May 1908 – Funding prospects for the newly created (March 30, 1908) Graduate School of Business Administration look so grim that it may not open in September as planned. On May 19, however, an anonymous benefactor (later revealed to have been Maj. Henry Lee Higginson) comes to the rescue, underwriting the shortfall in full. In response, the Corporation chooses Economics Professor Edwin Francis Gay as the Schools first Dean. The School eventually opens on Oct. 1 with 59 students seeking the new Master of Business Administration degree.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday (May 11). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
The slides that flashed across the screen as the audience crowded into the ARCO Forum easily proved the assertion that Richard Parker made minutes later in his introductory remarks: Here was a man who was not merely a celebrity, but rather embodied that rarer quality, fame.
The yield on students admitted to the College has reached a level not seen since the early 1970s. Close to 80 percent of the students admitted to the Class of 2006 have chosen to enroll this coming September. The high yield means that it is unlikely that anyone will be admitted from the waiting list this year.
For most of us, time slips by in increments of days, hours, and minutes, measured by the tick of a second hand or the yawn at a meeting. But for Norman Ramsey, the Higgins Professor of Physics Emeritus and one of the developers of the atomic clock, time is measured in the tiny movements of atoms and a second is defined as the time it takes a cesium atom to make 9,192,631,770 oscillations.
Call them what you will – winners, fighters, survivors – the 2002 Ivy League champion baseball team, who just won all the marbles with a two-game sweep of Princeton this past Saturday (May 11) at ODonnell Field, is a sneaky bunch. Since the second half of the season, the Crimson, who entered the Ivy arena in early April nine games under .500, have conducted a below-the-radar drive toward the Ivy title, picking their battles, and picking up wins.
Sociologist David Riesman, best known for his influential study of post-World War II American society, The Lonely Crowd, died May 10 in Binghamton, N.Y., of natural causes. He was 92.
Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers visited the Peoples Republic of China from May 10 through May 14. Summers was accompanied on the trip by 13 Harvard faculty members who met with many Chinese scholars, including those with ties to various Harvard-related programs currently under way in China. Summers and the faculty members also met with Chinese government and education officials and Harvard alumni who gathered from across Asia.
The Program on Justice, Welfare, and Economics at Harvard University has announced its graduate student fellowship recipients for 2002-03. This new, interdisciplinary initiative connects faculty and student research across the University, and promotes research, learning, and knowledge connecting the study of freedom, justice, and economics to human welfare and development. Dissertation fellowships and research grants will support Harvard graduate students whose research topics are relevant to questions of justice and human welfare. The main thrust of this initiative is to develop a new generation of students, linked to distinguished scholars, whose work encompasses ethical, political, and economic dimensions of human development. The members of the faculty committee involved in the initiative are professors Martha Minow and Thomas Scanlon (co-chairs), K. Anthony Appiah, Jorge I. Dominguez, Benjamin Friedman, Michael Kremer, Jane Mansbridge, Frank Michelman, Dennis Thompson, and Richard Tuck. The program is housed at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
The Skytte Foundation at Swedens Uppsala University has announced that the 2002 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science will be awarded to Sidney Verba, the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library. According to the Skytte Foundation, Verba was chosen for his penetrating empirical analysis of political participation and its significance for the functioning of democracy.
Two Harvard College seniors and one junior have been named recipients of the Joseph L. Barrett Award. Administered by the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC), the award is named in memory of Joe Barrett 73, and is given to students who have enhanced the learning of others. This years recipients Bartlomiej Czech 02, Matej Sapak 03, and Elizabeth Tippett 02 were honored at an awards ceremony on Monday (May 13).
Dennis C. Marnon, administrative officer at Houghton Library, has been named the recipient of the 2001-02 Douglas W. Bryant Fellowship. Marnon will use the fellowship to pursue his work on the recovery and description of Charles Olsons research notes on the life and works of Herman Melville.
For the past nine years the Weissman International Internship Program, established by Paul (52) and Harriet Weissman in 1994, has provided nearly 150 Harvard sophomores and juniors with the opportunity to participate in an international internship in a field of work related to their academic and career goals. The internship strives to expose students to other cultural, political, and economic systems.
Eileen Chang 04, a history and literature concentrator in Quincy House, is committed to improving the Spanish she has studied since she was in junior high school.
The Office of the Assistant to the President and Workforce Initiatives, Office of Human Resources at Harvard University, recently sponsored the Seventh Workforce Management Conference at the Law School (HLS). Focusing on Globalization and Diversity in the 21st Century University, the conference opened with remarks by President Lawrence H. Summers, who stressed the Universitys commitment to being the best in a tolerant, respectful, and civil environment.
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 today.
This summer, when Harvard rolls out the new and improved online HOLLIS catalog, library patrons – faculty, students, staff, and other researchers – will benefit from a number of new features. The entirely Web-based catalog has a new format and design, offering users a variety of new and more functional features, while giving users more control over their library transactions. Access to the HOLLIS catalog will be via the Harvard Libraries portal (http://lib.harvard.edu), which contains general information about the libraries, such as hours of operation and locations.
Scientists have shown that the kitchen sink – not the regularly scrubbed toilet – harbors the most fecal matter in the average home, carried there by unwashed hands after using the bathroom.
As part of Cambridges annual GoGreen Month Celebration, Rob Gogan (left), waste manager for Harvard’s Facilities Maintenance Operations, receives a GoGreen Award for Harvard’s recycling work from Cambridge Mayor Michael Sullivan (right).
The Kennedy School of Governments Carr Center for Human Rights Policy has announced the appointment of Michelle Greene as its new executive director. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Greene brings an array of experience in law, management consulting, government, and human rights to the Carr Center.
Actor Harrison Ford received the 2002 Global Environmental Citizen Award from Harvard Medical Schools Center for Health and the Global Environment Monday (May 13) for his efforts to protect the planets biodiversity.
In this age of desktop publishing, on-demand printing, and more copy machines than pay telephones, its easy to forget where the whole thing started, but a visit to the Bow and Arrow Press in Adams House is a good place to refresh your memory.
Harvard pitcher Mark Wahlberg ’03, left, receives a high-five from shortstop Mark Mager ’02 as Nick Carter ’02 , right, looks on, after Harvard won the Ivy league championship by…
A year after having his arm blown off attempting to clear a land mine, Sgt. Jones is still in constant pain from the injury, despite taking many different precription painkillers and trying everything to numb the pain from experimental electric stimulation to a daily six-pack.
Genes that have allowed brains to become larger and more complicated have been found and cloned by researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the California Institute of Technology.
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