As an electrical engineer in the aerospace industry, Ksenia Kolcio spends her time designing satellites. Knowing that her handiwork is in orbit thousands of miles above the Earths surface is a source of satisfaction, but Kolcio has always yearned for more.
Emily Allen, a first-year student at Harvard Law School, and Eloise Pasachoff, a second-year student in the four-year joint degree program at the Law School and the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), have been selected to serve as 2002 Rappaport Fellows in the Rappaport Honors Program in Law and Public Service at Suffolk University Law School. Allen and Pasachoff were two of 12 highly qualified law students selected from Boston-area law schools who demonstrate exceptional commitment toward public service and the betterment of civic life in the Greater Boston area.
Harvard doctoral candidates Daniel Fried and Curie Virag have been named winners of the 2002 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship competition by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Fried and Virag join 31 doctoral candidates from 17 universities nationwide to receive the award, which supports original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. Newcombe Fellows will receive $16,500 each to support 12 months of full-time dissertation research and writing.
Each fall, wide-eyed freshmen arrive in Cambridge in droves, brimming with excitement as they consider all the possibilities for a major. Aspiring attorneys turn up to learn the lay of the law. The business school welcomes soon-to-be CEOs, CFOs, and other corporate VIPs. But Harvard also has programs that play host to an impressive assembly of intellectuals and professionals who are already firmly established in their fields. One of the best known of these programs is for journalists.
A new study, co-authored by Kennedy School of Government researcher James Quane, concludes that housing subsidies can significantly lessen the financial strain on low-income families and assist in the transition from welfare to work. The report is based on data collected from low-income African-American, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white families with children in poor and near-poor neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio.
At Harvard, academic success is measured in many ways. We look at things such as admissions yield, research breakthroughs, alumni achievements, Rhodes scholarships, global name recognition, and yes, rankings in US News and World Report to tell us how were doing. But when it comes to measuring Harvard as an employer, the markers are less clear.
The President of the Harvard Alumni Association announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and the HAA Elected Directors.
Think about this the next time youre waiting for your burgers to cook on the grill: How was cooking invented? Today, all societies depend on cooked food, but when and how did cooking begin?
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige told a Kennedy School conference on education and accountability Monday (June 10) that the Bush administrations reform program of testing, accountability, and school choice is a solution for American schools that are failing to educate a sizeable number of children
In the degree chart on page 24 of last weeks Gazette, the figures for the Law Schools doctor of juridical science and doctor of law degrees should have been 546 and 8, respectively.
June 1894 – The newly incorporated Radcliffe College holds its first Commencement in the auditorium of Fay House. At the request of President Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, the graduates wear pretty, simple dresses instead of caps and gowns, which Agassiz deems excessively masculine and potentially provocative.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, June 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave. (sixth floor).
During a full-day colloquium on Teaching with the World Wide Web, Gina Siesing, senior specialist for instructional computing, Instructional Computing Group, discusses Designing Assignments for Curricular Change.
Harvards heavyweight crew completed the sweep against Yale this past Saturday (June 8) at the 150th anniversary of the Harvard-Yale Regatta, Americas oldest intercollegiate athletic event. The Crimson won the four-mile varsity race on the Thames River by 41.8 seconds, the largest margin in 27 years, with a time of 19:02.5. Yale finished at 19:43.8.
James Cuno, director of the Harvard University Art Museums, has been appointed director of the Courtauld Institute of Art to lead its transformation into an independent college of the University of London.
Erik Erikson, the psychologist who re-envisioned the human life cycle as a series of developmental stages, described the identity crisis, and popularized the genre of psychobiography with his books on Martin Luther and Mohandas Gandhi, would have been 100 years old on June 15.
From the front lines: Gazette reporters Ken Gewertz, Beth Potier, and Alvin Powell roamed through Commencement Day festivities, eyes, ears, and notebooks open. Some of their observations follow.
From the front lines: Gazette reporters Ken Gewertz, Beth Potier, and Alvin Powell roamed through Commencement Day festivities, eyes, ears, and notebooks open. Some of their observations follow.
From the front lines: Gazette reporters Ken Gewertz, Beth Potier, and Alvin Powell roamed through Commencement Day festivities, eyes, ears, and notebooks open. Some of their observations follow.
From the front lines: Gazette reporters Ken Gewertz, Beth Potier, and Alvin Powell roamed through Commencement Day festivities, eyes, ears, and notebooks open. Some of their observations follow.
Law School Dean Robert C. Clark has announced that William Alford, the Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, has been named director of Graduate and International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. Alfords appointment will be effective July 1.
President Lawrence H. Summers has announced that Harvard University is participating in the Scholars at Risk Network and has selected its first two visiting fellows, Mehrangiz Kar and Wolde Mesfin, for the academic year 2002-03.
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