Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Nov. 29. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Each year, the Harvard Scholars at Risk committee provides a fellowship for at least one persecuted scholar to come to Cambridge for up to one year. The risk of persecution may be related to the scholars work, but it may also be a consequence of his or her ethnicity, religion, or political opinions. An interdisciplinary faculty committee reviews nominations and selects the scholar.
When Albert J. Weatherhead III 50 and Celia Weatherhead decided to give $30 million to create The Weatherhead Endowment for Collaborative Science and Technology, the couple agreed that the choice offered a unique opportunity to influence the future.
Bells were always special acoustic signals – they announced religious events, fire, periods of mourning, celebrations, explains Hans Tutschku, associate professor of music and director of the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (HUSEAC). For me, bells are symbols for the specific sound of a place and its culture.
Nawal was 9 when she repeated something she had heard at home to some classmates on the playground. Iran wasnt so bad, she said, which prompted a boy to run to the teacher. Soon Iraqi government agents arrived to interrogate Nawal. Then she – and her whole family – just disappeared. We all knew that they were killed, said Zainab Al-Suwaij, remembering her grade school friend. The lesson for us was to remain silent, and not to challenge the regime, which at that time was at war with Iran.
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.
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) will hold a celebration of the life and science of Fred Whipple on Dec. 4 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Science Center, Hall B. Whipple, the Phillips Professor of Astronomy Emeritus, died on Aug. 30 at the age of 97.
For Harvard faculty and staff who want their Community Gifts donations to have an impact that stays close to home, Harvards Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) might fill the bill. PBHA, a student-led nonprofit at Harvard College, oversees 77 public service programs that engage 1,800 student volunteers in serving nearly 10,000 people in the Cambridge and Boston communities.
Luis M. Viceira wins Silver Scroll Prize Harvard Business School Associate Professor Luis M. Viceira has won the Silver Scroll Prize for Innovation from the Institute for Quantitative Investment Research…
A new program on the global demography of aging led by David Bloom, chair of the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), has received funding from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to carry out research on important themes related to global aging and health, with an emphasis on issues in the developing world.
As medical editor for ABC News and an associate of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Timothy Johnson has found professional success and some level of fame throughout his career.
Bringing an unprecedented level of automation to microscopy, scientists at Harvard University have developed a powerful new method of visualizing drugs multifaceted impact on cells. A method dubbed cytological profiling trains computers to recognize cell status and health from cellular images, virtually automating microscopic scanning for various types of abnormalities.The technique, which could eventually become a standard tool for drug discovery, is described this week in the journal Science.
First-year mens hockey coach Ted Donato 91 will likely never forget his victorious Bright Hockey Center debut over rival Yale this past Friday (Nov. 12). Since adding a pair of wins against Princeton and top-rated Boston College, the rookie mentor is also certain to keep in mind a thing or two about the teams winning strategy – such as giving ample ice time to another rookie, forward Jon Pelle 08.
As if playing for a share of the Ivy League title wasnt enough pressure, the Harvard football team entered this past Saturdays game (Nov. 13) against fellow unbeaten Penn with the stigma of a 24-year losing streak at Franklin Field weighing on their shoulder-pads. Not a team to shy away from adversity, apparently, the Crimson strutted its league-leading offensive stuff to soundly beat the host Quakers, 31-10 – making this 2004 Harvard team the first to win in Philly since Reagans first inauguration.
Robert D. Buzzell, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS) and an influential expert in strategic marketing who was a pioneer in the application of statistical methods to marketing issues, died on Nov. 6 at a hospice near his home in Alexandria, Va., from complications related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (or Lou Gehrigs disease). He was 71.
Two Harvard faculty members were among eight noted investigators recently awarded the prestigious Senator Jacob Javits Award in the Neurosciences. Associate Professor of Surgery Jeffrey Macklis at the Medical School and Andrew P. McMahon, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, were honored for their research. The prize provides for up to seven years of research funding from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). A component of the National Institutes of Health, NINDS is the nations primary federal sponsor of research on the brain and nervous system.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. has added yet another prestigious award to what is surely a long list. The New York Public Library, at a recent ceremony in New York, named Gates a Library Lion, one of its highest honors. The W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and chair of the Department of African and African American Studies was one of four recipients honored at the eighth annual event.
The Harvard Alumni Association invites members of the Harvard community to participate in a live neuroscience videoconference via satellite on Dec. 1 at Hawes Hall, room 201, Harvard Business School, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
A new Web site for the Harvard Integrated Life Sciences (HILS) program went live earlier this month, providing a single electronic portal for those interested in graduate study of any field of biology at Harvard. Sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the site is located at http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/hils.
Can women stop war? That was one of the provocative questions posed by the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPP) and the Institute of Politics in the sixth annual Kennedy School of Government (KSG) symposium to explore womens roles in peace. The answer, according to the five panelists who participated in a discussion Wednesday night (Nov. 10) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, was a very qualified yes. Women can stop war or build peace, the international panel said, but they also are involved in making war.
Indigenous rights group and nonprofit organization Cultural Survival will celebrate 25 years of bringing indigenous art and crafts to the public with its annual bazaar in Pound Hall on Dec. 4 and 5.
Louisiana State Rep. Karen Carter, author of a controversial law to reform New Orleans failing public schools, and Wendy Kopp, who dreamed up Teach for America in her Princeton dorm room, are the first recipients of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards, announced the Institute of Politics (IOP) and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and Caroline Kennedy presented the awards, which honor Americans under 40 – one elected official and one nonelected individual – who have committed their lives to public service, at a ceremony Monday (Nov. 15) at the Kennedy School of Governments John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
On Nov. 15 at approximately 9:10 p.m., a male undergraduate student reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) that he was the victim of an armed robbery while walking on Harvard Street near Ware Street. The victim stated that he was approached by two males who robbed him of his money and cellular phone. During the robbery a handgun was displayed the offenders then fled the area in a small red car. The victim was not physically harmed.
Nov. 4, 1953 – Led by an escort of 27 Boston and Cambridge police motorcycles, Greece’s King Paul I and Queen Frederika arrive at Harvard. The royal couple meet President…
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