Like other employers across the country, Harvard is adjusting to the prospect that members of its faculty and staff who are reservists or members of the National Guard may be called to active duty. To provide Harvard employees with additional protection from financial loss if they are activated, President Lawrence H. Summers has announced that Harvard will continue to pay those employees the difference between their military pay and their Harvard salary for the full length of their activation.
Taking aim at a phenomenon he has termed patriotism lite, Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) told an audience at the Kennedy School Forum on Monday night (Feb. 10) that Americans must think seriously about who will be doing the fighting and who will be doing the dying if the United States goes to war in Iraq. I dont think we want to believe that this is the kind of country where we take those who need the money to fight the wars, and others dont have any sacrifices to make, he said.
Authors Jamaica Kincaid and Andrea Lee 81 kicked the W.E.B. Du Bois Institutes Black Writers Reading series off to a rousing start Wednesday evening (Feb. 5), bringing a standing-room-only crowd to the Barker Centers Thompson Room. The women, who were contemporaries on The New Yorker staff and who both have daughters entering Harvards class of 2007, read from their very different styles of fiction.
Stauffer wins Lincoln Prize John Stauffer, associate professor of English and American civilization, was named a winner of Gettysburg College’s 13th annual Lincoln and E-Lincoln Prizes, given to the best…
CSWR summer grants available The Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School has announced that it is now accepting applications for its 2003 summer grants, which…
On behalf of Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the School of Dental Medicine, the Joint Committee on the Status of Women seeks nominations for two distinguished awards that support women faculty and staff.
Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow, an exhibit of 26 paintings by the African-American artist, will be on view from Feb. 15 through May 4 at Harvards Sert Gallery in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. From the portraits and cityscapes he did in New Yorks Greenwich Village in the 1940s, to the abstract work that followed his move to Paris in 1953, the exhibit presents the full range of Delaneys art. The first retrospective of his work in 25 years, the exhibit was organized by Atlantas High Museum of Art with support for the national tour provided by MetLife Foundation.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study launched its fifth annual Voices of Public Intellectuals lecture series Thursday night (Feb. 6) with the first of three explorations of women and the law. Linda Kerber, a professor at the University of Iowa and a current Radcliffe Fellow, spoke on the Asymmetry of Citizenship.
The Harvard University Library (HUL) has announced that researchers using HOLLIS – the Harvard Online Library Information System – can now search for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean materials in their original scripts. This new search feature is readily available to users whose desktops have been adapted for CJK scripts. It supplements and does not replace searches using the romanized forms of those three languages known collectively as CJK.
The Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is acquiring the Elizabeth David papers. The foremost British food writer of her day and author of nine definitive books, David, who was born in 1913 and died in 1992, helped reawaken the postwar British palate while educating, through authentic recipes and compelling investigation, a generation of cooks about food and its joys. The collection of Davids correspondence, diaries, travel journals, handwritten recipe files, and photographs – which is coming from Jill Norman, the literary trustee of the David estate and Davids publisher, editor, and close personal friend – is expected to be available later in the year.
An anonymous donor has established a new fellowship fund in the Film Study Center memorializing an artist whom many regard as the worlds greatest practitioner of aerial photography.
Behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the war in Afghanistan, the worldwide manhunt for al Qaeda, and the looming war in Iraq lies a history of terrorism both broader and deeper than one gets from reading the front pages and listening to the news headlines.
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced that the Harvard Vocarium is included in the first annual selection of 50 recordings that will be placed in the National Recording Registry.
Nine new fellows, including two Kennedy School of Government (KSG) alumni and members of the faculty of Tsinghua University in China, will join 23 returning and senior fellows at the Schools Center for Business and Government (CBG) this spring.
You always hear people say, If scientists can send men to the Moon, why cant they find a way for us to eat what we want and not get fat? And why cant they invent a pill that will extend our lives?
Jackie ONeill, who has spent nearly a decade as staff director in Massachusetts Hall, has been appointed director of communications and external relations for the Allston Initiative. She began her duties this week.
Reviewing books can be a thankless task. To do the job conscientiously requires many hours of attentive reading, perhaps additional hours of collateral research if one is not an expert on the subject, followed by an often agonizing session of massaging an unruly cluster of reactions into a cogent, accessible, and impossibly brief piece of writing.
The audience at the Feb. 7 concert by the Boys Choir of Harlem never would have guessed that the performers were all suffering from fatigue if they hadnt been told so by the choirs founder and director, Walter J. Turnbull.
It was a quiet, bright, snow-blanketed Saturday morning (Feb. 8), the kind that keeps most college students snug in warm beds until late. But inside Malkin Athletic Center, some of Harvards women athletes were already working up a sweat while awaiting the arrival of an important team – young girls from Allston-Brighton, East Boston, and Cambridge.
A record 20,918 students have applied for entrance to the Class of 2007 next September. For the 12th time in the past 13 years the number of applications rose. Last year, 19,609 students applied for admission.
The two buildings on either side of Cambridge Street comprising the new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) will not be linked by a tunnel. Despite lengthy negotiations and even a momentary agreement, representatives of Harvard and Mid Cambridge community organizations could not reach a consensus.
At its ninth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council heard a report from Dean Michael Shinagel (Continuing Education and English) on current issues in the Division of Continuing Education, including its evolving distance education program, the residency requirement for its degree programs, and summer study abroad programs. Deans Peter Buck (History of Science) and Henry Leitner (DEAS) of the division were present for this discussion.
Feb. 1, 1838 – An explosion rocks the chapel (now the Faculty Room) of University Hall in the first of several blasts in the building&’s history. Outsiders are deemed the…
Harvard students organized a solemn ceremony of remembrance for astronauts of the space shuttle Columbia on Sunday (Feb. 2). About 60 students attended the ceremony at Harvards Memorial Church, including representatives of more than a dozen student groups.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Jan. 31. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
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:
With subzero temperatures and lingering snow, its hard to imagine surviving winter this year. But take heart. Long before spring arrives, hundreds of yellow bundles will be delivered to Harvards door, boosting spirits – and saving lives as well.
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have published a study that for the first time casts doubt on a widely held belief that larger hospitals that see more patients have better surgical outcomes.
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