June 19, 1858 – At the Boston City Regatta, crimson finds its first use as a Harvard color when members of a Harvard boat club seek to distinguish themselves among…
A memorial service for Tony Lee, associate director of financial services, will be held June 27 at Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., from 1 to 4 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology, c/o Michael Rabin, M.D., D1234, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney St., Boston, MA 02115. Lee was 60.
Sailing captures coed championship A day after retaining its team race national championship, Harvard sailing captured the Coed Dinghy North American Championship this past Tuesday (June 10) at Bayview Yacht…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending June 7. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
The Kennedy Schools Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group (ENRFG) has announced that this years Savitz Prize, given to the best paper written by masters students in the area of environmental and resource policy, has been conferred upon Adriana Hochberg and Catherine Rauschuber, master of public policy (M.P.P.) students. Their winning paper examines the use of voluntary programs to improve corporate environmental performance, drawing lessons from eight case studies.
Americas public health system is stronger due to changes initiated after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in a coordinated effort that must be ongoing, former Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Howard Koh told a Kennedy School conference on bioterrorism preparedness Tuesday (June 10).
The president of the Harvard Alumni Association Thursday (June 5) announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the Universitys 352nd Commencement. The six newly elected overseers, in order of their finish, are: Roger W. Ferguson Jr. 20,184 Pauline R. Yu, 18,859 Michael F. Cronin, 16,960 Leah Zell Wanger, 16,663 Joan Argetsinger Steitz, 16,645 Merrick B. Garland, 15,656 and the candidate who received the seventh-highest number of votes, 14,632.
Graham Allison, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), received a special award on June 5 from the president of Kazakhstan in recognition of his work to remove nuclear weapons from Kazakhstan and for his support of KSG students from that country. Ambassador Kanat Saudabayev of Kazakhstan presented the award to Allison, who also chairs the Caspian Studies Program, which supports and assists students and fellows from the Caspian region.
The six newly elected Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) directors, in order of their finish, are: Andrea C. Silbert, 19,649 Marilyn J. Holifield, 17,908 Susan Fales-Hill, 17,183 Alexander L. Aldrich, 17,029 Thomas H. Castro, 16,384 and Alan A. Khazei, 16,059.
Despite the myths, rumors, and apprehension that swirled around the library community in the wake of the USA Patriot Act, the acts impact on Harvards 90-plus libraries has been minimal.
The Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences (CBRSS) has announced that graduate students Nava Ashraf and Nicola Gennaioli, both of the Department of Economics, have been named the centers grant recipients. Given to graduate student associates who expect to complete their dissertation within the upcoming academic year, the award supports up to a year in residence at the University and provides a stipend plus funds to cover facilities fees, individual health insurance, and office and research incidentals. The grant also provides office space and computer facilities for its recipients at the center.
Previously unknown letters written by W.E.B Du Bois (A.B. 1890, A.M. 1891, Ph.D. 1895) – the influential African-American scholar and leader of the early 20th century African-American protest movement – and his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois, an author and teacher, have been jointly acquired by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute and Houghton Library. The letters, written to the leftist writer, teacher, and world traveler Anna Melissa Graves, cover topics ranging from family to politics to sociological issues.
Admission increase at HMNH, Peabody Beginning July 1, the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology will increase the price of admission by…
The Center for International Development (CID) has awarded 25 grants to Harvard undergraduate students to support international development internships and research projects this summer.
Gerard Moufflet (left to right), chair, board of fellows, School of Dental Medicine Michael Ross, Boston City Council Eric Williams of the Boston Celtics Marjorie K. Jeffcoat, dean, UPenn School of Dental Medicine Bruce Donoff, dean, Harvard School of Dental Medicine and President Lawrence H. Summers participate in the groundbreaking at the future site of the new research and education building at the School of Dental Medicine. Research in the state-of-the-art center will focus on bone and joint biology and disease, mucosal biology and disease, biomaterials sciences, and clinical trials.
Harvards Center for Jewish Studies has announced the recipients of the 2003 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.
When Radcliffe Medalist Margaret Atwood A.M. 62 studied at Radcliffe, pantyhose and birth control pills were future innovations and women were famously barred from Lamont Library.
The selection of three graduating students to deliver Commencement orations is one of the oldest customs of Harvards tradition-rich Commencement Ceremonies. Its origins hearken back the medieval university, when students publicly defended their academic work before their tutors.
Nine men and two women will receive honorary degrees in Harvards 352nd Commencement Exercises this morning, including Ernesto Zedillo, who will speak at the Commencement Afternoon Exercises.
The past year at Harvard was a year of accomplishment and discovery, a year of growth and exploration, a year of beginnings and endings. The students of the Class of 2003 went through their senior year rituals. They wrapped up their studies and handed off leadership of organizations, groups, and teams to next years seniors. They sat by the banks of the Charles and wondered what the world will hold for them next.
Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree…
In order to gain admittance to Harvard Yard on Commencement morning, June 5, guests must have Commencement tickets, which they will be required to show at our gates.
June 1890 – Thirty-one-year-old Clement Garnett Morgan, Class of 1890, makes national headlines as the first black person chosen to deliver a Harvard senior class oration. Three years later, Morgan…
The Harvard University Portrait Collection has acquired two new portraits. Portraits of the late Arthur Lehman, A.B. 1894, and Adele Lewisohn Lehman were unveiled at a ceremony on May 15 at Lehman Hall. The portraits were the gift of the Lehmans grandson, Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. 52, M.B.A. 1954. Located in the southwest corner of the Old Yard, Lehman Hall was built in 1924 as an administrative building through the generosity of Arthur Lehman.
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