Care to tell singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor anything about the art of performing? I wouldnt. After all, he wrote the book. His Stage Performance (2000) is both a bible for the stagestruck and a blueprint for why the 30-year music veteran was hailed the ultimate crowd pleaser by Performing Songwriter Magazine. On Feb. 24, when he gives a concert at the Memorial Church, he aims to do more than tantalize his audience. The proceeds from his performance will benefit the Grants Program of the Memorial Church, which every year supports underfunded charities in the local community.
Six entries have been chosen as finalists for the 2004 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, which is awarded each year by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The winner of the $25,000 prize will be named at an awards ceremony on March 17 at 8 p.m. in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
American Academy appoints Mikkelsen Lecturer on History and Literature Ann-Marie Mikkelsen has been named a member of this year’s group of visiting scholars at the American Academy of Arts and…
As a youngster attending school in the small Inuit community of Igloolik in Canadas Northwest Territories, Zacharias Kunuk made and sold carvings to earn money to go to the movies.
Findings by Harvard researchers and colleagues narrow the range of possible dates for a critical change in the Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists had previously believed oxygen first appeared sometime between 2.45…
The population density of Paris is about three times that of Boston. Does this mean Paris is three times as much fun as Boston, or that if Bostons population were compounded by three, it would become another Paris?
At its seventh meeting of the year (Feb. 4) the Faculty Council reviewed with Dean Willliam C. Kirby a draft of his Annual Letter to the Faculty. Deans Vincent Tompkins (associate dean of the Faculty for Academic Affairs) and Cheryl A. Hoffman-Bray (associate dean for finance in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences) were present for this discussion.
The Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year festivities will be held on Thursday, Feb. 12. At 2 p.m., the Woman of the Year will lead a parade through the streets of Cambridge. Following the parade, the president of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and the vice president of the cast will roast this years winner and present her with her Pudding Pot at 2:40 p.m. in the Hasty Pudding Theatre. After the roast, several numbers from the Hasty Puddings 156th production, As The Word Turns, will be previewed.
Feb. 13, 1847 – The Harvard Corporation votes to establish “an advanced school of instruction in theoretical and practical science and in the other usual branches of academic learning, to…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Jan. 31. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for an Istanbul process Friday (Jan. 30) that would band together the United States, Europe, and the Middle East in an effort to boost democratic government, promote economic growth, and ensure security to the troubled region.
CNNs Tokyo bureau chief, a United Nations information service director, and the editor of The Hindu are among the fellows this semester at the Kennedy Schools Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
An antibody plucked from a library of human antibodies has powerfully blocked infection by the SARS (seere acute respiratory syndrome) irus in laboratory tests, scientists at Harard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report. This discoery could expedite the deelopment of an antibody drug for the preention or early treatment of SARS, which killed nearly 800 people in a global outbreak last year.
In the marquee game of the 52nd annual Beanpot Tournament this past Monday night (Feb. 2) at the FleetCenter, the Harvard mens hockey team quickly found itself embroiled in a comedy of errors. Against the No. 2 Boston College Eagles, the Crimson – appearing a bit rusty after exam period – were outshot, outplayed, and just plain unlucky.
HMS researcher wins Crafoord Prize Latham Family Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) Timothy Springer, a senior investigator at the Center for Blood Research (CBR) Institute for Biomedical…
Students and faculty logging onto the HOLLIS catalog after winter break found a decrease in the number of periodicals available from Elsevier, one of the worlds largest publishers of scientific journals. According to Sidney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library, the decision to eliminate these journals was the result of 15 months of careful consideration. It was driven not only by current financial realities, Verba states, but also – and perhaps more importantly – by the need to reassert control over our collections and to encourage new models for research publication at Harvard. Similar steps have been taken at other major research institutions, including Cornell, Johns Hopkins, and the Triangle Research Libraries Network.
A retrospective analysis by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) published in The New England Journal of Medicine found no causal relationship between testosterone replacement and prostate cancer or heart disease risk
Jerold Kayden, a faculty member of the Graduate School of Design (GSD), has been appointed the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design.
The discovery that cystic fibrosis (CF) patients have an imbalance of fatty acids in their tissues could help pave the way for a new treatment for this genetic disease that affects approximately 30,000 people nationwide. These findings extend previous observations from mouse studies and show that the same fatty acid abnormality occurs in humans with CF, is related to the degree of abnormality in the gene, and is not a consequence of inflammation.
Is there a docent in the house? The Semitic Museum at Harvard University is looking for volunteer docents to guide tours for the new exhibit “The Houses of Ancient Israel:…
Kennedy School of Government Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. has announced the appointment of the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir as the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life. Hehir will take up his post in the fall 2004 semester.
The former mayor of Knoxville, Tenn., the vice president of programs at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, and the former governor of Minnesota, among others, have been selected for fellowships this spring at Harvards Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School of Government.
Changes in the 2000 census that added a racial category and allowed multirace responses permitted a new flexibility in self-identification, but also diluted the data collection that underpins social justice efforts, according to a former U.S. Census director who spoke at Harvard Monday (Feb. 2).
It may have been just a college hockey rink, but for the 60 or so children who got to test their skills with the Harvard Mens Hockey team on that ice last Wednesday (Jan. 28) night, it was like being in the Boston Fleet Center…
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.
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