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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In celebration of the Autumnal Equinox and the majesty of the Charles River Parklands, the Charles River Conservancy and the Revels called neighbors from Cambridge and Allston to the second annual RiverSing on Sept. 22. With massed choruses in the hundreds on either side of the Charles, traditional river songs were shared from shore to shore. The celebration ended with the procession of an autumnal puppet across the Weeks Bridge at dusk. Harvard, a sponsor of this years RiverSing, is among the many organizations and individuals that strive to protect and beautify the Charles.
September 1930 – The Class of 1934 enters with 897 members. Dunster and Lowell – the first of the seven original undergraduate Houses – are ready for occupancy. September 1936…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Sept. 26. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
Ambivalence is such a common condition in our complex and uncertain times that it is astonishing to learn that the word has existed for less than a century. It was coined by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1911 to describe a condition in which a person holds contradictory feelings toward someone or something.
Daniel Lord Smail, a cultural historian who studies social and legal transformations in the later Middle Ages, has been named professor of history in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective Jan. 1, 2006.
Playing is important, too. And a new Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) plan ensures that more space will be devoted to recreational, social, and, of course, study areas for…
Sandel delivers Korean lectures on democracy Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel traveled to Korea earlier this month to deliver the ninth annual Dasan…
RMO workshop to cover electronic recordkeeping Harvard’s Records Management Office (RMO) is offering one of its fall workshops on electronic recordkeeping Oct. 5 at 10 a.m. in Pusey Library. The…
The Office of the Provost makes funds available to faculty for University projects that promise to alter and improve teaching and learning through the use of technology. The Provosts Instructional Technology Fund is made up of two funds: the Innovation Fund and the Content Fund. The Innovation Fund is for large-scale projects that propose to introduce a novel approach to teaching and learning using information technology. The Content Fund is aimed toward creating online content for educational purposes.
Junior running back Clifton Dawson rushed for 189 yards and three touchdowns, including the game-tying tally with 15 seconds left in regulation, as 15th-ranked Harvard took a thrilling 38-35 double-overtime decision – the first in Crimson football history – against visiting Brown this past Saturday (Sept. 24).
Mens soccer rolled to its third straight win of the season this past Sunday (Sept. 25) blanking cross-state rival University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2-0, on the road. And though the Ivy season has yet to commence, this weekends victory – which came two days after Harvards 2-1 decision over visiting Fairfield on Sept. 23 – places the Crimson a game behind frontrunner Penn in overall play at 4-1-1.
The Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital received one of three inaugural grants from the National Institutes of Health meant to bring cell-based therapy for heart, lung, and blood diseases out of the lab and into doctors medical arsenal for treating patients.
Christopher M. Gordon, director of Capital Programs and Logan Modernization for the Massachusetts Port Authority, has been named chief operating officer (COO) for Harvards Allston development, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Thursday (Sept. 22). Gordon will oversee the creation of a new Harvard organization that will implement Harvards evolving plans for an extended campus in Allston.
Law School Dean Elena Kagan (above left) moderates a discussion among The Right Honourable The Lord Scott of Foscote (above center), Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer (above right), Justice Antonin Scalia (below right), and The Right Honourable The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry (below, second from right). The jurists talked about The Practice of Judging: Comparative Perspectives in the Ames Courtroom at the Law School on Wednesday (Sept. 28).
The 2005 Ig Nobel Prize winners will be announced and showered with applause and paper airplanes at Harvards Sanders Theatre on Oct. 6. Organized by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research in cooperation with several Harvard student groups, the Igs honor achievements in science that make people laugh and think.
A reproduction could never do justice to Rudolf de Crignis 1999 painting Untitled. The most any photographic process could possibly show would be a blue square. But walk up close to the painting and you realize there is more to it than that. The Swiss-born painter has covered his canvas with about 40 layers of color, the coats of ultramarine blue alternating with cinnabar green. The result is a subtly pulsating surface that seems to dissolve into shifting depths like the sky on a cloudless day.
With the Oct. 1 arrival of Brenda Bernier as senior photograph conservator in the Weissman Preservation Center (WPC), the Harvard University Library will officially launch a University-wide photograph preservation program. The Universitys photographic holdings, estimated at more than 7.5 million items in 48 Harvard repositories, date to the emergence of photography in the 1840s.
Divinity School lecturer and evangelical Christian leader Jim Wallis said the time has come to end the religious rights monologue on national moral values and begin a new, broader-based dialogue that goes beyond a fixation on gay marriage and abortion.
Dr. Philip S. Holzman, a preeminent figure in the world of schizophrenia research and one of the countrys leading schizophrenia researchers, died on June 1, 2004, at the age of 82. Dr. Holzman is survived by Ann Holzman, his wife of 58 years his children Natalie Bernardoni, Carl Holzman and Paul Holzman his son-in-law Gene Bernardoni his daughter-in-law Mira Kopell his grandchildren Joseph, Neena and Daniel and his sister, Sylvia Steinbrock. Born in New York City in 1922, Dr. Philip Holzman graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1943 and later in1952, completed a doctoral degree from the University of Kansas. After working at the Menninger Foundation and the University of Chicago, he founded the Psychology Research Laboratory at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA, in 1977, and became an integral part of the research group at the Mailman Research Center that Seymour Kety had organized.
Meir Stampfer, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and Walter Willett, chair of the Schools Department of Nutrition, were recently ranked the No. 1 and No. 2 most-cited scientists, respectively, in clinical medicine for the past decade.
Cancers and many other diseases often reveal themselves by the presence of proteins absent or inactive in people who do not suffer from such ailments. Researchers are finding new biomarkers,…
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