At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 4, 2025, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Ralph Mitchell was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
For the third year in a row, close to 4,000 students have applied for admission to Harvard under its nonbinding Early Action program. This number is in stark contrast to the fall of 2002, when early application numbers soared to over 7,600. At that time, Harvard followed a now-modified requirement of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors that allowed students to apply simultaneously to an unlimited number of Early Action colleges, as well as to one binding Early Decision school. Eventually, in response to what admissions officials considered widespread confusion for college aspirants, Harvard three years ago returned to its long-standing policy of single-choice Early Action, requiring its early candidates to forgo early applications elsewhere.
This is the second in a series of Gazette articles highlighting some of the many initiatives and charities that Harvard affiliates can support through this months Community Gifts Through Harvard Campaign.
To climb the seven highest peaks on each of the seven continents is a formidable aspiration. To reach the seven summits in a record-setting 198 days, while raising $5 million for pediatric oncology research is the goal of a group of Harvard graduate school students, the Mountains for Miracles team.
Breukelein Institute honors Gomes The Breukelein Institute, a nonreligious, not-for-profit project of the Brooklyn Oratory of St. Philip Neri, recently presented the Gaudium Award to the Rev. Professor Peter J.…
Flu shots are available The Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) has received another supply of flu vaccine and will resume scheduled flu vaccination clinics on Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon…
Senior fullback Kelly Widman reeled in three touchdown passes over the weekend to help spot Harvard a 29-3 victory over visiting Penn. Widmans three consecutive first-half TD catches (for 4, 18, and 22 yards) tied a school record for single-game TD receptions.
Harvard mens hockey split a weekend homestand against Cornell and Colgate, falling to the former, 4-3, on Nov. 11, before responding with a 6-4 victory over the Raiders the next evening. Opening play on Nov. 11, Cornell rattled off 10 shots in the final period on its way to tallying two goals at the 14:56 and 17:29 marks, setting up the one-goal win. Against No. 17 Colgate, Crimson sophomore Paul Dufault managed two goals and an assist to pace Harvards six-consecutive-goal output.
Crimson cross country flies at Franklin Park The Harvard men’s and women’s cross country teams put forth impressive efforts in NCAA Northeast Regional Championship action this past Saturday (Nov. 12)…
Flying high on a three-game win streak, an unbeaten Harvard womens hockey team took its first spill of the young season this past weekend at home, picking up a 4-3 loss to Clarkson and a 2-2 tie against St. Lawrence. To put the Crimsons mini-slide into perspective, however, consider that Sundays stalemate (Nov. 13) against the top-ranked Saints was very nearly another losing effort for the hosts.
The not-so-renowned Mount Trashmore was sculpted on the Science Center lawn on Nov. 15. It is composed of one days trash from around Harvard Yard – about 400 bags. The trash heap reaches 12 feet tall. It would be 15 feet tall if Harvardians didnt recycle at all, and could be as short as 6 feet tall if all recyclable materials were properly recycled.
James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, has announced the names of seven scholars currently working at the center who are participating in the 2005-06 workshop, American Intellectuals and the Cultures of the Atlantic World. Leading the workshop are James Kloppenberg, the David Woods Kemper 41 Professor of American History, and David Hall, Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, who selected the Warren Fellows from a rich and diverse pool of applicants. The fellows work ranges from the late 17th to the late 20th century and from the rise of statistics to the international sensibility of leading figures in the Civil Rights Movement.
Hearing that Harvard faced serious competition from other schools for the most talented graduate students spurred the Ashford family into action. I understood that something needed to be done right away or we would begin to fall behind, explains Theodore H. Ashford 58. As a family, Ashford and his wife, Jane (who died in 2003), with sons Theodore III 86 and Timothy 88 established two fellowship programs – the Ashford Graduate Fellowship in the Sciences and the Ashford Dissertation Fellowship. This fall, the second class of fellows received their awards, and on Monday (Nov. 14) all eight students joined together with the Ashfords for a celebratory luncheon.
