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.
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.
Getting in shape has become a high-tech endeavor, as any fitness club habitué knows. Athletes strap on digital wristwatches and heart-rate monitors to chart the nuances of their workouts. Even once-humble treadmills now blink with confounding displays of electronics measuring anything from calories burned to miles trod to fluctuations in the stock market.
Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard’s 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, has died after a twenty-year battle with cancer. He was 60.
Sitting in a Harvard Square café in front of a half-eaten bagel and a Mountain Dew, Charity Bell could be any young mother, cradling a 3-month-old in one hand and a baby bottle in the other.
If the newest crop of Radcliffe Institute Fellows is any indication, the purpose of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is, perhaps, rocket science.
Juniors Angela Freeburg (right) of Cabot House and Justin Erlich of Quincy House have been chosen by the Harvard Alumni Association to receive the 2002 David Aloian Memorial Scholarships. The award recognizes special contributions to the quality of life in the Houses and thoughtful leadership that makes the College an exciting place in which to live and study. Each House community nominates one House resident for the award. This years scholars and their House Masters will be honored at the fall dinner of the HAA Board of Directors.
Two faculty members were misidentified in the May 9 issue (Four honored as College Professors). The caption should have listed William Mills Todd III (left) and Jeremy Bloxham as Harvard College Professors.
At its 15th meeting of the year, the Faculty Council reviewed the agenda for the May 21 faculty meeting, including the motion proposing merger of the departments of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Sanskrit and Indian Studies, and the motions concerning the calculation of grades and honors for students in Harvard College.
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.
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