New Nieman wing to honor Knight Foundation The newly added wing to the Walter Lippmann House – home of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard – will be named in honor…
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvards Longwood campus are squaring off in an energy-saving duel that asks faculty, staff, and graduate students to Go Cold Turkey over Thanksgiving weekend.
For filmmaker Ed Zwick 74, the premiere of his forthcoming film The Last Samurai at the Harvard Square Theater Sunday night (Nov. 9) completed a circle he began more than 30 years ago.
Speaking by phone from his office at Oxford University, biologist Richard Dawkins politely declined to talk in detail about his upcoming lecture series at Harvard, The Science of Religion and the Religion of Science.
North Koreas long-running food shortage is a crisis of the nations own making that is hitting nonelite city residents hard and, without a leadership change, shows no sign of stopping.
The professions of medicine, otolaryngology, and head and neck surgery have lost a giant in the passing of William Wayne Montgomery, said Joseph B. Nadol Jr., Walter Augustus Lecompte Professor of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School (HMS).
MHS honors Chandler with Kennedy Medal Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the Isidor Strauss Professor of Business History Emeritus at Harvard Business School, has received the John F. Kennedy Medal from…
A quarter of the mail delivered to Cambridges 02138 ZIP code is Harvard-bound. And of that, 77 percent goes through Harvard University Mail Services (HUMS), where a relatively lean operation of staff and students shepherds it to its final destinations.
Robert France, associate professor of landscape ecology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, is a scientist who has studied the effect of environmental degradation of various plants and animals.…
The goal of a Harvard academic research project is to develop advanced computer technology that will help scholars mine myriad scientific texts in a variety of languages, but also to…
Harvard researchers demonstrated how the first living cells may have formed in a series of experiments that indicate that clay can be an important catalyst for life.
Whether the result of a solar flare, the nearness of Halloween, or the lustrous alchemy of cloud, setting sun, and October light, the coming of dusk on Oct. 29 turned Harvard Square into a luminous spectacle.
Gerald L. Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters at Washington University in St. Louis, delivers the first of The Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures inside the Barker Center. In this talk, Early concentrated on Jackie Robinson, a staunch civil rights activist, successful businessman, and the first African American to play in major league baseball. Early, who discussed other athletes, is a sought-after contributor to mainstream and scholarly publications such as The New York Times, Harpers, The Nation, The Washington Post, and Newsweek.
Nov. 2, 1657 – By request of the Board of Overseers, the Great and General Court approves an Appendix to the Charter of 1650 clarifying the division of power between…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 1. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Whether the impending holidays bring joyful anticipation or stressed-out dread, Harvard employees can get a jump-start on the giving season with the Universitys 2003-04 Community Gifts Through Harvard Campaign, which launched this week and runs through November. The campaign, with a goal this year of $1 million, provides a low-stress, high-impact vehicle for improving the lives of people around the corner or across the globe.
When Jane Gaines was studying film history in graduate school, tracking the achievements of the industrys early female pioneers was easy. There were exactly four: two French, Alice Guy-Blache and Germaine Dulac, and Americans Dorothy Arzner and Lois Weber. By the 1990s, however, scholars had unearthed, from deep in film archives around the world, evidence that hundreds of women worked in the early years of silent film, as directors, producers, writers, and editors as well as actresses. Between 1916 and 1923, women in the motion picture industry were more powerful than in any other business in America in 1923, more women than men had their own independent production companies.
Order of Academic Palms honors Nye Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. received the insignia of Chevalier in the Order of Academic Palms by M. Jean-David Levitte, French ambassador…
IOP, Kennedy Library Foundation launch new award The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and the Institute of Politics (IOP) have announced the creation of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier…
University Health Services (UHS) will be providing free flu vaccines to members of the Harvard community beginning this month. The walk-in clinics are being held at the following locations:
For all the musing over the stadiums centennial this season, the outcome of Saturdays game against Dartmouth proved to be regrettably reminiscent. After all, it was Nov. 14, 1903, when the then Dartmouth Indians blanked the Crimson, 11-0, to break in the new stadium. And though the Crimson put up a good fight Nov. 1, 2003, the Big Green again played the spoiler, dropping Harvard on its big day, 30-16.
William E. Gienapp, Harvard College Professor, professor of history, and a prominent authority on the Civil War, died Oct. 29 at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass., of complications related to cancer. He was 59. Passionate about baseball, Gienapp was known as a popular, engaging teacher whose lectures regularly packed halls with undergraduates.
The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the fifth 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.
Rachelle Gould 03, an environmental science concentrator working for The Nature Conservancy in Washington, D.C., and Chile, and Krishnan Subrahmanian 03, a social studies concentrator developing programs for children with HIV/AIDS in South Africa, are this years recipients of the Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service. The two recent graduates received the second round of the fellowships, which were established in 2002 and provide $25,000 in support of a formative year in public service.
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