Maybe you thought Chekhovs Uncle Vanya was a play about bored, morose Russians whining interminably about their frustrating provincial existences, but here in the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) scene shop its all about the ceiling.
The identity of Harvard, the University, is known and renowned around the world. But can the same be said about Harvards identity in the digital world? Where does the University stand within the current framework of technology and new media?
The controversy over cloning and stem cell research has maintained a steady boil over the past few years, with politicians, religious leaders, editorial writers, and ethicists vying to stir the pot of public opinion.
Two co-hosts Paul Wylie 91 and Nancy Kerrigan, the 33rd An Evening With Champions was a homecoming of sorts: Both performed in the show several times before becoming Olympic medalists. Kerrigan enjoyed being back and contributing. Wylie, who has hosted the show for many years, said, What is wonderful is to see the new crop of skaters every year.
Members of the Radcliffe Womens Varsity Eights kibitz inside Weld Boathouse as they prepare for the upcoming Head of the Charles Regatta, which starts today (Oct. 17) and goes through Oct. 20. Liz OLeary (in red), head coach of the Radcliffe team, talks to Caryn Davies 04, the stroke of the Varsity Eight team. Davies recently returned from the World Championships in Seville, Spain, where she snagged a gold medal with the USA National Team. Staff photo by Justin Ide
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 12. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Eileen Jackson Southern, an authority on Renaissance and African-American music and the first black female professor to be given tenure at Harvard, died Sunday (Oct. 13) in Port Charlotte, Fla. She was 82.
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.
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