April 1910 – The Andover-Harvard Theological Library formally comes into existence. Owen S. Gates, former Librarian of the Andover Theological Seminary, becomes the first librarian of the combined collections. April…
Be Bright – Use a Light is the new message that representatives of the Cambridge Bicycle Committee and the Cambridge Police Departments (CPDs) Bike Patrol want to deliver to area cyclists. Since nearly half of all cycling deaths occur at night without lights – even with only 3 percent of bike riding occurring after dark – the two groups are co-sponsoring a focused, weeklong campaign to increase nighttime visibility among bicyclists.
A renowned gathering of women poets, including Pulitzer Prize winners, Emerging Artist honorees, and state poets laureate, will gather on April 12 to celebrate the spoken word and their common bond as fellows-in-residence at Radcliffe.
To the stars through difficulties – the state motto of Kansas – took on some real meaning for the Kansas State womens basketball team this past Friday (March 22) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Up by 19 points in the second half, the No. 3 Wildcats were forced to hold off a defiant Crimson team in the final four minutes, before taking a 79-69 win in front of nearly 11,000 anxious fans in Manhattan, Kan.
This past weeks spring break provided little in the way of rest or relaxation for the Harvard mens and womens hockey teams. In fact, given the Crimsons recent string of heartbreakers in high-stakes tournament play, it seems that both squads – and their fans – have been treated to some rather cruel and unusual punishment instead.
Caroline Elam, currently the Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Studies for the Visual Arts at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., has been named the I Tatti Mongan Prize winner. The I Tatti Mongan Prize is given to a scholar of Italian Renaissance art, French art, drawings, and connoisseurship.
While it may lack the poetry of reading, writing, rithmetic or the hot-button relevance of high-stakes testing and school reform, Scaling Up Success – the subject of a conference March 20 and 21 at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) – is, its organizers say, a central conundrum of contemporary education.
After reviewing applications from around the world, the inaugural 2003 Roy Family Award will be presented to the Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project in Bolivia. The project partners are American Electric Power (AEP), the oil and gas company BP, the Government of Bolivia, Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN), PacifiCorp, and The Nature Conservancy.
Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) has announced the approval of the new rent schedule for approximately 2,500 Harvard-owned apartments rented by graduate students and other University affiliates. The new rents…
At the Graduate School of Educations seventh annual authors party in Gutman Library Monday (March 31), research associate Peter Gibbon (right) browses the 31 books published this year by GSE faculty and staff. Gibbons own A Call to Heroism: Renewing Americas Vision of Greatness joins books by senior lecturer on education Katherine K. Merseth, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education Catherine Snow, former GSE dean Patricia Graham, and former Harvard University President Derek Bok.
At a time when the United States is in the midst of war with a country that has turned out to be more powerful than expected, foreign correspondent Chris Hedges has some words about the power of war itself. The New York Times journalist recently reflected on the destructive aspects of war that he has come to identify from his own very personal experiences.
Hundreds of Harvard students walked out of their classes at 12:30 p.m. March 20 to demonstrate their opposition to the war on Iraq. The rally was part of a nationwide action on college campuses. Gathering at the historic John Harvard Statue and filling the Old Yard back to Massachusetts Hall, students, faculty, staff, and community members heard speeches and chanted, No war on Iraq! Bill of Rights, take it back!
Hendrik S. Houthakker, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics Emeritus, has been selected by Pope John Paul II to be a Knight Commander with Star in the Papal Equestrian Order of Saint Gregory the Great.
This past Saturday (March 29) was a perfect day for Project Outreachs give back to the cities of Boston and Cambridge. Organized by HBS Volunteers, a Business School group, the project reached out to eight different sites in the area where students painted, planted, washed, raked, and mulched through the warm, sprinkly, sunshiney New England day.
On March 20 at approximately 7:45 p.m., a graduate student was the victim of an unarmed robbery on Garden Street near the Cambridge Common. The victim was approached by six youths (five males, one female). He was pushed to the ground where he was punched and kicked by the group. One of the suspects took the victims wallet and removed one credit card. The suspects then fled in the direction of Harvard Square. The victim believes that the group had followed him from the Harvard Square MBTA stop.
At its 13th meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed with Professor Jennifer Leaning (Medical School and School of Public Health), and other members of the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard, a preliminary draft of the recommendations the committee expects to make.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 29. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Top health care executives named fellows at Malcolm Weiner Center Harris A. Berman, CEO of Tufts Health Plan, and David M. Lawrence, who served as chairman of the board and…
U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, a high school dropout who grew up among New Yorks urban poor, used his own rags-to-riches story Monday (March 31) to illustrate that a troubled start to life need not limit ones ambitions.
The room held all the elements of a typical high school biology lab – students perched around lab tables in front of microscopes, teachers circulating, a presentation about what to look for, and chatter as the exercise proceeded. But after the students chopped up lily anthers, stained the slides, and observed, it was clear that they were seeing something special.
On the last day of March, this difficult winter made one of its last gasps, spritzing snow showers over the area. And its not over yet – cold and wet is the forecast for the first week of the so far aptly named cruelest month.
In her last extended visit to Harvard, filmmaker Laurie Kahn-Leavitt chronicled the research of Phillips Professor of Early American History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich by creating a documentary film that brought to life Ulrichs Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwifes Tale.
Nathan Heller, a Harvard College freshman, will investigate the effects of post-Sept. 11 legislation on Harvard University through a fellowship awarded by the Christopher J. Georges Fellowship Fund. Heller covers federal and state legislation as a member of The Harvard Crimson staff.
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have linked elevated blood levels of antibodies that fight Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) antigens with the future development of multiple sclerosis (MS). The findings appear as a Brief Report in the March 26 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
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