Question: What do the growth of suburbia, contemporary landscape painting, the evolution of sea urchins, marriage laws in colonial India, and the women writers of imperial China have in common?
The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at the Divinity School has announced the recipients of its 2002 Summer Research Grant Awards in the field of religion, health, and healing. The funded research promises to contribute significantly to the community of scholarship on the intersection of religion and healing. Students will present their research at a CSWR discussion series during the 2002-03 academic year. Visit the Religion, Health, and Healing Initiative Web site at http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/health/health.htm for regularly updated information about the research projects and the discussion series.
This year, the Extension Schools Commencement Speaker award will go to Linda Hime Newberry, A.L.M. 02, whose speech is titled An Extension Degree as a Patchwork Quilt. Francis J. Aguilar, professor of Business Administration Emeritus, will deliver the main address, titled Cleared for Take-Off, at the graduate certificate ceremonies.
As he edged into the main theme of his Phi Beta Kappa oration, The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Ozzy Osbourne, historian Simon Schama divulged some interesting biographical clues to the sources of his own eloquent speaking and writing.
Because of incorrect information supplied to the Gazette, a page 8 article in the May 30 issue, Biotech Club Announces Winners, reported an incorrect title for David Edwards. His correct title is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering.
In a speech at the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Commissioning Ceremony Wednesday (June 5), President Lawrence H. Summers made it clear that the University can accommodate both intellectual freedom and patriotism.
Next month, the Harvard University Choir will release its seventh CD, Choral Music of Amy Beach and Randall Thompson. Recorded in Londons 12th century Temple Church while the choir was on its European tour last summer, the CD includes noted American composer Amy Beachs three-movement a cappella motet, Help us, O God, and Alleluia by former chairman of Harvards music department Randall Thompson 20.
Susie Yi Huang, a chemistry concentrator who will graduate with bachelors and masters degrees, and Andrew Leren Lynn, a history and literature concentrator who will graduate with a bachelor of arts degree, are the winners of the 2002 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, which is awarded by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Drew Gilpin Faust, the dean of the institute, announced the names at the Radcliffe Associations Strawberry Tea on Wednesday (May 29).
Four years as a Harvard College undergraduate have taken graduating senior Duncan Smith-Rohrberg from believing in mind over matter to pondering matters of the mind.
Elizabeth Drye has a simple philosophy – do what youre interested in and follow the opportunities. Shes interested in so many things that this has led to a complex life – Stanford University, Harvard School of Public Health, Congress, the White House, Harvard Medical School, and motherhood.
Laura Clancy cant tell you how she fills her pre-summer days. The best way she has to describe it is a blur of so many random things. But what else can you expect from someone who is gearing up (as she does every spring) for a seven-week summer program for 700 urban children at 12 sites across Boston and Cambridge? And thats in addition to her continuing responsibilities as president of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), which runs most of the University-affiliated public service programs involving more than 1,800 undergraduates.
Every Wednesday night growing up in tiny Palmyra, N.J., Taii Bullock 02 would sit down to family dinner at her Aunt Jeanes house with at least 20 relatives.
Almost 30 years after he dropped out of college, Bill Dodd sat in his office, looked at the pile in his in box, and decided to tackle the task that had been on his agenda the longest.
Martin Gonzalez refused to let colon cancer prevent him from making the most of his Harvard Business School (HBS) experience inside and outside the classroom. Mo-Yun Lei used her education background to enrich the learning process of her HBS classmates. In recognition of their service to the Business School community, these students received the sixth annual Deans Award from Kim B. Clark, dean of the HBS faculty, at a special luncheon Wednesday (June 5).
The Committee on African Studies has awarded eight student grants for travel to Sub-Saharan Africa this summer. The four juniors who received the grants will be conducting research for their senior honors theses, while the four graduate student recipients will be researching their doctoral dissertations. The graduate student grants are funded by an endowment established by Jennifer Oppenheimer 89, J.D. 93.
When Lawrence H. Summers settled into Massachusetts Hall on July 1, he opened a year that saw achievement and glory, inquiry and debate, exhilaration and more sadness than any of us could imagine.
Bac break Soojin Yim and Abby Schlatter (foreground) rest before joining other members of the Class of 2002 at the Baccalaureate Service at the Memorial Church on June 4. (Staff…
I was all set to give a speech today entitled, “American Jihad.” But after receiving several complaints, I’ve decided instead to give a less controversial speech entitled: “The Case for…
After significant design changes and five years of community, University, and city government review, Harvards new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) is a City Council vote away from getting the go-ahead to put the Government Department and more than a dozen international centers under one roof.
A memorial service for Carolyn E. Andrews, who served as associate master of Leverett House from 1971 to 1981 with her husband, Kenneth R. Andrews, Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, will be held on June 11 at 2 p.m. in the Memorial Church. The service will be followed by a reception at the Harvard University Faculty Club. Mrs. Andrews died on March 20 at the age of 85.
In a page 7 article in the May 23 issue of the Gazette, Ganz organizes peer network, the address for the Web site featured in the article was incorrect. The correct URL is http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/organizing.
≈Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday (May 25). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Harvard senior awarded Cooke scholarship Harvard senior Wenya Linda Bi, a neurobiology concentrator, has been selected as a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholar. Along with 49 other outstanding college…
Writing is hard work for some. For others, its a way to shout at the top of their lungs without getting arrested. For still others, its a way to understand inner feelings in a process of thats not right, thats not right – thats it.
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