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.
Jan. 10, 1921 – In the Music Building’s John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Marian MacDowell, widow of composer Edward MacDowell, gives a lecture on “The MacDowell Colony at Peterborough” (the…
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will conduct an accreditation survey of Harvard University Health Services on Feb. 10 -13.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the weeks beginning Dec. 7 and ending Jan. 3. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
For the first time in Harvards history, women outnumber men in gaining admission to the College under the Early Action program. Early Action admissions for the Class of 2008 total 906, 50.9 percent of which are women. For quite some time, we have been on the verge of reaching this milestone. Alumni/ae, faculty, students, and staff have worked hard over the years to achieve equal access admission for women, and we are very grateful for all their help, said William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid.
Ask most people to pull up a mental image of a physicist, and theyll likely present a wild-haired amalgam of Albert Einstein and Bill Gates wearing Buddy Holly glasses, a lab coat, and yesterdays lunch on his shirt. After all, it hardly matters what you look like if youre doing great science, right?
Theres beauty everywhere, even underfoot, if you only look. A puddle captures the tower of Harvard Hall gracefully framed by a bare winter tree. (Staff photo Jon Chase/Harvard News Office)
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, comparing data on the rates of use of 12 specific high-cost operative procedures among Medicare beneficiaries in for-profit and not-for-profit health plans, found that, contrary to conventional wisdom, enrollees in for-profit health plans were no less likely to have the procedures done. The findings appear in the January 8 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Memorial services are often somber affairs, but when the person being honored lived well beyond the biblical three score and ten, was productive, nay, indispensable, up until his final days, left behind a list of accomplishments that would have been impressive had they been parceled out among a dozen lesser mortals, and touched the lives of hundreds if not thousands of people who prized his quirks and kindness as much as his almost superhuman ability to solve problems and get things done, it may not be out of place if those singing the deceaseds praises introduce a note of levity into the proceedings.
David G. Freiman, pathologist in chief at Beth Israel Hospital from 1956 to 1979 and the first person at Beth Israel to hold a chair endowed by Harvard Medical School, has died from complications resulting from a fall in his home. He was 92.
As Sarah Kinsella 07 works out at the Malkin Athletic Center, she is framed by the arms and weight of her equally determined roommate and friend Rejoice Opara 07.
Triangular nozzles provide the tiniest droplets, say researchers in Harvard Universitys Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences who used a mathematical algorithm to determine that a miniature three-sided tap could produce drips some 21 percent smaller than a conventional round nozzle.
While many individuals complain of difficulty adjusting to bright light, scientists have had little success in identifying an abnormality in the retina that causes this symptom. A research team led by scientists at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary has identified genetic defects in five unrelated individuals that interfere with the ability of cells in the eye to quickly adjust to changes in light intensity. Their work is described in the Jan. 1 issue of Nature.
A study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Womens Hospital has found that participants who regularly drank coffee significantly reduced the risk of onset of type 2 diabetes, compared to non-coffee-drinking participants. The findings appear in the Jan. 6 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Harvard Law School students and recent graduates have won an unprecedented eight Skadden Fellowships to pursue public interest work. The awards represent the most given to applicants from any single law school in the 15-year history of the Skadden Fellowship Foundation.
Warren A. Law (MBA 48, Ph.D. 53), the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking Emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS) and an eloquent critic of the corporate takeovers that convulsed the world of American business in the 1970s and 1980s, died of cancer on Dec. 11, at his home in Belmont. He was 79 years old.
Attenborough named Peterson Medal recipient The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) has named world-renowned natural history filmmaker and conservationist Sir David Attenborough the 2004 Roger Tory Peterson Medal recipient.…
Albert Szabo, a teacher of architecture and design with a flair for finding beauty in the fragmentary debris of civilization, died Dec. 10 at Mt. Auburn Hospital from complications following surgery. Szabo, who suffered from Parkinsons disease, was 78.
Physicists at Harvard University have created a pulse of light that contains photons, is compressed to fit within several centimeters of space, and does not travel. The finding builds upon earlier demonstrations of stored light by halting actual photons, not just their signature.
Faust to offer insight on PBS program Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Dean Drew Gilpin Faust, who is also professor of history, will share her scholarly insight as a historian…
Sun Gate, a bronze sculpture weighing half a ton, arrived one day in the back of a pickup truck driven by artist Murray Dewart 70. Dewart and his assistant, aided by a group of undergraduates, rolled the piece down the ramp and into place at the exact center of McKinlock Courtyard at Leverett House, where it seemed to command the space as though the architectural setting had been designed to receive it.
Abby Feldman has a Laurel and Hardy screen saver with photos that change every five seconds or so. There are the boys in Sons of the Desert. There they are in Another Fine Mess, Way Out West, Babes in Toyland.
Upon the recommendation of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the President approved and announced the following Standing Committees at the F.A.S. Faculty Meeting of October 21, 2003. Standing Committees of the Faculty are constituted to perform a continuing function. Each committee has been established by a vote of the Faculty, and can be dissolved only by a vote of the Faculty or, with the agreement of a particular Committee, by the Dean and Faculty Council. The Dean recommends the membership of each committee annually.
It’s not every Harvard class that opens with a standing ovation. But then, most Harvard classes aren’t launched with the introduction, “The king of the blues, B.B. King!”
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