The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the sixth funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, a KSG faculty committee will consider applications for small one-year grants (up to $30,000) to support advanced research by Harvard University faculty members on issues of critical importance to Kuwait and the Gulf. Grants can be applied toward research assistance, travel, summer salary, and course buyout.
Attending summer school and being held back substantially increases academic achievement among third-graders, according to a recent study by researchers Brian Jacob, an assistant professor of public policyof the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and Lars Lefgren of Brigham Young University.
DeWolfe Howe Fund accepting proposals until April 16 The Mark DeWolfe Howe Fund for Study and Research in Civil Rights-Civil Liberties and Legal History is now accepting proposals for either…
U.S. and British officials must strike the proper balance between anti-terrorist security and human rights now, because a failure that leads to another devastating attack will prompt even more draconian measures, British Home Secretary David Blunkett said Monday (March 8).
Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers flung Harvards doors open even wider last week, outlining a new financial aid initiative intended as a clarion call to talented students from poor families and disadvantaged communities across the country.
Driven by both personal and humane concerns, Doug Melton has produced 17 new lines of embryonic stem cells, which can, in theory, be coaxed into becoming any type of adult tissue from kidneys to spinal cords.
Through a trick of reflection, the 1901 Harvard football team, displayed in the window of the Leavitt and Peirce tobacco shop, look like they are posing in
March 20, 1934 – The Charles William Eliot Memorial Association observes the 100th birth anniversary of its namesake by donating a bronze bust of Eliot to Eliot House. Unveiling the sculpture is the late presidents four-year-old great-grandson, Charles William Eliot 3rd. In the evening, CWEMA also holds a memorial meeting in Sanders Theatre that includes an address by Massachusetts Governor Joseph B. Ely and music by the Harvard Glee Club.
Fonseca service today Winthrop House will hold a memorial service for junior Anthony Fonseca at St. Paul’s Church, 29 Mount Auburn St.,today (March 4), at 4 p.m. The ceremony will…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 28. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Harvards 24-hour Shuttle Service has been extended through March. The service, which began Feb. 4, runs from 12:30 to 7 a.m. (9:30 a.m. on weekends) on a fixed route that includes stops at Memorial Hall, Lamont Library, the river houses, Johnston Gate, and the quad area. Specific departure times are posted at house offices, libraries, and dining halls, or visit University Operations online at http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/shu_ove.shtml for a complete schedule. Shuttle Services can also be reached at (617) 495-0400.
Microsoft Chairman William H. Gates III delivered a relaxed, sometimes humorous talk to about 350 students, faculty, and administrators at Lowell Lecture Hall Thursday evening (Feb. 26), outlining a software future that features smarter, more secure machines and encouraging students to develop computings next big idea.
A diverse range of expertise presented by panelists and participants from around the world sparked thought-provoking discussion and dissent at Globalization and Education, a conference at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Thursday (Feb. 26). The conference, sponsored by the GSE, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and Ross Institute Agenda, drew from findings presented in the forthcoming book of essays, Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium (University of California Press in association with the Ross Institute, April 2004). With commentary by faculty experts in education, history, economics, and social studies, and by international journalists from the Nieman Foundation and elsewhere, the conference shed light on the promise and perils of globalization and educations fitness to meet it.
Stanley Cavell, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Emeritus, has received the 2004 Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship in Philosophy. Cavell is the first Harvard professor to receive the award.
Joel Hirschhorn, assistant professor of genetics (pediatrics), has been named the recipient of the 2004 Young Investigator Award by the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR). This award recognizes the achievements of scientists and physician scientists embarking on careers investigating the diseases that affect children.
The Harvard campus got a little greener last week, and it has nothing to do with the coming of spring. Rather, the Universitys Transportation Services opened its own biodiesel filling station in Allston, allowing Harvards 25 diesel vehicles – shuttle buses, maintenance and mail trucks, and dining services vehicles – to run on cleaner-burning biodiesel. Harvard is the first Ivy League school to use biodiesel as the primary fuel for its entire diesel fleet.
The de Gaspé Beaubien Foundation, a family foundation based in Montreal, has donated $7.5 million to Harvard Business School (HBS) in honor of Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (M.B.A. 54) and his wife, Nan-b. The gift will fund the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and focus on supporting a wide range of new and innovative activities, projects, and outreach programs associated with the Historical Collections of the Schools Baker Library.
Louise Richardson, executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and an expert on international terrorism, opened Radcliffes 2004 Voices of Public Intellectuals series on Confronting Terrorism: Democracys Response to the Terrorist Threat Thursday (Feb. 26). In her lecture, The Nature of the Terrorist Threat, she put terrorism in context, providing historical, psychological, religious, and international lessons from which the United States might learn.
Postmenopausal women taking estrogen are more than twice as likely to develop asthma than their counterparts not taking the hormone, according to a new study from Harvard researchers.
Harvard researchers identified eight chemicals that induce a change in leukemia cells out of more than 1,700 candidates in a trial of a process they say holds promise as a way to rapidly identify potential drug candidates.
Marshaling the resources of business, government, academia, and civil society to address pressing social challenges in the United States and globally is the goal of a new Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Initiative, being launched today (March 4) by Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG).
The Student Mental Health Task Force, convened in December 2003 by Harvard University Provost Steven Hyman and Dean of Harvard College Benedict Gross, has released an interim report that recommends the administrative integration of the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) and University Health Services (UHS) Mental Health Service. The recommendations – which include creating a seamless administrative structure for mental health care, counseling for students, and hiring a mental health leader to oversee all aspects of mental health services at the University – are aimed at improving the Universitys ability to support students who are challenged by mental health problems.
Taking their inspiration from South African laborers during apartheid, the Gumboots Dance Troupe, sponsored by the Harvard African Students Association, performs its subversive moves at Sanders Theatre on Feb. 28 at the 19th Annual Cultural Rhythms. Actor, comedian George Lopez (left) was 2004 Artist of the Year. (Staff photos Gail Oskin/Harvard News Office)
Rands elected to American Academy of Arts & Letters The American Academy of Arts and Letters has elected Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Bernard Rands as a new member.…
Men’s squash falls in nationals, 5-4 The No. 1 Trinity men’s squash team came back to defeat Harvard, 5-4, in the finals of the College Squash Association’s National Team Tournament…
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