When Sara Goldhaber met Jeremy Fiebert during their first year at Harvard, they had no idea that, eight years later, they would be trying to get rural people in Costa Rica to exercise more and eat less sausage and cake.
Inside University Hall recently, five former deans of Harvard College gathered with the present dean and the soon-to-become dean for an informal portrait. In the back (standing left to right) are former Dean John Fox, Dick Gross (presently dean of undergraduate education), and present Dean of Harvard College Harry R. Lewis. Seated left to right are former Harvard College deans Ernest May, Fred Jewett, Charles Whitlock, and Fred Glimp. After the photo op, the men chatted amiably (left).
This year, the Extension Schools Commencement Speaker award will go to Stephen Silver, A.L.M. 03, concentrator in religion. The title of his talk will be Thomas Wolfe Was Right … Half-Right.
The Radcliffe heavyweight crew captured the NCAA championship this past Sunday (June 1) on Eagle Creek Reservoir in Indianapolis. The Black and White clinched the NCAA team title – the teams second since 1972 – by winning the varsity race with a time of 6:26.98, besting Michigan (6:28.58), Stanford (6:29.54), Washington (6:30.07), Virginia (6:31.49), and Southern California (6:38.33).
The Davis Center for Russian Studies has announced the recipients of its fellowships, prizes, dissertation completion grants, and research travel grants for 2003-04.
A.R.T. one of Time’s top five Time magazine has recently named the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) as one of the five best regional theaters in the country. For its focus…
The Humanities Center at Harvard has named teaching fellows Marianne Hopman and Keja Valens recipients of its 2003-04 interdisciplinary dissertation completion fellowships. Hopman (Department of Classics) received the fellowship for The Figure of Scylla in Greek Culture, while Valens (Department of Comparative Literature) was recognized for Between Women: Figurations of Desire in Caribbean Literatures.
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced its student grants and fellowships for the 2003-04 academic year. The center will support the research projects of 36 undergraduate and graduate students with awards that total more than $350,000.
At the ROTC Commissioning Ceremony held Wednesday (June 4) in Tercentenary Theatre, nine Harvard seniors took the oath of office administered by Roger C. Taylor 53, retired Navy officer, currently a writer on nautical subjects.
Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers urged the rushed, overscheduled Class of 2003 to know their priorities, to know that time is precious, and to keep the daily rush of temporarily urgent tasks from crowding out whats truly and enduringly important in life.
Harvard senior Amy Bei became interested in tropical diseases in the summer after high school, when she worked at a lab in San Francisco, near her home in Santa Rosa, Calif.
This is not the Worcester, Mass Boat Show, is it? I am sorry. I have made a terrible mistake. Ever since I left “Saturday Night Live,” I mostly do public…
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.
C. Dixon (Dick) Spangler Jr., M.B.A. 56, has been elected president of the Universitys Board of Overseers for 2003-04. He will succeed Thomas S. Williamson Jr., A.B. 68, following Commencement on June 5.
A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on Thursday (June 5). For the 15th consecutive year, a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvards Commencement Exercises.
May 5, 1969 – The Harvard Corporation approves the creation of a 15-member University Benefits Committee to oversee and develop faculty-staff benefit plans (for pensions, medical insurance, etc.) throughout the institution.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 24. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Based on the latest advice from the World Health Organization (WHO), Harvard University lifted its restriction on travel to Hong Kong, effective May 23. Travelers to Hong Kong are advised to continue to observe precautions to safeguard their health. Travelers from Hong Kong who are visiting Harvard are asked to know the symptoms of SARS by consulting the University Health Service (UHS) Web site (http://www.uhs.harvard.edu/NewsFlash/SARSinfo.htm) and to contact UHS if they experience any of these symptoms, via telephone at (617) 998-HUHS (617) 998-4847 or via e-mail, sars@huhs.harvard.edu.
Hastings elected to NAS In recognition of his distinguished career and continuing achievements in original research, J. Woodland Hastings, Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences, was one of 72…
Gordon Teskey, appointed professor of English and American literature and language in 2002, is putting the finishing touches on a book-length manuscript to be published by Harvard University Press under the title, Delirious Milton: The Poet in the Modern World.
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Brendan P. McGrath Memorial Golf Outing set The third annual Brendan P. McGrath Memorial Golf Outing – named in honor of the assistant director for University and Commercial Real Estate…
A new survey by the Institute of Politics shows that todays college students defy common assumptions about them and are engaged, vote, and are not affiliated with either major political party.
The post-Sept. 11 spike in youth interest in national politics is fading and, though the war on terror rages on, U.S. politicians and community leaders getting back to business as usual are again turning off the generation that will make up Americas future leaders.
Undergraduates interested in Africa will soon be able to take advantage of a new concentration in African studies, thanks to a cooperative arrangement between the Department of Afro-American Studies and the Committee on African Studies.
The Harvard Committee on African Studies has awarded six grants for Harvard undergraduates and doctoral students to travel to Sub-Saharan Africa this summer. The three undergraduates who received grants will be doing research for their senior honors theses. One of these grants is funded by contributions from individual members of the Harvard African Students Alumni Network (HASAN), as part of their continued commitment to African students and African Studies at Harvard.
Thirteen U.S. journalists and 12 international journalists were recently appointed to the 66th class of Nieman Fellows. Established in 1938, the Nieman program is the oldest midcareer fellowship for journalists in the world. Fellowships are awarded for an academic year of study in any part of the university to working journalists of accomplishment and promise. More than 1,000 U.S. and international journalists have studied at Harvard as Nieman Fellows.
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