The pressures of pride served a visiting Brown baseball team well in game two of Mondays (April 24) doubleheader. Facing elimination in the Red Rolfe Division title race – and carrying the fresh sting of dropping three straight against the Crimson by scores of 1-0, 8-4, and 5-2 – the Bears bucked the series trend with a 16-2 thrashing of their hosts in the fourth and final contest to avoid the sweep, and, most importantly, to stay mathematically alive in the hunt for the division title.
Bulldog track and fielders get past hosts A visiting Yale women’s track and field team captured 10 of 18 events this past Saturday (April 22) to take an 86-77 win…
Dancers leaping into the air, potters spinning their wheels, musicians playing religious to rock, and many other performance and visual artists representing the Harvard arts scene will soon take over various venues in and around campus, marking the arrival of Arts First, Harvards 14th annual arts festival.
In recent years, crossing disciplines is much more common than it used to be, but that doesnt mean that its not a good idea to look both ways before you cross. While ethicists and scientists wrangle about when life begins, and historians and literary scholars buzz about the importance of imperialism in the novels of Jane Austen, there is also a growing relationship between the disciplines of art and art history and those of anthropology and archaeology. A recent symposium recently took a close, fresh look at this relationship.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) recently announced the election of 175 new fellows and 20 new foreign honorary members. Included among this new field of fellows are eight Harvard faculty members.
Jendayi Frazer, assistant U.S. secretary for African Affairs, sounded an optimistic note on the future of Africa during a speech Friday (April 21) at the Black Policy Conference at the Kennedy School.
A daughter of migrant farm workers who rose to become deputy chief of staff for President Bill Clinton said Thursday (April 20) that the current dispute over immigration reform is just the latest chapter in a debate as old as the country over who becomes an American.
Jay O. Light, an expert in finance and investment management and the Dwight P. Robinson, Jr., Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), will be the School’s next Dean.
Robert G. Stone, Jr., AB ’45, LLD ’03, a preeminent and beloved figure in the Harvard community who served as trusted adviser and friend to three Harvard Presidents as well as countless faculty, staff, and students for more than four decades, died on Tuesday (April 18).
A Harvard professor and a Radcliffe Fellow were awarded Pulitzer Prizes in letters April 17 for a factual reconstruction of Britains brutal suppression of Kenyas Mau Mau rebellion and a novel about the wartime journey of an absent father.
A memorial service for George W. Mackey, the Landon T. Clay Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, will be held at the Memorial Church on April 29 at 2 p.m. Mackey died…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 17. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www. hupd.harvard.edu/.
Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo warned April 12 that poverty is the enemy of democracy in Latin America and said that despite Perus recent economic gains, he did not do enough to improve the lot of Perus poor during his five-year term.
Walkers wanted: University to back Walk for Hunger The Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs will celebrate its 20th anniversary as a contributing donor on behalf of Harvard faculty,…
Career resiliency is the ability to remain employable in the midst of the constant changes in todays job market, said Devin Ryder, senior consultant for career management at Harvards Office of Human Resources. Its a persons ability to adapt and change in the workplace as needed, including a willingness to keep updating ones skills, she added.
Fifty students from the Graduate School of Design (GSD) climbed out onto Gund Halls stepped roof this week (April 19 and 20) to strew sedum on the rectangles of gravel ballast. The project is a pilot study to see if Gund will become Harvards first building to be retrofitted with a green roof.
Harvard scientists have solved the puzzle of how to generate a special form of wave in small electronic devices, allowing the electrical equivalent of the pulses of light that carry signals through optical cables.
Harvard Magazines Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2006-07 academic year will be Casey N. Cep 06 and Emma M. Lind 09. The two were selected from a competitive evaluation of 20 student writers applications for the position. The fellows will join the editorial staff during the year, contributing to the magazine as undergraduate columnists and by initiating story ideas, writing news and feature items, and editing copy before publication.
