Harvard Law School (HLS) will kick off four performances of David Auburns Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof on Friday (Nov. 5). Professor of Law Bruce Hay will direct a cast of four in the play that tells the story of a young woman who drops out of school to care for her father, a once-brilliant mathematician who succumbed to schizophrenia in later life. After her fathers death, an extraordinary mathematical proof is discovered in his study. The young woman claims it is her work, but is disbelieved by friends and family, and she has no way of proving the proof is hers.
In 1607, about a year after Shakespeares Macbeth premiered in London, poet Alessandro Striggio and composer Claudio Monteverdi presented a new play at the court of Mantua in Italy.
Ruth Sager should be remembered above all as a gifted, original and imaginative scientist who loved her life of exploring nature and in her later years brought her gifts and passion to investigating the scourge of breast cancer.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) – the worlds largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science – has awarded five Harvard professors the distinction of AAAS fellow. Election as a fellow is an honor bestowed on society members by their peers.
Its a stunning late-October day in Bostons Jamaica Plain neighborhood, and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is putting on a show. Alive with walkers, joggers, cyclists, and pups straining at leashes, even on a weekday, the Arboretum dazzles visitors with an explosion of fiery foliage and a myriad of scenic vistas that showcase the genius of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
The Danish professor of medicine Ole Worm (1588-1654) believed, as did his more enlightened contemporaries, that learning comes about through the observation of nature – through empiricism and experiment – and not just through the study of texts. Worm firmly believed that vision was the most trustworthy sense for natural history investigations.
Until the early 1990s, the marshes of southern Iraq were a critical environmental lifeline, a source of water and nourishment in the desert, and home to Arab peoples who made their living from marsh fish, plants, and wildlife.
At its third meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed with General Counsel Robert Iuliano, University attorney Ellen Berkman, and Professor John Huchra (astronomy and chair of the Standing Committee on Research Policy) the relevance of national export control policy to university research. The council also considered revisions to the procedures for Memorial Minutes, faculty member death notices, and the format of FAS Faculty Meetings. Finally, Dean Benedict Gross (mathematics and Harvard College) led a discussion of the Report of the Committee to Address Alcohol and Health at Harvard. Professor Joseph Badaracco (Harvard Business School and Currier House), chair of the committee, was also present for this discussion.
Oct. 15, 1901 – The Harvard Union (now the largest part of Barker Center for the Humanities) is dedicated. Oct. 1, 1908 – With 59 students, the Graduate School of…
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 Oct. 25. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
No official polls have been conducted at the Holyoke Center, but there does seem to be a certain consensus on some of the more important issues of the day.
HPT picks Wang for second straight year The Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) has selected Derrick L. Wang ’06 to compose the score for this year’s show: “Terms of Frontierment.” HPT…
Six years after leaving the New York City theater scene for Boston and a new job as a fundraiser, Karen Rives says her joy has returned and the Harvard community is the beneficiary.
Postdoctoral fellow in the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Jinbao Qian died suddenly on Oct. 22. Qian was 38. When Qian left his native China in 1994 to pursue a doctorate at Harvard, he had already made his mark in the field of history. An archivist at the Historical Archives of China in Nanjing, he had been part of a team that had painstakingly documented a pivotal event in Chinas wartime relations with Japan, the Rape of Nanking.
After recently calling for a renewed national effort against a persistent smoking threat, the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) will take the occasion of its annual Julius B. Richmond Award (to be given today, Oct. 28) to confer its highest honor on three state attorneys general and on an advocate for children who successfully fought the biggest tobacco companies. Through their efforts, the largest civil settlement in history – the Master Settlement Agreement of 1998 – was reached. This agreement severely limited the tobacco industrys advertising, marketing, and lobbying activities, and required tobacco companies to pay states more than $200 billion through 2025.
Inspired by the great impact wrestling has made on his family, David G. Bunning 88 has endowed Harvards wrestling coach position. The gift was announced at the Friends of Harvard Wrestling kickoff dinner, held on Saturday (Oct. 23).
A crowd of 200,000 braved gusty conditions to take in the 40th annual Head of the Charles Regatta this past weekend (Oct. 23-24). Meanwhile, between the banks of the river, the choppy water on the famously windy course with six bridges tested boats from Harvard, Radcliffe, and across North America and Europe.
Harvard midfielder Alisha Moran 05 (left) tries to tame a bouncing ball and simultaneously outrace her University of Connecticut opponent on Wednesday (Oct. 27). The Crimson squeaked past the visiting Huskies, 1-0, to improve to 7-5-2.
Tailback Clifton Dawson ’07 tallied three touchdowns to lead 19th-ranked Crimson to a 39-14 win against host Princeton this past Saturday (Oct. 23). In the process, the sophomore set a…
Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, is the recipient of this years Carl Sandburg Award. Given annually by the Chicago Public Library (CPL), the award honors a significant work or body of work that has enhanced the publics awareness of the written word and reflects the CPLs commitment to the freedom of all people to read, to learn, and to discover.
Yaa Bruce 05 conducted biomedical research in Beijing Katherine Jarvis-Shean 05 learned the ins and outs of running an organic farm in Oliveto, Italy and Andréa Mayrose 06 worked in a pediatrics ward at a hospital in Ngaoundéé, Cameroon – just a sampling of the variety of internships that 31 Harvard students arranged, secured, and then pursued this past summer as part of the Weissman International Internship Program. The program, which is administered by the Office of Career Services, was established in 1994 by Paul 52 and Harriet Weissman to help foster the development of Harvard College students understanding of the wider world. Since its inception, the Weissman Program has enabled 223 students to work in 68 countries, in fields ranging from public service to business, science to arts administration. Last summers group of 31 was the largest group to be sent abroad in the programs history.
As Americans prepare to elect a president next month, most of them can be confident in one thing: Each vote, whether cast by pulling a lever or checking a box or touching a computer screen, will be veiled in complete anonymity. For the most part, no one but the individual voter will ever know whether his or her vote went to President Bush, Sen. Kerry, Ralph Nader, or the family dog.
A new national poll by Harvard Universitys Institute of Politics (IOP) finds exceptionally high interest in the presidential campaign on college campuses, and turnout among college students is expected to rise dramatically. Nearly 72 percent of college students report that they are certain they are registered to vote and definitely plan on voting this November. More than in other years, students believe that they have a stake – and will have a say – in the outcome of the election.
Eight new fellows have been selected for the 2004-05 Administrative Fellowship Program. Of the eight fellows, five are visiting fellows and three are resident fellows. Visiting fellows are talented professionals drawn from business, education, and the professions outside the University, while resident fellows are professionals currently working at Harvard who are identified by their department and selected by the fellowship program review committee to have the leadership potential to advance to higher administrative positions.
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