following master’s degrees at KSG: master’s in public policy (M.P.P.); master’s in public administration (M.P.A.); master’s in public administration/mid-career (M.P.A./M.C.); and master’s in public administration in international development (M.P.A./I.D.).
Jennifer Arcila ’08 (Russian studies) traveled to Moscow to intern with the Carnegie Moscow Center. She translated the center’s online newsletters and publications from Russian to English, and assisted scholars…
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.
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…
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.
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