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.
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…
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.
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.
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