Timothy Johnson, medical editor for ABC News, will deliver the prestigious William Belden Noble Lectures in three parts on Nov. 15, 16, and 17 at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Church. The series is titled Finding God and the topic for Nov. 15 will be Finding God in the Universe on Nov. 16 Johnson will discuss Finding God in Jesus and on Nov. 17, Finding God in Everyday Life.
A memorial service in honor of John E. Mack, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School since 1972 and founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital, will be held at the Memorial Church on Saturday (Nov. 13) at noon. Mack was struck by a car and killed on Sept. 27 in London. He was 74.
In a gathering marked by friendly exchanges of thanks and praise, the first recipients of the Ashford Dissertation Fellowship and Ashford Graduate Fellowship in the Sciences met the family that made their awards possible. A luncheon at the Harvard Faculty Club on Nov. 1 celebrated the occasion.
Harvard School of Public Health nutrition experts are looking to bring their fight for healthier eating to restaurants, cafeterias, and other food service establishments through an annual retreat with food service industry leaders.
As the annual Community Gifts Through Harvard Campaign gets under way toward its goal of raising $1 million, many Harvard faculty, staff, and retirees will no doubt direct their gifts toward the United Way of Massachusetts Bay (UWMB), which consistently receives more than half the donations from Community Gifts.
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is revealing deep spaces globular clusters, nebulas, and galaxies to the general public, opening the galactic skies with a new 25-inch outreach telescope that promises to bring smaller instruments distant blurs into astonishing clarity.
A voter passes in front of other participants in the democratic process at Gund Hall, which served as a polling location for the city of Cambridge during the presidential election on Tuesday (Nov. 2).
Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) transferred 2,000 doses of the flu vaccine Fluzone to the Boston Public Health Commission Friday (Oct. 29), announced HUHS Director David Rosenthal. The additional doses will help local communities ensure that their most at-risk residents are vaccinated against influenza.
Nov. 6, 1770 – Rumblings of Revolution: Joseph Avery, Class of 1771, orates on “Oppression and Tyranny” before the Speaking Club. Nov. 1791 – A writer in the Boston press…
A memorial service in honor of John E. Mack, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School since 1972 and founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital, will be held at the Memorial Church on Nov. 13 at noon. Mack was struck by a car and killed on Sept. 27 in London. He was 74.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 1. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Once again, the staff of the University is pulling together to embark on a succesful campaign to help surrounding communities. This November, as in Novembers past, the Community Gifts Through Harvard Campaign is being launched with an ambitious objective. This years campaign has set its sights on a fundraising goal of $1 million. Harvards campaign gives employees the option of donating to the charity of their choice – or to umbrella organizations – through the convenience of a payroll deduction. Pledge cards are being mailed to all employees this week, and this year it is possible to pledge conveniently online. For more information on making donations online, visit http://www.community.harvard.edu/communitygifts.
Like the amorphous Chinese monster Taowu, whose 5,000-year history has been marked by shape-shifting and reinventions, Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature David Der-Wei Wang has undergone transformations and permutations throughout his academic career.
Effective Feb. 1, 2005, Jennifer Leaning, professor of international health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), will be affiliated with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study as a senior adviser in international and policy studies. Leaning will retain her positions at HSPH and HMS during the three-year appointment. As senior adviser, she will join other faculty of the University who devote a portion of their time to Radcliffe Institute program development and administrative leadership.
Kalow to accept HMS community service award Bruce Kalow, a pediatrician at Broadway Health Center in Somerville, Mass., will receive a Dean’s Community Service Award from Harvard Medical School (HMS)…
Summer Urban Program (SUP) seeks directors The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) is seeking to fill 12 SUP director positions. Located throughout Greater Boston and Cambridge, SUP consists of 11…
A John F. Kennedy School of Government researcher has cast doubt on the widely held belief that terrorism stems from poverty, finding instead that terrorist violence is related to a nations level of political freedom.
Study of cancer trials finds significant safety improvement The chance that patients participating in early-stage cancer research studies will die from the experimental treatments has dropped dramatically over the past…
Richard Holbrooke, the premier architect of the 1995 peace agreement that ended the war in Bosnia and a skillful negotiator credited with resolving the bitter dispute over dues owed in arrears by the United States to the United Nations, has won the 2004 Great Negotiator Award. The former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations received the award, presented by the Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School, at a recent dinner held in his honor.
Harvard sneaks by Big Green, 13-12 The Harvard defense denied a go-ahead two-point conversion with 2:15 remaining in the fourth quarter to slip past host Dartmouth, 13-12, this past Saturday…
Nancy M. Cline, the Roy E. Larsen Librarian of Harvard College, and Professor Cheng Huan-wen, director of Sun Yat-Sen University Library in Guangzhou, China, have signed a formal agreement to transfer a significant selection of Harvards Hilles Library collection to Sun Yat-Sen University in June 2005.
Two veterans of Russias human rights movement, Elena Bonner and Sergei Kovalev, visited Harvard Nov. 1. But despite all they have risked and suffered since their struggle began in the 1960s, neither was optimistic about the prospects for human rights in Russia today.
The Interdisciplinary Training in Genetics and Complex Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) program has received $2.2 million over the next five years as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research. The new training program will focus on gene-environment interactions and complex diseases. Successful applicants to the program will be called HSPH Roadmap Fellows at the School, and stipend and tuition support will be provided by the new grant. The program aims to recruit nine promising predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees each year.
HGSEs Fisher Professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot speaks with Cambridge school leaders and city officials about her research, which investigates the culture of schools, socialization within families and communities, and the relationship between culture and learning styles. The seminar was hosted by the Office of Community Affairs and took place at the Faculty Club.
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