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.
Leroy David Vandam, M.D., the first Harvard Medical School Professor of Anesthesia at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, now Brigham and Womens Hospital, died April 8, 2004 in Needham, Massachusetts in the 90th year of his life.
Two researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) got the idea of studying free divers to get information that would help them help the breathless to breathe better.…
In any negotiation, says Roger Fisher, the Samuel Williston Professor Emeritus of Law and the director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, “there are a handful of things you can easily…
Tim Gallagher and Bobby Harrison almost flopped into the mud of Arkansas Bayou de View in their haste to get out of the canoe. They crashed through the undergrowth after the flashing black and white bird that was threatening to vanish among the huge cypresses.
At its second meeting of the year (Oct. 5), the Faculty Council received a report from a subset of the council on their meeting with Fellows of the Harvard Corporation. The council also discussed a draft report of the Committee on General Education and received a report on proposed changes in policy concerning Harvard-sponsored undergraduate activities abroad.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 10. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
Thomas C. Schelling, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy Emeritus, has been awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in economic sciences for his instrumental research on game theory.
Center for the Environment accepting fellow applicants The Harvard University Center for the Environment recently announced that it will name its first eight environmental fellows in March 2006. The fellows’…
Doug Melton recalled looking at frog and salamander eggs in a pond when he was a child and wondering how the individual egg knew whether to make a frog or salamander.
Venturing into the crosscurrents of art and science, the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) and the Department of Systems Biology (DSB) at the Harvard Medical School (HMS) are co-sponsoring a public art residency by artist Brian Knep for the 2005-06 academic year. For this novel initiative, the Office of the Provost has awarded a grant from its Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration.
The first three recipients of the postdoctoral fellowship in the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health have settled in to begin their two years of research in ethical issues arising in health care and public health. They are:
Fourteen Harvard faculty members were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) as fellows at a Sanders Theatre ceremony this past Saturday (Oct. 8). One of the newly named fellows, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, was among the featured speakers at the ceremony, the academys 225th annual induction event.
Editors note: Graduate student at the School of Public Health and resident tutor at Leverett House Jane Humphries 03 spent her summer working in Lesotho, Africa, in the village of ha Ntlama, under the auspices of Operation Crossroads Africa. In addition to assisting in a local clinic, distributing medicines and vitamins, watching after children while their mothers visited doctors, and teaching at the local school, Humphries and her fellow volunteers worked hard on AIDS awareness in this area where many families are affected by HIV. She also took the occasional run.
In a battle of Ivy League unbeatens, freshman defensive back Brian Owusu picked off two passes and freshman running back Treavor Scales scored two touchdowns as Harvard downed Cornell, 28-10,…
The following are excerpts from accounts that appear online. For more information, visit http://www.news.arvard.edu/press/pressdoc/pr-050901-katrina.html.
Perhaps Barry Bloom, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), expressed the feelings of the Harvard community best when he addressed a group of displaced students from Tulane University who are continuing their studies at Harvard:
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…
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