Since the theaters beginnings in ancient Greece, playwrights have used the stage to explore complex ethical issues and portray disturbing current events. It is a practice that continues into the present day with works like Athol Fugards Master Harold … and the Boys and Tony Kushners Angels in America.
Margaret Livingstone found herself in a small room at the Louvre museum in Paris with four self-portraits by Rembrandt. She noticed something strange. The eyes of the great 17th century…
n Moshi, Tanzania, hard-hit by AIDS, researchers are using detailed aerial photographs and global positioning system receivers to locate study subjects in a maze of houses without addresses and streets…
Chemists and engineers at Harvard University have made robust circuits from minuscule nanowires that align themselves on a chip of glass during low-temperature fabrication, creating rudimentary electronic devices that offer…
Earth Day at Harvard offered a hopeful note this year, as speakers praised the University’s efforts toward sustainability, saying they reflect similar grassroots efforts around the country that are forming…
At its 14th meeting of the year on April 27, the Faculty Council discussed proposed changes to the Handbook for Students and the Allston Burr Senior Tutorships.
The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) will welcome author, theater critic, writer, teacher, and its founding director, Robert Brustein, for an evening of readings from his new book, “Letters to a…
The Gaesatae were a tribe of ancient Celtic warriors who went into battle stark naked, the better to impress their enemies with their fearlessness. In order to appear even more terrifying many of them spiked their hair, stiffening it with lime. Would the lime have made their hair white? Dan Meagher wanted to know. After reading through all the literary sources he could find and consulting with scholars in Harvards Celtic Department, Meagher learned that the treatment would have turned their punked-out coiffures a flamelike orange. Only after he had researched this detail to his satisfaction did he dip his brush into a bit of specially mixed pigment and paint the hair of a tiny Gaesatae figurine the appropriate shade.
A standing-room-only crowd packed Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall on Tuesday (April 26) for the premiere of Acting on Faith: Women and New Religious Activism in America, a documentary film produced by Rachel Antell M.T.S. 92, a Pluralism Project research affiliate. Diana L. Eck, director of the Pluralism Project and professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, narrates the film. The event, which included a screening, a panel discussion, and a reception, was hosted by the Pluralism Project, a research organization at Harvard dedicated to helping Americans engage with religious diversity.
Nine students from Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have been selected as 2005-06 Boston Schweitzer Fellows. Honoring the legacy of Dr. Albert Schweitzer by committing to a year of service with a community agency, each Schweitzer Fellow will devote more than 200 hours of service to local communities lacking access to adequate health services.
Harvard Extension School students 1st Lt. Kendrick Harris, deputy chief of advanced systems and technology at Hanscom Air Force Base, and Grace Greenwich, who commutes to Cambridge from New York, where she is associate director of alumni relations at New York University, initially seem like an odd pairing. He, in worn jeans and an unconstructed suede blazer, is constantly in motion. He takes up the whole room, fidgeting, flashing a row of perfectly straight teeth framed by quotation-mark dimples, expressing skepticism or surprise with a single raised eyebrow: Eddie Murphy meets your favorite high school English teacher. She, wearing fitted tweed trousers and a bright green shawl, her hair pulled back tight, is more self-contained, seated with feet together and legs uncrossed, like a lady receiving visitors in a Victorian drawing room. But as director and co-director, respectively, of the Harvard University Tuskegee Airmen Youth Leadership (Red TAYL) Program, they seem to need each other as much as Laurel needs Hardy, as much as FDR needed Eleanor.
April 17, 1953 – West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer visits Harvard. April 1954 – Inspired by the success of a 1953 loan exhibition of French drawings, the Fogg Museum presents…
Mayr memorial service on April 29 A memorial service for renowned Harvard evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus, will be held Friday (April 29) at…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday (April 25). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Michael J. Hopkins, whose work linking algebraic topology to other branches of mathematics and physics has earned him a reputation as the worlds pre-eminent algebraic topologist, has been appointed professor of mathematics in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.
Harvard students Loren Bienvenu 07 and Brian Distelberg 05 have both been awarded first prize in this years Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting. Finding overwhelming merit in both Bienvenus entry, Shining Through the Ashes: A Collection of Beat Literature, and Distelbergs entry, An Interesting Trio of Writers: Books By and About Edward Everett Tanner III, the jury decided it was appropriate to grant two first-place awards. Third prize went to Kate Ward 05 for her entry Womens Spaces and Social Safety: American Etiquette and Lifestyle Manuals, 1846 – Present. An exhibition featuring items from the students collections will be on display in Lamont Library by Commencement Day.
Merage Fellows announced Harvard students Svetlana Meyerzon ’05 and Onyi Offor ’05 recently joined 12 other college seniors nationwide to be named 2005 American Dream Fellows by the Merage Foundation.…
Lagemann presentation to accompany PDK ceremony Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Ellen Condliffe Lagemann will speak to members of Harvard’s Phi Delta Kappa (PDK) chapter on May 19 at…
The Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies has announced the recipients of the 2005-06 Third Millennium Fellowships. The program, launched by the Third Millennium Foundation in 2004, enables students from the University to bring human rights theory and practice together, to make a valuable contribution to human rights, to gain firsthand experience abroad in the field, and to interact with a network of individuals sharing their commitment to human rights work.
The visiting University of Massachusetts Minutemen lived up to their nickname in a big way against Harvard lacrosse on Tuesday afternoon (April 26), at one point tallying five straight goals over a two minute and 47 second span. Harvard, meanwhile – which fell to 5-6 with the eventual 8-5 loss – simply turned crimson.
Baseball crowned Beantown’s best, splits doubleheader with Brown Harvard baseball captured its first outright Beanpot title since the 1991 season with a 7-3 win over Northeastern on April 21 at…
Trustees of the Harvard Club of Australia (HCA) Foundation recently named Scott V. Edwards, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, as one three recipients for its 2004 Australia-Harvard Fellowship. Edwards, a professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, will collaborate on comparative genomics research with Jennifer Graves, head of Australian National Universitys Research School of Biological Sciences in Canberra.
A University of Michigan historian and outspoken foe of Bush administration Middle East policy painted a decidedly pessimistic picture of the future of Iraq in a public address on Friday (April 22), arguing that sub-nationalisms along ethnic and religious lines are proving to be as durable in Iraq as the idea of Iraqi national identity.
Widener Library has been selected by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) to receive the 2005 AIA/ALA Library Building Award.
Feminist author Susan Faludi once said, My goal is to be accused of being strident. In person she seems anything but. Slender, soft-spoken, with a habit of lowering her eyes as she speaks as though consulting some inner source of authority, Faludi drives home her arguments not with assertive rhetoric but, in accord with her journalistic training, through quotations, statistics, and anecdotes.
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