Last year, fewer than 6,200 people in the United States donated organs though more than 80,000 waited for organ transplantations. Each day, an average of 17 people die while waiting for a transplant.
Bonnie Solomon, a photographer who worked at Harvard for more than four decades making slides of artworks for students and professors, died at her home in Cambridge Sept. 8 after a brief struggle with cancer. She was 72.
Eighteen new fellows and senior fellows have joined the Center for Business and Government (CBG) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). CBG fellows are selected as a result of their demonstrated leadership in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, or because of their scholarship concerning the interface of business and government.
The Office for the Arts (OFA) is now accepting spring project grant applications through Oct. 8. Grants are available to Harvard undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff for original work, or work showing an original, creative approach to artistic traditions. Apply online at www.fas.harvard.edu/~ofa. For more information, contact Stephanie Troisi, program associate, at troisi@fas.harvard.edu.
A sudden downpour, a flash flood, and a Yard full of freshmen conspired to bring shy, disconnected students together better than any orientation session could. On the afternoon of Sept. 23, the skies above Cambridge opened up, and in a few minutes created a mud puddle that could call out the inner child in an octagenarian. Harvard first-years tumbled into the mood and the puddle without a moments hesitation, spraying the afternoon with splash fights, football games, and spontaneous mud wrestling. By the time it was over, the bonding and the laundering had begun.
Kevin Kit Parker’s 9 mm pistol lay on the table next to the laptop as he typed. He was stripped to the waist in the 130-degree heat, sweating and writing while he waited for a flight home from Afghanistan.
Harvard alum C. Weldon Jones, a former teaching fellow in biology (1976-1980) and a visiting scholar (1988-89) at the University, passed away on Sept. 21. He was 50.
A high-level group of academic leaders and policy-makers from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh met with U.S. academics at Harvard recently for a conference delving into South Asias most intractable problems. The conference kicked off a new initiative to expand South Asian studies, as Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean William C. Kirby re-evaluates the undergraduate curriculum and works in concert with President Lawrence H. Summers to enhance global studies.
Law School Professor Mary Ann Glendon, an expert on family and human rights law, was one of four winners of the first Bradley Prize, a new $250,000 award given for achievements that promote liberal democracy, democratic capitalism and the vigorous defense of American institutions.
Eleven scientists from The Forsyth Institute who volunteered their time to mentor students from the Boston Public Schools (BPS) all summer saw the fruits of their work early last month (Sept. 10). Thats when the students, many of whom have won city, state, and international science fair competitions, gave formal presentations to an audience of scientists and invited guests. The Forsyth Institute is affiliated with both the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the Medical School.
Neighbors from near and far enjoyed Harvards six museums for free Sunday (Sept. 28) during the Universitys first-ever Museums Community Day. The Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler art museums and the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and Semitic Museum welcomed over a thousand new friends and old with special events and free three-month memberships.
The 2004 presidential contest is heating up, with recent polls showing President Bush increasingly vulnerable, but with a Democratic presidential field so far lacking a strong enough candidate to boot him from the job, ABC News political director told a Kennedy School audience last week (Sept. 25).
Harvards Program on U.S.-Japan Relations has recently selected 16 fellows for the 2003-04 academic year. Founded in 1980, the program enables outstanding scholars and practitioners to come together to conduct independent research and participate in an ongoing dialogue with other members of the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.
Harvard University is one of the nations 100 best places to work if youre a mom, Working Mother magazine announced Sept. 23 in its annual 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers issue. It is the only university on the 2003 list and just the third university honored in the 18-year history of the 100 Best Companies list.
Sept. 25, 2003 For decades, disparities among the calendars of Harvard’s faculties and Schools have made it more difficult than it should be for students in one School to cross-register…
Sept. 1, 1922 – The Divinity School and the Andover Theological Seminary formally begin a closer affiliation under a new agreement approved in the spring. Sept. 28, 1925 – In…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Sept. 20. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
In a national landscape of increasingly sparse clubs, leagues, and societies, Americans are still coming together, fighting for a cause, a job, or an education through hands-on, face-to-face organizations that are hopeful exmples that, if followed, could help reweave the fabric of American society.
The title of the Institute of Politics Sept. 23 forum discussion Will the Korean Nuclear Crisis Lead to War? promised to throw light on a subject that has kept much of the world in a state of anxiety ever since it was revealed in October 2002 that North Korea had resumed its nuclear weapons program in violation of a 1994 agreement.
Given the precarious state of the mens soccer teams net-minding these days – what with all three of Harvards goalies nursing (and playing through) injuries – the 2-2 double-overtime draw against visiting Fairfield (2-2-2) on Sept. 17 starts to feel like not such a bad thing. Factor in the sheer duration (110 minutes) and physical nature of the game, and the tie feels downright victorious.
After orchestrating Harvards impressive 43-23 season-opening victory over Holy Cross this past weekend, Crimson quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick 05 has been named the Ivy Leagues first offensive player of the week. Fitzpatrick set a single-game school record for total offense with a 471-yard performance, completing 20 of 27 passes for 359 yards, while rushing for 112 yards.
Lord Robert May, current president of the venerable British scientific institution the Royal Society will be speaking at the Science Center on Oct. 6 at 4 p.m.
The Medical School (HMS) made a significant commitment to the emerging field of systems biology in the creation of the Department of Systems Biology (DSB), one of the first department-level systems biology programs in the nation. The announcement was made Sept. 23.
Thomas M. Reardon, a driving force behind Harvards last two major fundraising campaigns, has announced his plans to step down this fall as the Universitys vice president for alumni affairs and development, while remaining active in fundraising matters as senior adviser for University development.
When Theodore Roosevelt left the presidency in 1909, he went on safari to British East Africa, toting gear, provisions, and a 60-pound aluminum carrying case full of his favorite books. The new exhibition in the Theodore Roosevelt Gallery, Pusey Library – Roosevelt Reading: The Pigskin Library – highlights this famed literary collection.
Nano-seminars, Murphys sons law, an opera about a scientist who falls in love with an oxygen atom, and the ever-popular Win-a-Date-With-a-Nobel-Laureate Contest, will take center stage at Sanders Theatre Oct. 2 during the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.
D. Ronald Daniel, M.B.A. 54, the Universitys treasurer and currently the longest-serving member of the Harvard Corporation, intends to conclude his service in those roles at the end of the 2003-04 academic year.
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