Physician and acclaimed novelist underlines immigrants’ contributions to Harvard and the nation, urges graduates to show courage, character in the face of hardship
Harvard, Harris applauded for sustainable energy use, Wolff awarded first Bach Prize, Kelman receives 2006 Morton Deutsch Award, HCPDS research scientist receives $2M to study AIDS prevention
Herbert Bloch, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus, died on Sept. 6 in Cambridge, Mass. Bloch was born in Berlin on Aug. 18, 1911. He studied ancient history, classical philology, and archaeology at the University of Berlin (1930-1933), which he left for Rome. Owing to the vicissitudes of fate, his brother Egon remained in Germany and died in the Holocaust.
Two former Peace Corps volunteers, two former Fulbright Scholars, six people who have started their own nonprofit organizations, the co-founder of a medical journal devoted to global health issues, and the sixth person in the 20th century to graduate from West Point as both first captain and top-ranked cadet are among this year’s Zuckerman Fellows.
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. Under the direction of Dennis F. Thompson, Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy, the fellows will conduct research on issues related to ethics within their respective fields, and will participate in seminars on ethical issues that arise in public and professional life. Joining the faculty fellows seminar are two senior scholars: Philip Pettit, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, and Archon Fung, associate professor of public policy, Kennedy School of Government.
Jack W. Szostak, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, is among this year’s Lasker Award winners. Now celebrating its 61st anniversary, the Lasker Awards are the nation’s most distinguished honor for outstanding contributions to basic and clinical medical research, as well as for special achievement in the medical research enterprise.
Each year, awards are given at the annual Joint Statistical Meetings. During this year’s meeting in Seattle, held Aug. 6-10, three Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) faculty members were honored: Professor of Biostatistics Xihong Lin; Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics Louise Ryan; and Marvin Zelen, professor of statistical science in the HSPH Department of Biostatistics and a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Interim President Derek Bok will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Oct. 24 and Dec. 11. Sign-up begins at 2:30…
With all the personnel changes both on and off the field, including a new quarterback, a new captain, five new assistant coaches, and a relatively green offensive line and linebacker corps, the Harvard football team could reasonably expect to feel a sense of uncertainty heading into the 2006 season. So when QB Chris Pizzotti ’08 – already a replacement for regular starter Liam O’Hagan ’08 (currently serving a five-game suspension) – suffered an MCL injury in the second quarter of Saturday’s (Sept. 16) season opener against visiting Holy Cross, the Crimson suddenly appeared to be in disarray.
The Center for Public Interest Careers (CPIC) at Harvard will be offering 10 students the opportunity to work in New York City next summer through the CPIC Fund for Service Internship Program. These highly competitive internships will provide interns with a $3,500 summer stipend and an allowance for housing expenses. The Heckscher Foundation for Children sponsors the internships.
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has embarked on an intensive campaign to wring energy savings out of both its buildings and its budget, hiring an outside manager to oversee what one energy administrator called its “most aggressive” campaign to date.
With 13 of Harvard’s 41 varsity teams kicking off their fall schedule this September, the University’s eclectic collection of grassy, rectangular playing fields (natural or otherwise) have abruptly erupted with cheers, jeers, whistles, marching band renditions of Nirvana songs, and, of course, athletic feats.
Women golfers smash records at Dartmouth Invite Sophomore golfer Emily Balmert ’09 paced the Harvard women to a record-breaking outing and a first-place finish (out of 17 teams) at the…
It was a time to free one’s mind, think outside the box, and consider some big ideas. At the invitation of the Center for International Development (CID), nearly 100 representatives of academia, government, and industry met at the Kennedy School on Sept. 9 for the “Blue Sky Conference” – an opportunity to discuss unorthodox notions that might ordinarily be dismissed as “pie in the sky.”
If it’s really true that we are what we eat, most of us should run, not walk, over to Harvard’s first-ever Farmers’ Market, to rehabilitate ourselves from the world of unhealthful eating and mediocre grocery store produce.
Sidney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library, is retiring. He will be stepping down at the end of the academic year, June 30, 2007, interim President Derek Bok has announced.
Harvard University’s endowment earned a 16.7 percent return during the year ending June 30, 2006, bringing the endowment’s overall value to $29.2 billion. The continued strong returns reinforce the endowment’s critical support for Harvard’s academic programs and mission. In the 2006 fiscal year, endowment dollars provided almost a third of Harvard’s operating budget, or over $930 million.
With change comes opportunity, the adage goes. That old saying has become words to live by at Harvard Management Company (HMC). With a new president and CEO in Mohamed El-Erian, with new heads of five critical areas beneath him, and with new staff in those five areas just starting to filter in, it may be a while before it feels like same old, same old on the 16th floor of Boston’s Federal Reserve Building where HMC has its offices.
Harvard faculty members and a Radcliffe fellow probing the mysteries of stem cells, the early universe, the modern practice of surgery, and the significance of public sights and modern ruins were honored Tuesday (Sept. 19) with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s $500,000, no-strings-attached ‘genius grants.’
Harvard Recycling and Waste Management fueled its truck with used vegetable oil from the Annenberg Hall kitchen this past Tuesday (Sept. 19) – marking a first for a Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) vehicle. According to recycling and waste management supervisor for FMO Rob Gogan, the oil performed “identical to diesel.”
The third annual RiverSing, a free and open-to-the-public event celebrating the first day of autumn and the beauty of the Charles River parklands, will be held Sept. 21 along the Weeks Memorial Footbridge linking Allston and Cambridge. Presented by the Revels and the Charles River Conservancy, the theme of this year’s RiverSing is “Bridging the Charles with Voice and Light.”
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Sept. 11. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
At its first meeting of the year on Sept. 13, the Faculty Council welcomed new members and elected subcommittees for 2006-2007, discussed the status of a proposal for general education,…
A memorial service for Charles W. Dunn will be held in the Memorial Church Nov. 3 at 2 p.m. Donations may be made to the Charles W. Dunn Book Fund, 110 Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138.
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG) recently announced the establishment of the Kistefos Public Service Fellowship. The fellowship will be funded through a donation of more than $1 million from Kistefos AS, one of Norway’s leading privately owned investment companies.
Eleven incoming Harvard graduate students recently joined 66 other scholars from across the globe to receive scholarships from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. These graduate scholarships cover tuition, room, board, fees, and books — up to $50,000 annually — for up to six years. The scholarships are among the most generous academic awards offered in the United States.
A Chinese vice minister, a senior vice president from Fidelity Investments, and professors from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Boston College are among the incoming fellows and visiting scholars at the Kennedy School of Government’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) this fall.
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, located at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, recently announced its fellows for the fall. These Shorenstein Fellows will work on research projects while at the center.
Internationally renowned Canadian neuroscientist Joseph B. Martin, dean of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine, was recently named the inaugural winner of the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research.
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