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.
In the keynote speech to the annual College Board Forum in Chicago on Monday (Nov. 1), Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers issued a call to action to educational leaders to help restore education to its proper role as a pathway to equal opportunity and excellence in our society.
Among the most ambitious of the eight ambitious goals adopted at the United Nations Millennium Summit was the establishment of universal primary education for all children by 2015. The initiative currently has the support of 182 countries, yet its implementation faces numerous obstacles, particularly in developing countries.
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.
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