Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has begun construction of the Northwest Science Building at the north end of the Cambridge campus, laying a cornerstone for faculty growth in the coming years. Upon its completion late in 2007, the low-slung glass and wood structure is expected to house up to 30 faculty and their research groups.
Harvard softball continued its pattern of extreme highs and lows with a pair of losses on Tuesday afternoon (April 12) against a hot-swinging Boston College club in Chestnut Hill, Mass. The non-conference setbacks – a 5-1 loss followed by a 12-2 thumping in five innings in game two – amounts to a three-game losing streak for the Crimson (who also fell to Yale, 4-2, on April 10).
It may be presumptuous for a university that is a mere 369 years old to tell a 5,000-year-old city, Job well done. Nevertheless, that is what Harvard has said to the city of Aleppo, Syria, by awarding it the Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design.
The U.S. Latino population has grown exponentially today Latinos are the fastest-growing group in the United States. U.S. Census Bureau estimates put the Latino population at more than 37 million. For the first time in this countrys history, Latinos are now the largest minority group. The census bureau estimates that by 2050, a full quarter of the U.S. population – about 100 million people – will be of Latino origin. That means that in just two generations, the United States will have the second-largest number of Latinos in the world, after Mexico.
The Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention at the Harvard School of Public Health has announced the launch of a Spanish-language version of its popular risk assessment Web site, Your Disease Risk. The new site, Cuidar de su Salud (Take Care of Your Health), provides tailored prevention messages and health information for Hispanic/Latino Americans, as well as Spanish speakers worldwide.
Harvard Universitys Navin Khaneja, assistant professor of electrical engineering in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS), has received a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
What traits will help the next generation of women scientists succeed? According to top female scientists from the nations universities, corporations, hospitals, research journals, and museums who spoke at a symposium held last week at Harvard, they include: zealous guarding of personal time, the ability to juggle numerous life tasks, and the willingness to sacrifice perfection.
Carla A. Harris, managing director, head of Equity Private Placements, Financial Sponsors and Retail Capital Markets Coverage for Global Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley in New York, has been named the recipient of the 2005 Harvard College Womens Professional Achievement Award.
A miniature book is just that – a diminutive text, generally less than 3 inches tall. A few of these books can be read fairly easily, some with effort and eyestrain, and others only with high-powered magnification. Houghton Librarys upcoming exhibition A Miniature Lesson in the History of the Book, opening today (April 14), will feature approximately 300 of these tiny books from the collection of Julian I. Edison 51, M.B.A. 1953.
The Association of Black Harvard Women will kick off its 30th year by honoring renowned journalist and broadcaster Ed Gordon as its Outstanding Man of the Year at the annual 2005 Tribute to Black Men to be held on April 16.
Melanie Li Green, advanced-level conservation intern in the Paper Lab of the Straus Center for Conservation, died March 31 after being involved in a motorcycle accident. Li Green, 32, had worked at the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) since Sept. 1, 2004, and was to complete her internship at the end of June 2005. She worked under Craigen Bowen, Philip and Lynn Straus Conservator of Works of Art on Paper and deputy director of conservation.
Stanley J. Korsmeyer, a scientific leader at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute whose landmark discoveries about why cancer cells survive opened a promising new avenue for cancer treatment, died March 31. A nonsmoker, he died of lung cancer at 54.
Mathematician Horng-Tzer Yau, who has harnessed the power of mathematics to analyze and explain physical processes from atomic behavior to the stability of stars, has been named professor of mathematics in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.
During the summer months, the Harvard University Bridge to Learning and Literacy Program – an education program for the Universitys service workers – offers citizenship classes. But during the academic year, the Bridges efforts continue, with students working one-on-one with Faculty of Arts and Sciences tutors to prepare for their citizenship test. These tutors – like Alexandra Messiter 08 (above left), working with staff member Sabrina Contreras – have become an indispensible feature of the preparation program. Recently, the Bridge Program gathered to recognize the efforts of these volunteers as well as to celebrate the accomplishment of 21 new U.S. citizens who participated in the program. Speakers included Carol Kolenik, Bridge Program director, and President Lawrence H. Summers, who warmly congratulated the new citizens and commended their tutors.
