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.
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.
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