Noted mathematician Philip Uri Treisman was recently honored by the Harvard Foundation for his notable contributions to the teaching of mathematical skills to educationally disadvantaged youth at the annual Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics science conference at Harvards Science Center. Treisman is a professor of mathematics and executive director of the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas, Austin. He is widely known for creating the Emerging Scholars Program (ESP), designed to increase the number of minority and other underserved students who succeed in mathematics.
Former Business School Professor Andrall E. Pearson, whose legendary business career and devotion to family served as a model to many, died at his home on March 11 in Palm Beach, Fla. He was 80 years old.
Agassiz House, the grand, columned building that is the focal point of the Radcliffe Yard, will become the new home of Harvards Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid beginning in September. The Office of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) will also leave Byerly Hall, relocating to Holyoke Center.
A partnership between the city of Cambridge and Harvard University will bring a series of streetscape and other physical improvements to Harvard Square over the next 18 months.
Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers led a faculty delegation to India this week to celebrate the Universitys ties to the worlds largest democracy and to emphasize Harvards important research initiatives in India.
H. Richard (Dick) Nesson was born in Boston on May 6, 1932, and died on October 18, 1998. His parents were hardworking, and struggled to ensure that their children were educated. In the summers and part-time during the school year, Dick worked in his fathers store. The clientele were primarily blue-collar workers and their families. For the rest of his life, serving people from all walks of life was his lodestar.
Exercise improves your health, but can you kill yourself with too much snow shoveling, yard work, jogging, or playing tennis? “Despite all of the known benefits of exercise, there are…
David Suzuki, the Japanese-Canadian scientist and environmentalist, professed astonishment at having been awarded this year’s Roger Tory Peterson medal from the Harvard Museum of Natural History. “I’m not a birder,”…
Ian Gilby was following a chimpanzee through Uganda’s Kibale Forest, observing behavior and testing revised data collection methods. Gilby had done his doctoral dissertation on chimpanzees in Tanzania and was…
The white board that covers hundreds of feet of the curved hallway at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) is not always covered with equations – but lately, it…
It’s the brilliant colors and otherworldly shapes of the Dominican insects that catch the eye and draw a viewer in. It’s the alien forms magnified for all to see clearly…
Balancing protections for creditors and debtors is the goal of American bankruptcy law. Late last year, when the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) went into effect, it upset that delicate balance, according to members of a panel discussion on bankruptcy policy and the middle class held at Harvard Law School on Monday (March 20).
This is the second in an ongoing Gazette series giving our readers and viewers a glimpse into the life of Harvard after dark. Here, photographer Kris Snibbe captures the ghostly…
At its 14th meeting of the year on March 22, the Faculty Council considered revised legislation on secondary fields and a delay in timing of concentration choice, discussed Faculty of…
President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates: Thursday, April 20, 4-5 p.m. Thursday, May 11, 4-5 p.m. Sign-up…
The Gazette will not publish on March 30 due to spring recess. The Gazette will resume its normal publication schedule on April 6. The news deadline for that issue is…
Henrietta Harrison, a historian of modern China whose study of emblematic individuals and communities has opened broad new windows on Chinas dramatic cultural and political shifts over the past two centuries, has been appointed professor of history in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.
Literary critic Biodun Jeyifo, an authority on African drama widely viewed as the worlds leading interpreter of works by Nigerian writer and playwright Wole Soyinka, has been appointed professor of African and African-American studies in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.
In Japan today, the two most common physical complaints are lower back pain and a condition called katakori, according to Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History Shigehisa Kuriyama, citing 2003 statistics by the Japanese Ministry of Welfare and Labor.
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government has awarded the $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting to James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times for their investigative report Domestic Spying. Risen and Lichtblau revealed that the U.S. government, in the name of national security, was systematically tapping into international telephone calls and e-mail traffic in the United States without court warrants.
Clicking Crimson roll through Albany, capture ECACHL title to advance The Harvard men’s hockey team tallied five power-play goals, including three unanswered scores in the opening frame, to eclipse Cornell,…
Lee and Deb Gehrke have been named acting co-masters of Quincy House for the 2006-07 academic year, while Quincy co-masters Robert Kirshner and Jayne Loader are on sabbatical.
A recent discussion at Harvard Law School about Irans nuclear ambitions mirrored the current state of international relations: The Iranian faction claimed that Iran is within its rights enriching nuclear material, while U.S. representatives asserted either that Iran is untrustworthy or, worse, that Iran clearly intends to develop nuclear weapons. The March 16 discussion was titled Iran and the Future of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime.
At a time when women are ascending to the executive branch of government in countries such as Liberia, Germany, and Chile, the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced a $1.5 million gift to endow the Barbara Lee Women in U.S. Politics Training Program and Lecture Series to train women for electoral office in the United States.
On March 9 at approximately 2 a.m., a female unaffiliated with the University reported to the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) that she was the victim of an attempted abduction near 80 John F. Kennedy St.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 13. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
Some time around 1680, an Easter Islander cut down the islands last tree, dooming any hopes of an environmental recovery on the remote Pacific Ocean speck and condemning his descendants to poverty, civil war, and cannibalism.
In the latest leg of this seasons ECAC Hockey League title run, a best-of-three quarterfinal series against visiting St. Lawrence University on March 10-12, the Harvard mens hockey team took a bad spill, got up, and then proceeded to dust the competition. For the resilient and then-some Crimson, the redemptive powers of beating the Saints 3-2 and 8-4 in the second and deciding contests, respectively, ought to put a strut in their skates heading into Fridays (March 17) conference semifinal against Dartmouth.
The Mark DeWolfe Howe Fund for Study and Research in Civil Rights-Civil Liberties and Legal History is currently accepting proposals for either the coming summer or for the 2006-07 academic year.
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