Campus & Community

Herzlinger named one of health care’s most powerful people Modern Healthcare magazine has named Regina E. Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, one of the 100 most…

FAS forum open to students, faculty on Nov. 16 Students and faculty are invited to a Faculty of Arts and Sciences Forum on General Education and Concentrations Wednesday (Nov. 16)…

Geraldine Brooks recalled lying on a Kurdish rooftop in 1991, looking down at a tank below and hearing rifle and rifle-propelled-grenade fire. She was with a group of male reporters, who were excitedly talking about getting to the lines where Kurds were engaging Saddam Husseins government troops.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 17, 2005, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study recently celebrated the life and legacy of Mary Ingraham Bunting-Smith (1910 – 1998), known to the Harvard-Radcliffe community as Polly Bunting, president of Radcliffe College from 1960 to 1972. The event included remarks by Elaine Yaffe, author of Mary Ingraham Bunting: Her Two Lives (Frederic C. Beil, 2005), the first biography to be written about Bunting-Smith. Special note was made of the familys gift of Mary Buntings papers to the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute.

Salman Rushdie was at the First Parish Church in Cambridge on Monday (Nov. 7), to read from his new novel, Shalimar the Clown, and to discuss the challenges facing a storyteller in a politically troubled and morally perplexing world.

Maybe it wasnt quite the end of history that Richard Fisher described during the Manshel Lecture in American Foreign Policy last week (Nov. 3).

Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Kodansha Publishers recently hosted the 11th annual Edwin O. Reischauer/Kodansha Ltd. Commemorative Symposium and the tenth annual awarding of the Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies.

The Peabody Museums Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration is always a spirited affair – with its live marimba music, bouquets of flowers, and powerful images. But last weeks event, hosted by the museum and the Consulate General of Mexico, was particularly dynamic, featuring two inspirational altar installations created by artist Eric Estrada Gasca of Mexico City. The Peabody observance took place on Nov. 1, the traditional date for this holiday that combines pre-Hispanic rituals and beliefs with Catholic practices and symbols.

Martha Bulyk held what looked like an ordinary glass slide up to the large window that is much of one wall of her Harvard Medical School office. The slide seemed…

The genes that everyone inherits contain coded information that influences which diseases any individual is most at risk of getting. Countless studies show that small variations in genes play a…

Armenians pride themselves on being the first nation to adopt Christianity, an event that is supposed to have occurred in the early fourth century when St. Gregory the Illuminator succeeded…

Two Chinese astronauts spent five days in space in early October, boosting national pride and the reputation of China’s high-tech industry, but leaving experts scratching their heads about China’s military…

On one of the areas recent, welcome, unusually temperate days, a student treads carefully along a Carpenter Center path amid a dazzling autumn display.

Pakistans ambassador to the United States said Monday (Oct. 31) that the South Asian nation is banking on economic growth to build security rather than the military might it has relied on in the past.

Marking the one-year anniversary of the Bush re-election and as part of a national student walkout against the war, the Harvard-Cambridge Walk for Peace gathered students and faculty together for a peace walk outside the Science Center on Wednesday (Nov. 2).

November marks the beginning of the month long Community Gifts Through Harvard campaign. Employees will receive campaign pledge cards in the mail this week. For more information, or to pledge online, visit www.community.harvard.edu/communitygifts.

At its fourth meeting of the year on Nov. 2, the Faculty Council considered a proposal to disband the Standing Committees on Benefits and on Privacy, Accessibility, and Security of Records, received a report on the priorities of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and discussed the report of the Committee on General Education.

November 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.” At Harvard, Darwin’s friends include Professors Asa Gray and Jeffries Wyman. Already evolutionists, they…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 31. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Celebrating the tremendous progress made in the past 25 years in the field of biomedical informatics, along with the contributions made by Professor of Radiology and Health Sciences Robert Greenes, the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) has established an endowment for a Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Informatics, and has named Greenes as its first incumbent. For subsequent incumbents, the chair will bear his name.

When Steven Riel talks about his life, much of what he relates sounds like poems waiting to happen.

The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) strives to provide individuals committed to invigorating the public sector in Southeastern and East-Central Europe with educational opportunities to explore effectual and pioneering means of governance. The program awards fellowships to enable individuals from the region to pursue one of the following masters degrees at KSG: masters in public policy (M.P.P.) masters in public administration (M.P.A.) masters in public administration/mid-career (M.P.A./M.C.) and masters in public administration in international development (M.P.A./I.D.).

HBS profs awarded paper prize Harvard Business School (HBS) Associate Professors Lee Fleming and Jan W. Rivkin, with co-author Olav Sorenson, have won a 2005 European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary…

RMO workshop to cover electronic recordkeeping Harvard’s Records Management Office (RMO) is offering one of its fall workshops on electronic recordkeeping Nov. 9 at 10 a.m. in Pusey Library. The…

With five key skaters from last seasons squad either gone for good due to graduation (national scoring leader Nicole Corriero and top defender Ashley Banfield), or out for the year chasing Olympic gold (U.S. national team hopefuls Julie Chu 06 and Caitlin Cahow 07, and Canadian Sarah Vaillancourt 08), the Harvard womens hockey team looked to its new flock of freshman – eight in all – to soar past Robert Morris University (RMU), 7-0, in the Crimsons season opener this past Saturday (Oct. 29) at Bright Hockey Center.

Dawson wows, plows Dartmouth to reset Harvard bar for yards Junior tailback Clifton Dawson finished off the visiting Big Green this past Saturday with 223 all-purpose yards and three touchdowns…

George Widmer Thorn (GWT) was born in Buffalo, NY, January 15, 1906. He was the son of George W. and Fanny Widmer Thorn. George senior was involved in the food industry and retired early at the height of the depression. However, in 1923 he was able to send GWT, age 17, to Wooster College, Ohio.

Feisal Amin al-Istrabadi, Iraqs ambassador and deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, provided an inside look at the writing of the Iraqi constitution and the future of the democratic process Monday (Oct. 31) at the Kennedy School of Government.