Roy J. Glauber, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University, has won a 2005 Nobel Prize in physics for pioneering work on the nature and behavior of light. Glauber shares the prestigious prize with John L. Hall of the University of Colorado and Theodor W. Hansch of the Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, Germany. He becomes the 42nd Harvard faculty member to be honored with a Nobel Prize.
Jackson Troutt considered himself a diehard, a special breed of New Orleanian who scoffs at hurricane warnings and is determined to stay put regardless of weather. But that changed the morning of Aug. 29 when he switched on the radio and heard New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin urging everyone to evacuate the city immediately.
Hurricane Katrina exposed the United States inability to care for its most vulnerable citizens, abandoning them to a disaster policy that approximated survival of the fittest, international disaster experts said Friday (Sept. 30).
For more than 15 years, Harvard has invited members of the Allston-Brighton community to enjoy lunch and a ball game. Nearly 500 Allston-Brighton neighbors turned out for the Harvard vs. Lehigh game Saturday (Oct. 1), including Karen Hocker and her son Declan. Eight-month-old Declan, son of Tom Hocker 76, is already displaying impeccable fashion taste.
Oct. 17, 1640 – The Great and General Court grants Harvard the revenues of the Boston-Charlestown ferry, which plies the shortest route between Boston and Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Medford, and…
Physicist Subir Sachdev still remembers the excitement that accompanied the discovery of high-temperature superconductors while he was working as a postdoctoral fellow at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1986.
This years Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture will be held Oct. 19 at 3:30 p.m. in the south building of the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), lecture hall S010. James R. Lilley, U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Korea from 1986 to 1989, and ambassador to the Peoples Republic of China from 1989 to 1991, will deliver the lecture: What We Dont Know About China: A Personal Account of American Intelligence on the PRC and Taiwan. Lilley is the author of China Hands: New Decades of Adventure, Espionage and Diplomacy in Asia.
Harvard Universitys endowment earned a 19.2 percent return during the year ending June 30, 2005, bringing the endowments overall value to $25.9 billion.
The colors are subdued and earthy, but striking in their tonal range: amber, aqua, sea green, black, and ochre. Some are teal or milky. Less common are purple and cobalt blue. Red, the rarest of all, is a deep, wine-dark hue, like a garnet stone. It is made by adding copper or gold before the glass is blown.
Harvard Business School (HBS) recently honored five of its alumni with the Schools highest recognition, the Alumni Achievement Award. These awards are given to leaders who have truly made a difference in the world, according to HBS.
Arkansas Black Hall of Fame set to induct David L. Evans David L. Evans, senior admissions officer for Harvard College, will be inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame…
Study abroad fair this afternoon The Office of International Programs, in coordination with the Office of Career Services’ International Experience Program, will hold its third annual Study Abroad and International…
Jerzy Soltan, an architect and teacher who educated generations of students in the principles of modernist design, died at his Cambridge home on Sept. 16. He was 92.
Eleventh-ranked Lehigh University exploded for three unanswered third-quarter touchdowns en route to a 49-24 win over No. 15 Harvard this past Saturday (Oct. 1) at the stadium. The loss – the Crimsons first since a November 2003 setback against Penn – brings Harvards 13-game winning streak, which stood as the longest in Division I-AA entering Saturday, to a halt.
The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Southeastern Europe Study Group at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies will hold the eighth annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop on Feb. 3, 2006.
Nobel laureate Wangari Muta Maathai, who sparked an environmental revolution 30 years ago in her native Kenya by organizing women to plant trees, preached empowerment and social activism to an overflow crowd in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Friday afternoon (Sept. 30). Social change begins at the grassroots, Maathai told the audience.
The Harvard University Center for the Environment recently announced that it will name its first eight environmental fellows in March 2006. The fellows two-year postdoctoral program will start in September 2006, and applications are due by Jan. 15, 2006.
Dozens of government officials, business people, firefighters, forest workers, and others gathered at the John F. Kennedy School of Government last week for a weeklong program in crisis management that seeks to learn from past disasters to prepare for future ones.
Home is where healthy food is Adolescents who eat large amounts of food away from home are heavier and more likely to have a poor-quality diet. Among 14,355 children surveyed…
Felipe Fregni, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School, has used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to improve the movement skills of people whose brains have been damaged by strokes, skills that…
Common wisdom holds that we can never see a black hole because nothing can escape it – not even light. Fortunately, black holes aren’t completely black. As gas is pulled…
Climate change from burning fossil fuels is probably already unavoidable, but it is still up to humans to decide just how bad it will be, Professor of Earth and Planetary…
Do Harvard doctors practice what they preach? The Harvard Health Letter, the country’s first health newsletter for the general public, recently surveyed more than 15,000 Harvard Medical School faculty physicians…
A Harvard pennant flies over Tercentenary Theatre with the Memorial Church in the background as the first semester of a challenging year gets into full swing.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 3. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Emeritus Thomas J. Raymond died at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., on Sept. 29 at the age of 88. A member of the active faculty from 1950 to 1987, Raymond taught generations of M.B.A. students to write clearly and cogently as chairman of the legendary course, Written Analysis of Cases. He was also a highly regarded and honored teacher at Harvard College and the Harvard Extension School.
After a miserable September that saw the Harvard womens volleyball team take just two out of 10 contests, the Cambridge squad finally found reason to celebrate this past Saturday evening (Oct. 1) against visiting Sacred Heart. The Crimson, which trailed just once in the match, limited the struggling Pioneers (3-12 on the season) to a negative .027-hitting percentage to capture the match in convincing fashion, 30-22, 30-20, 30-16. The 3-0 win resulted in a weekend split for the home team, who had fallen to league frontrunner Dartmouth by the same tally the previous evening.
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