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.
After surviving teasing about his less memorable films, a therapy session with a neutered bulldog, and a red beaded bra and blue wig, actor Robert Downey Jr. received the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Pudding Pot Thursday night (Feb. 19) as its Man of the Year. The ceremony preceded the opening night performance of the Theatricals As the Word Turns.
Nearly 60 projects in dance, music, theater, literature, and the visual arts will take place this spring at Harvard, sponsored in part through funding from the Office for the Arts (OFA). Selected by the Council on the Arts at Harvard, the projects include concerts, theater productions showcasing original student work, as well as classic musicals, a photography exhibit, and dance performances featuring the newly formed Harvard College Intertribal Indian Dance Troupe, the Harvard Hellenic Society, Harvard Ballroom, and other student groups.
George Lopez, star of the hit ABC comedy that bears his name, has been named the 2004 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation. Lopez will be awarded the foundations medal at Harvards Annual Cultural Rhythms ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 28.
Harvard researchers are weighing in on the national ozone pollution debate, asserting that federal assumptions on natural background levels are wrong and may result in national standards that permit too much ozone pollution.
Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified a protein in Old World monkeys that blocks infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). The finding could lead to improved animal models of AIDS for research and suggests that a similar molecule known to exist in humans might be exploited for prevention and therapy.
Livingston Taylor (with special guests) performs a benefit concert at the Memorial Church on Tuesday (Feb. 24). A composer and performer with 14 albums to his name, Taylor has been described as an unrepentant romantic with a razor-sharp mind, a biting sense of humor, and a quirky view of the world.
Pierre Auguste Renoirs 1887 painting The Great Bathers, a depiction of voluptuous female nudes cavorting in an idealized woodland pool, has elicited much critical response from art historians, particularly during the past few decades as feminist theory entered the discourse of art criticism.
Spanning four centuries, the exhibition Civitates Londinium: Maps of London from 1572, documents how London grew from town to city to megametropolis. The exhibition, open through June 30 at the Harvard Map Collection in Pusey Library, is organized chronologically. Moving forward from map to map is like gazing on still frames from a highly sophisticated flip book – the boundaries of the city move out, bridges are built, buildings are burnt and reconstructed.
Anthropologist Brian Hare’s research involved New Guinea singing dogs, a subspecies that shows strong indications of domestication at some time in the past but now exists as feral, reclusive individuals…
On Feb. 12, a female undergraduate student reported to the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) that she was the victim of an indecent assault and battery at approximately 5:35 p.m. while walking near 125 Mt. Auburn St. The victim stated that a male approached her from behind on a bicycle, and then groped her as he rode by.
– Feb. 19, 1944 – In an editorial headed “Dodoölogy 1,” the “Harvard Alumni Bulletin” publishes a selection of extinct Harvard organizations (courtesy of University Archives), hoping that readers can…
Dearden memorial Feb. 27 A memorial service for John Dearden, Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, will be held on Feb. 27 at 10:30 a.m. in the Class…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 14. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Reporters covering tragedies in the worlds forgotten places face a host of hurdles on the ground, from language gaps to difficulties with travel, but once they have the story, their toughest challenge may be selling it to editors, according to Samantha Power, lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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