Newly elected Serbian President Boris Tadic said a democratic Serbia and Montenegro could be a regional force for stability and economic growth, but warned that moves to further fragment the nation would work against those goals.
This fall, Harvard will host its first Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender (LBGT) Film Series. This inaugural event seeks to examine and celebrate representations of lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender life and culture in cinema during the four decades since the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York Citys Greenwich Village ignited the modern gay rights movement.
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics has selected six graduate fellows in ethics for the 2005-06 academic year. The fellows, who study ethical problems in law, political science, philosophy, and medicine, were chosen from a pool of outstanding Harvard graduate students who are writing dissertations or are engaged in major research on topics in practical ethics. Arthur Applbaum, professor of ethics and public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, directs the program. This year, Lucius Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy Frances Kamm will join the graduate fellows seminar.
In Harvard Yard, first-years took time off from gobbling down hot dogs, hamburgers, and doughnuts to wait patiently in a long line and get a chance to shoot the breeze with the president. On this warm September day, President Lawrence H. Summers and a bunch of upperclassmen hung out in the Yard and extended a warm welcome to not-completely-oriented freshmen, who showed up in impressive numbers to enjoy the food and the ambience of their first Harvard do.
Harvard is taking the first step in its 50-year journey toward an integrated campus in Allston, Cambridge, and Longwood – a journey that has been in the preliminary planning and consultation phase since the turn of the millennium. This first step is selection of an architect for Allstons first science building.
On freshman move-in day, Sept. 10, proud father Charles Oo looks like hes carrying an Impressionist masterpiece as he moves a mirror into his daughter Kimberlys dorm. Staff photo Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office
At the Activities Fair for freshmen, Harrison Greenbaum 08 points to a sponge ball that he conjured out of thin air, convincing an astonished or gullible Sara Manning 09 to sign up for the Magic Club.
All members of the University community and their guests are invited to attend Harvards fourth annual Its Movie Time at Harvard, to be held Sept. 25 in Tercentenary Theatre.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the weeks beginning Aug. 30 and ending Sept. 12. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
The ranks of the Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty expanded over the summer with the arrival of three new assistant professors and two new tenured professors of law. The hires are part of an effort to bring about a net increase of 15 faculty members during the next decade.
Mason Fellows Program names Eckroad new director Kathy Eckroad has been named director of the Edward S. Mason Program in Public Policy and Management at the Kennedy School of Government…
A. Clayton Spencer has been named the Universitys vice president for policy, and Kasia Lundy has been appointed chief of staff in the Office of the President, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Sept. 8.
Suzy M. Nelson, a seasoned academic administrator with broad experience in the areas of student affairs and residential life, has been named Harvard Colleges associate dean for residential life, effective Sept. 19.
Christine Atwood has been appointed senior associate dean for external affairs at Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Dean David T. Ellwood recently announced. In her new role, Atwood will lead the Schools development initiatives and oversee alumni programs. She will also serve as a member of the deans leadership team, helping to define the Schools strategy moving forward.
Lecturer on Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations John (Jay) Ellison was named secretary of the administrative board and assistant dean of Harvard College last month. Ellison has served Harvard for more than a decade, most recently as a senior tutor in Lowell House, where he annually coordinated advising for 450 residents. His committee service in the College has been substantial, including coordination of the Harvard College Emergency Management Team, and membership in the subcommittee on Harvard Student Organizations, the Committee to Address Alcohol and Health at Harvard, and the Freshman Board of Advisers.
Milton Fund accepting faculty proposals The William F. Milton Fund makes research funds available to faculty members of the University for studies of a medical, geographic, historic, or scientific nature.…
Somewhere between attending class, studying, and sleeping, a dozen Harvard Medical School (HMS) students have made the time to train for a 200-mile, 24-hour relay race from Bretton Woods, N.H., to the seacoast. So what drives these future docs to run laps through the itchy grass of the Medical School Quad so they can push and punish themselves across the Granite State? The homeless population of Boston, it turns out.
Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Professor Charles V. Willie received the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA). The award was presented to Willie, the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, at the ASA annual meeting in Philadelphia on Aug. 14.
Health care in the Peoples Republic of China is unequal and too expensive, and theres not enough of it, but the Chinese government is aware of the problems and is moving to address them, Chinas vice minister of health said Sept. 8 at Harvard Medical School.
Harvard University continues to be among the nations best workplaces for women, according to Working Mother magazine, which on Sept. 12 named the University one of its 100 Best organizations for working mothers for the third year in a row. Harvard is the only university on the 2005 list and one of just three employers in Massachusetts to be recognized.
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University will welcome six Faculty Fellows in Ethics for the 2005-06 academic year. The fellows, who study ethical problems in business, government, law, medicine, and public policy, were selected from a pool of applicants from universities and professional institutions throughout the United States and several other countries.
Harvard Universitys Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the Kennedy School of Government, recently announced the selection of a diverse and experienced group of individuals for fellowships this fall.
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy located at the Kennedy School of Government recently announced its fall fellows and visiting faculty.
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy located at Harvards Kennedy School of Government recently announced that Judy Woodruff will be a visiting fellow during the fall semester.
Working with zebrafish, growth factors, and chicken embryos, Harvard undergraduates got a chance this summer to learn and work in laboratories of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute during its first summer internship program.
In a darkened lecture hall at Harvard Medical School last month, area high school students presented the work of eight long, summer weeks, talking of platelets and of stem cells, of intestinal bacteria and of vaccines, of sleep deprivation, and of falls in the elderly.
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