Fifteen Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Longwood buildings will win renewable energy in the 2004 Go Cold Turkey Energy Conservation Challenge. The wind energy certificates purchased for these buildings will move Harvard from third to second place in terms of green power purchased by American institutes of higher education, according to the records of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys Green Power Partnership.
The 2004 Annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a subcommittee of the President and Fellows, is now available upon request from the Office for the Committees on Shareholder Responsibility. Please call (617) 495-0985 to request copies.
At its fifth meeting of the year on Wednesday (Dec. 8), the Faculty Council heard a report on the Harvard College Library from Professor Sidney Verba, Department of Government and director of the University Library Professor Kathleen Coleman, Department of the Classics and vice chair of the Faculty Standing Committee on the Library and Nancy Cline, librarian of Harvard College.
Stephen Prinas artwork is full of unsuspected surprises, secret compartments that pop open to release compressed bundles of meaning or coiling strands of narrative.
The board of directors of the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University recently announced the names of 12 composers selected to receive 2004 commissions. These composers were chosen from 207 applicants.
Center for Health and Global Environment honors Moyers The Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School (HMS) recently presented broadcast journalist Bill Moyers with its 2004…
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…
It is the moment of truth for the Republican Party and American conservatism, journalist William Kristol told a Kennedy School audience Wednesday night (Dec. 1). President George Bushs narrow but clear re-election victory supplemented by GOP gains in both the House and Senate provide a unique opportunity, he said, for dynamic change in Washington.
War and truth telling dominated last weekends Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism (Dec. 3-5). The ongoing violence in Iraq and postelection timing lent a sense of urgency to the many lectures, panel discussions, and question sessions about improving the craft and content of news writing.
Ashwini Vasanthakumar 04 and Silas Xu 05 have won International Rhodes Scholarships to Oxford University in England, bringing to eight the number of Harvard students or alumni to win a Rhodes Scholarship this year.
In honor of International Human Rights Day (Dec. 10), the Program on Negotiation (PON) – a consortium of faculty, students, and staff at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University, and other area universities – together with Harvard Friends of Amnesty International, the Human Rights Program, and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, is sponsoring a special advance screening of Hotel Rwanda today (Dec. 9) at 9 p.m. at the Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St.
Keep your word, build relationships in both parties, and find meaningful issues to work on. That was the advice from current and former congressional and White House staffers to 23 newly elected members of Congress during a four-day conference at the John F. Kennedy School of Government last week.
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.
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