More than 400 cyclists from dozens of Northeastern colleges and universities churned up the country roads and concrete jungles of Grafton and Somerville this past weekend as part of the third annual Beanpot Cycling Classic collegiate race.
At its 12th meeting of the year on April 6, the Faculty Council received an update on export controls from Vice President and General Counsel Robert Iuliano.
April 25, 1674 – The Harvard Corporation orders that “freshmen of the Colledg shall not at any time be compelled by any Senior students to goe on errands or doe…
The Harvard Corporation on Monday (April 4) announced its decision to have Harvard Management Company divest its holdings of stock in PetroChina Company Limited.
Christine Korsgaard believes in the power of intellectual discussion. Now that she has the means to do so, she plans to make good on that belief by seeing to it that a great deal of stimulating, productive conversation takes place at Harvard over the next few years.
Royal Society elects Porter fellow Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William E. Lawrence University Professor at the Harvard Business School, has been elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Society…
If anybody can discuss the rise of neoconservativism, Hannah Arendt on Walter Benjamin, Jesse Jackson on Terri Schiavo, and the future of the theater in 90 minutes, its Tony Kushner. As part of the Office for the Arts Learning From Performers program, the playwright appeared last Thursday at the Loeb Drama Center, where the American Repertory Theatres (ART) Associate Artistic Director Gideon Lester moderated a discussion with about 150 in attendance. When students from the ART Institute for Advanced Theatre Training took the opportunity to ask him about his 1985 play, A Bright Room Called Day, which they were, coincidentally, opening that night, Kushner was off and running: Philosophy, art, foreign policy, history, and the theaters future were just a few of the topics he touched on.
The Silk Road Project Inc., the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) have announced the creation of new collaborations designed to deepen and strengthen the interdisciplinary educational offerings of the three institutions.
Mehrangiz Kar sits in her spacious office beside a window that looks out on the soggy lawn and still bare trees of the Bunting Quadrangle. Her desk and an adjacent table are strewn with books and papers, most of them covered with the sinuous shapes of Persian lettering.
In the 1930s and 40s, many European scholars fleeing Nazi persecution found refuge at American universities where they were able to continue their research and writing as well as contribute their knowledge and experience to the academic communities in which they found a home.
Some of the nations top female scientists will gather at the University today (April 7) for the third National Symposium for the Advancement of Women in Science. The sessions, organized by the student group Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe (WISHR), will run through April 10. The symposium will address opportunities available to female scientists, ways to foster scientific talent, and womens evolving role and leadership in science. The majority of events will be held in the Maxwell Dworkin Building, 33 Oxford St.
Professor of Cell Biology and Pediatrics Mark T. Keating has been selected to receive the 15th annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Freedom to Discover Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cardiovascular Research for his discovery of genes involved in cardiac arrhythmias. Mutations in these genes can lead to abnormal heart rhythms, a major cause of death and disability. Keatings studies have greatly advanced the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of arrhythmias, as well as the understanding of cardiovascular physiology. The award, a $50,000 cash prize and a silver commemorative medallion, will be officially presented to Keating at the annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Distinguished Achievement Awards Dinner to be held in New York City in October.
A two-year pilot program testing the use of environmentally friendly cleaning supplies and techniques is ready for University-wide distribution, the programs organizers say, in a move that could reduce waste and improve indoor air quality.
From Tom Paines Common Sense to Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin to the rap anthems of Tupac Shakur, protest literature has moved the masses, but generally left the critics cold.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, is the first Brazilian president to come from the working class. A former metalworker who left school at 12, Lula led strikes in the 1970s that caused some to call him the Lech Walesa of Brazil. With a group of fellow labor leaders and intellectuals, he founded the Workers Party and ran unsuccessfully for president three times before winning in 2002 with the largest margin of victory in Brazilian history.
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