Ninety-six Prescott, a house that has lodged Cambridge students for 115 years, turned the corner this weekend to assume a new location at 18 Sumner Road as a hundred neighbors, Harvard students, faculty, and staff, and city officials looked on.
Pierre Boulez, one of the great masters of 20th century music, was at Harvard last Friday (May 9), regaling an overflow crowd at the Center for European Studies with fascinating glimpses into his career as a composer and conductor.
Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers presided over the 20th anniversary of The Stride Rite Community Service Program Thursday evening (May 8), presenting three seniors with $25,000 postgraduate fellowships to fund yearlong service projects that will ideally launch lifetime dedication to public service.
Early last week (May 6), a new generation of scientists from Cambridge public schools – more than 250 of them – descended on the Yard to take part in this years annual Science Day, a daylong exploration of the human body sponsored by Harvard ExperiMentors, a Phillips Brooks House Association service program. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, ExperiMentors is a yearlong program that sends about 50 Harvard volunteers to teach weekly hands-on science lessons in classrooms throughout Cambridge.
Marie McBrown was invited to test whether or not hypnosis would help heal the scars from her breast surgery. Marie (not her real name) and 17 other women underwent surgery to reduce their breast size.
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced the recipients of the 2003 Harvard Medal: Robert J. Glaser S.B. 40, M.D. 43, L. Fred Jewett A.B. 57, M.B.A. 60, and Franklin D. Raines A.B. 71, J.D. 76. First given in 1981, the Harvard Medal recognizes extraordinary service to the University. President Lawrence H. Summers will present the medals during the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on the afternoon of Commencement, June 5.
In a spectacular and indisputably arty kickoff to Arts First, Manuela Zoninsein 05 processes very slowly through Harvard Yard as choreographed by Ryuji Yamaguchi 03. More photos, page 32.
Richard H. Meadow, director of the Zooarchaeology Lab at the Peabody Museum, was incorrectly identified in a caption on page 13 of the May 1 Gazette. The Gazette regrets the error.
May 3, 1943 – The Harvard Corporation hosts an informal dinner for the heads of Cambridge government in the Eliot House rooms of the Society of Fellows. The results are so successful that it is unanimously voted to make it an annual event.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 3. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
A memorial service for Annemarie Schimmel, professor of Indo-Muslim culture emerita, will be held May 23 at 2:30 p.m. at the Memorial Church. The service will be followed by a reception in the Thompson Room of the Barker Center. All members of the Harvard community are invited to attend.
Rich with nearly a century of collected wisdom on art, activism, and finding a purpose in life, the talk by dance legend and anthropologist Katherine Dunham at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Wednesday night (April 30) felt more like a cozy chat with Grandma than a formal academic lecture.
Daniels named director of international student programs Helaine Daniels, formerly of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Oxfam, Mobil Oil Africa, and the Boston Globe, has been named director…
It was the beat that lured Allison Stamiris in from the street: the hypnotic, propulsive drumbeat emanating from the second story of The Dance Complex in Central Square.
At its May 6 Faculty Meeting, members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) discussed recommendations made by the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard (CASAH) for improving educational and support services related to sexual violence. Faculty members consistently praised the rigor and care of the committees report and further discussed the importance of alcohol education, communal responsibility for a campus culture intolerant of sexual violence, the effectiveness of the College disciplinary process, and gender roles.
Harvard soccer players Katie Hodel 04 (left to right), Emily Colvin 05, Liza Barber 05, Julia James 06, and Katie Shields 06 dodge a slew of balls delivered by a group of middle-school girls who visited the campus this past Friday (May 2) as part of the City Kicks program. Over 40 young women from Dorchester participated in the afternoon clinic, which included drills, soccer tips, and the chance to hang with some cool Harvard student-athletes. City Kicks is a nonprofit organization that provides after-school soccer activities for public school girls in Greater Boston.
With their backs against the wall, the Harvard baseball team came out swinging against Dartmouth this past Sunday (May 4) at ODonnell Field. Nineteen hits later, the Crimson had defeated a dangerous Big Green team, 5-3 and 14-10, to clinch its second-straight Red Rolfe Division title. The previous afternoon in Hanover, Harvard dropped a key doubleheader, 2-1 and 18-5, setting up Sundays must-win scenario in the hunt for the division title.
Title IX discussion at HBS The Department of Athletics will hold the final installment of its four-part discussion series celebrating the sesquicentennial anniversary of intercollegiate athletics on Friday (May 9).…
The American Philosophical Society (APS) – the countrys oldest learned society – has elected seven Harvard faculty members among its most recent class of inductees.
Joseph S. Nye Jr., dean of the Kennedy School of Government, and Director-General C.K. Liu of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston, representing the government of the Republic of China on Taiwan, signed a memorandum of understanding in Cambridge on April 29 to affirm their intention to develop and conduct an executive training program for senior officials of the Republic of China government who are involved in Taiwans participation in the World Trade Organization (WTO).
A standing-room-only crowd of graduates, professors, and students packed Ames Courtroom last Saturday (May 3) to listen to their distinguished colleagues discuss the experience of women at Harvard Law School (HLS) over the past five decades. The gathering was part of Celebration 50, the Law Schools commemoration of the 50th anniversary of its first female graduates.
Indian film director Mira Nair 79 spoke Saturday (May 3) in Sanders Theatre, discussing her early struggles as a documentary filmmaker, the making of her acclaimed fiction films, her efforts to help Indian street children, and her artistic philosophy.
The outcome of efforts to both reconstruct Iraq and to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will influence the level of worldwide terrorist activity in the years to come, the German ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday (May 7).
Emotions ran high in Divinity Hall as activists on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict gathered together for an attempt at Dialogue in the Midst of Conflict. The civil but often tense panel discussion – part of the Women, Religion and Social Change II conference sponsored by the Pluralism Project at Harvard University – was moderated by Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah, herself a Palestinian, a certified mediator, and a doctoral candidate at George Mason Universitys Institute for Conflict Resolution. Jadallah invited panelists and audience members to consider other points of view, find common ground, and seek mutual understanding. She sought to ease anxieties and cool tempers by pronouncing the event a safe place.
The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations honored 40 students and three house masters at its annual awards dinner on April 29 at Quincy House. Dean of Harvard College and Quincy House Associate Harry R. Lewis, who delivered the keynote speech, received a surprise award from President Lawrence H. Summers, and the students and faculty of the Harvard Foundation, for his generous support of the foundation’s work.
In conjunction with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTWs) recent online housing survey, an open house will be held May 17 for members of the Harvard community to learn about affordable housing. The event, which will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Middle East Restaurant in Central Square, marks the unions first housing-related open house and coincides with HUCTWs 15th anniversary.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) elected 72 new members last month, including Harvard faculty members J. Woodland Hastings, Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences, and Diane J. Mathis, professor of medicine, Joslin Diabetes Center. Members are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Cutting back dramatically on calories leads to a longer life, at least for species ranging from yeast to rats. But whether not eating the pudding gives the same advantage to humans has yet to be proven.
Andrew Murray stands before his audience on April 30, a pingpong ball in hand. Not to play in a tournament, but to illuminate a point. The professor of molecular and cellular biology is giving a talk in the Science Center about cells and their chromosomes.
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