Proposed 2004-2005 rents for current affiliated residents living in Affiliated Housing: Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) has proposed a 0 percent rent increase for the majority of current Affiliated Housing…
On Friday (Jan. 30), more than 750 Boston public high school students ventured out to area legislative offices, newspapers, police stations, banks, hospitals, businesses, and even Harvard to get a glimpse of a typical workday in the real world. Now in its ninth year, the Boston Groundhog Shadow Job Day has tightened the ties between schools and workplaces, giving students the exposure they need to consider career options and see firsthand the real-world applications of the skills they learn in school.
Its 5:30 on a windy January night, and around Harvard Square, pedestrians strain against the cold, counting each excruciating step to their destinations, their scarves and mittens and the bulkiest of coats providing scant protection from the free-falling temperatures. Suddenly, from the direction of Concord Ave., a bright orange figure slices through the chill – on a bicycle.
A tenacious Harvard womens hockey team tuckered out Boston College, 4-0, in the semifinal round of the 26th annual Beanpot Tournament this past Tuesday evening (Feb. 3) in Chestnut Hill. The Crimson, who endured a career-high 59 saves by B.C. netminder Lisa Davis, blasted the net 63 times (to the Eagles eight) en route to the win.
Two busloads of Harvard students joined the political scrum in New Hampshire last weekend, heading north for an intensive, daylong experience campaigning in the Granite States first-in-the-nation primary.
As part of its ongoing series, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) will host the decidedly offbeat Sci-Fi Camp-o-Rama on Feb. 7 at 6:30 p.m. in Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St. Rescheduled from this past December following one of the months snowstorms, CfA will screen two of the worst sci-fi movies (or just movies?) ever made: Ed Woods masterpiece Plan 9 From Outer Space and director Phil Tuckers one and only film, The Robot Monster.
Jan. 9, 1950 – Freshman Dean Delmar Leighton issues the following notice to his charges: All occupants of non-fireproof dormitories living above the ground are expected to report at the Indoor Athletic Building (now the Malkin Athletic Center) for practice on the fire ropes. Instruction will be given by the University Safety Patrol. [. . .] (Quotation: Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Jan. 28, 1950)
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Jan. 24. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
The memorial service for John Shearman, Adams University Professor Emeritus, will be held in the Faculty Room, University Hall, on April 4 at 2:30 p.m.
Gioia to lead OFA discussion Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Dana Gioia will participate in “Perspectives from the National Endowment for the Arts: An Informal Discussion”…
Upcoming info session for Stride Rite grants Graduating seniors are eligible to apply and receive grants up to $25,000 through the Stride Rite Post-Graduate Public Service Grants. Funded programs should…
He was an Antarctic explorer who never got near the South Pole. A mariner whose ship sank miles from its destination in some of the worlds most hostile seas.
The Entrepreneurship Program at Harvard Business School (HBS), which has offered courses in entrepreneurship for more than a half century and counts some 65,000 graduates, won the top award for MBA programs nationwide from the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE). Devoted to entrepreneurship education and development, the association cited HBS as its National Model MBA Program winner at the organizations annual conference earlier this month in Dallas.
When George Dominguez was 13, a mysterious stranger moved into his Jamaica Plain neighborhood and opened a kung fu studio. The strangers name was Yang Jwing Ming, and the young Dominguez was intrigued.
With bragging rights on the line, the Harvard men and womens hockey teams will compete next week for Best in Boston in the famed Beanpot Tournament. Both Crimson squads will square off against the Boston College Eagles in the first round, with the winner advancing to the championship game a week later to take on the victor of the Boston University-Northeastern match-up.
The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering its John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellowship award for the academic year 2004-05 to Harvard doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic consistent with the centers research agenda.
The federal government has awarded Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) a $20.5 million biodefense grant to study the immune system response to pathogens. The grant, which will span a 4.5-year period, is the largest grant to date to the School for biodefense research. HSPH is also receiving federal funds for leadership training for public health preparedness in a bioterrorism crisis. The new grant is from the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the project is titled Arming the Immune System Against Pathogens.
Spangler Hall at Harvard University Business School looks like a comfortable, airy place to sit and think in a nice old rocking chair. All youd need is about 80 more degrees Fahrenheit, and life would be ideal.
Whether you want to keep up with the latest trends in your field or learn new skills to make yourself a more valuable Harvard employee, discover the many open enrollment courses or part-time degree and graduate certificate programs offered at the Harvard Extension School. Expand your knowledge by enrolling in just one course or enhance your credentials by formally applying to a degree or professional certificate program. Nearly 2,000 Harvard employees enroll at the Extension School annually using the Universitys Tuition Assistance Program (TAP).
Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies Lizabeth Cohen, director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, has announced the centers visiting scholars for the 2003-04 academic year. Each year, the centers fellows are selected around a theme, which for 2003-04 is The Political Economy of North America.
Thomas Lentz, the recently appointed director of the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), sits at a large oak table in his office in the Fogg Museum. Redecoration is under way, and except for a few chairs, the table is the only piece of furniture in the room, its round, spacious surface piled high with books, bulging folders, and loose papers.
The winter sun, a sadder light than waning moon, though its warmth is feeble and its everyday life brief, shines with a frigid clarity that creates its own hard beauty. Winter air is rarefied, that is, less dense, and so in the clear sunlight, objects are revealed in all their textured detail – outlines are harder, colors richer, shadows longer. In the Yard, in the unaltered light, leafless trees, stark statuary, and classic architecture seem pared down, truer, more themselves.
“It’s likely that writing and other creative work involve a push-pull interaction between the frontal and temporal lobes,” Harvard Medical School neurology instructor Alice Flaherty speculates. If the temporal lobe…
Both the patients and psychiatrists were startled. Manic-depressives undergoing brain scans, not a really pleasant experience, came out of the machine happier than when they went in.
At the Barker Center, a student is dwarfed by John Singer Sargents painting of Maj. Henry Lee Higginson. Founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Civil War soldier, fellow of Harvard College – Higginson held a deep and passionate wish that we should live according to our highest ideals.
Nonhuman primates are unable to grasp a fundamental grammatical component used in all human languages, researchers at Harvard University and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland reported recently in the journal Science. Their work provides the clearest example to date of a cognitive bottleneck during the evolution of human language, suggesting a sharp limit to animals capacity to generate open-ended communication and possible restrictions on other domains of thought.
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