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.
The article Right of eminent domain challenged by Ken Gewertz (Nov. 18) incorrectly stated that Pfizer Inc. wants to expand into the Fort Trumbull, Conn., neighborhood that is the subject of an eminent domain dispute currently under review by the U.S. Supreme Court (Kelo v. City of New London). Pfizer states that it has no desire or plans to expand into the Fort Trumbull neighborhood. Professor Jerold Kayden, on whose talk the article was based, was in no way responsible for this error.
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.
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