With the rapid advance of technology opening new frontiers of knowledge, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study looked at the increasingly detailed understanding of biological systems last week (May 6)…
The topic of health statistics took center stage last week as practitioners from around the world discussed the critical role statistics play in identifying and addressing health disparities during a…
n a new scientific report titled “Wildlands and Woodlands: A Vision for the Forests of Massachusetts,” David Foster, director of Harvard University’s Harvard Forest, is calling, along with his colleagues,…
Type 1 diabetes, diagnosed in children and adults, is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the pancreas no longer produces insulin. Diabetes, which ranks as the fifth-deadliest disease in the…
Tennis takes Ivy honors, set to battle Terrapins Women’s tennis recently swept the league’s top two honors with senior Susanna Lingman earning player of the year accolades and Celia Durkin…
The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) held its fourth annual Public Service Celebration, titled 100 Years of Service in honor of the associations centennial, on May 6. The event included a reception and an awards dinner to honor graduating seniors with Stride Rite Senior Recognition Awards, Stride Rite Post-Grad Fellowships, and Houston-Moreland Awards.
Seven members of the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (HILR), all recent nonagenarians, were honored by University Marshal Jackie ONeill for their dedication to lifelong learning. The April 29 ceremony at the Harvard Faculty Club was attended by friends and family of the honorees, and by Dean Michael Shinagel of the Division of Continuing Education, HILR president Ellie Porter, and HILR director Leonie Gordon.
In April you can go to New Orleans for a celebration of jazz, and in August you can head to Edinburgh for a nonstop multiweek theater fix. Lincoln Center has dance all summer. But all those art forms and more fuse with dazzling effects during the annual four-day celebration of the arts at Harvard. The 13th Arts First was held last weekend.
When Wole Soyinka, the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature, turned 70, his native country of Nigeria celebrated his birthday with two solid weeks of festivities. Harvard could not fête the 1986 Nobel Prize winner in quite the same way, but it managed something equally impressive – a feast of words catered by three of the honorees fellow Nobel laureates.
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…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 2. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
A memorial service for Dennis N. Skiotis, director of undergraduate studies at Harvards Department of History from 1985 to 1998, and associate director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies from 1976 to 1985, will be held May 6 from 3 to 5 p.m. at Adams House, 26 Plympton St. Skiotis passed away Oct. 19 from complications of pneumonia after a long struggle with leukemia. He was 67.
President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven E. Hyman have announced the launch of a new initiative to support artistic and cultural activities at Harvard University. Sean T. Buffington, currently assistant provost and deputy chief of staff, will become associate provost and director of cultural programs, effective July 1. An advisory committee will be convened in the fall composed of faculty and leaders of the Universitys cultural organizations.
John Haigh M.P.P. 82 has been appointed executive dean at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Haigh previously served as senior vice president at Cingular/AT&T Wireless. While a student at KSG, Haigh focused on environmental policies, and following graduation, went on to work in the Schools Energy and Environment Policy Center. As executive dean, Haigh will serve on the Deans Leadership Team to manage day-to-day operations of the School.
Students intermittently take in the sun and their studies in the Yard during one of the brief spurts of spring sunshine. Despite recent soggy conditions, Springfest pressed on as will Arts First this weekend.
Applications for Harvards child-care scholarships for faculty, administrative and professional staff, and nonbargaining-unit support staff will be accepted until May 27. This program provides financial assistance for child care for children up to kindergarten age, and eligible after-school care for children of kindergarten age and older. Applications may be downloaded at http://harvie.harvard.edu/workandlife/children/scholarship.shtml#apsf.
At a time when the collaboration of business, government, and civil society has never been more critical for the success of nations and for achieving great public objectives, the John F. Kennedy School of Government has announced a $15 million agreement to endow the work at the Schools Center for Business and Government.
Law and Society Association honors Sally Falk Moore The Law and Society Association recently awarded its Harry Kalven Prize for 2005 to Sally Falk Moore, the Victor S. Thomas Professor…
Radcliffe crew captures Allen-DeWolfe Trophy In its final dual of the season, Radcliffe heavyweight crew bettered BU and MIT on the Charles to retain the Allen-DeWolfe Trophy. The Black and…
Bustling Harvard Square will resemble one giant stage for three days beginning May 5 during the annual Arts First Performance Fair. Sponsored by Harvard Office for the Arts (OfA), the annual fair celebrates students and faculty in the arts through more than 225 music, theater, dance, film, and visual arts events – most of them free of charge. This year will feature South African gumboot dancing, a Japanese tea ceremony, and a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan, among others.
Comic book fans looking for a good-hearted Green Goblin may want to consider the humble, the tiny, but the very powerful microbe. While lacking the menacing laugh and standard suite of pyrotechnic gadgets, these ubiquitous life forms (1 gram of soil holds more of them than there are human beings) are set to play the hero in an ecological and technological adventure. Already exploited for their ability to eat away at oil spills, the clever bacteria have garnered a team of Harvard entrepreneurs first place in the $125,000 Ignite Clean Energy business plan competition for its proposal to use microbes to clean out the gunk that forms inside water pipes that conduct heat, and in the process, dramatically increase energy efficiency.
Sun, skills, and sprawl are the three factors that largely determine regional growth patterns, Professor of Economics Edward L. Glaeser told local, state, and federal officials on April 27 at a conference organized by the Kennedy Schools Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.
CollegeCorps, a nonprofit organization founded by Hani N. Elias 05 and Adam Kalamchi 05, recently announced that 14 Boston-area undergraduates have been selected to participate in the CollegeCorps Intern program. These students, who will be traveling to Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, South Africa, or Uganda, represent the second class of interns under the new initiative, endorsed by the United Nations Development Program and supported by the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies, the United Nations, and the New England Regional Peace Corps office.
Authors of a controversial paper calling for the death of modern environmentalism to make way for a movement better able to handle the dramatic, global problems facing the world defended their ideas Tuesday (May 3) in an event at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
While waiting to take a tour, 8-year-old Brian Mareau of Salem, N.H., peers out the door of the Harvard Museum of Natural History at the rain coming down.
The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) recognized its latest group of fellows at a ceremony held in Washington, D.C., on April 10. Robert Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, was among the group of five fellows.
While some students were taking a wild ride on the Whirly Bird and others were facing off in gladiatorial bouts, and still others rocked and bopped to the sound of Blanks, they all shared one thing: They were wet. At first, just intermittently wet, then as annual Springfest partied on, pretty darn wet, then in the middle of a set by the punk band Plan B for Type As, pretty much soaked as the heavens opened up and blessed the festivities with a deluge. Another thing all the good-sport attendees had in common: a great time. Really.
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