Calling the U.S. Supreme Court the most powerful branch of government, conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly said that grassroots conservatives who have focused on family and social issues are setting their sights next on reforming Americas imperial judiciary.
Harvard-Yenching Institute Director Weiming Tu recently welcomed 32 visiting scholars and fellows to the institute for the 2005-06 academic year. HYI offers a unique opportunity to create a learning community of scholars in the humanities at Harvard each year, benefiting both the scholars themselves and Harvard, Tu noted. The scholars are faculty members in the humanities and social sciences from selected universities in Asia, and will spend one year conducting research at the institute.
As she enters the room, she kicks off her shoes and seems to glide across the floor. Over here, she says, this wall, only about four feet deep, pulls out to produce 200 seats for audiences. We can convert the studio into a theater in 10 minutes! It used to take two hours. Then, on the opposite wall, we have an enormous screen on a roller that can be lowered for production backdrops. And, over here are legs – curtains, she explains, that mask stage lights. Four columns of lights, in fact, are arranged around the vast space. They can be raised when the full dance floor space is required for rehearsals, and lowered when lights are needed for staged productions.
Peter K. Bol, Harvard College Professor and Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been named the first director of Harvard Universitys Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA), a new center that will offer technology to support research and education in the fields of spatial analysis and geographic information.
Proteins gone wrong cause most human diseases. Find these mutated proteins, scientists reason, and they are on the way to predicting who will get what disease. They would also learn…
Actor David Hyde Pierce made an emotional plea for increased activism around Alzheimer’s disease Monday (Oct. 17), saying that federal funding has leveled off despite scientific progress in understanding and…
A comparison of the risks and benefits of fish consumption suggests that government advisories warning women of childbearing age about mercury exposure should be issued with caution. The study warns…
Six hundred feet below the Pacific Ocean surface last August, seven Russian sailors sat trapped in a small, cold submarine hoping it wouldnt become their collective coffin.
Blindness prevention organization honors Seddon Associate Professor of Ophthalmology Johanna M. Seddon was recently named the recipient of the first Dr. Maurice F. Rabb Jr. Award. Presented by Prevent Blindness…
RMO workshop on electronic recordkeeping Harvard’s Records Management Office (RMO) is offering one of its fall workshops on electronic recordkeeping Oct. 24 at 10 a.m. in Pusey Library. The 45-minute…
This years Evening With Champions was an Olympian event. No, Zeus and Hera didnt make it. But the yearly spectacular, which raises money for Dana-Farber Cancer Institutes Jimmy Fund, was again hosted by Olympic silver medalist Paul Wylie 91, M.B.A. 00. This 36th Evening With Champions, Wylie pointed, out was star-studded with past, present, and future Olympians, including gold medalists Ekaterina Gordeeva, Ilia Kulik, and Ludmilla and Oleg Protopopov. In addition to these demigods were other Olympic competitors and a number of skaters vying for spots in the 2006 international competition.
The Board of Harvard Management Company (HMC) today (Oct. 14) announced that it has appointed Mohamed A. El-Erian president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company, commencing early in 2006.
Oct. 6, 1862 – The Overseers confirm the Rev. Thomas Hill, Class of 1843, as Harvard’s 20th President. His brief tenure brings higher admissions standards, a series of public “University…
When George magazine burst onto the scene in September 1995 – with an attention-grabbing inaugural cover featuring supermodel Cindy Crawford as George Washington – Americans came face-to-face with a new reality, one that intertwined politics and pop culture in a provocative and oftentimes high-octane blend. How that blend attempted to move a generation was the focus of discussion last night at a Kennedy School of Government forum.
Harvard has made much progress in opening its arms, classrooms, and faculty ranks to people of all racial, ethnic, and economic groups, but much more needs to be done, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers said Saturday (Oct. 8).
The undergraduate Harvard University Women in Business (HUWIB) organization will host its first intercollegiate business convention, Leading Today: Taking Charge of Our Futures, this Saturday (Oct. 15) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Marriott Hotel at Copley Place in Boston.
Turnovers undermine Crimson at Big Red A stingy Cornell football team limited the visiting Crimson to just 226 total yards on its way to a 27-13 victory this past Saturday…
Many stories and images are engraved in Christian Arbelaezs memory from the 12 days he spent as a volunteer working with people who had been driven into shelters by Hurricane Katrina, but a few stand out in high relief.
As Hurricane Katrina made landfall and tore through the Southern coastline with now-legendary ferocity, millions of Americans sat in front of their TVs with a familiar feeling of helplessness. What can I do? Many reached for their wallets a few took to the road. S. Allen Counter, who was watching TV in far-away Stockholm, was one of the latter. The director of the Harvard Foundation grabbed the next flight home and started to organize relief efforts.
Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), has been appointed George Eastman Professor at the University of Oxford for the 2007-08 academic year. Schauer will be the 66th holder of the chair, which was created in 1929 by an endowment from George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company, to allow American scholars of the highest distinction to teach at the university on a visiting basis.
The American Australian Association (AAA) recently announced that it is sponsoring its second year of United States to Australia Fellowships. The program will provide up to four awards totaling $80,000 to outstanding American students to pursue graduate and postdoctoral studies and research in life and ocean sciences, medicine, engineering, or mining at top Australian universities and research institutions. Harvard students are encouraged to apply.
A Turkish psychiatrist, a theologian from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and a legal scholar from Rwanda joined the Harvard community this fall to undertake research through the Scholars at Risk Program, which offers visiting fellowships to scholars whose work is jeopardized by political persecution in their home countries.
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.
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