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.
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced that it is awarding 60 student grants and fellowships amounting to more than $100,000 for the 2002-03 academic year. Sixteen grants will support Harvard College undergraduates, 32 grants will support graduate students, and 12 awards are being made to undergraduate and graduate student groups for their own projects. In recent years, the Weatherhead Center has increased support for Harvard students significantly, increasing both financial resources available and the number of student awards, and establishing new programs and seminars for students.
Thanks to tight budgets and layoffs throughout the region, the livin might not be so easy this summertime for teenagers scrambling for jobs in Boston and Cambridge. But Harvard is doing what it can to help, developing summer jobs for teens in its host communities around the University. Teenagers will fill close to 100 summer jobs at Harvard – from landscaping to data entry, faculty assistance to maintenance and moving – through the Harvard Summer Teen Employment Program, or STEP.
May 4, 1943 – At the Boston Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Boston firm of Perry, Shaw & Hepburn accepts the J. Harleston Parker Gold Medal for Houghton Library as the best architecture in New England for 1942. The City of Boston has given the award annually since 1923.
A memorial service will be held for John Shlien, professor of education and counseling psychology emeritus, at the Memorial Church on May 29 at 3 p.m. The service will be followed by a reception in the Eliot-Lyman Room of Longfellow Hall. Shlien died March 23 at his vacation home in Big Sur, Calif. He was 83.
At the May 21 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Faculty Meeting, the Faculty unanimously approved two changes in Harvard College policies concerning grading and honors.
About 30 John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) staff traded in computers for trowels, and pens for work gloves last Friday (May 17) to help beautify Cambridge City Hall and other sites as part of what organizers intend to make an annual day of service to the community.
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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