Echoes of the reforms that ended the former Soviet Union are still reverberating in Russia and other former Soviet republics, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Unions last leader and the man who implemented those world-altering changes, told a packed Sanders Theatre Monday (Nov. 11).
Monday, November 11, 2002 Sanders Theatre, Harvard University TRANSCRIPT TIMOTHY COLTON: Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I am Timothy Colton, a Professor of Government, and Director of the Davis Center…
Researchers at Brigham and WomenÕs Hospital (BWH) have found that regular physical activity, such as walking, can help reduce the risk of osteoporotic hip fracture in postmenopausal women. This is the latest finding of the landmark NursesÕ Health Study and was published in the Nov. 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The Memorial Church marked its 70th anniversary Sunday (Nov. 10) with a solemn remembrance of those who died in World War I and in subsequent conflicts, and with a celebration of donors who helped make the churchs future more secure in the recent fundraising campaign.
The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School is an international leader in the development of the academic study of world religions. Students enrolled in any Harvard University doctoral program whose dissertation research involves substantive study of religious phenomena are invited to apply for a CSWR Dissertation Fellowship for academic year 2003-04. The award consists of a stipend of $10,000 and the possibility of residence at the center. In addition, dissertation fellows are fully integrated into the centers academic and social activities. The center is particularly interested in receiving applications from students whose proposed research will touch on the following topics in the centers current research agenda: Religion and the Arts, Globalization and Religion, Religion, Health and Healing, and Religion and the City.
It is commonly held that the rare collections of Harvards libraries are awe-inspiring, albeit widely dispersed among various faculties. And they are however, through Nov. 27, bibliophiles have the unique opportunity to view rare and historical materials from the collections of six major libraries in one central location. The exhibition – Some Special Collections at Harvard University Libraries – will be housed in the Edison and Newman Room of Houghton Library.
The Loeb Drama Center, home to the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.), the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) – will open its doors to the Cambridge and Boston community on Saturday (Nov. 16), 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) is the hub of the Kennedy School of Governments (KSG) research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, science and technology policy, and intrastate conflict prevention and resolution studies.
John Mekalanos (far left), the Adele Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School Debra Peattie Ph.D. 80, M.B.A. 96, and president of RCT BioVentures NE and David Edwards, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and scientific founder of Advanced Inhalation Research (AIR), participated in a panel on therapeutic product start-ups. The panel was part of a workshop jointly sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Universitys Office for Technology and Trademark Licensing (OTTL), and the Medical Schools Office for Technology Licensing (OTL). Aimed at academics who are thinking of adapting their research to the marketplace, the workshop offered information, advice, and friendly encouragement.
In a Nov. 7 article about Day of the Dead events at the Peabody Museum and the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Gazette neglected to mention the Peabody Museum in its headline. The altar at the Peabody was, as the article stated, the central attraction. Some of the artists who worked on the exhibit and whose work was featured in the article are John Tarzian, Jenny Quinonez, and Mizael Sanchez.
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:
Even as Harvards picture-pretty offense made for another noteworthy performance against Columbia (1-7, 0-5 Ivy) this past Saturday (Nov. 9) at the stadium, it was the Crimsons less glamorous defensive game that really stole the show – and the 28-7 win – from the cagey Lions.
At a Nov. 6 lecture, Helen Vendler, Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor (seated front row), spoke on the image of Greece in the poetry of James Merrill. Vendler explored the polyvalent presence of modern Greece in the poetry of one of the most influential contemporary American poets. This lecture continues the series of lectures by eminent scholars and intellectuals organized by the Modern Greek Studies Program in the Department of the Classics. The series, organized by Professor Panagiotis Roilos, was inaugurated two years ago with the Homage to Seferis by Seamus Heaney (Nobel Laureate in literature in 1995), followed, among others, by Nanos Valaoritiss The Irish Connections of George Seferis, and a two-day international conference on Ritual in Greece: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
Harvard faculty and students gathered recently for a candid discussion of the Core Curriculum: its strengths, weaknesses, and areas for potential change. The symposium, held Nov. 6, was the first of two community conversations this month. The discussions are part of Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean William C. Kirbys widespread efforts to examine all aspects of the undergraduate curriculum, the first such major review in almost 30 years. (See http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/10.17/01-fas.html.)
China Keitetsis autobiography is currently number two on Germanys best-seller list. Its title is They Took Away My Mother and Gave Me a Gun, and that is literally what happened to her.
Women from conflict-ravaged nations around the world gathered at the Kennedy School of Government last week for a colloquium focused on how to empower women worldwide to work for peace.
It’s easy to think humankind is above nature in this age of genetically engineered corn, superdrugs, microsurgery, and all the man-made comforts that insulate us from nature’s harshness.
His wiry body clad in tight-fitting black, Robert Woodruff hunches over his coffee cup struggling to express his thoughts about the job he has taken on, artistic director of Harvards American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.).
Earlier this week, the Science Center lawn became a dumping ground for about 500 bags of Harvard-generated trash. And if the heaps of soggy newspapers, candy wrappers, used coffee cups, and banana peels were unsightly and a little smelly, that was the point.
A bird¹s-eye view from the Maxwell-Dworkin building shows the warmly colored carpetlike patterns of its plaza contrasting with the slash of a rough stone bench, evoking ancient textiles, ancient structures.
Its been known for a while that babies enjoy a dramatic increase in their ability to remember people and things between 8 and 12 months of age. But this is short-term memory, the kind that loses a telephone number in a minute or less if you dont write it down.
Nov. 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. At Harvard, Darwin’s friends include Professors Asa Gray and Jeffries Wyman. Already evolutionists, they…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Nov. 2. 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:
A memorial service for David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, will be held at the Memorial Church on Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. Riesman, best known for his influential study of post-World War II American society, The Lonely Crowd, passed away on May 10, 2002.
Friends and colleagues of Costas Papaliolios, professor of physics emeritus, are invited to attend a memorial service at the Faculty Club on Sunday (Nov. 10) at 2 p.m.
Missy Holbrooks sunlit office is dominated by a large Boston fern, bursting with life, its exploratory tendrils shooting far up the walls and drooping, beardlike, to the floor. Nearby, a sweet potato vine twines gently around the vertical slats of the window blinds, squeezing them in its progress toward the ceiling.
Associate Vice President for Planning and Real Estate Kathy Spiegelman has been named chief University planner and director of the Allston Initiative. Spiegelman will start in the new position Jan. 1, 2003. Spiegelman will report directly to Sally Zeckhauser, vice president for administration, and the position has close ties to the provosts office as well.
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