As the wind howls outside and staying in shape moves indoors, a couple of young warriors fight it out in the Hemenway Gymnasium. Matt Prasse 06 (right), poised and ready, waits for Gregg Peeples HLS 03 to challenge him with a mighty stroke.
It was what Id always imagined Ethiopia to be like. Afar was dry, hot, and barren. Located near the border with Djibouti, its where the bones of prehistoric Lucy were discovered. Afar is a region thats mostly desert baked by a scorching sun, where afternoon temperatures reach well over 100 degrees. Camels dot the landscape, winds sweep up little sandstorms, and nomadic herders with daggers tied to their belts saunter around in the sweltering heat. I visited Afar last summer, a month after arriving in Ethiopia. When I stepped out of a Jeep that brought me there into the light of that unforgiving sun, I thought to myself: Now, finally, this is Ethiopia.
Alma mater honors Nye Princeton University recently announced that Kennedy School of Government Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. has been chosen the 2004 recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Award, one…
They may be grandmas little pride and joy, but taking care of grandchildren more than nine hours a week can also be the ticket to increased heart problems, a study by Harvard researchers said.
Joan Larrabee, instructor in medicine at Joslin Diabetes Center, hopes to discover whether there is a distinct subtype of neuropathy in patients with diabetes.
Twice this year, delegations representing the Dalai Lama have gone to Beijing to hold talks with officials of the Chinese government. Many have interpreted these discussions as a sign that tensions between Beijing and the Tibetan religious leader are easing, and that the next step may be a visit to China by the Dalai Lama himself.
Gore Vidal, the outspoken and prolific writer of novels, essays, screenplays, and history, visited the Graduate School of Educations Askwith Forum on Nov. 20, ostensibly to promote his new book Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson.
You wont find brooms like these at Home Depot. Made to order in the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) scene shop, they feature Plexiglas handles and fiber-optic bristles whose tips are bobbing pinpoints of white light.
Professor of Chinese Literature Wilt Idema, director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, has announced the centers fellows and visiting scholars who are spending the 2003-04 academic year at Harvard. Each of these scholars specializes in some aspect of China, Idema said, and each is contributing new insights to their field of inquiry. During the course of the year these scholars are presenting talks and seminars that we advertise and open to the Harvard community. All of the fellows will moreover be conducting workshops in the spring of 2004 that will likewise be open to the public to attend.
For six hours on Sunday (Nov. 23), approximately 60 faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates shared their thoughts about the ongoing review of the Harvard College curriculum.
The following Harvard seniors were elected to Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, the Harvard College Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK). The students, listed below with their Houses and concentrations, were elected in November.
Researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have provided new insights into the hydrodynamic benefits fish reap by swimming in schools. “The annual upstream voyage of fish…
A superprecise scalpel that can be used to operate on an individual cell is now a reality thanks to experimenters at Harvard University. “Ultrashort laser pulses [up to 1,000 a…
Nov. 21, 1953 – In Yales Woolsey Hall on the morning of the Harvard-Yale football game, Yale confers an honorary Doctor of Laws degree upon recently installed Harvard President Nathan Marsh Pusey 28, AM 32, PhD 37. Not in his fondest dreams, [Pusey] said – with a solemnity which brought a smile to the faces of the 1,500 in the audience – had he ever aspired to be an alumnus of Yale [. . .]. (Quoted from Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Nov. 28, 1953)
Jon Woodward was born in Wichita, Kan., where Wyatt Earp was once marshal. The Woodwards werent outlaws. They were more like the families for whose benefit men like Earp had tamed the West. Woodwards father was the principal of a Lutheran elementary school. His mother worked there as a teacher until she dropped out to raise a family.
Subjects ranged from warrior berserkers to Jessica Lynch as students, faculty, and staff at the John F. Kennedy School of Government engaged in a wide-ranging discussion of masculinity, femininity, and warfare Thursday (Nov. 13) in a lunchtime talk with the author of a new book on the subject.
Free flu shots available University Health Services (UHS) will be providing free flu vaccines to members of the Harvard community beginning in November. The walk-in clinics are being held at…
A significant change in policy has predictably decreased the number of students applying to Harvard College under its nonbinding Early Action program by almost 50 percent compared with last year. The Office of Admissions and Financial Aid estimates just under 4,000 students will apply Early Action for admission to the class of 2008, compared with the record-high 7,615 Early Action applicants to the class of 2007.
Prior to the beginning of the first of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, The Science of Religion and the Religion of Science, President Lawrence H. Summers (from left) speaks with Keith DeRose, professor of philosophy at Yale University Tanner lecturer Richard Dawkins, the Charles Simonyi Chair in the Understanding of Science at Oxford University and Dawkins wife, Lalla Ward Dawkins. Co-sponsored by the Office of the President and the University Center for Ethics and the Professions, the lecture series is designed to advance scholarly and scientific learning in the field of human values. (Staff photo Justin Ide/Harvard News Office)
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