The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) administration will be relocating from Byerly Hall to the third floor of Holyoke Center in September. As a result, several financial operations within the Office of the Controller in Holyoke Center will be moving to 1033 Massachusetts Ave., second floor, effective May 30.
Harvard student Harrison Greenbaum ’08 has been awarded first prize in this years Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting for his entry A Uniquely Portable Magic: A Collection of Treasures from the Conjuring Arts. Second prize went to Alexis Kusy 07 for The Peculiar Collection, while third prize went to Michael Sanchez 07 for Collecting the French Avant-Garde. An exhibition featuring items from the students collections will be on display in Lamont Library on Level 5 through January 2007.
Harvard University today (May 23) 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 from 1991 to 2002, has agreed to serve as Interim Dean of the Faculty beginning July 1, the University announced today. Named by incoming Interim President Derek Bok, Knowles will serve until the selection of a permanent dean by the next president of Harvard.
Kathleen McCartney, Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development, will be the next dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers announced Tuesday (May 16).
A memorial service for Julius Babbitt M.P.A. 01, director of Alumni Programs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), will be held Friday (May 19) at 1 p.m. at Memorial Church. A reception will immediately follow in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
May 3, 1943 – The Harvard Corporation hosts an informal dinner for the heads of Cambridge government in the Eliot House rooms of the Society of Fellows. The results are…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 15. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
Harvard University Provost Steven E. Hyman has named Jorge Domínguez, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, to the newly created post of vice provost for international affairs.
Harvard University announced Monday (May 15) that David Rockefeller, a member of the Harvard College Class of 1936 and longtime benefactor, has increased to $25 million his endowment gift to support Harvards Latin American studies center. The new gift of an additional $10 million to the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies will support the centers research, teaching, and publishing activities, and will provide increased funding for undergraduate and graduate students who study Latin America and travel to the region.
Womens tennis looks to individual champs The Harvard women’s tennis team fell to Purdue, 4-2, this past Friday (May 12) in the NCAA regionals at Combe Tennis Center on the…
Dr. Stanley J. Korsmeyer, Sidney Farber Professor of Pathology and Professor of Medicine, at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, died at age 54 on March 31, 2005. A lifelong non-smoker and vigorous man in seemingly perfect health, he succumbed to the ravages of lung cancer after a heroic 15-month battle. Prior to coming to the Dana-Farber, he was Chief of the Division of Molecular Oncology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) Tuesday (May 16) announced the selection of Daly Genik Architects of Los Angeles to design the first Harvard visual arts center in Allston-Brighton, Mass., for students and the public.
Deborah Sykes was on her way to work at the Winston-Salem Sentinel newspaper in North Carolina on the morning of Aug. 10, 1984. She parked her car and began walking the few blocks to her Sentinel office. She never made it.
Gennaro Chierchia, one of the worlds leading formal semanticists, has been named Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.
Three Harvard seniors were honored as Joseph L. Barrett Award recipients at a special ceremony this past Monday (May 15). Administered by the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC), the award commemorates Barrett (Class of 73) and is given in recognition of promising young people at Harvard College who have enhanced the learning of others with the vigor and openness so characteristic of Joe.
The Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard received an award earlier this month from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) for more than $18 million to support genomic studies aimed at unveiling the genetic variations that underlie common human diseases.
John Jack Douglas Crawford, II, had a stroke during the night after his 85th birthday on April 16th, 2005, and died three days later. Jack was known to many as one of the founders of pediatric endocrinology, as well as the developer of the electronic osmometer, and to his children and the neighborhood children in Lincoln, MA as the man who let them collect eggs and feed the geese.
Fred S. Rosen, M.D., a world leader in pediatric immunology and the first James L. Gamble Professor of Pediatrics, died on May 21, 2005, a few days short of his 75th birthday. His career was marked by his devotion to his patients, by his talent for converging seemingly disparate scientific and clinical information in developing novel therapeutic approaches to their diseases, and by his unwavering dedication to supporting the careers of young colleagues. His lifes work is measured not just by his remarkable intellectual contributions and service to his patients, but by the multitude of medical and graduate students, pediatric residents and fellows, and clinical and scientific colleagues whom he inspired. Indeed, his death occurred a day after an international symposium was held in Boston in his honor. Scores of his colleagues from around the world attended and many of them came to his bedside to bid him farewell. He knew they were there and why they had come. They knew it, also.
Poised to become the worlds most populous nation by 2040, India faces daunting challenges: huge burdens of disease, lack of needed medical care in many regions, and a dearth of public health professionals. In an attempt to deter a looming crisis, the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has collaborated with the Indian government, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and other public and private partners to form the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI).
New scientific findings indicate that ancestral humans split from chimpanzee forebears more recently than previously thought and raise the possibility that the two nascent species hybridized before making their final separation.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston have isolated a molecule that stimulates the regrowth of damaged adult nerve fibers, providing new hope for those suffering from nerve…
The Universitys Presidential Search Committee, comprising the six members of the Corporation other than the president along with three members of the Board of Overseers, announced the membership of both the faculty advisory group and the student advisory group for the search on Friday (May 12).
Discrimination and racial injustice led James Sidanius to leave the United States for Sweden in the early 1970s. But instead of putting discrimination behind him, the move changed his perspective and prompted him to make the study of discrimination and group oppression his lifes work.
Undergraduate education at Harvard has improved significantly in recent years. The reason? A growing number of students are spending time away from Harvard.
Stavins co-editing new Journal of Wine Economics The Journal of Wine Economics, a new scholarly periodical published earlier this month for the first time, is co-edited by Robert Stavins, the…
Six Harvard College students have been awarded the first annual Lester Kissel Grants in Practical Ethics to carry out summer projects on subjects ranging from Indias market in human organs to the role of luck in legal responsibility. The students will use the grants to conduct research in the United States or abroad, and to write reports, articles, or senior theses. Three of the students will carry out their projects on internships or foreign study. Each grant supports living and research expenses up to $3,000.
The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute at Harvard is now accepting submissions for its 2006 Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies, given to the undergraduate and graduate student with the best essays on Japan-related topics. The undergraduate award is $2,000 and the graduate award is $3,000. The deadline for submission is June 30. Papers written this academic year are eligible, including course and seminar works, B.A. or M.A. theses, or essays written specifically for the competition. Doctoral dissertations, however, will not be accepted for consideration.
What happens when the Kyoto Protocols first commitment period comes to an end after 2012? Twenty-five leading scholars, including economists, political scientists, legal scholars, and natural scientists, recently asked – and tried to answer – that question, examining alternative international strategies to address the pressing problem of global climate change after 2012.
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