As the Boston Red Sox swept their way to a World Series victory this past October, innumerable messages of support began appearing all over the metropolitan area. There was one, however, that outshone the rest. Each night, the words Go Sox in letters 20 feet high, glowed on the side of Chelseas enormous salt pile, repository for all the highway salt in eastern Massachusetts.
A new report titled Innovation and Opportunity: Harvard Universitys Impact on the Boston Area Economy describes Harvards broad economic impact, generating more than 48,000 jobs at many levels, from the service industry to construction to highly skilled scientific research positions.
Four Harvard undergraduates, a recent graduate, and a graduate student have been named Rhodes Scholars this year. The scholarship trust made the announcement on Nov. 21. The winners of this prestigious award are Peter Buttigieg 04, South Bend, Ind. seniors Melissa L. Dell, Enid, Okla., and Sarah J. Hill, Bismarck, N.D. graduate student Rachel Y. Mazyck, Laurel, Md. and seniors Swati Mylavarapu, Gainesville, Fla., and Kazi Sabeel Rahman, Scarsdale, N.Y.
Dec. 29, 1627 – John Harvard enters Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England. Dec. 20, 1672 – Leonard Hoar, Class of 1650, is formally installed as Harvard’s third President and the…
A remembrance gathering for friends and family of Professor of Geology Emeritus Raymond Siever will be held in the Hoffman Laboratory (20 Oxford St.), fourth-floor faculty lounge, on Dec. 4 at 2 p.m.
In response to a peeping incident report involving an unknown male looking into the shower stall at Dane Hall taken by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) on Nov. 29, HUPD would like to remind members of the University community to take the following precautions to keep yourself and your valuables safe:
As professor of the practice of Romance languages and literatures and director of the languages programs, Kimberlee Campbells unusual titles bespeak her unusual place in the halls of academia. Campbell, who joined Harvards Romance Languages and Literatures Department this fall after a long career at New York University, describes her work as a sort of clinical professor.
Its one of the strangest sights in nature: lizards running upright across water. Watching their thin hind feet dip into the liquid, you expect them to sink or fall over, but they just keep going like a human sprinting for a bus.
Erin K. OShea, whose pathbreaking research has given her fellow scientists unprecedented glimpses into the full complement of proteins at work in living organisms, has been named professor of molecular and cellular biology and co-director of the Bauer Center for Genomics Research at Harvard University, effective Aug. 1, 2005.
Phillips Brooks House (PBH) will launch its annual holiday gift drive on Friday (Dec. 3). Organizers hope to collect more than 1,000 gifts for children throughout Greater Boston, many of whom have impoverished, homeless, or incarcerated parents.
A top economic adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the Kyoto global warming treaty as bad for the economy, for the environment, and for public health.
‘Cosmic Evolution’ Web site wins two awards “Cosmic Evolution,” the Web site based on the Harvard Extension School course Astronomy E8: “Cosmic Evolution: The Origins of Matter and Life,” was…
The genetic revolution has created tremendous excitement, but also considerable fear. As scientists identify the genes responsible for various traits and behaviors, and become more adept at transferring genetic material from one organism to another, there is growing anxiety that we are heading for a disturbingly unnatural and ill-considered future in which parents eager for their childs success will have genes governing everything from hair color to musical ability injected into the developing embryo, resulting after several generations in radical changes to the human race.
A Harvard senior has been named a Marshall Scholar, allowing him to study for the next two years in the United Kingdom at the university of his choice.
Martina Schinke-Braun shows Summers a DNA microarray, containing several thousand oligonucleotides printed onto a coated glass slide. A magnifying glass is necessary to see the individual DNA spots on the slide. Later in the day (Nov. 29), the Bauer Center held an open house that included guided tours of the facilities and live demonstrations.
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to Harvard University through alumni activities. These six recipients were honored Oct. 14 during the HAA board of directors fall meeting.
Literary quiz. Name the author of this Chandler-like excerpt from a recent thriller: I changed the channel. PBS had a special on nuclear terrorism. Some expert from Harvards Kennedy School was droning on …
At an open house at the Office of International Programs, Jay Bacrania 05 reintroduces himself to a University administrator. She is embarrassed shes met Bacrania many times before but doesnt recognize him after his year in Banaras, India. Certainly, the beard hes sprouted disguises him, but Bacrania himself admits the change goes beyond the tonsorial.
Kennedy School of Government Dean David Ellwood has announced the establishment of the Hefner China Fund to support the work of the China Public Policy Program at the School. Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Hefner III are giving $1 million to expand and enhance the Schools China-related endeavors, under the direction of the China Public Policy Programs Faculty Chair Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs. The Hefner China Fund will help to realize the shared aspirations of the Kennedy School and the Hefners for building ties between the United States and China and for helping China meet its public policy challenges.
A weeklong vacation in Mexico, box-seat tickets for the Red Sox, and an Apple iPod are just a handful of the items up for bid at this years Student Internship Fund (SIF) auction at the Kennedy School of Government. The event will be held today (Dec. 2) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum (79 JFK St.). The silent auction runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., and the live auction begins at 7:30 p.m.
Francis H. (Hooks) Burr, 90, who earned his living as a lawyer and devoted his considerable energies to improving higher education and health care, died November 25, 2004, in Boston. He was a resident of Beverly, Mass., and Islesboro, Maine.
Some individuals exhale many more pathogen-laden droplets than others in the course of ordinary breathing, scientists have found, but oral administration of a safe saline spray every six hours might slash exhalation of germs in this group by an average of 72 percent.
Harvey Mansfield, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government, was at the White House Nov. 17 to receive a National Endowment for the Humanities Award from President Bush.
In a season marked by individual record-breaking performances, the Harvard football team put forth the ultimate team effort in the 121st edition of The Game on Nov. 20, burying visiting Yale, 35-3. The pretty win capped the Crimsons flawless 10-0 season (7-0 Ivy) to hand the program its 11th league championship. This years gridiron group joins six renowned squads from seasons past and not-so-past (from 1875, 1890, 1898, 1901, 1913, and 2001, to be precise) to go unbeaten and untied.
A lecture and reception honoring the president of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, a Scandinavian Marten Goose dinner, a professional womens panel called Road to Success, the Latino Welcome Day program, the Japan Societys Winter Mochi – these are just a handful of the projects funded by the Harvard Foundation in the fall 2004 semester. In all, the foundation awarded 126 grants totaling $25,000 to some 48 undergraduate student organizations for cultural projects.
Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Stephen Breyer delivered this years Tanner Lectures on Human Values, focusing on those aspects of the Constitution that promote an active, participatory form of liberty rather than simply safeguarding the rights of individuals. Says Breyer, The Constitution is about creating institutions in which people will participate democratically to create policy, and those democratic institutions are really what the Constitution has at its heart.
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