January 1767 – In a major curriculum reform, the College abolishes the ancient one-tutor-for-all-subjects system and introduces instructional specialization. A different tutor now teaches in each of the following four…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Jan. 10. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
HUPD would like to remind students, faculty, and staff of the University to be aware of your surroundings, particularly when walking alone after dark. The College Safety Committee encourages members of the University community to walk in groups along designated, well-lit pathways. A map of designated safety pathways is located in the Student Telephone Directory.
The Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement and the social advocacy nonprofit Generations Policy Initiative have launched a new journal that aims to highlight problems related to the aging of Americas baby boom population.
President Lawrence H. Summers announced yesterday (Jan. 14) that longtime veteran of the Harvard administration Jackie ONeill has agreed to be the next University marshal.
Just in time for New Years resolutions, a new book, Free Expression, details more than 100 possibilities for writers seeking contests, competitions, and other opportunities. And unlike programs that charge reading fees or processing fees, this books listings are fee-free, according to author Erika Dreifus, who currently teaches in the Harvard Extension School Writing Program.
A celebration of the life and mission of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held Monday (Jan. 19) at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Gary Orfield, professor of education and social policy at the Graduate School of Education, will deliver the keynote address: Dont Just Activate – Celebrate!
Vacation program seeks experienced teachers The Harvard School Vacation Program is looking for experienced teachers or teacher assistants. The program, which enrolls 25 children of Harvard faculty and staff in…
In the first prospective study to assess the relationship between vitamin D intake in women and the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found that women with the highest intake of vitamin D through supplement use had a 40 percent lower risk of developing MS as compared with women who did not use supplements. The findings appear in the Jan. 13 issue of the journal Neurology.
Rugby club seeks grad student-players The Harvard Business School (HBS) Rugby Football Club seeks players from across Harvard’s graduate schools for training, matches, tours, tournaments, and social events. Rugby players…
It was more for lack of hustlers than hustle that the Harvard mens track and field team fell to cross-town rival Northeastern this past Saturday (Jan. 10) at Gordon Track. Short-manned due to injuries, the mens team failed to enter a single sprinter in any race under 500 meters, eventually falling, 82-62, in their first return to action since winter break. Meanwhile, the womens team stayed competitive on the strength of their long- and mid-distance runners, but came up short as well, dropping the meet, 71-55.
Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) in partnership with Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) has received a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help eliminate health disparities in rural and urban communities.
Albert Alcalay is a survivor. Born to Jewish parents in Serbia in 1917, he and his family were forced to flee when the Nazis took over in 1941. They ended up in a concentration camp in Calabria, Italy, populated primarily by Jewish artists and intellectuals, and it was in that unlikely setting that Alcalay began studying painting.
The need for a stable, dedicated funding source for the Universitys expansion into Allston has prompted Harvards Corporation to extend the life of the Strategic Infrastructure Fund through the 25-year first phase of development.
Inspired by the spirit of the 50th Anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC), the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC), and The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University are jointly commissioning research on Southeast Asian Educational Opportunity. The studies, funded by State Farm Insurance, will provide policy-relevant research on the challenges and opportunities that exist for the Southeast Asian community.
Karl Haglund (right), author of the recently released Inventing the Charles River, a pictorial history of the Charles River Basin – known as Bostons Central Park – was a guest last week at an event sponsored by Harvard Planning and the Allston Initiative. Along with Renata von Tscharner (second from left), president of the Charles River Conservancy, Haglund discussed the river, its history and development, and the state of park lands. The event drew more than 50 Harvard staff, faculty, and guests interested in the rivers history and its links to Harvard, which played an important role in the transformation of the basin from industrial land to park land. What is striking about the dialogue that has gone on between designers of parks and universities is that they have contributed an energy that is something that probably hardly any other city has, said Haglund. We took back our river banks long before any other city did, and for that everyone in Boston today benefits. Also pictured are longtime Harvard crew coach Harry Parker (left) and his grandchildren, Noah and Anna Parker, the youngest river lovers at the event.
It was weird, it was squirming around, said Baldwin School fourth-grader Taylor Vandick. It had three antennas or fangs or whatever and it was squirming around.
By curating the exhibition Life as Art: Paintings by Gregory Gillespie and Frances Cohen Gillespie, Theodore Stebbins Jr. has brought about a reconciliation of sorts, albeit a melancholy one.
This illustration from the title page of a rare Dutch songbook is featured in the exhibition, Res Gestae: Libri Manent A Curators Choice, which opened Jan. 12 in the Edison and Newman Room of Houghton Library. The exhibition includes 89 other rare books acquired by Roger E. Stoddard, curator of rare books in the Harvard College Library. Stoddard has served the Harvard libraries for over 40 years and holds additional appointments as senior lecturer on English and senior curator in the Houghton Library. He has announced his plans to retire and A Curators Choice commemorates his work as a collection builder. For details, call (617) 495-2442.
Minjung Son, left, and her mother Niokjung, visisting from South Korea, were prepared for the arctic cold that descended on the Northeast this week. The Sons took a walking tour of the Harvard University campus Wednesday morning with the temperature at -2 degrees Farenheit.
The wind across Harvard Yard blew numbingly cold, but the scene inside Annenberg Hall Wednesday night (Jan. 7) was toasty and congenial at the second annual Freshman Study Break hosted by President Lawrence H. Summers. Nearly 1,200 members of the class of 07 were lured from their desks and library carrels by the irresistible trio of food, dancing, and an opportunity to meet their president.
“When we try to predict what will make us happy we’re often wrong,” says Daniel Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard University. “Researchers all over the world find the…
Paloma Valverde knows scorpion venom. A biochemist, she has worked with it for years, and marveled at how it can both kill prey and fight a number of diseases in both animals and humans.
On Dec. 11 at approximately 7 p.m. a graduate student was walking on Mt. Auburn Street toward Dunster Street when she was approached by a male who attempted to grab her crotch while walking by her. The victim pulled back causing the suspect to briefly touch her thigh. The suspect and the victim continued to walk in opposite directions.
A memorial service for Kennedy School faculty member Susan C. Eaton will be held Saturday (Jan. 10) at 10:30 a.m. at First Parish Church in Cambridge. Eaton died Dec. 30 from complications of leukemia. She was 46.
At its sixth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed three interrelated topics: (1) The extension of the Infrastructure Fund (2) The rise in and effects of the fringe benefit rate and (3) Faculty of Arts and Sciences financial results for FY 2003 and prospects for this and future years. Ann Berman, vice president for finance and chief financial officer, and Professors Gary King (government) and John Campbell (economics), FAS Resources Committee, were present for the first topic. Berman was again present for the second discussion, together with Professors Peter Marsden (sociology) and David Cutler (economics), chair and member of the FAS Benefits Committee, respectively. For the final topic, Deans Nancy Maull (executive dean) and Cheryl Hoffman-Bray (associate dean for finance) were present.
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