Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs John Ruggie was appointed as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annans special representative on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises this past month. Ruggie served as UN assistant secretary-general and adviser to Annan on strategic planning from 1997 to 2001.
Kenneth R. Andrews, who began his academic career as an authority on Mark Twain and went on to become a renowned professor at Harvard Business School (HBS), a founder of the field of corporate strategy, editor of the Harvard Business Review, and a beloved master of Leverett House, died on Sept. 4 at his home in Durham, N.H. He was 89 years old.
To help Harvard staff improve the organization of their files, the Universitys Records Management Office (RMO) is offering workshops on electronic record keeping. These workshops provide practical guidance on filing systems, filing rules and procedures, and equipment and supplies. This year, a new section will cover such issues as version control and naming conventions, and advice on how to use system properties to ones advantage.
Wayne Streilein once quoted a Zen proverb: A garden is never complete until there is nothing left to remove. In that statement, one can appreciate Waynes view of his own lifes work. His career was dedicated to spirited inquiry, and driven by novel insights. Waynes impact on science extends far beyond the discipline of immunology, a field that he represented, in that he was also a seminal figure in the fields of dermatology and vision research as well. Wayne Streilein died on March 15, 2004. At the time of his death, Wayne was the Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, and president of The Schepens Eye Research Institute.
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.
The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Ophthalmology has been awarded a $110,000 grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB). The grant will help support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of diseases that cause blindness. Henry Willard Williams Professor of Ophthalmology Joan W. Miller, chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and chief of ophthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, will help in leading the research programs.
Harvards Program on U.S.-Japan Relations recently selected 17 fellows for the 2005-06 academic year. Founded in 1980, the program enables outstanding scholars and practitioners to come together to conduct independent research and participate in an ongoing dialogue with other members of the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.
Harvard Business School (HBS) formally reopened Baker Library – the historic building capped with a bell tower that has been the symbol of the School for over 75 years – marking the conclusion of an extensive two-year, $53.4 million renovation and expansion project.
The Harvard Green Campus Initiative is sponsoring an art and design competition this fall with $10,000 in cash prizes for the best visions of a sustainable Harvard campus.
More than 700 students will participate in 27 projects in dance, music, theater, and multidisciplinary genres at Harvard University this fall, sponsored in part through the grant program of the Office for the Arts (OfA). These grants are designed to foster creative and innovative artistic initiatives among Harvard undergraduates.
Education and thrills combined as tentative little fingers stretched out to caress the baby American alligator and the red rat snake under the eyes of watchful parents at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) recently. Other creatures featured at the Harvard Museums annual Community Day, drawing oohs and aahs from children and adults alike, included a raucously colored green-cheeked conure, a delicate kestrel, and an undeniably adorable opossum. HMNH was one of six Harvard museums to open its doors to surrounding communities on Sept. 18.
Du Bois Institute to present Katznelson Author Ira Katznelson will read from his new book, “When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th Century America,”…
Team HMS reaches beach among top 30 finishers A dozen Harvard Medical School students placed 23rd overall out of 285 running clubs in the seventh annual Reach the Beach Relay…
Former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp will deliver the seventh annual John T. Dunlop Lecture, An American Renaissance for the Gulf Coast, on Sept. 28 at 6 p.m. in the Graduate School of Designs Piper Auditorium. A reception will be held at 7 p.m. in Stubbins Room, Gund Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Dockery named new chair of Dept. of Environmental Health Harvard Professor of Environmental Epidemiology Douglas Dockery has been named chair of the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School…
Former Google Chief Operations Engineer Jim Reese will share the secrets of how he helped the search engine grow from 300 servers when he joined the company in 1999 to 10,000 today in a talk scheduled for Wednesday (Sept. 28).
Eleven leading academics and practitioners whose expertise ranges from health policy to Latin American studies have been named new faculty members at Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Dean David T. Ellwood recently announced.
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.
A research effort, led by scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and the University of Washington, Seattle, focused…
Harvard waste management officials are holding up four construction projects at the University this summer as examples of recycling successes, with nearly all construction debris, furniture, and equipment recycled or…
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/.
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