The Harvard-Yenching Institute recently announced the following visiting scholars and fellows for the academic year. Based at the institutes office in Vanserg Hall, the fellows and scholars represent more than 20 institutions in East Asia.
The University has begun planting 71 new trees along six city streets near the campuss eastern edge. The trees, placed in consulta-tion with University neighbors, the Cambridge city arborist, and the Cambridge Committee on Public Planting, are being planted as part of public way improvements related to construction of Harvards new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), twin struc-tures now under construction along both sides of Cambridge Street.
At its second meeting of the year the Faculty Council considered, with Dean Peter Ellison (anthropology and GSAS), a proposed Ph.D. program in Chemical Biology. Professor Christopher Walsh (biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology, HMS) spoke in support of the proposed program, and Professors David Liu (chemistry and chemical biology) and Suzanne Walker (microbiology and molecular genetics, HMS) were also present for this discussion.
Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) is holding its fourth annual Harvest of Health Fair for students on Oct. 6. Featuring complimentary food, chair massage, bicycle tune-ups, and giveaways, the fair will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Science Center grounds. Clinician specialists will also be on hand to answers questions, give helpful information, and provide health screenings. Call (617) 495-9629 for more information.
Sept. 19, 1782 – The Harvard Corporation votes to establish the Medical School, following a detailed plan from President Joseph Willard and Professor Edward Wigglesworth. The plan calls for new…
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 (HUPD) for the week ending Sept. 27. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
John E. Mack, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School since 1972 and founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Cambridge Hospital, was struck by a car and killed on Monday evening (Sept. 27) in London. He was 74. Mack was hit as he walked home from a symposium he was attending on adventurer and World War I British officer T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). Mack was the author of a biography of Lawrence, A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T.E. Lawrence, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1977.
S. Allen Counter appointed honorary consul general of Sweden Associate Professor of Neurology S. Allen Counter has been appointed honorary consul general of Sweden in Boston and New England by…
Give a pint, get a pint The first Harvard University Blood Drive of the academic year continues today (Sept. 30) from noon to 6 p.m., and Friday (Oct. 1) from…
Airway response mechanism in asthma investigated A mechanism that helps explain how airways respond to constriction in asthma has been identified by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers. The…
Harvards Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG), together with other leading institutions, will establish the federally funded Center on School Choice, Competition and Achievement.
Harvard researchers have shed new light on how blood clots and say the information can aid the development of better anti-clotting drugs, which are critical to the recovery of patients suffering from heart attacks, strokes, and other ailments.
The American Political Science Association (APSA) recently honored Alan Altshuler and David Luberoffs Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment (Brookings Institution Press) with its best book in urban politics award for 2003.
Massachusetts Secretary of Administration and Finance Eric Kriss cast down the gauntlet to public labor unions last week (Sept. 22), blaming a monopolistic union structure for governments financial woes and calling for a new debate on the unions role.
A rumbling South American volcano has gone wireless: Computer scientists at Harvard University have teamed up with seismologists at the University of New Hampshire and University of North Carolina to fit an Ecuadorean peak with a wireless array to monitor volcanic activity. The sensors should help researchers, officials, and local residents understand and plan for eruptions of Tungarahua, one of Ecuadors most active volcanoes in recent years.
Business and political leader David M. Rubenstein is giving $10 million to establish a fund for excellence at the Kennedy School of Government. A key component of the gift is $1 million earmarked for a loan forgiveness program to encourage talented students to pursue careers in public service.
To someone accustomed to Western art with its vivid colors, its emphasis on the human figure, its use of naturalistic modeling and perspective, East Asian painting may seem a bit pallid at first – pretty enough with its graceful calligraphic lines and its ever-present repertoire of bamboo, plum blossoms, and chrysanthemums, but somehow lacking in individuality and oomph.
For the past five years, Widener Memorial Library – one of Harvards best-known buildings and the heart of its 90-library system – has surrendered its scholarly serenity to the cacophony of construction.
The John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard has announced the scholars who will be resident at the center for the 2004-05 academic year. Each of these scholars will be completing specialized research projects and will present his or her work in a free and open lecture.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told a packed John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Tuesday night (Sept. 28) that democracy is best served when judges stick to determining the letter of the law and refrain from ruling on moral issues such as abortion and assisted suicide.
A newly appointed Harvard Medical School assistant professor who specializes in the study of cellular mitochondria has been named one of this years 23 recipients of the MacArthur Foundations genius grants: $500,000 over five years, no strings attached.
Harvard biologist Matthew Meselson has won the 2004 Lasker Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science. The prize honors a lifetime of solving fundamental biological problems and of helping to curtail the spread of biological and chemical weapons.
Its a computerized jungle out there, with viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other electronic predators waiting to wreak havoc on an unprotected computer.
Silver medalist volleyball player, trainer and recruiter of underrepresented minorities in science, committed family and tribal member – full-blooded Navajo Indian Lee Bitsoi juggles all these roles, and does it well. His balancing act is grounded in the Navajo philosophy of finding harmony in ones life, of paying heed to the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of ones being.
Crimson comeback shocks Brown The Harvard football team overcame a three-touchdown deficit this past Saturday (Sept. 25) to skim past host Brown, 35-34. Sophomore running back Clifton Dawson had another…
On the surface, Navys last-second victory over the Harvard mens water polo team this past weekend had all the makings of a hard-fought match between two good teams. Regrettably, the 11-10 setback seemed to knock the wind right out of the Crimsons sails, setting a gloomy course for host Harvard for the remainder of the ECAC championships.
Archaeologists have found strong evidence that wheat and barley were refined into cereals 23,000 years ago, suggesting that humans were processing grains long before hunter-gatherer societies developed agriculture. The findings, including the identification of the earliest known oven and hence the oldest evidence of baking, were described in a recent issue of the journal Nature.
The Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design recently announced that 11 individuals have been awarded fellowships to participate in one year of independent study using the curriculum and programs of GSD as well as other resources at the University. Loeb Fellowships provide a unique opportunity for nurturing the leadership potential and professional development of accomplished midcareer individuals in design and other fields related to the built and natural environment.
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