Despite the gusty winds and driving rain of a seasonal Noreaster, 21 young people with disabilities recently made their way from all over Massachusetts to the Charles Hotel to attend the Youth Leadership Forum (YLF), where they served as delegates. The Nov. 16 event was sponsored by the Office of the University Disability Coordinator, Office of the Assistant to the President at Harvard, and the organization Partners for Youth With Disabilities (PYD) in Boston.
As the music swelled, dozens of dancers arched and twisted, contracted and spiraled their arms raised heavenward, feet planted in a wide, earthy stance.
Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have found that adults who have tonsillectomies to treat their chronic, recurring tonsillitis take fewer sick days and less medication than those who opt to leave their tonsils in and repeatedly treat the condition with antibiotics.
Every evening this past summer, after returning from her job at the Baltimore City Health Department, Laura Perry 04 read and re-read Shakespeares play The Merchant of Venice. When she was not doing that, she was either reading criticism about the play or developing her own ideas about what it means and how it should be staged.
Is there a moral distinction between procedures carried out daily at fertility clinics across the nation and the cloning of human embryos for research purposes? Michael Sandel does not think so.
Women from the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations recently joined the women of Latinas Unidas, the Association of Black Harvard Women, and the South Asian Womens Collective in sponsoring the Road to Success, a panel discussion on the career paths of successful minority women. Saru Jayarama (from left), executive director of the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, responds to a question as Laura Lancaster, former managing editor of Ebony Magazine, Marisa Demeo, regional counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Jennifer Hawkins 04, panel moderator, listen.
They dont do the duckwalk like Chuck Berry or the moonwalk like Michael Jackson. They dont strut around the stage like Mick Jagger. They dont play guitar with their tongues like Jimi Hendrix, and they dont smash their instruments like The Who. What kind of musicians are they?
Corn, butterflies, and the media were center stage at the John F. Kennedy School of Government on Nov. 21 at a conference that examined the media’s role in keeping the public informed – or frightened – about the growing presence of biotechnology in food production.
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.’
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.
An explosive third quarter lifted the Harvard football team past Yale on Saturday afternoon (Nov. 23), to hand the Crimson a 20-13 Harvard Stadium victory in the 119th playing of
From the failed promise of flying vehicles to the very real presence of virtual tours on the Internet, Harvard administrators, faculty, and information technology professionals examined the impact of technology on Harvards digital identity at a Harvard Law School conference last week.
Before the Harvard-Yale game this Saturday (Nov. 23), the Arthur M. Sackler Museum invites families to attend its final Sackler Saturday event of the fall: Ancient Entertainment: Music, Games, and Dance in Art. Children can listen to ancient Chinese bells, see Indian dancers, play games that the ancient Greeks and Romans once enjoyed, and take in the treasures of ancient art in the galleries. Other activities will include sketching, storytelling, and self-guided activities families can do together. Free and open to the public, the program will run from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on a drop-in basis.
His Olympic dream began decades ago, at the knee of his dad, watching the Olympics together on television. It might have been 1988, or 1992, Harvard junior Jesse Jantzen isnt sure. What he is sure of is that even at age 6, when the 1988 games occurred, he had already been wrestling in tournaments for a year or two.
For a discussion on labor negotiations, this past Fridays (Nov. 15) forum at Langdell Hall on Major League Baseballs (MLB) latest round of collective bargaining was as cordial as they come. So cordial, in fact, that panelist Andrew Zimbalist, a leading sports economist at Smith College and author of Baseball and Billions: A Probing Look Inside the Big Business of Our National Pastime (Basic Books, 1992), couldnt resist dubbing the resounding goodwill among the panels union representatives a love fest.
In a recent, lively discussion in the Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, three professors from Yale, Brown, and Columbia universities described how their schools educate their undergraduates. Their philosophies of education ran the gamut, representing different worldviews on what a college education is all about.
Thalidomide, DES (stilbsestrol), the Dalkon shield, hormone replacement therapy. The names of these high-profile medical blunders were enough to make the point. ABC News analyst Cokie Roberts in a few seconds captured a central factor in the erosion of trust in the health care system.
The coming expansion of the European Union to include 10 Eastern and Central European countries will fulfill an age-old dream of European unification and add vitality and energy to the organization, the ambassadors of four candidate nations said last week.
Harvard is dishing up another helping of community service with its annual Pie in the Sky effort. On Sunday (Nov. 24), more than 50 staff members and their families from Dining Services and the Office of Human Resources (OHR) will bake and box 1,750 pies. The massive volunteer effort supports Community Servings, which sells the pies and will garner $35,000 for the Harvard effort alone toward its programs that provide food for people homebound with HIV and AIDS.
The number of applicants for Early Action admission to Harvard College has risen 24 percent above last year’s 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.
Well have done enough groundwork to back up a decision, said Kathy Spiegelman, associate vice president for planning and real estate, who was recently appointed chief University planner and director of the Allston Initiative. She takes over the new position Jan. 1, 2003.
The Starship Enterprise is propelled through the universe of science fiction by a rocket fuel that combines ordinary matter and antimatter. When the two meet, they annihilate each other in a burst of energy that thrusts the starship from galaxy to galaxy.
The students of the South Asian Association, Dharma, and the Harvard Foundation welcomed renowned Nepalese actress and Bollywood star, Manisha Koirala (left) to Harvard on Friday (Nov. 8). Before a packed Boylston Hall audience, the popular Koirala presented clips from her latest film Escape from Taliban and spoke on Hindu-Muslim relations and women in films. At the conclusion of the talk, she was presented with Harvard memorabilia from students and faculty, including a Harvard sweatshirt from foundation director S. Allen Counter.
In an effort to combat the flu across campus this season, University Health Services (UHS) will be providing free flu vaccines to all members of the Harvard community. The walk-in clinics are being held at the following locations:
Nov. 28, 1942 – The Cocoanut Grove, a celebrated Boston night spot, burns on Thanksgiving weekend, killing some 500 people, including 15 from Harvard. Already in Boston at the time, an instructing officer and several student officers of the Harvard-based Naval Communications School are among the first to arrive on the scene. They play an important part in initial rescue efforts. Additional Harvard instructors, undergraduates, and alumni arrive before midnight and during the following day to lend a hand as stretcher-bearers, hospital orderlies, and body-identification assistants. Many students and faculty from the Medical School assist as well. The Harvard Alumni Bulletin reports that a deep pall was cast over the entire University.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Nov. 9. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Friends and colleagues of Arthur Solomon, professor of biophysics emeritus, are invited to attend a memorial service at the Memorial Church on Friday (Nov. 15) at 12:30 p.m. Following the service, a reception will be held at the Fogg Art Museum.
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