The Kennedy School of Governments Forum of Public Affairs at Harvard University will be named in honor of John F. Kennedy Jr., announced Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. The Kennedy School Forum, which will be renovated during the summer of 2003 through a gift from the Institute of Politics (IOP), will be dedicated in the fall of next year.
More than 300 children and their families filled the galleries of the Sackler Museum on a recent Saturday (Nov. 23) to learn about ancient fun and games and entertainment. They listened to the Japanese Tales of Genji told by Cambridge librarian Daryl Mark, knelt on the floor to play the Roman game of Knucklebones, watched 8- and 9-year-old Indian dancers gracefully perform a dance about an Indian drum called dholak, and constructed ancient Egyptian rattles called sistrums from a variety of materials – including coat hangers, washers, pipe cleaners, and tabs from soda cans.
I underwent radiation treatment for prostate cancer in 1996, so I was startled to come across a recent report that predicts who among men like myself would still be alive after 10 years.
According to a report taken by the Massachusetts State Police, on Nov. 20, between approximately 6:40 and 6:50 p.m., a Harvard undergraduate was the victim of an armed robbery in JFK Park. The student reported that while he was walking through the park, three individuals asked him the time and then assaulted him. One of the suspects produced a knife, threatened the student, and demanded his wallet.
Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers met with Francisco Santos, vice president of Colombia, on Nov. 22. Santos (seated) signs the guest book in Massachusetts Hall as Summers looks on. (Staff photo by Kris Snibbe)
HBS professor named book prize recipient The Harriman Institute at Columbia University has named Rawi Abdelal, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, the recipient of the 2002…
Hitting the hardwood running, the Harvard womens basketball team – picked by the pundits as the official team to beat in the Ivies – took its first spill of the season on Dec. 1, dropping a 84-44 decision to No. 7 Vanderbilt. Playing in the title game of the First Tennessee Tournament in Nashville, the overwhelmed Crimson trailed by 27 points to close out the half. The team shot just 24 percent from the field on the afternoon.
If the Harvard Gazette ever decides to send me to Amsterdam as a correspondent for Dutch affairs, I want to live in the Borneo Sporenburg residential development.
The environment was his passion, both professionally and privately. Scott Sandberg, 32, a building services coordinator for four years at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, was killed Friday (Nov. 29) in a surprise avalanche at Tuckerman Ravine on New Hampshires Mount Washington.
Showing visitors around the Fogg Art Museums current exhibit Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, curator Marjorie Cohn pauses at a brass sculpture by Eduardo Paolozzi. Lois kept this in her garden, explains Cohn, the Foggs Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, and a wasps nest was discovered in it while mounting the sculpture on its exhibition pedestal.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation of Menlo Park, Calif., has awarded $1.25 million to the Harvard University Library (HUL) to support the librarys Open Collections program. The new, Harvard-wide program reflects the Universitys long-term commitment to the creation of comprehensive, subject-based digital resources that link throughout the Harvard library system. Once created, these new digital resources will be made available to scholars and researchers worldwide.
The ARCO Forum at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government will be renamed the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, it was announced on Monday, Nov. 25. The forum will be renovated during the summer of 2003 and dedicated in the fall of next year. On Monday, Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. (left) unveiled an artist’s rendering showing how the redesigned and renamed space will look. Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers and U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, uncle of John F. Kennedy Jr., also attended the meeting.
Implants of stem cells have, for the first time, been used to replace and preserve missing and dying nerve cells in the brains of mice with human-like diseases. The research opens the way for a better understanding of how our brain develops and ages, and how stem cells might be used to treat injuries and diseases that happen along the way.
On Nov. 13, at approximately 3:30 p.m., Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers responded to Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School to take a report of an unarmed robbery that occurred in the Yard approximately 30 minutes prior. The victim, a Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School student, stated that while walking through the Yard he was approached by three black males and one black female of high school age. One of the suspects held the victim in a headlock while the other suspects went through the victims pockets and removed his wallet. The suspects then fled the area. The victim returned to school to report the crime, and at that time HUPD responded to take the report.
Nov. 13, 1875 – New Haven, Conn., hosts the first Harvard-Yale football game, which Harvard wins, to the delight of some 150 student boosters from Cambridge. November 1903 – After…
The city of Cambridge and the Harvard Square Design Committee invite the public to attend a community meeting today (Nov. 21) between 6:30 and 9 p.m. to review potential changes to the streets and sidewalks in the square. Specifically, the meeting, which will be held in the Cronkhite Living Room (6 Ash St.), will address public opinion on providing a bicycle and pedestrian link through Flagstaff Park, and possible changes to the direction of Church, Brattle, and JFK streets to improve conditions for pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers.
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. All faculty members present, constituting nearly the entire department, approved this decision.
Friends and colleagues of Janet Viggiani, former assistant dean for coeducation at Harvard College, are invited to attend a memorial service and reception at 3 p.m. on Dec. 8 at Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston. Parking is available at the rear of the building.
To explore the political visions and behavior of African Americans, Professor of Government Michael Dawson looks to history and asks questions about the present. He goes to church and the voting booth, workplaces and the unemployment line.
Robert R. Barker 36, an investment executive and former Harvard Overseer whose gifts to the University enabled Harvard to create a new humanities center, died on Nov. 8.
A team of researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH), led by Gökhan Hotamisligil of the Department of Nutrition, has identified the gene JNK (c-Jun amino-terminal kinases) as the key component in interfering with insulin sensitivity in the metabolic pathway for obesity, obesity-induced insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes. The discovery identifies a new target for therapeutic drugs for both obesity and diabetes. The research findings appear in the Nov. 21 issue of the journal Nature.
Penn staked its claim to the Ivy League football championship, defeating Harvard, 44-9, at Franklin Field this past Saturday (Nov. 16). The victory clinches at least a share of the crown for the Quakers (7-1, 6-0 Ivy), while the Crimson (6-3, 5-1 Ivy) – whose three losses of the season all came at the hands of nationally-ranked teams – concentrate on Saturdays (Nov. 23) 119th playing of The Game. Seniors Neil Rose and Carl Morris, donning their Harvard helmets one last time, will look to defeat Yale (and pray that Cornell tips Penn) to earn a piece of the title. Kick off is 12:30 p.m.
Harvards mens and womens hockey programs received dual honors last week when seniors Dominic Moore and Jennifer Botterill were each named ECAC Player of the Week. Team captain Moore tallied a pair of goals for the Crimson (4-1,1-1 Ivy) in a 5-2 win over Dartmouth on Nov. 8. He recorded his 100th career point in a 4-2 upset of Vermont the following day. Botterill recorded 12 points in a two-game road sweep by the No. 2 ranked womens team (3-1, 1-0 Ivy).
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