Professor of American Church History Emeritus C. Conrad Wright, a renowned scholar of American Unitarianism who received his bachelors, masters, and doctorate at Harvard and taught at the Divinity School from 1954 to 1982, will be honored at a reception this week at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library. The occasion for the reception is to celebrate the new C. Conrad Wright Room.
Welcoming National Public Radio (NPR) senior European correspondent Sylvia Poggioli to an overflow-capacity brown-bag lunch at the Kennedy School of Government on Oct. 11, Shorenstein Center Director Alex Jones issued two warnings to the audience.
The Rwandan genocide memorial was a tiny one-room church, pervaded still by a penetrating stench. On a table in the church was a pile of human skulls and femurs, a startling reminder of the people who sought shelter there in 1994 when the killers came calling.
The Judge Baker Childrens Center is sponsoring a weekend conference on Oct. 25-27 to address how academic and social failure of youth and adolescents can be prevented if the necessary steps are taken early in childrens lives. Risk and Resilience: Protective Mechanisms and School-Based Prevention Programs is being held in partnership with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and Devereux – a health and social welfare services organization – at the University Park Hotel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nineteen international affairs practitioners from around the world have been appointed as fellows at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs for the academic year 2002-03. Established in 1958, the fellows program welcomes mid- to senior-level diplomats, military officers, politicians, journalists, and others working in the realm of international affairs to pursue independent study and research at the University for one academic year. To date, more than 800 individuals from all over the world have participated in the program. For more information, visit the Web site at http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/fellows/.
Authors, economists, social scientists, and CEOs will discuss a range of historical and contemporary issues surrounding women in bankruptcy, poverty, and economic development around the world, as part of the Radcliffe Institutes Women, Money, and Power conference on Oct. 24-25.
Two genes that determine brain size have been discovered. One can increase the thinking parts of mice brains, possibly making the rodents smarter. The other is present in people with microcephaly, a genetic disease characterized by a smaller-than-normal brain and head. Such people are mildly retarded.
At its fourth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council met with Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise the Dean of the College Harry Lewis (DEAS) and the Associate Dean of the College for Human Resources and the House System Thomas A. Dingman to discuss the experience of Harvard athletes and policy questions relating to intercollegiate competition.
Oct. 12, 1942 – Lt. Gen. Hsiung Shih-sei, of the Chinese Military Mission to the United States, visits Harvard with other Chinese officers and diplomats. Although the University is officially…
Among this years Nobel Prize winners are two Harvard Ph.D.s and a former professor in the Astronomy Department. Riccardo Giacconi is one the winners of the Nobel Prize for physics. In addition to having held a professorship in astronomy at Harvard, Giacconi was associate director for High Energy Astrophysics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in the early 1970s.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 5. 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:
Meselson wins ASCB’s Public Service Award The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) will present Matthew Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, with its Public Service Award…
The consistently successful Harvard field hockey team (6-2, 3-0 Ivy) showed a penchant for being consistent in the losing department as well, dropping its second 3-2 decision at Jordan Field on Oct. 5, this time to third-ranked Wake Forest. The seasons second loss snapped a four-game win streak for the Crimson, who managed three shutouts since Sept. 21 – including 3-0 and 4-0 wins over Yale and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, respectively, and most recently, a 2-0 blanking of Providence on Oct. 2.
In a battle of nationally ranked teams, Harvard football saw its 11-game win streak snapped by the Mountain Hawks of Lehigh University, 36-35, this past Saturday (Oct. 5) in Bethlehem, Pa. With the win, the hosts, who rallied for 15 fourth-quarter points, extended their home victory streak at 26 games.
Harvard Universitys Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) William C. Kirby and Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Thomas M. Reardon announced that Beth Balmuth Raffeld has been named associate vice president and dean for development for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
As a social historian, Emmanuel Akyeampong focuses on those aspects of life that often escape the attention of scholars who chronicle the large-scale events that shape a nations political destiny.
Responding to student requests that fall term exams be held before the winter break, the School of Public Health (SPH) has adopted a new fall schedule this year that not only pushes the exams up, but provides for new learning options during a monthlong January session.
Joseph S. Nye Jr., dean of the Kennedy School of Government, has announced the creation of a program to educate new leaders for the free and prosperous development of Armenia and the good of her citizens and countrymen around the world. The Manoukian Public Service Program for Armenia is supported by a gift from the Manoukian Foundation in London and will provide funds for three areas of collaboration:
Widener Library main entrance to close for six months Starting Oct. 19, the main entrance of Widener Library will be closed for six months in order to renovate the first…
Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney will present portions of her PBS Frontline documentary Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero, at the Memorial Church on Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m. The New York Times calls the film an extraordinary work, adding that it is an elegantly made, unsentimental look at the widely varied ways in which the terror attacks affected religious beliefs, an important issue no other program has dealt with so thoroughly or thoughtfully. Several individuals who appear in the film will join Whitney at the screening, including theology professor Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete of St. Johns Seminary, and attorney Terry McGovern, whose mother was killed in the World Trade Center.
Ostrich lust, belly button lint, and creative corporate accounting took honors at the Twelfth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony in Sanders Theatre on Oct. 3, an event that celebrates scientific achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced.
For the first time, paid undergraduates will fan out into Harvards dorms and houses this year, teaching and preaching and shepherding fellow students into greater environmental awareness and action.
Among recent gatherings on campus was a rally against war on Iraq (above) on Monday (Oct. 7), where Derrick N. Ashong, a Ph.D. candidate in Afro-American Studies, spoke. At the Law School – where, because of a threat to federal funding, military recruiters have recently been allowed access to the School – an Oct. 7 event organized by HLS LAMBDA protested the militarys stance toward gays and lesbians. HLS Dean Robert C. Clark (below) addressed the crowd. Commenting on the issue, President Lawrence H. Summers said, Generations of Harvard alumni have served with distinction in the U.S. armed forces. Consistent with the ideal of nondiscrimination, I believe that our gay and lesbian students and graduates should have that honorable opportunity as well. Military service is a noble and vitally important calling. Current federal policy not only denies openly homosexual individuals a crucial opportunity to serve their country, it denies all of us the benefit of their service in so important a cause.
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