Ernest Dudley Chase enjoyed making pictorial maps it was his hobby. A hobby that spanned over three decades, became a small business, produced more than 50 unique, artlike maps, and is now on display at the Harvard Map Collection. The new exhibit, Greetings From Winchester: The Pictorial Maps of Ernest Dudley Chase, explores the creative, humorous, and intensely detailed works that Chase created in the last three decades of his life. Chases maps range from his allegorical rendition of Loveland to his whimsical United States as Viewed by California, from his battle maps of World War II to Peace Map of the World United.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a former Harvard professor of government and a lifelong public servant, died March 26 at age 76. News reports said he developed an infection after undergoing an appendectomy on March 11. Moynihan died in Washington, the city in which he served four terms as a U.S. senator.
Harry R. Lewis, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, will conclude his service as dean of Harvard College on June 30. Lewis has served in this position since July 1995. He will remain as a member of the Faculty with the additional title of Harvard College Professor, an honor given to the most dedicated teachers on the Faculty.
At its 12th meeting of the year, Dean William C. Kirby discussed with the Faculty Council the preparations that have been made, or are under consideration, in the Faculty in response to the situation in the Middle East. The assistant dean of the Faculty for Physical Resources, Michael Lichten, and the special assistant to the dean of Undergraduate Education, Elizabeth Doherty, were present for this conversation.
March 13, 1943 – Harvard’s undergraduate foreign-language requirement expands. Students could previously fulfill the requirement only by demonstrating a reading knowledge of French or German (with knowledge of both recommended).…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 15. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Harvard graduate students Gilles Serra (left) and Yuuko Uchikoshi watch as Kevin Carr, a housing coordinator in the Cronkhite Center, runs on a treadmill as part of a relay marathon to benefit the family of the late Scott Sandberg. Sandberg, a building services coordinator at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, died Nov. 29, 2002, in an avalanche in Mount Washingtons Tuckerman Ravine. Members of the Cronkhite and Radcliffe community raised money during an all-night marathon on the treadmill March 13 and 14.
Most people think of genes as molecules that make you more or less fit for survival. In healthy people, genomes are seen as well-functioning machines where all the parts work together for a common good.
A $1 million gift from Merck Research Laboratories to Harvard Universitys Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) will create three new opportunities for research, fellowships, and summer school genomics education. The gift will be distributed over five years to fund three separate departmental and interdepartmental programs.
For the 2003-2004 academic year, Harvards package of undergraduate tuition, room, board, and student fees will increase by 5.5 percent, to $37,928. Costs include: tuition, $26,066 room rate, $4,706 board, $4,162 health services fee, $1,142 and student services fee, $1,852.
This is Mary Dyers last day on Earth. Next morning, she will be hanged from the great elm on Boston Common for the crime of being a Quaker. She does not fear death. In fact, this is the third time she has returned to Boston from the more tolerant colony of Rhode Island for the express purpose of testing the Puritan authorities law against heresy. The first two times she was granted a reprieve. This time the authorities have been less lenient.
Adults over age 65 who consume between one and six alcoholic beverages each week have a lower risk of dementia than either nondrinkers or heavier drinkers, according to findings that appear in the March 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
President Lawrence H. Summers and Peter G. Rowe, dean of the Faculty of Design, are pleased to announce that the President and Fellows of Harvard College have established the Gerald M. McCue Professorship of Architecture in the Faculty of Design. The chair has been endowed by a generous gift from Frank Stanton to advance design education at Harvard and to honor Gerald McCue, the John D. Dunlop Professor Emeritus and former dean of the Faculty of Design for his distinguished contributions to education and professional practice.
Revelations about Irans nuclear power program have added to the Bush administrations foreign policy headaches, but Harvard experts said Wednesday (March 12) that the solution lies in pragmatic, not ideological, dealings with Iran.
A new study, prepared by two Harvard University professors, indicates public support for racial profile screening of airline passengers to reduce the risks of terrorism if such screening reduces significant flight delays passengers would otherwise experience.
Calling himself a traitor to Frances peaceful position on Iraq, yet not on board for Americas looming war, Doctors Without Borders founder Bernard Kouchner said it is the Iraqi people – machine-gunned, gassed, and murdered by the hundreds of thousands – who are forgotten in the debate.
Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966) was perhaps the most influential theatrical designer in the first decades of the 20th century, and was known for using nonrealistic, symbolist design rather than sentimentality in his creations. A master at the art of woodcut engravings, a publisher, editor, book illustrator, and essayist, Craigs passions covered many art forms, but all were driven by his devotion to the theater and his conviction that he alone envisioned the grand design that would renew the life of the theater. A new exhibition, Edward Gordon Craig and the Art of the Theatre, explores Craigs life and work and is on display at the Harvard Theatre Collection, Pusey Library, through May 30.
The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the fourth funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. The fund is made possible through the generous support of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. A KSG faculty committee will consider applications for small one-year grants (up to $30,000) to support advanced research by University faculty members on issues of critical importance to Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. Grants can be applied toward research assistance, travel, summer salary, and course buyout.
The Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government has announced the availability of one doctoral fellowship for the 2003-04 academic year. The fellowship, open to any student in good standing in a Harvard doctoral or advanced- degree program, is designed to provide the successful applicant the opportunity to complete and/or make significant progress toward the completion of his or her dissertation. Generally, the recipient will have advanced to doctoral candidacy. Applicants who have not yet advanced to candidacy, however, may be considered. The application deadline is April 4.
Harvard&s Pluralism Project invites students in the comparative study of religion, anthropology, sociology, history, government, and other academic fields to participate in research on the changing contours of American religious life. Undergraduates and graduate students with academic backgrounds in the Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jain, or Sikh traditions and/or in other relevant academic fields are encouraged to consider research work on this project.
The Institute for Government Innovation at Harvards Kennedy School of Government has announced that 15 groundbreaking initiatives have been named finalists for the Innovations in American Government Award. Each of the 15 finalists, eligible to win $100,000, will receive a $10,000 grant to support replication activities.
A cost-savings and efficiency initiative begun by President Lawrence H. Summers has begun to bear fruit in the first University-wide preferred provider program, which would save a projected $2 million to $3 million annually.
Elegant facts await me. Small things in this world are mine, recited Elizabeth Alexander as she spoke her poem about the Venus Hottentot. If language is a currency that grants acquisition, then Alexander and her fellow reader, Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks, have joint ownership of small things and large insights.
Due to an increase in homeland security alert status, which was recently raised to code orange, or high, because of the heightened probability of war in Iraq, Harvard has increased visible security on campus and urges faculty and students to check travel advisories, especially students who plan to travel over spring break and particularly those who plan to travel outside the United States.
DePinho selected AACR award recipient The American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) has named Professor of Medicine and Genetics Ronald A. DePinho as the recipient of its 43rd annual AACR-G.H.A.…
Online Du Bois series adds Dove, Wideman The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute’s Black Writers Reading series continues online with a new Webcast of Rita Dove and John Wideman. View the…
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