Though the rain may have fallen indiscriminately upon the Harvard and Holy Cross football teams this past Saturday (Sept. 18) at the stadium, it was the Crusaders alone who felt the sting of a different kind of storm: sophomore running back Clifton Dawson. The second-year unleashed a torrent of offense against the Crusaders, amassing 184 yards and three touchdowns.
For many parents, educators, and policy-makers in the United States, charter schools – innovative public schools that are free from much bureaucratic oversight but must compete for students in order to retain their charters – have held out enormous promise as a public alternative to failing traditional schools. So when the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nations second-largest teachers union, published a study in August 2004 that found students at charter schools performing worse than their peers at traditional public schools, more than a few hopes were dashed.
Two polls this month from the John F. Kennedy School of Government show that a sizeable minority of universities are failing their obligation to help register collegiate voters and, despite that, young voter interest in the 2004 election is higher than four years ago.
Top Olympic and world skaters will continue their battle against cancer this fall as they again gather at Harvard to participate in An Evening With Champions – Americas premier figure skating exhibition.
At the Harvard Divinity Schools (HDS) annual convocation Monday (Sept. 20), the Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes took full advantage of his first time speaking at the occasion by delivering a lengthy and impassioned plea for the school to rekindle the intellectual excitement and institutional vigor he encountered when he arrived at HDS as a student in 1965.
Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) plans to outfit all of its student housing for wireless Internet access over the next 12 to 18 months, making the University one of just a handful of institutions nationwide that have announced plans to offer full wireless coverage in most dormitories.
With a $2.1 million gift from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Harvard University Library will establish a comprehensive, Universitywide preservation program for Harvards holdings of more than 7.5 million photographs. The Mellon Foundation is providing a $1.25 million matching grant to endow the position of senior photograph conservator in the librarys Weissman Preservation Center as well as $850,000 to help launch the new program during a six-year start-up period.
Declaring that Africa is winning the battle against violent conflicts, Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano brought his vision of hope, prosperity, and peace to a packed forum at the Kennedy School on Sunday (Sept. 19).
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics (formerly the Center for Ethics and the Professions) recently announced its Graduate Fellows in Ethics for the 2004-05 academic year. The fellows are Harvard-enrolled graduate students and professional students who focus on ethics topics in their research. During the fellowship year, they will pursue philosophical topics relevant to political and professional practice. Michael Blake, professor of philosophy and public policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), will chair the graduate fellows seminar.
A BBC senior producer, a political journalist, and an international scholar of political campaigning are among the recently named fellows and visiting faculty at the Kennedy School of Governments (KSG) Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy this semester.
Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies Lizabeth Cohen, director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, recently announced the names of nine scholars participating in the centers 2004-05 workshop: The Culture and Politics of the Built Environment. This years Warren Fellows were selected from a pool of more than 75 applicants by Cohen and workshop co-director Margaret Crawford, professor of urban design and planning theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD).
A chance to gaze eye-to-eye with a chuckwalla lizard, a couple of stolen minutes drawing centuries-old ritual bells, discovering the contours of an ancient stone – these are just a few moments captured by neighbors and visitors at the Harvard Museums second Community Day.
A pioneer in his field, Richard forman has helped forge the basic concepts of landscape ecology, a science that sees the surface of the Earth as a complex mosaic linked…
A hormone called leptin has been trumpeted as an appetite suppressor and a possible treatment for obesity. New research shows that “a clear connection also exists between fat, or energy…
International efforts to combat tuberculosis may inadvertently be aiding the emergence of deadly, drug-resistant strains of the disease, Harvard School of Public Health researchers found.
At its first meeting of the year the Faculty Council heard a report on the Harvard College Curricular Review from Deans William Kirby (history and FAS) and Benedict Gross (mathematics and Harvard College). The Council also considered, with Dean Peter Ellison (anthropology and GSAS), a proposed Ph.D. program in Systems Biology. Professor Marc Kirschner, chair of Harvard Medical Schools Department of Systems Biology, was present for this discussion.
A new class of fellows whose work extends from Iraq to Rwanda will join the Kennedy School of Governments (KSG) Center for Human Rights Policy for the 2004-05 academic year. The class of fellows includes experts and activists from various disciplines including anthropology, law, and journalism, and will focus on topics ranging from democratization within Islamic tradition to postwar reconciliation.
On Sept. 30 at Sanders Theatre, good and bad science will take center stage at the 14th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Showered with applause and paper airplanes, this years class of winners will be honored for scientific achievements that first make people laugh, then think. Genuine Nobel laureates will be on-hand to present the prizes.
The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) recently named a new endowed professorship in global leadership and public policy in memory of Anna Lindh, the late foreign minister of Sweden, who was murdered one year ago. The Anna Lindh Professorship will promote advanced scholarship, teaching, research, and outreach from a leading member of KSGs faculty.
It was quiet in Boylston Halls Ticknor Lounge one early August afternoon. But the silence masked the concentration of 30 academically talented, financially disadvantaged Boston and Cambridge youths as they imagined their futures – and plotted their paths to get there.
Theres an industry in the United States where costs are skyrocketing and quality is slipping dangerously. Despite astonishing technological advances, customers are generally dissatisfied and the workforce is grumbling louder than ever. The product is unavailable to a growing segment of Americans, and those who can access it must often wait up to six months for it.
Sept. 19, 1639 – Accused of neglecting and physically mistreating students, Nathaniel Eaton is fined and discharged as Master of the College by the Great and General Court of Massachusetts…
The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is committed to assisting all members of the Harvard community in providing for their own safety and security. Harvards annual security report, prepared in compliance with The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the Clery Act), is titled Playing It Safe, and can be found on the HUPDs Web site at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/prevention_handbook.php.
Evon Z. Vogt memorial service to be held at Memorial Church A memorial service for Evon Z. Vogt, professor of social anthropology, emeritus, will be held Friday (Sept. 17) at…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning Aug. 25 and ending Sept. 13. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Kathleen McCartney named academic dean Professor of Education Kathleen McCartney began serving as academic dean McCartney of the Graduate School of Education on July 1. An early-childhood education expert, McCartney…
CHA elects new chair, vice chair Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) recently announced that Francis H. Duehay, community leader, educator, and former elected official, has been elected to chair CHA’s board…
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