Following a vote of the Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty, Guhan Subramanian has been promoted from assistant professor to professor of law – a tenured faculty position. A corporate law expert who specializes in deal making and corporate governance, Subramanian joined the HLS faculty in 2002 as the Joseph Flom Assistant Professor of Law and Business. Prior to this appointment, he spent three years on the faculty of Harvard Business School, where he taught courses on negotiations and business law.
Under the leadership of Institute of Politics (IOP) Director Phil Sharp, the Directors Internship Program annually arranges summer internships for Harvard undergraduates interested in pursuing careers in politics or public service. The institute provides stipends for living expenses.
Blogging versus journalism is over, announced media critic and blogger Jay Rosen in the title of his introductory speech at the Jan. 21-22 conference on Blogging, Journalism and Credibility: Battleground and Common Ground. It was a bold premise, but, as the conference confirmed, a bit premature.
The Harvard community responded to the tsunami disaster with grand gestures – as well as very personal ones. Numerous faculty members lent their expertise to the media and to policy-makers. The effort has drawn an as yet unknown number of students and faculty members to the region, including Harvard Medical School Professor of Medical Anthropology Byron Good and Professor of Social Medicine Mary Jo DelVecchio Good, who traveled to Indonesia to help colleagues in a Javanese medical school. Students and student groups from around the University, including the Harvard South Asian Association, organized memorial services and mounted fund drives.
Upon the recommendation of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the President approved and announced the following Standing Committees at the FAS Faculty Meeting of Oct. 19, 2004. Standing Committees of the Faculty are constituted to perform a continuing function. Each committee has been established by a vote of the Faculty, and can be dissolved only by a vote of the Faculty or, with the agreement of a particular Committee, by the Dean and Faculty Council. The Dean recommends the membership of each committee annually.
For her Radcliffe Fellowship presentation last month (Jan. 12), novelist Julia Glass strayed from the expected reading of a work-in-progress followed by questions for a format she thought more appropriate to an audience of curious Radcliffe colleagues. With witty insights and foam-core illustrations – a sort of paupers PowerPoint – she invited the audience into her creative process as well as the novel shes been working on this year, Piece of Cake.
On Jan. 13, Steven Bloomfield moderated a symposium on the war in Iraq hosted by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. It featured two distinguished Harvard scholars whose views on the war differ in significant ways.
Snowflakes dusting the shoulders of his overcoat and filling the brim of his brown Homburg, Peter J. Gomes, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, joined the small group that had gathered in front of the John Harvard statue last Wednesday (Jan. 26).
A foreign correspondent, an opinion editor, and a political communications scholar are among those recently named fellows at the Kennedy School of Governments Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy for the spring 2005 semester.
Until 1995 when apartheid ended in South Africa, the government spent 12 times more on the education of white children than on black children. This blatantly discriminatory policy has left a troublesome legacy.
Male doctors take their own lives at a higher rate than the general population of white men in the United States. That’s been known for some time. Now, the largest,…
It’s a world hard to imagine. Some 650 million years ago, Earth’s land and oceans were almost completely covered by ice and snow. The planet’s population – primitive plants and…
Using the environment to help address the nation’s pollution problems. That’s the focus of a new report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and researchers at the Kennedy…
Assistant Professor of Astronomy Bryan Gaensler and colleagues have discovered the source of powerful magnetic objects in the universe called magnetars, finding that some of the biggest stars in the…
Feb. 17, 1879 – With approval from President Charles Eliot, the newly formed committee on women’s education (chaired by Elizabeth Cary Agassiz) writes to several Harvard professors to solicit their…
Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Associations (HAA) candidates for the 2005 election to the Harvard Board of Overseers and the HAA Elected Directors. The election this spring will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA Elected Directors.
Program on aging seeks research proposals With funding provided by the National Institute of Aging at the National Institutes of Health, the Program on the Global Demography of Aging, led…
Swimming and diving cruise to perfection Harvard’s swimming and diving teams continued their glide toward a perfect season this past weekend, as the men and women upset the Princeton and…
Victory remained elusive for new mens head volleyball coach Chris Ridolfi and his charges as the Crimson dropped their third consecutive match at home, 3-1, against Rivier College on Feb. 1. Harvard falls to 0-3 with the loss, staying winless on the season.
Located at the Kennedy School of Government, the Institute of Politics (IOP) recently announced its selection of a diverse and experienced group of individuals for spring fellowships.
After an extensive renovation, the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America reopened to the public yesterday (Feb. 2). The renovation, completed at a cost of approximately $7 million, by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates with Nancy Rogo Trainer as principal-in-charge and Richard White Sons as construction managers, enhanced the safety and security of the librarys valuable holdings by improving temperature and humidity controls and reconfiguring library space and traffic flow.
Rather than dialing for dollars, a recent (Jan. 10) telethon at Harvards Office of Admissions and Financial Aid aimed to give money away. Emily Haigh 05 was one of 10 Harvard College students who reached out to approximately 150 high school students admitted to the College through Early Action to alert them to the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative. The initiative was launched by President Lawrence H. Summers in February 2004 to encourage talented students from families of low and moderate incomes to attend Harvard College. The admitted students were identified either because they requested application fee waivers or by biographical and geographical information submitted on their applications, said Sarah Beasley, admissions officer and co-director of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative. Beasley added that the student callers also took advantage of the opportunity to share some of the high points of life at Harvard with the admitted students.
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals have announced that Tim Robbins and Catherine Zeta-Jones are the recipients of the 2005 Man and Woman of the Year awards. This years choices join a starry elite that includes Ella Fitzgerald, Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, and Jack Lemmon.
The stately Georgian Revival building that has served as the home of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals for more than a century will undergo a major renovation that will transform it into a modern, up-to-date facility with a new theater, rehearsal rooms, and classroom and meeting spaces. Construction of the New College Theatre, designed by Leers Weinzaphel Associates of Boston, will begin in June 2005. The project is expected to take about two years to complete.
Harvard University is embarking on a collaboration with Google that could harness Googles search technology to provide to both the Harvard community and the larger public a revolutionary new information location tool to find materials available in libraries.
A panel on possible future steps to combat climate change Monday (Dec. 13) discussed embracing market-based incentives for carbon dioxide reductions and starting a new dialogue between the worlds two biggest carbon dioxide emitters – the United States and China.
The Harvard University Gazette will suspend printed publication through early February. It will resume publishing with the Feb. 3 edition. Keep up with all the latest University news by visiting http://www.harvard.edu.
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