Mira Nair 79, internationally acclaimed director of Monsoon Wedding and other feature films and documentaries, will receive the ninth annual Harvard Arts Medal.
Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, who after six years in office oversaw Mexicos first peaceful transfer of power after 71 years of single-party rule, will be Harvards 2003 Commencement speaker at the Afternoon Exercises.
Employment Services, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, is hosting Career Forum 2003 on June 17 at the Graduate School of Designs Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. The event will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. To allow colleagues who are layoff candidates an opportunity to meet directly with many hiring managers, the forum will open one hour early (10 a.m.) to internal candidates only.
More than 200 Cambridge public school students have joined the ranks of Rembrandt, Rubens, Nicolas Poussin, and other artists whose work is on display at Harvards Fogg Museum.
The Boston Globe Spotlight Team, which covered the sexual-abuse scandal in the Catholic Church and made an outstanding effort to examine charges and accusations from all sides and sources, is the winner of the second annual Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. The award, endowed by the former publisher of the Boston Globe and the Taylor family, and administered by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, carries a $10,000 prize.
The best part of Cambridge seventh-grader Vassia Vaneus Friday last week (April 4) was seeing all the animals and birds during a tour of the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Vaneus, who wants to be a doctor or a scientist, said she learned a lot about college Friday.
Three Harvard Library staff members have been named recipients of this years Bryant Fellowship Award. Kathryn Jacob, Michael P. Olson, and Irene Tarsis will be presented with the fellowship at an awards luncheon in May.
Its Friday night, HMV Record Store in Harvard Square. The shock of electric guitar vibrates the CD shelf near a group of spectators who stand in front of a makeshift stage. In the center of that stage, Monique Ortiz is dressed in a black shirt and jeans. She takes the mike into a tight fist and belts out a tune.
Visitors to and employees in Harvards Holyoke Center cant help but notice that the way they access their offices has changed over the past few weeks. The issuing of neck ribbons for Harvard University IDs (HUIDs), the firm but friendly requests by security personnel to see those IDs, and even those mysterious gray boxes are all part of a soft start to security upgrades.
The interests of the developed world are closely associated with the success of the developing world, asserted Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers as this years Edward L. Godkin lecturer. Summers drew a standing-room-only crowd at Mondays forum (April 7), where he delivered an almost-hour-long talk on Globalization and American Interests.
Maria Schweinburg Grossmann, a specialist in 16th century European history who began her career at the Divinity School library in 1956 as a member of the acquisitions staff, died on March 30.
The Kennedy School of Governments (KSGs) Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group (ENRFG) has announced that the Savitz Fellowship has been conferred to Lori Snyder, a Ph.D. student in public policy at KSG. The fellowship, granted to the best paper written by a doctoral student in the area of environmental and resource policy during 2002, is open to doctoral students from throughout Harvard. According to Robert Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at KSG and chair of ENRFG, this years competition featured the best set of submissions yet received.
Since the fall of 2001, Pedro Noguera, who is the Judith K. Dimon Professor in Communities and Schools at the Graduate School of Education, and a team of research assistants…
President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:
Blooming on the banks of the Charles – perhaps in lieu of more seasonal blossoms – are bunches of poems about spring. Leverett House tutors worked along with students to post lyrically laminated signs along the riverbed. While they were at it, they picked up trash, despite Sapphos ancient warning: If you are squeamish,/Dont prod the/beach rubble.
Robert Zinck has nothing against movies that tell stories, movies with characters and dialogue and dramatic arcs and plot points. If people want to make films like that, thats fine with him. But he has other interests.
Thursday, June 5, 2003 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…
A boldly worded title – Do the Right Thing: Why Harvard Supports Affirmative Action and Why Every College Should – left little room for doubt about the positions of the panelists at the Graduate School of Educations (GSE) Askwith Forum Tuesday (April 8). Indeed, it was by explicit design that the panel, co-sponsored by the GSEs office of student affairs, assembled some of the Universitys loudest cheerleaders for affirmative action but none of its critics.
A few years back, an editor from Harvard Magazine called Harvey Mansfield and asked if he would contribute a short quote for a profile of a fellow faculty member. Mansfield replied that the quality that had always impressed him about this colleague was his manliness.
The mystery ailment known as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has the potential to spread rapidly in Bostons unexposed population, but the biggest public health danger now may be fear, experts told U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Friday (April 4) at a briefing at Harvards Countway Medical Library.
Sabrina Peck 84 never thought that the combination of dance theater, public service, and education that seemed so specific to her would appeal to generations of Harvard students. It follows that she never imagined that such a combination could propel her program, CityStep, to the ranks of the campus most popular, enduring civic activities.
For the first time, a total of more than 20,000 students applied for undergraduate admission, making the Class of 2007 the most competitive in Harvards history. The 2,056 admitted students were selected from a pool of 20,986, an admission rate of 9.8 percent. Students were notified by letter and e-mail on Wednesday (April 2).
Harvard has bid $75 million to purchase 91 acres of Massachusetts Turnpike Authority land located south of Cambridge Street in Allston. Harvards bid has been referred to the MTA Board, which will vote to select the highest responsible bidder no later than (Friday) April 4. Harvard sees the purchase as a long-term investment and expects that the lands current uses will continue in the foreseeable future.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Institutes Black Writers Reading series continues online with a new Webcast of Elizabeth Alexander and Suzan-Lori Parks. View the latest entry at http://streams.wgbh.org/forum/forum.php?organization=Harvard+%2F+Du+Bois+Institute. For more information, or to access the latest entry, visit http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~du_bois/.
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