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.
President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates: Today, April 20, 4-5 p.m. Thursday, May 11, 4-5 p.m. Sign-up…
Musical theorist V. Kofi Agawu, a scholar whose research and writing span musical traditions from Gustav Mahler to the Ewe people of Ghana, has been appointed professor of music and African and African-American studies in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.
Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman has announced appointments that carry two University cross-disciplinary science initiatives to the next level of their development:
M.P.H. candidate elected AMA student section chair Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) M.P.H. candidate Benjamin Galper ’02 has recently been elected national chair of the American Medical Association (AMA)…
Although the Harvard womens basketball team didnt quite make an appearance in the 2006 Final Four tournament (the Crimson, for the record, finished the season 12-15, 8-6 Ivy), the University wasnt entirely unrepresented in the Big Show. In fact, as one of the official hosts and partners for the 25th annual womens Final Four, Harvard (together with usual crosstown rival Northeastern University) played a key role in the planning and coordination of the multi-day event.
Princetons jumping second half upends womens lacrosse The No. 10 Princeton women’s lacrosse team fired off 20 second-half shots en route to a 14-8 win over the Crimson this past…
The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have announced the winners of the annual undergraduate arts prizes presented in recognition of outstanding accomplishment in the arts for the 2005-06 academic year.
The Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School (HLS) is frequently home to mock trials as law students sharpen their skills. On April 12, however, it was the real thing setting up shop at Ames as the Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation heard arguments in an actual case.
JoAnn E. Manson, chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine and co-director of the Connors Center for Womens Health and Gender Biology, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, has been named the recipient of the 2006 Harvard College Womens Professional Achievement Award.
Continuing its tradition of contributing to public service projects, the Harvard Coop recently awarded nearly $10,000 in grants to 21 student-led public service organizations for spring and summer 2006. These grants help students to upgrade equipment, design new materials, provide summer services, and launch new projects and special initiatives. The Coop held a grant reception ceremony April 10.
Sitting in a swivel chair in his basement office, Robert Levin can barely keep his agile pianists fingers off the telephone. He has just learned that his friend Yehudi Wyner won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for musical composition with his piano concerto Chiavi in Mano, and he wants to be the first to call the composer in Italy and give him the news.
He was trusted and admired by colleagues in each discipline. They and his students regarded him with deep affection. Freed was one of few faculty members in Social Relations who had moral authority derived from his colleagues’ recognition that he placed the welfare of the department above personal motives.
Parasitic plants are not just a biological curiosity. Every year, parasitic plants damage farmers’ fields, particularly in Africa. Kristin Lewis, a junior fellow at the Rowland Institute at Harvard, is…
They came to the South Pole, enduring months of bitter cold, darkness, and isolation, to peer at the galaxy’s center through clear, dry skies. And in December, they – scientists…
A Princeton University energy expert laid out a framework to arrest atmosphere-warming carbon emissions over the next 50 years, saying he was optimistic that significant action could be taken to…
Darwinian evolution follows very few of the available mutational pathways to attain fitter proteins, researchers at Harvard University have found in a study of a gene whose mutant form increases bacterial resistance to a widely prescribed antibiotic by a factor of roughly 100,000.
Professor Douglas Melton asked his Harvard class this question: Should drugs and other treatments used for curing disease also be used to extend our physical capabilities, to, say, enhance athletic performance?
At its 15th meeting of the year on April 12, the Faculty Council discussed the Committee on Undergraduate Educations evaluations and considered two motions: one for a cluster of concentrations…
April 1957 – To the delight of Boston Red Sox fans, the Harvard Band performs on opening day at Fenway Park. April 1962 – On the ground floor of Holyoke…
President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on Thursday (April 20) from 4 to 5 p.m. Sign-up begins one hour earlier unless…
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