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Dec. 16, 1948 – The Law School Forum makes its first television appearance on Boston’s WBZ-TV with a discussion of Boston traffic and housing problems. Dec. 1952 – At the…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Dec. 13. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Harvards new Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), announced last spring by President Lawrence H. Summers, has led to the admission of more financial aid students in this years Early Action competition, especially those from low- and moderate-income backgrounds. More than twice as many admitted students were granted application fee waivers this year compared with last year (43 vs. 20) – a strong indication they will be eligible for the HFAI once their financial aid applications are completed. More than 61 percent of admitted students have applied for financial assistance compared with 58 percent last year.
Charles Alcocks history of managing large projects in astronomy will come in handy as he tackles what he said is his biggest challenge so far as the new director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).
Carolyn Abbate, a wide-ranging humanist who ranks among the worlds foremost authorities on opera, has been appointed professor of music in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective Sept. 1, 2005.
The A.M.N. Foundation for the Advancement of Science, Art and Culture in Israel has recently awarded Michael O. Rabin, Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Computer Science, the 2004 EMET Prize in the exact sciences (computer sciences).
A tattered Harvard womens basketball team dug deep this past Saturday (Dec. 11) to hold off the feisty Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) Blue Devils at Lavietes Pavilion, 70-55. With league-leading scorer Reka Cserny 05 out with a sprained ankle, junior forward Kate Mannering – sporting a bandage all her own above her lip (concealing five stitches from a practice injury) – filled the void with a career-high 18 points on eight-for-12 shooting (in addition to a career-best four steals) to send the Blue Devils packing with a 1-5 record.
Icers back off Bears, 4-1, land league praise The host Harvard men’s hockey team defeated Hockey East foe Maine, 4-1, on Dec. 11 to collect its fifth straight victory of…
Nationwide, a higher percentage of students in charter schools are judged proficient on state reading and math exams than their peers in the nearest traditional school, according to a new study by Professor of Economics Caroline Hoxby. If a charter school has been operating for more than nine years, she found, 10 percent more students are scoring at or above the proficiency level in both subjects.
Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday that the University will double the dollars available for campus conservation projects through the Green Campus Loan Fund – to $6 million – with the aim of financing greater energy efficiency, water conservation, and waste reduction across Harvard.
Boston is whiter than most U.S. metropolitan areas – 81 percent compared with a national average of 66 percent – and in many of the regions suburbs, whites have little chance of encountering others different from themselves, a situation that Guy Stuart finds troubling.
Catherine McKenna, a medievalist who has written engagingly on Welsh poetry and prose and Irish saga and hagiography, has been appointed Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, effective July 1, 2005.
Dickens redux: In a scene that looks like it could have come from A Christmas Carol, Richard Masters 49, M.D. 53, Ph.D. 64, plays Beethovens Moonlight Sonata at the Faculty Club.
If a flu pandemic similar to the deadly one that spread in 1918 occurs, it may be possible to keep the pandemic in check through vaccinations, a new study suggests. The infamous 1918 pandemic killed up to 40 million people worldwide, but the virus strain was not unusually contagious compared with other infectious diseases such as measles, according to a new analysis by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). However, the 1918 flu was quite lethal once contracted, believed to be 10 times more lethal than other pandemic strains.
Mention the words European architecture, and what comes to mind is likely to be a broad survey of periods and styles ranging from the temples of ancient Greece to the latest buildings of Rem Koolhaas or Frank Gehry.
Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) and director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project, has received the highest decoration the Mexican government can bestow on a foreign national, the Orden Mexicana del Aguila Azteca (Order of the Aztec Eagle). Calling Carrasco a man of our time, a man of enormous vitality and value, Carlos de Icaza, the Ambassador of Mexico, decorated Carrasco at a ceremony held at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C., Thursday (Dec. 9).
The average wedding ring contains about two-tenths of an ounce of gold, or $88 worth, according to the latest market prices. It almost seems like a bargain when you consider that in order to produce that much gold, 60 tons of ore must be gouged out of the ground, crushed into small pieces, then leached from its mineral matrix with a weak cyanide compound.
Resuming the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians is the single most important step the United States can take to regain its stature in the world, Gen. Anthony Zinni told a packed house Dec. 8 at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
For an article in the Dec. 9, 2004 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Atul Gawande, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and a surgeon at Brigham…
DEAS researchers model how brain encodes information By mining direct recordings of neuronal activity in live animals as they viewed natural scenes, researchers in the Division of Engineering and Applied…
Despite an ongoing national effort to limit exposure to lead, most adults in the United States have accumulated a substantial amount of this noxious metal in their bones. A new Harvard study ties this lurking danger to an increased risk of cataracts, the leading cause of age-related blindness in the world.
Five seniors receive traveling Rockefeller Fellowships Concluding its annual meeting and interviews at Harvard on Dec. 10 and 11, the Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships Administrative Board has awarded fellowships…
Scholars at Risk Fellowship nominations sought The Harvard Scholars at Risk committee is now accepting nominations from Harvard faculty, staff, and students for its fellowship for persecuted scholars. The fellowship…
Anna Franekova 05 and Cora Tsang 05 share the 2004-2005 Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize, which is awarded each year to an outstanding student of Japanese who has completed at least two years of Japanese language study at Harvard. Tsang (above center) takes photos with friends at the ceremony honoring the winners.
From Howard Deans fundraising to the technology of voting, the Internet and online technology took a starring role in the 2004 election. But once the votes were tallied, did the Internet matter? Last week (Dec. 9 – 11), the Votes, Bits & Bytes conference at Harvard Law Schools (HLS) Berkman Center for Internet and Society explored the role of the Internet in the United States and international elections as well as in the broader contexts of politics and citizenship. Scholars, bloggers, journalists, entrepreneurs, and political organizers – including the e-campaign managers for both George W. Bush and John Kerry – gathered for spirited discussions of online implications for democracy and citizenship.
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