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.
When K.A. Kelly McQueen, M.P.H. student, came to the School of Public Health (SPH) last fall, her intention was to study international health and humanitarian crises, but her goals changed on her first day of school, Sept. 11.
Marshall Ganz knows better than most what community organizers are up against out there: trying to change minds, taking risks, supporting sometimes unpopular causes – and often with not much help around.
One hundred forty-one faculty and staff from across the University will be honored today (May 23) for 25 years of service to Harvard. The 48th annual 25-Year Recognition Ceremony will be held in the Ropes-Gray Room at the Law Schools Pound Hall. President Lawrence H. Summers will host the ceremony, and the guest speaker will be honoree Elizabeth Bartholet, Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law. The Harvard Glee Club will perform at the ceremony, which will be followed by a reception for honorees and their guests.
Freshmen roommates Susie McGregor and Annie Hilby pack Hilby’s clothes in their Hollis Dormitory. Hilby is hoping to make an afternoon flight to San Diego.
The acerbic e-mails began a few days after the School of Public Healths (SPH) David Hemenway published Firearm Availability and Female Homicide Victimization Rates among 25 Populous High Income Countries in the Journal of the American Medical Womens Association (JAMWA) last month. The paper caught the attention of a small group of people, many of whom peppered Hemenway with sometimes unsigned and often scathing e-mails.
A powerful cancer drug found in the tissues of sea squirts is being tested on a variety of cancers. Trials conducted in the United States and Europe show that the compound has promising activity against connective tissue, breast, ovary, and prostate tumors.
Erin K. Jenne, a postdoc fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the World Peace Foundation (WPF) Program on Intrastate Conflict at the Kennedy School of…
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), one of the worlds oldest and largest astronomical organizations, has awarded the 2002 Thomas J. Brennan Award to Philip Sadler, director of the Science Education Department at the Harvard – Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). The Brennan Award recognizes exceptional achievement related to the teaching of astronomy at the high school level.
When it comes to lengthy leaves and sponsored travel to exotic locales, University administrators usually get the short end of the stick. Faculty members and even enterprising students can avail themselves of research grants, travel fellowships, and sabbaticals, but the administrators who support their pursuit of knowledge must pay for their own trips from their own wallets using hard-earned vacation time.
The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) have announced the launch of Collections Online – a searchable Web-based database of more than 60,000 works of art from the collections of Harvards three art museums. Collections Online makes it possible for scholars, researchers, and the general public to access textual information on about one-third of the more than 150,000 objects of the Art Museum. Eventually, records about the entire collection will be accessible online.
Editors note: As part of a Graham and Parks School annual project, two seventh-grade students joined the Harvard News Office staff for one week. This is what Jared Hughes and Helen Cowdrey had to say about their experience.
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