June 1904 – Helen Keller, who had lost sight and hearing in early childhood, earns her A.B. (with honors) from Radcliffe. Dorothy Elia Howells recalls the memorable moment in “A…
Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree…
Restrooms: Restrooms for the general public are located in Weld, Thayer, and Sever halls. These restrooms are wheelchair accessible. First aid stations: First aid stations are situated in the following…
Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, has been named dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, effective July 1.
Kathleen McCartney, Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development and academic dean, will serve as acting dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education pending the appointment of a permanent dean, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday (June 6). Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, the current dean, announced her intention in March to step down at the end of this academic year. The search for a permanent dean will begin immediately after Commencement.
Federal Judge Patti B. Saris 73, J.D.76 has been elected president of Harvards Board of Overseers for 2005-06. M. Lee Pelton Ph.D. 84, the president of Willamette University, will serve as vice chair of the boards executive committee.
As the academic year comes to its traditional triumphant conclusion, many graduates, students, and faculty are already getting their summer plans under way – if not in fact, certainly in their imaginations. Following are some of the summer plans of faculty members of the University, and also an intimate, if brief, glimpse into their summers past, when the distinguished professors were themselves just humble college students.
Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry George Whitesides is this years recipient of the prestigious Welch Foundation award for scientific achievement, the foundation announced on June 2. A pioneer in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology, Whitesides, in winning the Welch award joins other distinguished Harvard scientists, including Jeremy Knowles (1995), Wm. Von Eggers Doering (1990), Frank H. Westheimer (1982), and E. Bright Wilson (1978). The Welch Foundation is one of the oldest and largest sources of private funding for basic research in chemistry. By the terms of its endowment, most of its programs are focused in Texas. However, both its annual chemical research conference and Welch Award in Chemistry involve the international chemical community. Whitesides is the 35th recipient of the award. The Welch Foundation will hold a banquet for approximately 400 in Houston in October to honor Whitesides. At the banquet, Whitesides will receive a certificate, a check for $300,000, and a gold medallion.
A mathematician who has forged new paths in algebra and algebraic geometry, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist whose work may lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of deadly diseases, a scholar of religion whose best-selling books explore the diversity of belief in early Christianity, and an economist whose groundbreaking study of markets was rewarded with the Nobel Prize received the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Centennial Medal on Wednesday (June 8) at the Harvard Faculty Club.
Ethan Gray 05, former president and associate principal cellist of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, is the first recipient of the Rachel Mellinger Memorial Award.
Creating new opportunities for generations of students to engage in rigorous study of the principles of economics and finance, Moise Y. Safra has established the Moise Y. Safra Professorship of Economics. Safras $3.5 million gift to fund the new chair is a significant step toward Harvards goal of increasing the size of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and it will enable closer and more frequent interaction between students and their professors.
Harvards Department of Music has announced its 2004-05 fellowship and award recipients. Close to $190,000 will go toward fellowship and award programs for the departments graduate and undergraduate students.
A record nine members of the Business Schools M.B.A. Class of 2005 are being honored this week with the Deans Award – and these recipients are as diverse as they are outstanding in their commitment to service. Given annually since 1998 by Dean Kim B. Clark to students who have demonstrated unusually strong leadership during their two years at Harvard Business School (HBS), the Deans Award is one of the Schools highest honors.
Denise Scott Brown, an architect and planner and principal of the Philadelphia firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, will receive the 2005 Radcliffe Institute Medal tomorrow (June 10) at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at the yearly Radcliffe Day luncheon.
Eliot Canter 35 remembers going to the New England Brick Co. in North Cambridge to pick out bricks for the new Hemenway Gymnasium, whose construction he was overseeing.
Four Harvard-affiliated researchers were recently elected as members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The May election was held during the academys 142nd annual meeting.
The Class of 2005 recipients of this years Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service will be serving others in locales from Arizona to India, and in fields ranging from mentoring young women to helping refugees.
In his Baccalaureate address, Lawrence H. Summers spoke to the graduating seniors less as Harvards president and more as an honorary member of the Class of 2005, which, in a manner of speaking, he is.
Former CIA Director John M. Deutch, institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said that the United States is not making progress toward key objectives in Iraq and called for American troops to pull out as soon as possible during a speech Tuesday (June 7) at Harvards Sanders Theatre.
Seven Harvard College seniors began their service to the nation yesterday (June 8) at the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) commissioning ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre. Smaller but no less traditional than todays Commencement Exercises, the commissioning ceremony featured remarks by President Lawrence H. Summers and reflections from Harvard alumni on their lives as scholars and soldiers.
Saying that each generation has a chance to be the greatest generation, NBC News Washington bureau chief and Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert urged members of Harvards Class of 2005 Wednesday (June 8) to seize their opportunity to make the world a better place.
Joshua Reyes 05 of Leverett House and Navin Kumar 06 of Kirkland House have been named this years David Aloian Memorial Scholars. The two will be honored at the Harvard Alumni Associations (HAA) fall dinner in October.
A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today (June 9). In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the countrys oldest university – and of our earlier history when bells of varying tones summoned us from sleep to prayer, work, or study – this ancient yet new sound will fill Harvard Square and the surrounding area with music when a number of neighboring churches and institutions ring out at the conclusion of Harvards 354th Commencement Exercises.
Harvard quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick 05 takes on the game of life much the same way he approaches football: with a quick wit, keen instincts, and a talent for adapting to his surroundings. Beginning with his days as an Arizona All-Star with Highland High School in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert, to his four seasons of rewriting the Harvard record books, to his most recent coup – garnering the 250th pick in Aprils NFL Draft – Fitzpatrick has always made the most of second-chance opportunities, dusting his opponents and naysayers along the way.
While still a graduate student, Wendy Winckler took part in a major discovery about the nature of the human genome. She worked in the laboratory of David Altshuler, an associate professor of genetics at the Medical School, on recombination, the process by which a father and mothers DNA gets reshuffled to create new variations of genes in their children. Although this is one of lifes most basic processes, surprisingly little is known about how it happens and how it can be used to study the risk of genetic diseases.
For Erika de Lone, todays graduation was a long time coming. So long, in fact, that classmates with whom she began her Harvard journey are going to be back on campus – for their 10th reunion.
Since 1994, Tucker McCravy has made Sri Lanka his second home, first as a Peace Corps volunteer and then as the catalyst for several educational ventures there. So when areas of the nation were devastated by the December tsunami, McCravy knew just what children in refugee camps needed.
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