Guests from the Harvard community mingle among the works on display at the Visual and Environmental Studies Student Holiday Show and Sale during the reception for the artists at the main gallery in the Carpenter Center on Dec. 5. The show runs through Dec. 19. Digest (left) by Yugon Kim, GSD 04, consisting of lightbulbs and tennis balls, is one of several works that are displayed on the floor.
Many people imagine that Buddhist meditation aims at tranquility as an escape from the emotional pangs of everyday life. Not so, says author and teacher Pema Chödrön. My word for the Buddhist path is courage, Ani Pema told an audience of 1,600 in the Memorial Church on Friday evening (Dec. 6). Tranquility is a lucky side effect.
The Harvard University English Department resolved on Nov. 19 to renew its invitation to Tom Paulin to give a poetry reading, under the Morris Gray Lectureship. The faculty members present, constituting nearly the entire department, approved this decision with no opposing votes. There were two abstentions.
At its sixth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed recent free speech issues in the faculty. The dean of the Faculty, Professor William Kirby (history), and the dean of Undergraduate Education, Professor Benedict Gross (mathematics), also updated the council on the Curricular Review. Additionally the dean of the College, Professor Harry Lewis (DEAS), presented to the council a recommendation from the undergraduate Administrative Board that two students be dismissed. Finally, the council voted to endorse the proposed Summer School courses for 2003.
The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations will present a daylong conference on Saturday (Dec. 7) from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Harvard Hall, Room 202, titled Disparities in Minority Healthcare: Reaching Out to the Community. The student-directed conference will address a wide range of health-care issues facing impoverished American communities, including Native American, African American, Hispanic/Latino American, and Asian American, among others.
Dec. 6-7, 1941 – Harvard faculty, government officials, and labor delegates convene at the Business School for a conference on Labor and National Defense. It is believed to be the first meeting of its kind in the nation.
Following are some the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 30. 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:
John Rawls, the James Bryant Conant University Professor Emeritus, whose 1971 book, A Theory of Justice argued persuasively for a society based on equality and individual rights, died Nov. 24 at the age of 81.
He has a room named after him. And a cajun-spiced burger in the cafeteria. But Ronnie Levesque isnt a movie star, a rock singer, or any other kind of celebrity. Hes the superintendent of Quincy House.
Shareholder Responsibility report is now available The 2002 Annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a subcommittee of the president and fellows, is now available upon request…
An explosive third quarter lifted the Harvard football team past Yale on Nov. 23, to hand the Crimson a 20-13 Harvard Stadium victory in the 119th playing of The Game. Facing 35-mph winds, Harvard activated its ground attack in scoring a trio of touchdowns in the third quarter to overwhelm the Elies. Harvard finished its season 7-3, 6-1 Ivy, to claim second place in the league, while Penn snatched the title outright, blanking Cornell, 31-0.
The number of applicants for Early Action admission to Harvard College has risen 24 percent above last years record 6,128 to a total of 7,615. The academic quality of the pool is impressive. For example, 64 percent of the applicants average 1,400 or more on the combined SAT verbal and math test.
Lawrence H. Summers, president of Harvard University, and William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), announced today that W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Skip Gates Jr., will continue as chair of the Afro-American Studies Department and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University.
Members of the Harvard faculty and community, including President Lawrence H. Summers, joined the Harvard Islamic Society Nov. 22 at sunset at the groups Faculty Iftar, or communal breaking of the fast of Ramadan.
Corn, butterflies, and the media were center stage at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Nov. 21 at a conference that examined the medias role in keeping the public informed – or frightened – about the growing presence of biotechnology in food production.
The Jewish Student Association and the Middle East and North Africa Club at the Business School sponsored a Dec. 3 debate called America, Israel, and the Arab World: Can There Be Reconciliation? The event was held at the Spangler Auditorium on the Business School campus. Speaking that evening were writer and talk show host Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (center), Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz (right), and Hasan Abdel Rahman (left), chief Palestinian negotiator in the United States. Hussein Ibish (not pictured), communications director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, also spoke. Associate Professor of Business Administration Michael Watkins moderated the debate, which continued informally after the formal proceedings ended. (Staff photo by Stephanie Mitchell)
An aging global population presents a demographic nightmare that will have fewer working young people supporting larger numbers of retirees, raising the specter of fiscal deficits, economic stagnation, and a decline in the global position of todays Western powers.
In anticipation of World AIDS Day (Dec. 1), AIDS researchers and policy-makers from around Harvard gathered Nov. 25 to present their work and discuss strategies to address the devastating AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Harvard Programs on AIDS in Africa: A University Responds, sponsored by the Harvard AIDS Institute and held at the School of Public Healths Snyder Auditorium, highlighted the significant and specific ways that Harvards resources are being plied to combat AIDS in Botswana, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania.
The Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus (HRC), with its 130-plus members drawn from Harvard students, faculty, staff, and the community at large, is not the Universitys most elite musical ensemble. Founded in 1979 as a training choir for students aiming for some of the more selective choral groups, it continues to serve that purpose while also catering to its many members for whom a lower-key musical experience fits the bill.
Noel Fahey, Irelands ambassador to the United States, visited Harvard Nov. 20 as a guest of the Celtic Department. Fahey, who served formerly as ambassador to Germany, presented his credentials to President Bush in Sept. of this year.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced that Srivatsa Krishna, a masters of business administration degree candidate at Harvard Business School where he is currently on sabbatical, has been selected to the 2003 class of Global Leaders For Tomorrow (GLT). Each year, after an impartial and extensive global consultation and nomination process, WEF selects 100 leaders – from both the corporate and public sectors – who will help shape the future of the world.
How does the sun shine? John Bahcall, visiting professor of astrophysics at Princeton University and Richard Black Professor of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., will explain on Wednesday (Dec. 11) at 4 p.m. His talk is the first in the Super Cluster Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
A computer technology that already shows people what the world looks like has the power to help transform it into a better, more sustainable, and easier-to-manage place, speakers at a symposium on Geographical Information Systems said last month.
Emily Mann, artistic director of the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, N.J., will give a lecture titled Documentary Theater on Monday (Dec. 9) at 4 p.m. This event, the second in the Deans Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, is co-sponsored by the American Repertory Theatre.
Standing in front of the row of homes on Hano Street in Allston where she has lived since 1966, Minnie Walcott paused for a moment as her voice thickened with tears. I raised three daughters here, and now my grandchildren come back to visit me, she told the crowd assembled to celebrate the recent renovation of the affordable rental units. This means a lot to me.
Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have found that children with a family history of asthma or allergies may face significantly higher risk of persistent wheezing and asthma later in childhood when bottle-fed in the bed or crib before sleep time. These findings are published in the Dec. 2 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Harold Howe II, U.S. commissioner of education during the Johnson administration and senior lecturer emeritus at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), died Nov. 29 in Hanover, N.H. He was 84.
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