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.
The field of reproductive technologies has become a fast- growing and profitable economic sector. “Parents choose for different traits, clinics woo clients, and specialized providers earn millions of dollars,” points…
A group of Harvard undergraduates studying sexual slavery in the United States has recommended that states set up task forces of state, federal, and local officials as well as victims…
Medical experts have been baffled by what causes asthma. Most of them favor the idea that it stems from “helper” cells that have gone awry. But researchers at Harvard Medical…
Chemists at Harvard University have developed the first technique providing a real-time, molecule-by-molecule “movie” of protein production in live cells. Their direct observation of fluorescently tagged molecules in single cells…
The view from space of an ancient canal network is recasting archaeologists’ understanding of the Assyrian capital of Nineveh and of the farming economy that supported it at its height of power almost 3,000 years ago.
In order to advance its mission of promoting stem cell research across the scientific community, five junior Harvard stem cell researchers last week (March 9-11) hosted five of their University…
The BP Group Executive Director Iain Conn forecasts an energy future where fossil fuels still make up the bulk of world energy production, but in which demand is far higher,…
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.
If suicide terrorism is to be held in check, what’s needed is an engaging, exciting “counterperformance” – whatever that might be – that can be offered in place of the “theater of violence” exemplified by the al-Qaida attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Accompanied by the dazzle of gowns and the pounding of their own hearts, some of the very best collegiate and amateur dancers in the United States whirled around the Malkin Athletic Center at the recent Hanlon-Ford Winter Ball.
March 3, 1939 – Spurred by a bet, Lothrop Withington Jr. 42 slurps down a four-inch goldfish – and unwittingly starts the national goldfish-swallowing college craze. March 1, 1942 –…
Memorial service for John Langstaff on Saturday A memorial service for John Langstaff, founder of The Christmas Revels, will be held at the Memorial Church on March 18 at 2…
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…
How did we get here from there? Thats the question that preoccupies historian Daniel Lord Smail, who joined Harvards Faculty of Arts and Sciences as professor of history on Jan. 1.
Harvard staff: Whats your Harvard like? Do you tell people great things about working at Harvard? Do you recommend Harvard as a place to work? Do you ever think about leaving Harvard? Do you do your best work every day? Do you regularly go above and beyond at work?
Closing the leadership gap between men and women is one of the central challenges of this century, said David Gergen, director of Harvard Universitys Center for Public Leadership (CPL), after two days of intense discussions at a Kennedy School conference on womens leadership.
Schlesinger Library archivist Kraft honored with ACRL award Katherine Kraft, archivist at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for…
Skilled and lucky 13 named All-Ivy fencers One month after capturing Ivy League championships, the Harvard men’s and women’s fencing teams placed 13 athletes on the All-Ivy squads, including seven…
Reflecting upon his own experience after returning from the Vietnam War, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said to a Kennedy School of Government (KSG) audience, We lived in a very complicated period of time when the war was confused with the warrior and vice versa, so that whatever normal proclivity there was in America to welcome home those who served, to say thank you, to celebrate that service, had melted away.
Acknowledging that demographics, not ratings, are now king in the media world, former CBS anchor Dan Rather told a Kennedy School of Government (KSG) audience that he could easily see Daily Show host Jon Stewart replacing Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes when Rooney retires.
For those peering in the windows from the outside, the Carpenter Centers main gallery looks like a work in progress, or the studio of a frantic, grim, compulsive artist.
In 1872, whaling merchant James Arnold’s will transferred a section of his Jamaic Plain estate to the fellows and president of Harvard College,. The Arnold Arboretum has since performed a unique function as Boston’s own living open-air museum.
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