Out of more than 1,000 students in the Harvard class of 1952, four were African American. Contrast this with the 150 or so African-American students in the recently admitted class of 2010.
Nancy Bean dreamed of leaving the antiseptic middle-class suburb where she lived with her husband and three children and returning to the small Texas town of Tulia where she was raised. She wanted her kids to experience the slower, simpler life of home canning and quilting bees that she remembered from childhood, to know what it was like to live closer to the land, surrounded by a large extended family.
Geraldine Brooks, the Vera M. Schuyler Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, had been scheduled for several months to present her work-in-progress on April 19 to other fellows, the Harvard community, and the public. Then two days before her presentation, Brooks learned she had won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel March (Viking, 2005).
Harvard Assistant Professor of the History of Science Marwa Elshakry joined 19 other scholars nationwide to be named Carnegie Scholars this week by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
The Woodberry Poetry Room in Lamont Library will be closed for extensive renovations from May 29 to Sept. 10, during which time the collection will not be available for use. The room will reopen Sept. 11 at 9 a.m. Please contact curator Don Share (via e-mail at share@fas.harvard.edu or phone at 617-495-2454) with any questions about the collection.
World-class professional tennis team the Boston Lobsters is gearing up for another season at Harvards Bright Hockey Center, scheduled for July 6-26. The home of the Lobsters has been modified to include a new cooling system and improved sight lines for a more intimate seating venue than seasons past. This season, special guests and live entertainment are also planned.
Joan Reede surveyed the scene as busload after busload of middle schoolers made their way into Harvard Medical Schools gleaming New Research Building. A staff member approached, leading a young girl. Id like to introduce you to someone, the staffer began, but Reede quickly said, Oh, I know her already. She wants to be a pediatrician.
It’s a devastating disease, changing behavior, causing uncontrolled movements, blindness, coma, and, finally, death. And we all have the makings of it in our heads. When it topples cows, it’s…
The winner of this year’s ES100-100hf senior engineering design project course competition aimed straight for the heart by recording an electrical “ballad.” The runners-up (a tie for second), meanwhile, worked…
John Wakeley is devising new ways to trace the evolutionary road taken by humans and the creatures with whom we share planet Earth by creating new models that examine how…
An invasive weed that has spread across much of the United States harms native maples, ashes, and other hardwood trees by releasing chemicals harmful to a soil fungus the trees…
At its 16th meeting of the year on April 26, the Faculty Council discussed scholarly publishing and a proposal to rename and establish new degrees in the Extension School. The…
April 9, 1968 – Assassinated civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is buried in Atlanta. At Harvard, Lowell Lecture Hall is the scene of a daylong program of speeches and…
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced the recipients of the 2006 Harvard Medal: Chase N. Peterson 52, M.D. 56, Chet Stone III, and Sidney R. Knafel 52, M.B.A. 54.
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,…
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