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.
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.
Stem cell research is a complicated subject, not only scientifically but ethically as well. This past Friday (April 15) a debate at Harvard Law School promised to shed light on…
Addressing health disparities is among the top priorities of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said the agency’s director Elias Zerhouni at the second of three Harvard symposia on April…
A long-awaited federally funded study conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) recently announced that taking an aspirin a day helps women prevent one of the nation’s leading…
In a demonstration project designed to conserve water, control pollutants washing into the Charles River, and recharge groundwater supplies for the dry summer months, Harvard has begun using rainwater to…
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.
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