Derek Lamb, one of the first teachers of film animation at Harvard and a prolific and admired animator in his own right, died Nov. 5 in Seattle after a long struggle with cancer. He was 69.
Visitor views a map, part of the exhibit on Harvard in Allston located in the Holyoke Center Arcade. The exhibit is open to all visitors. It features a model of existing conditions, a slide show, and boards depicting the work of Harvards master planning team, the Cooper/Robertson Gehry/Olin collaboration. The room serves as a visual display of the initial conceptual framework of Harvards future in Allston, with illustrations and text provided by the consultants. Members of the Harvard community and the wider community are invited to view the exhibit and comment on the ideas presented. For a guided tour, call (617) 495-3525 or e-mail allston@harvard.edu. Walk-in hours begin this week: Monday and Friday, noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m. Wednesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to noon. For more information go to http://www.allston.harvard.edu/.
A new national poll by the Kennedy Schools Institute of Politics (IOP) finds that college students think that President George W. Bush is at the lowest point in his presidency, and believe in record numbers that the country is on the wrong track.
Marine bacteria may help in myeloma therapy An anti-cancer compound derived from bacteria dwelling in ocean-bottom sediments appears in laboratory tests to be a potent killer of drug-resistant multiple myeloma…
The man came through the Family Vans open door for a blood pressure screening, but Harvard Medical School (HMS) student Melissa Burroughs soon realized something else was wrong.
Indigenous rights group and nonprofit organization Cultural Survival will celebrate 26 years of bringing native art and crafts to the University community with an upcoming holiday bazaar this Dec. 3-4 at Pound Hall, 1563 Massachusetts Ave. The bazaar will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on both days.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has awarded Harvard doctoral candidates Margot Minardi ’07 and Daniel Wewers ’06 short-term research fellowships. The institute awards short-term fellowships in two categories:…
Better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness, but better still to dig deep into your pockets and make a real contribution to relieve human suffering – that was the theme that reverberated through an evening ceremony held Nov. 9 in the Memorial Church – An Offering of Remembrance and Dedication for the Victims and Survivors of the South Asian Earthquake.
It looks like the stuff any gardener might find while turning over a new tomato bed: rusty nails, chunks of glass, maybe a sprinkler head or two. But to these Harvard anthropology students, it is a potential gold mine of information.
Harvard researchers set out to test the idea that a lot of coffee isn’t good for your circulation. They followed 155,000 female nurses for 12 years, questioning them regularly about…
Alexander Schier’s transparent fish are helping him understand the basic secrets of human development: how early embryonic cells communicate so that some develop into heart tissue, some into brain cells, and others into tissues that form the rest of the body.
Doctors treating sore throats are overprescribing antibiotics to more than a million U.S. children annually, unnecessarily driving up health costs, promoting the rise of drug-resistant bugs, and exposing children to…
American Indians who use the hallucinogen peyote regularly in connection with religious ceremonies show no evidence of brain damage or psychological problems, report researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital. In fact,…
The Harvard Green Campus Initiative is giving Harvard students and staff the chance to turn their energy conservation habits – or their new resolutions to conserve – into clean wind…
November 7, 2005 Dear Members of the Harvard Community, I write to share with you some thoughts and hopes for the months ahead and to invite your engagement on the…
It looks like the stuff any gardener might find while turning over a new tomato bed: rusty nails, chunks of old brick, shards of glass, maybe a sprinkler head or two. But to the students of Anthropology 1130: The Archaeology of Harvard Yard, it is a potential gold mine of information. Stored in plastic bags, each representing a 1-meter-square grid coordinate, these dirt-caked fragments will together help tell the tale of what life at Harvard was like in the 1600s, and may uncover important information about the little-recalled Harvard Indian College, founded in 1655 to help the University fulfill its mission to educate the English and Indian youth of the country in knowledge and godliness.
The Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) has received another supply of flu vaccine and will resume scheduled flu vaccination clinics on Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 3 p.m. Tuesday…
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