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.
When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act [ESEA] into law in 1965, one of the biggest education challenges facing the nation was the difference in the quality of education provided to children from white households and those from nonwhite households. Today, the racial gap persists. How much of the gap is due to schooling, as opposed to home life and opportunities outside of school, is a topic of ongoing research. What seems clear is that some children have access to more and better academic experiences than others and that these differences correlate strongly with race and class.
Shows from the Sopranos to Celebrity Poker may soon be plucked right out of the air thanks to wireless (wi-fi) technology and the ingenuity of a Harvard senior.
Harvardwood, the organization for Harvard alumni and students in the arts, media, and entertainment, is accepting applications through the end of April for its third annual summer internship program. The 2005 Harvardwood Summer Internship Program (HSIP) will match between 40 and 50 current Harvard students seeking experience with internship opportunities with media and entertainment companies.
The choice of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to lead the Catholic Church as Pope Benedict XVI served as the springboard for a lively panel discussion on the future of religion in global politics at the Kennedy School Forum Wednesday night.
This August, the Harvard University Art Museums will present Degas at Harvard, an exhibition examining Harvard Universitys distinguished holdings by Edgar Degas – one of the most important collections of the artists work in the United States. The exhibition will draw together more than 60 works by Degas from the collection of the Fogg Art Museum, together with promised gifts to the Fogg, as well as works from the Houghton Library at Harvard and Harvards Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C. Organized by the Fogg Art Museum, the exhibition encompasses drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, and photographs, and will be on view at Harvards Arthur M. Sackler Museum from Aug. 1 to Nov. 27.
During an April 13 Capitol Hill breakfast for Harvard¹s congressional alumni and current members of the Massachusetts delegation, President Summers (right) spoke with attendees about a range of issues from student financial aid and Harvard¹s low-income student initiative to the importance of federal-university partnership in research. He chats above with Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Congressman Thomas Petri ¹62 (R-Wis.).
In these uncertain meteorological times, an intrepid cyclist takes the chance that this blooming magnolia tree will not be covered with frost by the time she makes the first circult.
As many as one out of three people in the world are infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis, public health experts estimate. That could lead to a global plague were it not for the fact that only one out of 10 infected people actually develops the disease.
April 4, 1945 – At the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, Calif., the Radcliffe Club of San Francisco performs launching honors for the “S.S. Radcliffe Victory,” one of several wartime Victory…
A memorial service for renowned Harvard evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus, will be held April 29 at 2 p.m. in Memorial Church. Harvard faculty members James Hanken and Edward O. Wilson will deliver tributes. They will be joined by Walter Bock, professor of evolutionary biology at Columbia University Jared Diamond, professor of physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine and Frank Sulloway, a visiting scholar in the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 18. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
In an effort to inspire a new wave of dialogue, action, and service among youth in the fight against HIV/AIDS, students from the Harvard Black Mens Forum (BMF), the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC), the Harvard African Students Association (HASA), and the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) will be co-hosting, for the first time, the Unite Against AIDS Summit: HIV/AIDS in Africa and the African Diaspora. Taking place April 22-23, the summit is the culmination of years of planning between the student groups on how to get more youth involved in the battle against HIV/AIDS. The summit has a particular focus on mobilizing black youth, who, despite being the demographic group most affected by the disease, are severely underrepresented in advocacy and service concerning the epidemic.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and lecturer in public policy at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Samantha Power speaks with photojournalist James Nachtwey prior to a panel discussion titled Photojournalism and Human Rights held as part of a weekend of events at Tufts University. Both Power and Nachtwey were recently named 2005 National Magazine Award Winners for work they did separately on the crisis in Darfur in the Sudan.
More than 150 international leaders, scholars. and practitioners gathered at the John F. Kennedy School of Government last week for a four-day conference aimed at sharing experiences and fostering discussion on how to improve democracys functioning.
Concert to raise funds for Sarcoma Foundation The premiere of “Cancione,” a work for strings by award-winning jazz violinist Ramsey Ameen, will be dedicated to the memory of the wife…
Twenty-four Harvard College juniors were recently elected to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), the national collegiate honors society. The newly elected members will be inducted on May 2.
After taking three out of four games against Yale this past weekend (April 16-17) at ODonnell Field, the Harvard baseball team seemed to climb the Ivy standings with the ferocity of a hot hit single on the Top 40 charts. With eight Ivy games left in this season-within-a-season, the Crimson, at 10-2 (17-10 overall), are sitting pretty atop the Red Rolfe Division standings. Though much like in the fickle music business, the Harvard club will have to continue producing against host Brown in a pair of doubleheaders this weekend (April 23-24) to maintain its prestigious spot.
Failed Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards brought his positive populism back to the Kennedy School on April 13, sounding a call to eradicate poverty in the United States. Terming it his new cause, Edwards told a packed audience at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum that citizens and government working together have a lot of work to do to raise living standards amongst the poorest of the poor.
A new national poll by Harvard Universitys Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, finds seven out of 10 of Americas college students are concerned Social Security will not pay out benefits when they retire, with students significantly more likely to support investment of Social Security taxes in private accounts than the general public. In addition, the poll showed college students at odds with the current administration on foreign policy issues, with only about one out of three in favor of the United States work to spread freedom and democracy across the world and nearly three out of four believing the United States should let the UN and other countries take the lead in solving international crises and conflicts.
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