Sue Williamson, director of the master in public administration (M.P.A.) program at the Kennedy School of Government, died May 27 at her home in Watertown, Mass., after battling cancer for several months. She was 60 years old.
Leslie and Abigail Wexner, founding benefactors of the John F. Kennedy School of Governments Center for Public Leadership (CPL), have pledged an additional gift of $6.3 million to support the centers research, teaching, and leadership development over the coming three years.
In honor of the four black men of the class of 1952 – dubbed the pioneers – the Harvard Foundation and the Harvard Black Mens Forum held a tribute and reception earlier this spring. Walter C. Carrington 52, James M. Harkless 52, Herbert S. Hughes 52, and William M. Simmons 52 were presented with the Harvard Foundation medal during the April 22 event.
Ph.D. candidate named Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has selected Japa Pallikkathayil, a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy, as one of its 30 Charlotte W. Newcombe…
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures has announced its 2005 – 06 award winners. Prizes to undergraduate and graduate students total more than $6,000.
In 1952, Roger Marshutz was a young Army recruit from Los Angeles assigned to the Pusan Military Post in Korea. Before being drafted, he had studied air-conditioning engineering at California Polytechnic State University expecting to enter the family business, but in his last semester before entering the military he decided to switch to photography. Fortunately, the Army gave him a chance to continue in that field.
Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: n…
A memorial service for John Kenneth Galbraith, the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, has been scheduled for Wednesday (May 31) in the Memorial Church at 2 p.m. Galbraith,…
May 19, 1959 – To mark the 50th anniversary of A. Lawrence Lowells election to the Harvard presidency, the Harvard Corporation renames the New Lecture Hall (1902), henceforth to be…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 22. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
Susanna Siegel remembers staring up at the ceiling as a young girl and wondering whether the marks she saw on the white surface were tiny holes or tiny dots.
Randy Buckner tries to predict what you will remember. The newly tenured professor of psychology and his Harvard colleagues have been able to anticipate which words students will remember and have also been able to improve the memories of older people.
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean William C. Kirby has announced that Joyce E. Chaplin, Caroline M. Elkins, Jill Lepore, David Roxburgh, Susan R. Suleiman, and Gordon L. Teskey are the Walter Channing Cabot Fellows for the current academic year. The fellowships are awarded annually to selected faculty members in recognition of their achievements and scholarship in the fields of literature, history or art, as such terms may be liberally interpreted … .
Gates is editor in chief of Oxford African American Studies Center W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. is serving as editor in chief of the…
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) presented two outstanding educators in the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowships on May 19. The awards, which were given by HGSE Dean Kathleen McCartney, the Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development, and Cambridge Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn, provide a one-year stipend for study at HGSE. The afternoon presentation of the fellowships was held at the Harvard Faculty Club.
Men’s heavies pick up Rowe Cup, 2V’s claim gold The Harvard men’s heavyweight crew captured the Rowe Cup at the EARC Sprints this past Sunday (May 21) at Lake Quinsigamond…
Harvard Medical School (HMS) announced Tuesday (May 23) that it has signed a multimillion-dollar license agreement with Merck & Co. Inc. to develop potential therapies for macular degeneration, an eye disease that affects older people and can lead to blindness.
Finding a job can be tough for anyone. For residents of the Palestinian Territories, political tensions have placed extra impediments in the way of both job seekers and potential employers.
Cambridge School Volunteers Inc. (CSV) recently honored more than 1,000 of its volunteers who have served in grades K-12 of the Cambridge Public Schools during the 2005-06 academic year at a reception hosted by the University at the Harvard Faculty Club. Together, these volunteers provided more than 60,000 hours of individualized academic services to Cambridge youth.
Four Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates laid out plans for tax cuts, local aid hikes, and economic revitalization during a policy-focused debate televised live from the John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) on May 18.
The Department of Music has announced its 2005-06 fellowship and award winners. Graduate and undergraduate students will receive a total of $225,000 for award and fellowship programs.
The Kennedy School of Governments (KSG) Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group has announced that the Stone Fellowship for the best paper written by a doctoral student in the area of environmental and resource policy during 2005 has been conferred upon Cynthia Lin, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics. Lin, who will receive her Ph.D. in economics this June, was awarded the fellowship for her paper Do Firms Interact Strategically? An Empirical Analysis of Investment Timing Decisions in Offshore Petroleum Production.
It couldve been dubbed Around the World in 70 Artworks. The recent art show at the Kennedy School trekked back in time to Civil War encampments journeyed through space to destinations ranging from Franklin Park to Japan to New Zealand explored ants, birds, and fish and even made a short spectacular hop back into the psychedelic 60s. It was the Fourth Annual KSG Art Show and it was, in short, a success. Seventy of the most talented of Kennedy School staff were represented in the Taubman Building exhibit, and their media were as varied as their subjects – videos, scrapbooks, needlepoint, jewelry, a light show, and the more familiar genres of painting and photography. At times, the show was as much a happening as an exhibit – Veronica McClure wore a period costume to display her portfolio What a Civil War Encampment Means Noemi Garcia Tagorda showed her video We Are Ants and Bert Syms caused flashbacks for some with his Psychedelic Light Show With Music. If you missed it, remember, it happens every spring.
Researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have prompted human immune cells to attack HIV protein fragments, showing that the long-sought vaccine to protect against AIDS…
Applied scientists from Harvard University have, for the first time, demonstrated high-power continuous wave (cw) room-temperature quantum cascade (QC) lasers made by a well-established mass production semiconductor synthesis technique. The…
Harvard University announced a proposal to transform its Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) into the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS).
Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) from 1991 to 2002, has agreed to serve as interim dean of the Faculty beginning July 1, the University announced Monday (May 22). Named by incoming interim President Derek Bok, Knowles will serve until the selection of a permanent dean by the next president of Harvard.
Michael G. Rukstad, a member of the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty for many years, died May 17 at Massachusetts General Hospital after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 51.
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