Arts First, Harvards annual festival of students in the arts, will celebrate its 14th anniversary May 4 – 7. Sponsored by Harvard Universitys Board of Overseers, the festival involves more than 2,000 students presenting over 200 concerts, theatrical and dance productions, multimedia presentations, exhibitions, and public artworks. The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA), which produces Arts First, announced its sponsorship of 25 of the many projects taking place during the weekend festival.
Ronold Wyeth Percival King, mentor to 100 doctoral students in the Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, died peacefully in his home in Winchester, Mass., on April 10 at the age of 100. King was born in Williamstown, Mass., in 1905. He received his A.B. and S.M. degrees in physics from the University of Rochester in 1927 and 1929, respectively, and studied at the University of Munich from 1928 to 1929 and Cornell University from 1929 to 1930. He obtained a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1932, where he continued on as a research assistant from 1932 to 1934. He was an assistant professor at Lafayette College from 1934 to 1937. He was a Guggenheim Fellow studying in Europe from 1937 to 1938 and again in 1958. In 1938, he joined Harvard University as an instructor, became an assistant professor in 1939, an associate professor in 1942, and in 1946 became the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics. In 1972, he became professor emeritus.
The I Tatti Renaissance Library (ITRL) has received a grant of $1.2 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue producing bilingual editions of important Latin writings from the 14th to the 16th centuries. The series, sponsored by the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti near Florence, is published by Harvard University Press.
The Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) invites University faculty, staff, students, and alumni to its upcoming conference, titled Harvard Vision 2020: A Bridge to Campus Sustainability, to contribute their thoughts on how Harvard can address the demands of environmental sustainability in its future campus design, development, and operations. The three-day conference, which kicks off April 27 at Gutman Library (Graduate School of Education), will feature prominent keynote speakers, interdisciplinary panel discussions, workshops, special events, and opportunities to meet Harvard affiliates with a shared commitment to campus environmental sustainability.
As June 30 approaches, offices throughout the University will be closing the books and the files on the 2005-06 academic year. To help staff in charge of keeping the Universitys files in order, the Records Management Office (RMO) is offering two important workshops in May and June.
As the first psychologist, indeed the first non-physician from any discipline, to receive full clinical as well as research psychoanalytic training in America, Margaret Brenman-Gibson, PhD, broke ground for and inspired so many who came after her. Having accomplished this as a woman only confirmed the conviction she conveyed that doors would, indeed must, open to a person of talent, passion, persistence, and intellectual daring. She was fiercely committed to (so as not to repeat the word passion) her beliefs, which included psychoanalysis and the peace movement. She was among the last survivors of a generation of gifted young psychoanalysts who forged the hegemonic primacy of the American ego psychology paradigm. At Harvard, in the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital, she was one of the first women to be appointed as a full professor – Clinical Professor of Psychology in 1982.
What film would you least like to see with your tasty feet dangling in the deep and your nervous hands treading water, not to mention the complete exposure of one of your most important assets protuding from an inner tube? The answer is self-evident. On April 13, the fearless undergraduates of this fair University showed what they were made of, figuratively and literally, as they watched two screenings of Jaws from the comfort of front-lane seats in the MAC pool. The mayor assured that all would be safe – and it turned out he was right. A good time was had by most.
Hold the french fries, doughnuts, and cookies, and save as many as 228,000 heart attacks and deaths from heart disease. That’s the message from a team of researchers at the…
Scientists have found that worms dwelling at deep-sea hydrothermal vents opt for temperatures of 45-55 degrees Celsius (113-131 degrees Fahrenheit) when provided a choice of conditions, giving them the highest…
Elisabeth Moyer knows that planeloads of relief supplies arrive regularly in Africa. She knows that African and international workers struggle to provide food and to fight diseases such as AIDS,…
Professors at Harvard University have overwhelmingly approved a plan that will reinvent the experience of the University’s undergraduate life sciences students, broadening degree options to better track modern biology and…
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