Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and President Lawrence H. Summers joined forces last Thursday (Oct. 7) to celebrate the partnership that has put Boston after-school efforts in the national arena and to recognize two exemplary Boston-area school principals who have made after-school education a vital and successful part of their schools.
Graham Allison, the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, has published a new book titled Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. Allison, an expert on arms control and defense policy, served as assistant secretary of defense for policy and plans under President Clinton. In a recent conversation, he discussed his ideas for preventing the all-too-likely possibility of terrorists setting off a nuclear bomb in a major American city.
Asking Who am I? may launch a quest to understand ones own identity, but unless one happens to be Michel de Montaigne or Jean Jacques Rousseau, the effort is unlikely to be of much concern to anyone else.
Professor Bernard Bailyn receives Kennedy Medal The council of the Massachusetts Historical Society awarded the Kennedy Medal – given to persons who have “rendered distinguished service to the cause of…
After four full quarters of on-field surprises, the Harvard football team may have blown its single biggest secret against visiting Cornell this past Saturday (Oct. 9). Pass it on, this Crimson roster runs deeper than the stat sheets might suggest.
Far below the Pacific Oceans waves, seabed vents spew hot water, minerals, and nutrients into the cold, dark depths, opening a window to the geologic processes driving them and anchoring biological communities that scientists hope can reveal the secrets of lifes beginnings.
Twenty new fellows from five different countries have joined the Kennedy School of Governments Center for Business and Government (CBG) for the 2004-05 academic year.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of Harvards W.E.B. Du Bois Institute and chair of the Department of African and African American Studies, has announced the appointment of 12 new fellows for the 2004-05 academic year.
In 1970, John Misha Petkevich, a Harvard junior, was getting a routine checkup at Childrens Memorial Hospital in Brookline. After meeting some children being treated for leukemia there, Petkevich (a future Olympian) returned to Eliot House and, with the help of other students, organized a benefit skating event called An Evening With Champions.
A visiting biology professor showed that the majority of threatened species have low genetic diversity, bolstering the scientific view that genetic factors are a threat to species heading toward extinction.
A Cambridge holiday tradition since 1971, the Christmas Revels will return to Harvards Sanders Theatre beginning Dec. 10 for 18 performances of music, dance, and rituals in celebration of the winter solstice.
For Terry Hawkins, the young new principal at the Frances Perkins Elementary School in Worcester, each days work demands a multitude of skills. She juggles student discipline and achievement, teacher development and satisfaction, accountability to standardized test scores, and parent and community involvement, each layering a complex set of concerns atop the other. Challenges abound, and of course, time and money are always in short supply.
Two of the worlds biggest threats may someday be reduced by wires thousands of times thinner than a hair but capable of detecting a single virus. The specter of worldwide viral epidemics is always with us, so detecting them quickly offers the possibility of saving thousands of lives. The pathogens also can be stealthy biological weapons, making their positive detection a vital national defense requirement.
On Tuesday (Oct. 5) at approximately 3 p.m., a female student reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) that she was the victim of an indecent assault and battery while walking on Harvard Street near Pennypacker Hall. The victim stated that she was approached from behind by a male riding a bicycle who inappropriately touched her before fleeing the area.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has changed its guidelines for flu vaccination because the nation’s major supplier of the vaccine announced Tuesday (Oct. 5) that the supply…
Oct. 24, 1656 – The Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony grants the Corporation discretionary power to punish all misdemenoures of the youth in their Societie, either by fine or whipping in the hall openly, as the nature of the offence shall require, not exceding [sic] ten shilling [sic] or ten stripes for one offence.
Cox to be remembered on Oct. 8 A memorial service for former Harvard Law School Professor Archibald Cox will be held on Oct. 8 at 2 p.m. in the Memorial…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 4. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Marilyn Hausammann, a human resources professional with a background in the consulting, financial services, and banking fields, is Harvard Universitys first vice president for human resources, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers announced Tuesday (Oct. 5).
Senior fellow Juliette Kayyem has assumed the role of executive director for research at the Kennedy School of Governments (KSG) Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. For the past three years, Kayyem has been a lecturer and resident scholar at the center, serving both as executive director of the Schools Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness, and as co-director of Harvards Long-Term Legal Strategy for Combating Terrorism.We are fortunate to have someone with Juliettes expertise and energy to fill the gap at the Belfer Center at this critical moment, said Belfer Center Director Graham Allison Jr.
Carter J. Eckert, a longtime faculty member in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, has been named Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History.
The 2004 Ig Nobel Prizes went off in traditionally wacky fashion Thursday night (Sept. 30), honoring unusual science and questionable social advances and taking a poke at Coke for adding its own pollution to bottled river water.
The Committee to Address Alcohol and Health at Harvard, formed in November 2003, has presented its report to Provost Steven E. Hyman and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross, recommending a broad series of initiatives – many of them calling for extensive involvement of students – aimed at both reducing dangerous drinking at Harvard and at helping students better understand responsible drinking in the context of overall physical and mental health and college life.
Faculty member and researcher in the Harvard Medical School (HMS) from 1991 until 2002, Linda Buck is this years co-winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (along with Richard Axel of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute). Buck, who was in HMSs Department of Neurobiology, won the Nobel for discoveries in odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system. Since 2002 she has been a full member in the Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle.
At the Harvard Museum of Natural History, a backlit wall display of minerals in the exhibit ‘Romancing the Stone: The Many Facets of Tourmaline’ is brought nicely into scale by…
FAS Communications A new version of the my.harvard Web portal has been unveiled for use by all faculty, staff, and students in the University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS).…
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has opened two Humanities Faculty Services (HFS) centers to assist scholars in the humanities with routine tasks such as photocopying, obtaining and returning library books, mailing packages, shredding documents, and preparing letters of reference. The centers are located on the mezzanine level of Boylston Hall, open 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and in Room 119 of the Barker Center, open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The host Harvard mens and womens soccer teams landed on separate sides of the win/loss column this past Saturday (Oct. 2) in a pair of taut, low-scoring affairs against Yale. The Harvard women managed a lone-goal win in the afternoons opening match-up, before the male Bulldogs prevented the Crimson sweep under black clouds with their own 1-0 victory.
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