As the first female governor of Massachusetts and the first governor in the United States to give birth while in office, Jane Swift received more than her share of media attention – both positive and negative – for her very public attempt to balance work and family.
Can education help repair the frayed ties between the United States and the Arab world? With a regime toppling in Iraq, a panel of distinguished academics gathered in Harvard Hall last Saturday (April 12) afternoon to speak to the question and offer practical solutions for drawing the United States and the nations of the Middle East closer together through education. The panel, Educations Role in Promoting Understanding, was part of a two-day symposium: Promoting Understanding between the Arab World and the United States. The event was organized and sponsored by the Harvard Arab Alumni Association and the Harvard Society of Arab Students. Each member of the panel gave a short address to the mostly Arab and Arab-American audience that filled the lecture hall, followed by a brief question-and-answer session.
Playing host to a pair of Ivy challengers this past weekend, the Harvard mens tennis team scored two wins with a 6-1 upset of Columbia on April 11, and a 5-2 victory over Cornell on April 12. With the wins, Harvard remains perfect in league play, having downed Dartmouth, 7-0, earlier in the month in the Crimsons league opener. The Harvard racketeers now stand at 7-3 overall (3-0 Ivy).
Harvards second annual Mental Health Awareness Week will run April 21-25. Organized by the undergraduate Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Group, the five-day event will feature talks, student displays, and activities designed to educate the Harvard community on various mental health topics. Following is a schedule of the four main events.
As the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study continues to focus its identity as a center dedicated to advancing knowledge at its outermost limits, it couldnt have picked a better poster girl than novelist Zadie Smith, a Radcliffe Fellow and the final speaker in the Institutes Deans Lecture Series Monday (April 14). Smith, the celebrated young British author of White Teeth and Autograph Man, has stretched her own literary boundaries this year, spending her time at Radcliffe working not on fiction but on a collection of essays about the morality of the novel.
Kevin C. Wang of Harvard Medical School was one of 16 graduate students from North America and Europe selected to receive the 2003 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which is sponsored by the Basic Sciences Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
When Lance Wyatt strayed from his career path as a surgeon to spend a year in the White House, many of his colleagues and mentors in the medical field looked at him with curiosity and skepticism.
In a conference room in Lamont Library, Dave Winer is evangelizing, doing his best to convert to his cause the Universitys far-flung Webmasters whove come to this monthly meeting of the Harvards ABCD committee. Earlier in the week, the Kennedy School of Governments Institute of Politics was his pulpit, and a few hours after his ABCD sermon, hell reel in a few more believers at the Law School. Hes a preacher with a projection screen, and, in his jeans and sneakers looking more like a software developer than a gospel-sayer.
Four activists who helped the poorest citizens of Africa, India, and other developing regions gain empowerment and self-sufficiency were given the 2003 International Activist Award Monday (April 14) at Harvards John F. Kennedy School of Government.
After eight months of intensive review, the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard (CASAH), chaired by Professor of International Health and Assistant Professor of Medicine Jennifer Leaning, has released its report containing recommendations to strengthen the Colleges educational and support services related to sexual violence on campus. The report will now undergo a period of public commentary and Faculty review.
Comedian Will Ferrell, a seven-season veteran of Saturday Night Live, is the 2003 Class Day speaker, announced the Harvard College Class of 2003 Senior Class Committee and the Harvard Alumni Association on Tuesday (April 15). Ferrell was selected after months of secret negotiations.
Was it a dream? For two days this week spring dropped in for a short visit, and trailed in its wake the usual attendants – flower-strewing fairies, sleeping students, sunbathers on the Memorial Church steps, and barefooted rhinos. Then, just as suddenly, spring sprung a leak, leaving us once again overcoated, frowning, yet eternally hopeful.
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 on Commencement Morning: Degree…
At its 14th meeting of the year the Faculty Council continued its review of a draft of the Report of the Committee to Address Sexual Assault of Harvard. Professor Jennifer Leaning (Medical School and School of Public Health), and other members of the committee, as well as Robert Iuliano, acting general counsel and David Fithian, assistant dean of Harvard College and secretary to the Administrative Board, were present for this conversation.
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:
Geoffrey Nyarota knew something was wrong last December when an acquaintance called to tell him the government-owned radio was reporting that he had been dismissed as editor-in-chief of the Daily News, Zimbabwes largest independent newspaper.
A small serological study that is published in the April 14 issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology shows, for the first time, that the bacterial pathogen Chlamydia pneumoniae (C. pneumoniae), a common bacteria that can cause respiratory infections, is associated with age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in the United States.
The Harvard Undergraduate Council (UC) and President Lawrence H. Summers have announced that they will co-host Springfest 2003 on Sunday (April 27) from noon to 4 p.m. in the area of the MAC Quad.
Stuart Eizenstat calls it the greatest robbery in world history – the Nazis theft of money, valuables, artworks, and property from Jews, Catholics, and others during World War II.
Author and naturalist Peter Matthiessen described a life seeking the mystery within nature Sunday (April 13). He told of traveling to the Icelandic coast where the last great auk died, chasing great white sharks in the southern ocean, and traversing todays environmental battleground in Alaskas oil fields.
Twelve Harvard-related students are among the 30 recipients for the 2003 Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship. Fellows receive up to a $20,000 stipend plus half-tuition for up to two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States.
Jack was a thief and Little Red Riding Hood a seductress. Kids adore ogres and beheadings as much as princesses and obedient little children. The moral to the story might…
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…
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