Employment Services, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, is hosting Career Forum 2002 on June 11 at the Graduate School of Designs Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. The event will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. To allow colleagues who are layoff candidates an opportunity to meet directly with many hiring managers, the forum will open one hour early (10 a.m.) to internal candidates only.
The GSAS Harvard Biotechnology Club recently announced the winners of the 2002 Biotechnology Business Plan Competition. Sponsored by DuPont Bio-Based Materials, the competition is unique in that it focuses exclusively on biotechnology startups. This year, the competition received 18 entries from the United States, Canada, and Europe.
For the first time, researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center have isolated and cloned the third and remaining gene believed to be a key regulator of insulin production. The scientists believe this achievement may now pave the way for researchers to use the trio of genes to encourage stem cells or other cells that do not normally produce insulin to do so, thereby creating a possible new way to treat diabetes.
When The Ants by E.O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, there was little doubt that receiving this prestigious and coveted award exerted a positive effect on the books sales.
The Womens Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) has announced its five research associates for the 2002-03 academic year: Paola Bacchetta of the University of Kentucky R. Marie Griffith of Princeton University Kelly Pemberton of the University of California, Berkeley Brigid Sackey of the University of Ghana and Elina Vuola of the Academy of Finland. Each will be in residence at the Divinity School for two semesters. The new research associates will teach a course as a visiting lecturer, and will share aspects of their research in a public forum.
Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers have discovered a way to genetically mimic the life-extending effects of calorie restriction – without the severe food deprivation that method entails.
Five Boston and Cambridge public school teachers have received 2002 – 03 James Bryant Conant Fellowships to study for one year at the Graduate School of Education (GSE). The Conant Fellowships, established in 1986 at Harvards 350th anniversary, support the professional growth of outstanding Boston and Cam-bridge public school teachers and administrators who have shown commitment to public education and demonstrated leadership potential. The fellowship is named for James Bryant Conant, Harvard president from 1933-1953, a dedicated supporter of public education and a strong advocate of school reform.
Award-winning author Gish Jen, feminist legal scholar Clare Dalton, and National Public Radio (NPR) senior foreign correspondent Anne Garrels are among the distinguished women who will be honored by the Radcliffe Association during Commencement/Reunion Week.
Three Cambridge public school teachers received the Crystal Award for Preeminence in Teaching at a ceremony hosted by Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers at the Harvard Faculty Club Wednesday, May 22. Alan Stone, vice president for Government, Community and Public Affairs at Harvard, presented awards to winners Carol Siriani, social studies teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Eva Jablonsky, sixth-grade teacher at the Fitzgerald School and Carol Gavin, special education teacher at the King School. Established by the Cambridge Partnership for Public Education to recognize and reward outstanding teachers in the Cambridge Public Schools, the Crystal Award bestows on the winners a $2,000 cash award, a Waterford crystal clock, and membership on the Superintendents Task Force for the Advancement of Teaching. In addition, six finalists receive $250 each for a classroom project or field trip.
More than 50 students and faculty from many schools at Harvard attended the May 10 Interdisciplinary Conference on Disability held at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The Interfaculty Working Group on Disabilities at Harvard, co-chaired by Graduate School of Education (GSE) faculty Evangeline Harris Stefanakis and Thomas Hehir, spawned the daylong forum, the very first interdisciplinary discussion at Harvard on persons with disabilities. KSG Associate Dean Joseph McCarthy offered the welcoming address, recalling his earlier work in pioneering disabilities services at Harvard College.
Seniors Matthew Rosenberg and Stephen N. Smith are the first two recipients of the Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service. Each will each receive $25,000 in support of a formative year in public service.
Most are ticketed events, restricting public access. Several of the events will be broadcast on WHRB (95.3 FM). Those events include Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises at 11 a.m. June 4 Baccalaureate service at 2 p.m. June 4 Class Day at 2 p.m. June 5 Commencement Exercises at 9:15 a.m. and 1:50 p.m. June 6.
Twelve U.S. journalists and 13 international journalists were recently appointed to the 65th class of Nieman Fellows. Established in 1938, the Nieman program is the oldest midcareer fellowship for journalists in the world. Fellowships are awarded for an academic year of study in any part of the university to working journalists of accomplishment and promise. More than 1,000 U.S. and international journalists have studied at Harvard as Nieman Fellows.
Dr. Louis Klein Diamond, a physician who helped found the field of pediatric hematology – the study and treatment of childrens blood diseases – died at his home in Los Angeles on June 14, 1999. He had just passed his 97th birthday.
Five juniors have been named winners of this year¹s Patricia King Fellowships. The King Fellowships, named for the former director of the Schlesinger Library and an officer of Radcliffe¹s Phi Beta Kappa chapter, support summer research toward the senior thesis or other independent academic projects.
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded 55 research grants and 60 internship grants to Harvard undergraduate and graduate students who will spend the summer conducting research and working in a variety of public, private, and independent-sector internships in the region. The grant recipients include students from 21 different concentrations at Harvard College and seven graduate and professional schools, including the Schools of Design, Divinity, Education, Government, Medicine, Public Health, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Harvard students will receive approximately $175,000 in funding to spend the summer in 20 countries, as well as various locales in the United States.
William C. Kirby, Geisinger Professor of History, will be the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday.
William C. Kirby, Geisinger Professor of History, will be the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday (May 20).
Stephen Jay Gould, Harvards outspoken and often controversial paleontologist whose groundbreaking work on evolutionary theory – coupled with his award-winning writings – brought an expanded world of science to thousands of readers, died Monday morning (May 20) in Manhattan of metastasized lung cancer. He was 60.
Due to incorrect information supplied to the Gazette, Du Bois Institute fellow Malick Walid Ghachem was incorrectly identified in the May 9 issue. Ghachem, a J.D. candidate at the Law School, received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.
The president of Iceland, Olafur Ragmar Grimsson (left), greets President Lawrence H. Summers as Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Center for International Development at the Kennedy School, looks on.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday (May 18). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
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