Throughout their history, artists have looked at birds and tried to make them soar on paper with pen and paint. According to renowned British naturalist and documentary filmmaker Sir David Attenborough, though, there are birds so lovely and ingenious they can justifiably be categorized as art – and even artists – themselves.
Its been a year and a half since Jonathan Tilly, Joshua Johnson, and Jacqueline Canning looked at each other and understood that if their experimental numbers were right, a foundation of reproductive biology had to be wrong.
Former U.S. weapons inspector David Kay called it a damning charge against Western democracy that it took the fear of horrific weapons of mass destruction to move the world to act against the corrupt, murderous regime of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
John Bidwell will present the Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture Industrial Hubris: A Revisionist History of the Papermaking Machine today (March 25) at 5:30 p.m. in the Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library. Bidwell, Astor Curator of Printed Books and Bindings at The Morgan Library, will discuss London stationers Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier, who between 1801 and 1810 developed the first workable papermaking machine. Although they are admired for their achievements, historians question the Fourdriniers methods, which were often fraudulent. Bidwell will reveal their corrupt business practices and show how their dishonest designs in part caused the spread of machine technology both in Britain and America.
Harvard researchers have identified a hormone produced by fat cells as a possible link between the foods and drinks we consume and the health of our hearts.
Every day, people suffer traumatic experiences that scar their minds. Combat, rape, bombings, burns, beatings, and horrific car accidents haunt them with memories impossible to suppress. Such day- and nightmares are part of a problem known as post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
Despite ample meteorological evidence to the contrary, these two fairies adorning Petalis Holyoke Center Arcade window seem certain that spring is a time for lovers AND thats its just around the corner.
Morimoto service at Friends Meeting House on Sunday A memorial service for Kiyo Morimoto, former staff member and director of the Bureau of Study Counsel (he retired in 1985 after…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 13. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Democratic State Rep. Byron Rushing will speak at the Memorial Church on the subject Church & State: Civil Marriage, Civil Rights, and Religious Freedom on Sunday, March 21. Rushing is an original sponsor of the Massachusetts gay rights bill and the chief sponsor of the law to end discrimination in public schools on the basis of sexual orientation. The event, held in the Pusey Room of the Memorial Church, begins at 9 a.m. with a continental breakfast, and the discussion starts at 9:30. Sponsored by the Faith and Life Forum of the Memorial Church, this event is free and open to the public.
Students from the Institute of Politics led a voter registration and mobilization drive in front of the Science Center on March 16. More than 300 students registered or filled out Voter Contact Cards to receive information about voting absentee in their home states. The students were joined by IOP Fellow and former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura.
Scott A. Abell 72, a successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Harvard alumni leader, has accepted an invitation from William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and Donella M. Rapier, vice president for Alumni Affairs and Development, to become associate vice president and dean for Development for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
On a night Martin McGuinness may have been scheduled to die in Belfast, he was instead at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, answering a students question about what hell do when he reaches heavens pearly gates.
Nigerian AIDS activist Yinka Jegede-Ekpe said that the HIV/AIDS epidemic will never be solved until women are seen as equal partners. She spoke to an audience in Snyder Auditorium at the Harvard School of Public Health on March 9, one day after being named a recipient of a 2004 Reebok Human Rights Award. The award, provided by the Reebok Human Rights Foundation, will be presented at a ceremony on May 5 at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Greg Morrow buckles himself into the bellows and bag of his Scottish small pipes, furrows his brow, and begins to squeeze. As air fills the bladder and Morrow adjusts the lap-sized instruments three pipes, the sound is, frankly, offensive a cross between a goose in pain and a city intersection gridlocked with taxis.
Secondary School Program to hold info session High school students and their parents are invited to attend an information session for Harvard Summer School’s Secondary School Program on April 3…
Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who reports on the U.S. Supreme Court for The New York Times, will receive this years Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Goldsmith Award is given annually to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of journalism by a journalist whose work has enriched American political discourse and society. The award is presented as part of the Goldsmith Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the Kennedy Schools Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
Helen Vendler, the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor and author of numerous books on poets and poetry, will deliver the 2004 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced. The annual NEH-sponsored Jefferson Lecture is the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.
Amid shifting scientific data on nutrition and obesity, experts from government, industry, and academia converged on Harvard Medical School last week to discuss obesitys causes and how to craft a coherent public nutritional message.
Harvards Records Management Office (RMO) will offer a new presentation for office managers and other staff charged with file keeping. The new one-hour presentation, which will be offered on three Thursdays (April 15, July 8, and Oct 28), will provide practical guidance on filing systems, filing rules and procedures, and equipment and supplies. Each session will be held at noon at the Harvard University Archives in Pusey Library. Participants are encouraged to bring brown-bag lunches. Drinks and cookies will be provided. To register online, visit http://hul.harvard.edu/rmo/presentations.html.
Harvard Law School, long a training ground for many of the nations sharpest legal minds, last week (March 9) coached some seasoned lawyers preparing a case thats on its way to the U.S. Supreme Court later this month. For the members of the legal defense team arguing the case, the moot court provided a realistic and informative platform for honing their arguments.
The Harvard Law School Library has announced the opening of a new exhibition titled The Legal Portrait Project Online. The exhibition is the culmination of an 18-month project to catalog, digitize, and make available the Law Schools 4,000-item portrait collection of lawyers, jurists, and legal thinkers dating from the Middle Ages to the late 20th century.
Would-be reformers of Americas urban schools are hamstrung by a rigid dogmatism that pits progressive against conservative, parent against teacher, and academic against politician, Duke Universitys Charles Payne told an audience at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) Monday night (March 15). In a lecture called A Curse on Both Their Houses: Liberal and Conservative Theories of Urban School Change, Payne toppled some sacred cows on both sides of the debate and called on schools of education to lead a new brand of urban school change.
Seven Harvard-related students are among the 30 recipients of this years Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship. Recipients receive up to a $20,000 stipend plus half-tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States.
The strained relationship between the United States and the United Nations has often dominated headlines. The U.S., as the worlds most powerful nation, is the international peacekeeping bodys biggest supporter and its largest detractor – a riddle that has long puzzled politicians, journalists, academics, and the general public.
March 3, 1906 – The “Harvard University Gazette” (not yet in tabloid format) registers for second-class mailings at the Boston Post Office. March 1952 – The Harvard Corporation votes to…
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