Jerzy Soltan, an architect and teacher who educated generations of students in the principles of modernist design, died at his Cambridge home on Sept. 16. He was 92.
Eleventh-ranked Lehigh University exploded for three unanswered third-quarter touchdowns en route to a 49-24 win over No. 15 Harvard this past Saturday (Oct. 1) at the stadium. The loss – the Crimsons first since a November 2003 setback against Penn – brings Harvards 13-game winning streak, which stood as the longest in Division I-AA entering Saturday, to a halt.
The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Southeastern Europe Study Group at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies will hold the eighth annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop on Feb. 3, 2006.
Nobel laureate Wangari Muta Maathai, who sparked an environmental revolution 30 years ago in her native Kenya by organizing women to plant trees, preached empowerment and social activism to an overflow crowd in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Friday afternoon (Sept. 30). Social change begins at the grassroots, Maathai told the audience.
The Harvard University Center for the Environment recently announced that it will name its first eight environmental fellows in March 2006. The fellows two-year postdoctoral program will start in September 2006, and applications are due by Jan. 15, 2006.
Dozens of government officials, business people, firefighters, forest workers, and others gathered at the John F. Kennedy School of Government last week for a weeklong program in crisis management that seeks to learn from past disasters to prepare for future ones.
Home is where healthy food is Adolescents who eat large amounts of food away from home are heavier and more likely to have a poor-quality diet. Among 14,355 children surveyed…
A Harvard pennant flies over Tercentenary Theatre with the Memorial Church in the background as the first semester of a challenging year gets into full swing.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 3. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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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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,…
American and Chinese researchers digging at an imperiled site of ancient salt production found the earliest known evidence of salt manufacturing in China.
Dual concerns about Harvard’s environmental impact and skyrocketing energy costs have prompted facilities managers across the University to come together monthly to share thoughts, tips, and techniques for making Harvard…
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.
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