According to Beth Simmons, a professor of government at Harvard, governments care what others think of them. They want to be admired and can be publicly embarrassed, just like like…
A widely cited estimate is that at current rates of deforestation, orangutans will be extinct in the wild in 20 years. But Assistant Professor of Anthropology Cheryl Knott, who heads…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 11. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
For her leadership in government and humanitarian causes, the Harvard Foundation will honor Gov. Sila Calderón of Puerto Rico at a reception this Friday (Oct. 17). Calderón will receive the Harvard Foundation Medal at a reception for students and faculty in Leverett House at noon, and will deliver a public address titled Value-Based Democracy: A Puerto Rican Case Study in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at 4 p.m.
In July 2000, when the Right Rev. Vashti McKenzie was elected the first female bishop in the 213-year history of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, her reaction made national headlines. The stained-glass ceiling has been pierced and broken, she said after the bishops and elders of her church had placed their hands on her head in blessing. And indeed, her election to serve the 18th Episcopal District of the AME Church, which includes the four sub-Saharan African countries of Lesotho, Botswana, Mozambique, and Swaziland, was hailed as a symbol of hope and change for the oldest and one of the largest historically black denominations.
With a title like The Pursuits of Happiness, its no wonder that philosopher and ethicist Sissela Bok packed Science Center C Tuesday night (Oct. 14) for her Lowell Lecture sponsored by the Harvard Extension School: Is there any pursuit more elemental to our existence?
Three Harvard faculty members are among this years 24 MacArthur Fellows, which the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced Sunday (Oct. 5). Each is a recipient of the fellowships $500,000 no strings attached grant.
The Cambridge Housing Assistance Fund (CHAF) generated more than $150,000 at its fifth annual Benefit Concert held at Sanders Theatre last Friday night (Oct. 3). The funds are earmarked to help homeless Cambridge residents transition into affordable housing.
A memorial service for Nancy Millette Mosher will be held Oct. 10 at 2 p.m. in the Memorial Church. A long-time associate of the University, Mosher taught in the Institute for Learning in Retirement.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 4. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
HBS Press, RHK form venture Harvard Business School Press (HBS Press) and Random House Kodansha (RHK) recently announced that they will form a partnership to co-publish a select number of…
In his long lifetime, Brad Washburn 35 has ascended heights most of us dont even dream of. Since scaling Europes highest peaks at age 16, hes mapped the now-standard route up Alaskas Mt. McKinley, created definitive maps of that mountain plus Mt. Everest, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and, in a reverse of altitude, the Grand Canyon. A pioneer of aerial photography, he made the first photographic flight of McKinley in 1936.
The Memorial Church will host one of Americas most popular Buddhist teachers, Sharon Salzberg, for a two-day meditation workshop. Salzberg will present Meditation in the Memorial Church on Oct. 24, from 7 to 10 p.m., and Oct. 25, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Praised by the Dalai Lama as a psychologically skillful accessible teacher, with wisdom and wit, Salzberg will speak about faith and teach meditation practices.
Provost Steven E. Hyman announced the appointment today of Thomas W. Lentz as Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, effective Nov. 15. Lentz is currently director of international art museums at the Smithsonian Institution.
This fall two exhibitions and a symposium commemorate the 50th anniversary of the appointment of Josep Lluis Sert as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD).
Programs for city children before, during, and after school are the battleground for the nations future, and the quality of those programs will determine what kind of country we will be, Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers said Friday (Oct. 3).
Docents sought for Semitic Museum The Semitic Museum at Harvard University is looking for volunteers to guide tours for the upcoming exhibit “The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine,”…
John Dunlop, a distinguished Harvard scholar and administrator who played significant roles as a labor negotiator and government official, died Thursday morning (Oct. 2) at Brigham and Womens Hospital. He was 89.
Hollywood came to Cambridge Monday night (Oct. 6), as the area premiere of the Boston-bred film Mystic River festooned Sanders Theatre with more glitz than is customary on a weeknight in Harvard Square. But at the event, a benefit for the venerable Harvard Film Archive (HFA) on its 25th anniversary, Boston and Cambridge outshone the sequins, security, and even a video greeting by director Clint Eastwood with the films gritty but unflinchingly honest portrayal of the area.
Gender and race shared the stage at a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study conference marking the 60th anniversary of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America Friday (Oct. 2), a nod to the Schlesingers considerable holdings of African-American womens papers. The daylong event, Gender, Race, and Rights in African American Womens History, convened some of the nations most prominent scholars to present their work and discuss the ways that the study of U.S. womens history overall has been shaped by the conjunction of gender and race.
With two such highly explosive football teams, Saturdays (Oct. 4) match-up between Harvard and Northeastern had all the makings of a scoring free-for-all. After all, the cross-town showdown featured two of the nations most offensively potent teams in Division IAA football (lest you forget, the Huskies racked up 72 points in their season opener, while Harvard has tallied not too paltry totals of 52 and 43). But once the rain settled, the scoreboard told a much different story.
Nearly 400 Allston-Brighton residents and their families joined the Harvard Crimson at the 14th annual Allston-Brighton Family Football Day on Saturday (Oct. 4). Sponsored by the Office of Government Affairs and the Department of Athetics, the event offers Allston-Brighton football fans, young and old, complementary tickets and lunch at a football game each season.
The secular and the divine at Harvard, once so intertwined as to be indistinguishable, have drifted apart throughout the Universitys history. It was, in part, concern for things divine that motivated Harvards founders, who anticipated the inevitable demise of the colonys English-educated clergy and dread[ed] to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches.
A new solar power installation on top of Harvard Business Schools Shad Hall has made the School a renewable energy pioneer and, supporters said, provide a concrete case study of the affordability of clean solar energy.
Beatrice Blyth Whiting, a leading anthropologist of childhood and professor emerita of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, died on Sept. 29 of pneumonia at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. She was 89.
People tested by Harvard Psychology Professor Stephen Kosslyn and his colleagues have found it difficult to hold a simple image in their minds for more than 10 seconds. However, Buddhists…
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