The Harvard mens and womens hockey teams both managed impressive series sweeps in ECAC quarterfinal action this past Saturday (March 13), albeit in dramatically different ways. It took the Crimson men a come-from-behind win in overtime to dismiss favored host Brown, 3-2, in the teams second match-up (Harvard took the first, 4-2, on March 12), while the women – ranked second in the nation – advanced to the semifinals with a 4-1 win over Cornell. A day earlier, Harvard delivered the visiting Big Red a 9-1 drubbing in game one.
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have pinpointed a crucial gene on which the normal development of the bodys entire blood system depends. If the gene is absent, even the most basic blood stem cells cannot be generated. In a mutated form, this gene can cause a rare and devastating form of leukemia.
In an effort to prevent the confusion and mistakes that marked the 2000 election, a group of Harvard Law School students has launched a project to ensure that 2004 presidential election voters are given proper access to the ballot. The new group, Just Democracy, plans to recruit and place more than 1,000 law students with expertise in election law at what they believe could be high-risk polling places around the nation.
Soon after the Bush administration revealed its plan to overthrow Saddam Hussein and bring democracy to Iraq, commentators began comparing this initiative with Americas occupation of Germany and Japan following World War II. Depending on ones perspective, these comparisons could be positive (Weve done it before and we can do it again) or negative (The situation in 1945 was entirely different you dont know what youre getting into).
Thien Phan, Marcos Posada, and Columbia Nunez, computer whizzes with the Brighton High School PowerUP Computer Center after-school program, enjoy their new and improved computer lab. The new rebooted center, dedicated yesterday, was made possible through a partnership with the City of Boston, the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (ABCDC), with funding from the Harvard After School Initiative (HASI). The lab gives Brighton High students state- of-the-art computer classroom space, provides space for an after-school program that teaches high schoolers Web development and programming skills and after-hours computer courses for community residents, both taught by Allston-Brighton CDC staff. HASI also supports the after school program with technical support through Harvard faculty. Because of great partnerships in this city, this unique center gives an entire community access to state-of-the-art technology. When cities, communities and institutions work together, there is no limit to what we can do, said Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 16.
Young adults are substantially more involved in the 2004 presidential race than they were in the 2000 race. If the trend continues, higher turnout in November is nearly a certainty, according to the Shorenstein Centers Vanishing Voter Project.
Antanas Mockus had just resigned from the top job of Colombian National University. A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus looked around for another big challenge and found it: to be in…
After six albums and years touring the country on the folk circuit, Russell Wolffs music means a lot to him. But a serious illness over a year ago gave Wolff new perspective.
Team player Nicole Corriero 05 entered the sports worlds exclusive last-second-hero club this past Saturday (March 6) at the Bright Hockey Center. Deadlocked at 0-0 against Yale in the final period, the junior left winger somehow found the back of the net with just seven seconds remaining to give the Harvard womens hockey team an almost unbelievable 1-0 win.
Jantzen pins third EIWA title, on to NCAA’s Senior wrestler Jesse Jantzen became the first Harvard wrestler in history to win three-straight EIWA titles by defeating Brown’s David Dies, 5-2,…
Responding to the devastating effects of war on Iraqi libraries, the Harvard University Library (HUL) system and Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) are launching a joint program to provide training for Iraqi librarians and archivists.
The Harvard Department of Athletics has announced plans to expand and improve fitness facilities at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC). The improvements will significantly increase the space available for both exercise and weight training.
To say that Janet Sung plays the violin well is like noting that Baryshnikov is graceful or that Ernest Hemingway knew English. Sung 95 has appeared as a soloist with the National Symphonic Orchestra of Bashkortostan in Russia and Pusan Philharmonic in South Korea, to name a few. Shes given recitals across the globe, from Lincoln Centers Alice Tully Hall to Beau-Rivage Palace in Switzerland. And last week, she gave three undergraduates a private lesson when she came to Harvards campus as this years Clifton Visiting Artist, which is sponsored by the Office for the Arts through its Learning From Performers series. Established in 1998 by Roger Clifton 57 and his wife, Sophie, the Clifton Visiting Artist program brings emerging alumna artists to Harvard.
During the early 1980s, artist Gary Schneider, at a creative impasse in his own work and faced with the necessity of earning a living, decided to capitalize on his darkroom skills and set himself up in business as a printer of the work of other photographers.
Harvard Foundation names Scientist of the Year The Harvard Foundation has honored noted mathematician Jonathan David Farley ’91 as its Distinguished Scientist of the Year. A visiting associate professor of…
Finding new signs of water on Mars was not unlike finding a needle in a haystack. Now scientific explorers and their robot helpers face a trickier task, looking for life, a needle they are not even sure is there.
Antanas Mockus had just resigned from the top job of Colombian National University. A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus looked around for another big challenge and found it: to be in charge of, as he describes it, a 6.5 million person classroom.
At its ninth meeting of the year (March 10), the Faculty Council discussed with Professor Thomas Kelly, chair of the Department of Music, a proposed agreement with the New England Conservatory of Music under which undergraduates would be able to complete an A.B. degree at Harvard and a Master of Music degree at the Conservatory in five years.
The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is now accepting applications for its Carol K. Pforzheimer Student Fellowship grants. Intended to encourage Harvard College students to use the resources of the Schlesinger Library, the fellowship awards $100 to $2,500 to cover research expenses, or as a stipend in lieu of summer employment, to enable the recipient to pursue research in the librarys collections.
Ca. March 1947 – Students organize a boycott against a local tavern that refuses to serve blacks. Mitchell Goodman ’45, “Undergraduate” columnist of the “Harvard Alumni Bulletin” (March 29, 1947),…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 6. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
A memorial service for John K. G. Shearman will be held Sunday, April 4, at 2:30 p.m. in the Faculty Room in University Hall. A reception in the Faculty Room will immediately follow the service. Shearman, who died Aug. 11, 2003, was the Adams University Professor, Emeritus.
The abnormal magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune – whose magnetic poles lie near their equators – may be a side effect of stable planetary cores that hinder convection. Harvard University scientists report in the March 11 issue of the journal Nature that theyve used a computer model, similar to those used in weather forecasting, to establish a possible link between the two planets strange magnetic fields and their internal composition.
Harvards Pluralism Project invites students in the comparative study of religion, anthropology, sociology, history, government, and other academic fields to participate in research on the changing contours of American religious life. Research concerning religious pluralism and American civil society, particularly the mapping of the multireligious dynamics of particular cities and towns new civic instruments of relationship between faiths, such as interfaith councils and networks, especially in the wake of Sept. 11 and emerging participation of Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim, or Jain communities in civil and political life is encouraged.
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