Birds of prey have rebounded since DDT era and returned to Memorial Hall. Now new livestream camera offers online visitors front row seat of storied perch.
On a chilly Wednesday evening in November, Cabot Houses dining hall glows bright across the quiet Radcliffe Quad. Inside, an otherwise ordinary midweek meal sparkles with flowers, banners, flashbulbs, and Latin music. At the center of the hubbub, surrounded by students who clamor for hugs, Maria Guerrero, who has worked for Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) at the Quad for three years, sits in near silence, alternately – sometimes simultaneously – grinning widely and weeping freely.
More than Saddam Hussein, more than Osama bin Laden, Mao Zedong used to terrify people in the West. Absolute leader (or so we thought) of a billion Chinese dressed in identical drab uniforms brandishing their ubiquitous Little Red Books, Mao seemed to embody an implacable anti-individualistic force bent on destroying all that the West stood for and cherished.
Soaring health care and other fringe benefit costs have prompted the Harvard Corporation to take a second look at next years financial picture and add an extra $16 million in endowment funds to 2004-2005 budgets across the University.
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is preparing for major renovations in 2004 and will be closed to all users from Jan. 19 through Feb. 9, as part of that process.
Theres good news on the research front for those who want to shed some pounds and get in shape this holiday season. A new study by Joslin Diabetes Center researchers shows that obese adults who lost just 7 percent of their weight – or 16 pounds in a 220-pound, 5-foot-5-inch woman – and did moderate-intensity physical exercise for six months improved their major blood vessel function by approximately 80 percent, regardless of whether or not they had type 2 diabetes.
In a show of community partnership, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers stood shoulder-to-shoulder and shovel-to-shovel with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and community, city, and state leaders Thursday (Dec. 4) to break ground for 50 future units of affordable housing in Allston. The Brian J. Honan Apartments, named to honor the late city councilor from Allston-Brighton who died in 2002, will comprise nine buildings on a site once occupied by Legal Seafoods fish processing plant.
The Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences (CBRSS) has announced the arrival of four new visiting scholars, as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Scholars in Health Policy Research Program. This is a two-year postdoctoral fellowship program for outstanding new Ph.D.s in economics, political science, and sociology who wish to advance their understanding of health policy research.
Scientists know that stem cells from embryos have the potential to develop into brain, bone, or any other type cell, but getting them to actually do this in a laboratory is a different thing. Now, for the first time, researchers have crossed this bridge by coaxing uncommitted stem cells to grow into sperm cells in a petri dish.
Giovanni Fazio, a senior physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, directed the design and construction of a camera that is looking beyond the visible universe to see planets, stars,…
A memorial service for John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor Emeritus, will be held Friday (Dec. 12) at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church. A reception will follow in the Faculty Room, University Hall. Please enter through the north entrance.
The Interim Report on the Progress of the Curricular Review was the primary topic at the Faculty Councils fifth meeting of the year. In addition to Deans William C. Kirby (history), Benedict H. Gross (mathematics), and Jeffrey Wolcowitz (economics), Professor Eric N. Jacobsen (chemistry and chemical biology), co-chair of the Working Group on General Education, and Professor Lawrence Katz (economics), co-chair of the Working Group on Concentration, were present for this discussion.
December 1890 – The Faculty of Arts and Sciences establishes the Division of American Archaeology and Ethnology. Dec. 17, 1920 – In Lawrence Hall (lost to fire in 1970 on…
Obie Award-winning playwright Eve Ensler comes to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Thursday (Dec. 11) to discuss the activism thats sprung from her acclaimed drama The Vagina Monologues. In this lecture, called Vagina Warriors: An Emerging Paradigm, An Emerging Species, Ensler will outline the unique qualities of activists she calls Vagina Warriors, and how they have filled her with awe and inspiration.
During the weekend of Dec. 27 and 28, the Harvard University Library Office for Information Systems (OIS) will implement a software upgrade for HOLLIS, Harvards online integrated library system. On those days, the online HOLLIS catalog will be either limited in function or unavailable. The upgrade schedule is as follows:
In 1803, when Americans spoke about going west, they meant Ohio, Kentucky, or Tennessee. The phrase manifest destiny – the God-given right of Americans to spread over the continent – wouldnt be coined for another four decades. America didnt extend from sea to shining sea – rather it shaded off on its western edge into a stupendous and perilous unknown.
During a brief lull in Tracy and the Plastics set this past Monday evening (Dec. 6) at the Cabot House Underground Theatre, Tracy (aka, Wynne Greenwood) – mastermind and front-woman of the Olympia, Wash.-based art-punk trio – invited the crowd of nearly 75 people to Look at each other for a second. Greenwoods suggestion to transfer the focus from herself to those in attendance wasnt so much a break from the evenings performance, as it was an extension of it. Call it audience participation, Tracy and the Plastics style.
Harvard University announced today (Dec. 11) that it is launching a new summer program for academically talented high school students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds. Students will come to Harvard from public and parochial schools in Boston and Cambridge to participate in an intensive summer program focused on academic and personal development. Each student will participate for three successive summers, beginning after ninth grade, with mentoring throughout the school year.
On Dec. 4-8, 2003, representatives of Harvard University and members of a Russian delegation headed by the Father Superior of the Moscow St. Daniel Monastery met to discuss the future of the bells from the monastery that have hung in the Lowell House bell tower at Harvard University since 1930 when they were sold by the Soviet government. The Russian delegation acknowledged Harvards legal ownership of the bells and expressed its gratitude for the preservation of these bells. The discussions were cordial and constructive.
Things happen to Edward Elwyn Jones in the nick of time. Consider. In 1998, he was in his final year at Cambridge University, when he was invited to Harvards Memorial Church, first as Organ Scholar, and then to stay on for an additional year as assistant organist to University Organist and Choirmaster Murray Forbes Somerville. In 2002, just as Jones was finishing further music studies in New York, he was asked to take over as interim organist and choirmaster until the search for a permanent replacement for Somerville, who left Harvard for a position in Nashville, Tenn., was completed.
The Harvard University Bridge to Learning and Literacy Program – an education program for the Universitys service workers – is seeking volunteers who can commit two hours per week to tutor adult learners in language, literacy, numeracy, and computers skills. While some volunteers are needed immediately, the program is also asking people who may be interested in tutoring in the spring semester to inquire as soon as possible.
Band names Holmes Scholarship recipients The Harvard University Band has awarded its annual Malcolm H. Holmes Scholarship to freshmen Keneshia Washington and Kenton Hetrick. Given annually to two dedicated new…
The Cambridge Police Department (CPD) reported a sexual assault at the intersection of Bow and Arrow streets on Tuesday (Dec. 2) at 10 p.m. The report states that a woman walking alone was struck from behind by a blunt object, knocked to the ground, and sexually assaulted. The suspect is described as a white male of heavy build, between 30 and 40 years of age, approximately 6 feet tall, and wearing a dark quilted/down jacket and a knit hat.
Rick McGregor, a Forestry Department employee for the city of Cambridge, makes sure a wreath looks just so on its lamppost in front of Lehman Hall as the holiday season kicks off in earnest.
A memorial service for John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor Emeritus, will be held Dec. 12 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church. A reception will follow in the Faculty Room, University Hall. Please enter through the north entrance.
At its fourth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council voted to endorse the proposed Summer School Courses for 2004. The council also continued its discussion of space planning opportunities in Cambridge and Allston.
December 1832 – In his Cambridge home, German-born Charles Theodore Christian Follen, Professor of the German Language and Literature (1830-35), introduces the Christmas tree to the United States. The “Harvard…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning Nov. 16 and ending Nov. 29. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
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