OfA presents ‘An Evening with Suzanne Farrell’ As part of its Learning From Performers series, the Office for the Arts will welcome acclaimed ballerina Suzanne Farrell on April 15 at…
Harvard College has announced its fees for undergraduate tuition, room, and board for the 2004-2005 academic year. Tuition is set at $27,448. Overall charges will total $39,880, an increase of 5.15 percent, including room rate, $4,974 board, $4,286 health services fee, $1,264 and student services fee, $1,908.
In another do-or-die weekend, the streaking mens and womens Harvard hockey teams both earned an extension to their suddenly sensational postseason runs. And a pair of ECAC titles to boot.
Harvard junior midfielder Rory Edwards attempts to cut off a streaking Kariane Lauri of the University of Connecticut this past Saturday (March 20) at Jordan Field. In their first visit to Harvard in program history, the Huskies (1-4) overwhelmed the Crimson, 10-4, to earn their first win of the season.
A report by The Blade of Toledo, Ohio, that uncovered Vietnam-era war crimes kept secret for three and a half decades, has received the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. Given for work published in daily newspapers in 2003, the award carries a $10,000 prize. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard administers the program.
Taiwans election has put the United States in the uncomfortable position of discouraging a growing democracy in order to keep relations with mainland China stable, according to Timothy Crawford, a professor of political science at Boston College.
This years Harvard participation in the American Cancer Societys Daffodil Days raised $35,514, a new record. The total number of dazzling yellow bouquets sold: 4,962, many of which (1,158) were donated to local hospitals. The Harvard Mail Services volunteered to deliver the flowers to more than 90 locations across the University in both Cambridge and Boston. In charge of coordination of this effort were Ursula Moore and Shirley Washington. Peter Conlin, assistant director of University Alumni Records, delivers daffodils (above) to co-worker, Joyce Guarnieri, team leader of University Alumni Records, Special Projects.
Kennedy School of Government (KSG) alumna Michelle Rhee, M.P.P. 97, was among a dozen individuals honored with the 2004 Citizen Activist Award by the Gleitsman Foundation on Monday (March 22). Designed to honor those who have challenged social injustice in the United States, the award is presented in alternating years with the International Activist Award.
Surely there are easier places to make art than Antarctica. There, at the bottom of the world, acrylics crack on the page and watercolors turn to slush. En route to Antarctica by sea, pastels are often the only option any liquid would spill as the ship rolls to such a pitch that sleeping bunks are equipped with seat belts. Gloves and layers of survival gear compromise artistic detail and precision.
Youve got to use your imaginojo, baby! Sporting a pinky ring on each of six hands, a lace dickey, and a very strong resemblance to Austin Powers, the Blind Spider told theatergoers and his fellow actors how to navigate the Island of Anyplace – both the stage set for a bored young girl, and the name of a play produced by the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) that teaches schoolchildren about drama.
Senior wrestler Jesse Jantzen brought home Harvards first national championship in 66 years with an impressive 9-3 win against Oklahoma States Zach Esposito this past Saturday (March 20) in St. Louis. John Harkness 38, who was actually on hand to cheer on Jantzen, was the last Crimson grappler to capture the national title – back in 1938.
Psychologists at Harvard University and the University of Texas, San Antonio, have found that the thoughts we try to put out of mind while awake tend to reappear in dreams. The finding lends support to Sigmund Freuds 1900 contention that dreams bother us because they harbor things we dont want to think about, a theory not previously well-tested.
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.