A sea of parents, family, and friends brought a storm of support to Blodgett Pool last week for the 2004 Ivy League Womens Swimming and Diving Championships. Brandishing pom-poms and banners, and dressed in their team-color best, they came by plane, car, and the Red Line to cheer on their favorite student-athletes in the big kahuna, to quote one fan, of ancient eight swimming.
Samuel Johnson, creator of “A dictionary of the English language,” is one of the most quoted of English writers, second only to Shakespeare; and the latter part of the 18th century is often called, simply, the Age of Johnson.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Administrative/Professional Prize is awarded in even-numbered years to four members of the FAS administrative or professional staff who have made extraordinary contributions above and beyond the immediate requirements of their positions. The prize consists of $8,000 and one months paid leave from the University, both of which must be used for travel. Exempt staff with at least five years of service at the University are eligible for nomination.
Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers announced today a major new initiative designed to encourage talented students from families of low and moderate income to attend Harvard College.
The cancer drugs effectiveness surprised everyone. Called TNP-470, it stunted the growth of every malignancy it touched – animal tumors, human tumors, and spreading tumors. It suppressed tumors of the ovaries, colon, prostate, and breasts. In some cases the tumors shrank in others, they disappeared.
At its eighth meeting of the year (Feb. 25) the Faculty Council discussed three research policy issues with Professor Paul Martin (physics), dean for Research and Information Technology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Professor James Alt (government) participated in a discussion of co-principal-investigator privileges for research associates, and Professor Caroline Hoxby (economics) contributed to a discussion of so-called full-time postdoctoral fellows. Martin also presented a report on bio-hazard materials.
Feb. 29, 1672 – President Charles Chauncy dies in office. Feb. 11, 1941 – President James Bryant Conant testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of H.R. 1776,…
John Dearden memorial Feb. 27 A memorial service for John Dearden, Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, will be held on Friday (Feb. 27) at 10:30 a.m. in…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 21. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Winthrop House will hold a memorial service for Harvard junior Anthony Fonseca at St. Pauls Church, 29 Mount Auburn St., on Thursday, March 4, at 4 p.m. The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the masters house at 5:30.
A stroll through Harvard Yard immediately reveals the rich diversity of the University. Passersby – students, faculty, and staff – reflect a dizzying range of cultures, races, and ethnicities. Posters around campus reinforce this proud multiculturalism with events and services – from a South Indian dance performance to an informational meeting for black scientists to a support group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students.
Hundreds of college students from around the Northeast descended on Harvard last weekend for the Northeast Climate Conference, an event designed to educate students and inspire them to action.
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) is now offering research grants to support summer and academic year research, workshops, working groups, and lecture series by faculty of the University in all fields related to population, health, and development. The centers research committee, which gives priority to interdepartmental or cross-School collaborations that contribute to the centers mission related to the well-being of the global poor, reviews applications for grants once a year.
The Harvard School of Public Healths (HSPH) AIDS Treatment Care and Prevention Initiative in Africa will receive first-year funding of $17 million of a five-year $107 million grant as part of the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to help eradicate AIDS/HIV in the worlds hardest-hit regions.
Describing mezzo-soprano Carolann Buff as a singer hardly does justice to the many roles she juggles. In addition to the duties that fall to any professional musician – balancing budgets, managing publicity, coordinating recording sessions – she spends plenty of her free time doing research in Loeb Music Library, where she works part time as a staff assistant. Thats because Buffs musical passion is whats called historically informed performance of the vocal music of the medieval and Renaissance periods. Since 1996, she and two former classmates from the nearby Longy School of Music have brought early music to audiences around the world as the vocal trio Liber unUsualis.
The Harvard womens hockey team (22-2-1, 12-2-0 ECAC) earned a pair of wins over St. Lawrence this past weekend to move into sole possession of first place in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC). The host Crimson, ranked second prior to meeting No. 3 St. Lawrence on Friday (Feb. 20), edged the Saints, 3-2, in overtime following senior Angela Ruggieros goal at 2:10 in the extra period. Harvard completed the sweep on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 21), beating the Saints in convincing fashion, 5-1, to advance to the No. 1 spot.
After fighting off a host of collegiate and professional players from across the country, Harvard tennis teammates (and doubles partners) Jack Li 07 and Chris Chiou 05 eventually found themselves in the midst of a civil war. In semifinal singles action in the first annual USTA Mens February Open, which concluded on Feb. 22 at the Murr Center, Li dismissed former Duke standout Alberto Brause, 6-3, 6-3, just as Chiou knocked off top-seeded pro Trevor Spracklin 7-6 (4), 6-4, setting up an All-Crimson final.
Sidney R. Knafel A.B. 52, M.B.A. 54 (right), and his wife, Londa Weisman, confer with architect Henry Cobb A.B. 47, M.AR. 49 (center), as the final beam is hoisted into place at the Knafel Building, a major component of the new Center for Government and International Studies. The center, for which Knafel gave the initial funding, will provide an environment in which students and faculty can take a multidisciplinary approach to studying government in a global context.
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.
The Third Millennium Foundation has recently launched the Human Rights Practice Fellowships. In both 2004 and 2005, the foundation will award up to six fellowships to outstanding graduating Harvard students contemplating a career in human rights. These fellowships are designed to enable students (from the College or any one of Harvards 10 graduate schools) to bring human rights theory and practice together, to make a valuable contribution to human rights, to gain important firsthand experience abroad in the human rights field, and to interact with a network of individuals sharing their commitment to and involvement in human rights work.
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.
When it passed in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) enjoyed overwhelming support in Congress and widespread public favor. Everyone, it seemed, thought discriminating against people with physical or mental disabilities was a lousy idea.
Many have compared the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 with Japans surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, drawing parallels between their unexpectedness, their devastating impact on the national consciousness, their inauguration of a new political reality.
‘Atlas of Emotion’ lands literary awards Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies Giuliana Bruno has received two literary awards for his book “Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and…
Bok Center offering postdoc fellowship The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning is offering a half-time postdoctoral fellowship for the 2004-05 academic year to support a strong scholar familiar…
Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced this week the appointment of Christopher Stone as Professor of Practice in the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Chair of Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Stone, who currently directs the Vera Institute of Justice in New York, will take up the position in January 2005.
Who is a citizen? Is citizenship guaranteed by a passport? Can we create citizenship with our own narratives? What is citizenship to a refugee, an immigrant, a slave, an exile, a president, a Jew in the Middle East or an Arab in Israel?
Cultural historian Louis Menand lectured Feb. 12 on the three moments when pragmatism, a quintessentially American philosophy that he defined as an idea about ideas, gained ascendancy in American intellectual life. Unfortunately, according to Menand, the third and last moment has just passed.
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