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…
Wilson’s famed novel is re-released “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit,” the novel by Sloan Wilson ’42 that seemed to capture the mood of a generation when it was…
Author Plotkin to talk at Science Center Ethnobotanist and author Mark Plotkin, A.B.E. ’79, will discuss his new book, “The Killers Within: The Rise of Deadly, Drug-Resistant Bacteria” (co-authored with…
I just keep these for old times sake, says entomologist Louis Roth, pulling a box from the shelf above his desk in a small office in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ).
Tufts Universitys Global Development and Environment Institute (G-DAE) announced this month that it is awarding its third annual economics prize to Alice Amsden of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dani Rodrik of Harvard for their path-breaking work on globalization and the role of the state in development. They will receive their awards at a ceremony on Nov. 21 at Tufts where they will speak on the topic, Ruling Out National Development? States, Markets and Globalization.
Harvard Business School Press (HBS Press) and the Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) recently announced that they will develop a cobranded line of books focusing on leadership for the common good. David Gergen, public service professor and director of the Center for Public Leadership, and Barbara Kellerman, lecturer in public policy at KSG and executive director of CPL, will spearhead the centers efforts, working with Carol Franco, director of HBS Press, and Hollis Heimbouch, HBS Press editorial director.
After marching 81 yards in the waning minutes of last Saturdays contest of regional supremacy at the stadium, the Harvard football team suddenly found itself hot on the heels of the Northeastern Huskies. That is, until they tripped.
Tennis pro Patrick McEnroe came to the Murr Center for an afternoon of tennis and tenacity with area inner city kids on Saturday (Oct. 19). Tenacity is an organization founded to bring tennis to urban kids in the Boston area. The organization is unique because it includes an academic component in its program. Tenacity reaches over 2,000 kids a year.
This year marked the 38th Head of the Charles Regatta, an event that draws school crews and rowing clubs from around the world. Some 6,000 rowers converged on the noble river on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 19 and 20. From the banks of the Charles and the bridges (seven in all) above it, a crowd of 260,000 rowing faithful took in the venerable race over the two days. A traditional head race is 3 miles long. In it, boats race against the clock. The race usually lasts about 15 to 16 minutes.
Senior forward Joey Yennes goal and assist erased a 2-0 deficit against Yale this past Saturday (Oct. 19) at Ohiri Field, but not before Yales Kate Ling sealed the game with just under two and a half minutes remaining in the match to give the Bulldogs a 3-2 win. The loss drops Harvard to 6-5-1, 2-1-1 in the Ivy League, while Yale improves to 7-3-1, 2-2 in the league.
Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) professors stood conventional dietary wisdom on its head Friday (Oct. 18) by singling out for praise that burger-slapping, french-fry-pushing, soda-sloshing American icon, McDonalds.
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) is the hub of the Kennedy School of Governments (KSGs) research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, science and technology policy, and conflict studies.
When a faculty committee at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) convened last year to choose four books that everyone in the Ed School community would read and discuss, there was one irrefutable rule: no books by current or recent faculty members could make the list.
One day after President Bush signed a measure authorizing him to use military force against Iraq, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol and former CIA director John Deutch publicly debated the question: Should the United States attack Iraq now?
To U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Paul ONeill, theres no better way to demonstrate corporate values and leadership than by keeping your employees safe.
Harvard Law School Dean Robert Clark has announced the establishment of the Hale and Dorr Professorship of Intellectual Property Law. A reception in honor of this professorship was held yesterday (Oct. 23) at the Law School.
While working on his masters thesis in history at the Sorbonne in Paris, Gaston Kaboré, a filmmaker from Burkina Faso in West Africa, made a decision that would change his life.
Nothing runs like a pig. This indisputable truth is the motto for the Ultimate Frisbee club Junk of Pork, the host of the recent (Oct. 13-14) Frisbee tournament Red Tide Ultimate Clambake, 2002.
Perhaps youve run out of file space. Maybe you cant find that report you know you wrote last year. Or youve completed a grant project and youre not sure which files to keep and which ones to toss. Each of these three problems – and many others – can be solved by records management. Now, the Universitys Records Management Office (RMO) is offering two new one-session training programs that will assist University personnel in managing Harvards business records. Each program, offered at intervals throughout the year, is formatted as a brown-bag lunch – with beverages and desserts provided by RMO – held in the Harvard University Archives, located in Pusey Library in Harvard Yard.
In an effort to preserve a number of significant buildings in its plan to develop a portion of its land, McLean Hospital in Belmont is offering five 19th and 20th century cottages to parties who will pay the expenses to relocate them off its grounds.
Sophomore Dennis Chira (left) speaks with Mark Gaipa, preceptor and an editor of Exposé Magazine, which features the best work of students who participated in the Expository Writing Program. The two are at the annual celebratory lunch at the Harvard Faculty Club. Chiras essay, Breaking with Our British Brethren: The Declaration of Independence Revisited, was chosen to be included in this years issue of Exposé. Among the other published writers this year were (all sophomores) Timur Akazhanov, Rachel Eliza Bender, Ben Black, Josiah Child, Veronica Heller, Yi-An Huang, Nan Lou, Jura Pintar, and Rasheed Sabar. Huangs essay was awarded the 2002 Sosland Prize in Expository Writing. Childs essay was awarded the 2002 Lawrence Lader Prize in Expository Writing. And Lou received the 2002 David Rice Ecker Short Story Prize.
In a study assessing the impact of specific type and intensity of exercise and the risk of coronary heart disease among men, researchers from the School of Public Health (SPH) have found that men who train with weights, run, jog, row, or walk briskly, show the most significantly reduced risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) compared to those who dont do those forms of exercise. The results appear in the Oct. 23 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Thirty-two foreign scholars and professionals have been named Fulbright Scholar Program grant recipients for the 2002-03 academic year. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, participating governments, and host institutions in the United States and abroad, these grants allow scholars from across the globe to lecture or conduct research at the University. In addition, five Harvard faculty and professionals received Fulbright grants to lecture or conduct research abroad.
Back in the technological dark ages, before travelers could download turn-by-turn directions prior to setting out for an unfamiliar address or switch on their Global Positioning Systems to help them find their way in a foreign city, motorists relied on maps, those fluttering sheets of paper that unfolded to the size of a bedsheet, contained a jumble of microscopic details unintelligible to the naked eye, and soon wore away to shreds and tatters of little use except to mop up spilled soft drinks from the floor mats.
What comes to mind when you think of Halloween? Pumpkins? Witches? Black cats? Five-year-olds in Spiderman masks proffering open shopping bags while their mothers lurk anxiously in the shadows?
One of the biggest mysteries of biology is how humans and other animals get their shapes. For example, why do most people have their heart on the left side? A few humans have it on the right side, and they apparently suffer no ill effects. In fact, some people have all their visceral organs reversed. Their bodies are mirror images of whats considered normal, yet they live long, healthy lives.
Justin Pasquariello 01, who was raised in foster care, speaks at the groundbreaking for Bostons Hope. A foster care and adoption program, Bostons Hope will not only provide new, affordable housing in Dorchester, it will also provide a program aimed at building permanent support for kids whove had multiple foster care placements. Listening are (from left) Elmer Eubanks, president and CEO of Boston Aging Concerns, Young and Old, United, Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, and state Rep. Liz Malia.
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