Sylvia Mathews Burwell ’87, former president of American University and former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has been elected president of the Harvard University Board…
The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations will host two veterans of World War II, one black and one white, as honorary guests on Oct. 16. The remarkable story of these two men – both former U.S. Army Air-Corps pilots – has recently come to light through reports from NBC News and the History Channel. Airman Herbert M. Heilbrun of Cincinnati flew numerous bombing missions over Nazi Germany during the war in an American B-17 bomber. As other American bomber groups incurred many losses, Heilbruns group all made it home safely.
Harvard University has been awarded a $10 million Center of Excellence grant to establish the Harvard Center for Chemical Methodologies and Library Development (HCMLD). The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the grant.
Science let its hair down in Harvards Sanders Theatre Thursday night (Oct. 2), laughing at its own foibles as it skewered dubious but real scientific achievements through the awarding of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes.
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.
The largest building ever built by Harvard was dedicated Sept. 24. University President Lawrence H. Summers and Joseph Martin, dean of the Medical School, cut a crimson ribbon at the entrance of the 525,000-square-foot New Research Building at 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur in Boston.
In the Ukrainian Film Collection article that appeared on page 20 of the Sept. 25 Gazette, an incorrect byline was attached to the story. The article should have been attributed to Yuri Shevchuk. The Gazette regrets the error.
At the Faculty Councils second meeting of the year President Lawrence H. Summers discussed opportunities for the University presented by the recently acquired property in Allston. Sally Zeckhauser, vice president for administration, was also present for this discussion. Prior to this conversation the council heard a report from Nancy Maull, executive dean of the faculty, and David Zewinski, associate dean for physical resources and planning in the faculty, on current and anticipated FAS construction projects in Cambridge, and a more general discussion of space planning from Dean William Kirby (history and FAS).
Ford service set A memorial service for Franklin Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Emeritus, will be held Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. at the Memorial Church. Mosher…
Sept. 8, 1836 – Some 1,100 to 1,300 alumni flock to Harvard’s Bicentennial, at which a professional choir premieres “Fair Harvard.” The oldest living alumnus – 96-year-old Judge Paine Wingate,…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Sept. 27. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Harvard University Office of the President Massachusetts Hall October 1, 2003 Re: Search for Harvard’s Next Treasurer: Request for Advice Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Ron Daniel recently announced…
Seniors named CSWR fellowship recipients Harvard seniors Hendrik Jan Slettenhaar and Melissa Borja have been selected to participate in the undergraduate thesis fellowship at the Center for the Study of…
For sculptor Weronika Zaluska, art is a collaborative process. She doesnt create work with other artists, but rather thinks of her large ceramic sculptures as her partners.
Sackler Saturday volunteers needed Harvard University Art Museums needs volunteers to help out with this year’s Sackler Saturday installments. The program, which kicks off Oct. 18 with an archaeological dig…
Following the Harvard football teams 52-14 thumping of Brown this past Saturday (Sept. 26), you couldnt help but feel bad for the Crimson cheerleaders. What with junior quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and his cohorts generally going ballistic, marching and catching for 546 total yards, it seemed as if Harvards spirit squad spent their entire afternoon doing push-ups. A cumulative total of 240 to be exact, one for each point every time Harvard scored.
Doctors are writing fewer prescriptions for antibiotics, heeding warnings that overuse of the drugs could lead to widespread resistance to these medications. This is particularly true for most infections of the ear, throat, and sinuses in children and adolescents.
On April 9, 2003, when U.S. Marines helped an Iraqi mob pull down a 40-foot bronze statue of Saddam Hussein outside the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Anne Garrels was there. But her reporting of the event differed from the TV coverage that most of the American networks carried.
After turning Harvard green for three years, the Harvard Green Campus Initiative is sharing the lessons it learned, reaching out through an Extension School course to students as far away as Australia and Iraq.
Louis DeFeo, manager of the scientific instrument shop at the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is reflected in a glass facade of the Maxwell Dworkin building on campus.
Larry Kramer, writer and AIDS activist, doesnt believe leadership can be taught. We really made it up every day as we went along, he said of his years with ACT UP, the international AIDS advocacy and protest organization he founded. If I were to teach anything here it would be how to confront the system, not work within it. Hit it over the head with a bat and take no prisoners.
This fall the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) will return with a third year of the successful Sackler Saturdays program. Families with children ages 6 to 11 are invited to explore artworks from ancient cultures and distant lands such as China, Japan, Korea, India, Greece, and Rome. The program, which is free and open to the public, takes place in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The first event – A Big Dig: Finding Out About Buried Treasures in the Sackler Museum – will be held Oct. 18.
The Harvard Theatre Collections exhibition The Kings Theatre: Ballet and Italian Opera in London, 1706-1883, tells the stories behind the performances, and performers, of the Kings Theatre in London. Librettos, printed scores, manuscripts, playbills, and etchings illustrate how the theaters ballets and operas influenced the cultural life of the city and affected music publishing in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Office for the Arts (OFA) has announced that more than 700 students will participate in over 20 projects in dance, music, theater, and multidisciplinary genres at the University this fall. Sponsored in part through funding from OFA, the grants aim to foster creative and innovative artistic initiatives among Harvard undergraduates.
For generations, literature has been pressed into the service of teaching values. Whether the overtly religious themes of the Bible, Dick and Janes two-parent suburban values, or the moral exhortations of William Bennetts The Book of Virtues, lessons often prove loftier than simply vocabulary and grammar.
Lawrence D. Bobo, acting director of Harvards W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, has announced the appointment of 14 new fellows for the 2003-04 academic year.
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.
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