The provocative 2002 Harvard Colloquium on International Affairs, which was sponsored by more than a dozen Harvard Schools, centers, and programs this past April can still be viewed in video format on the Internet. You can be a virtual guest at the more than a dozen panels that made up Globalization After September 11: Has Anything Changed? Former secretaries of the treasury Robert Rubin and Lawrence H. Summers were among the speakers. To see and hear the proceedings, visit http://www.international-colloquium.harvard.edu.
May 21, 1890 – A University statute combines faculty of the Lawrence Scientific School with the College Faculty (which is the same as the Graduate School Faculty) to form the 62-member Faculty of Arts and Sciences. There are 12 Divisions, with larger ones broken down into Departments.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday (May 4). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. today. Individuals wishing to meet with Provost Hyman will be welcomed on a first-come, first-served basis. A Harvard ID is required.
A report released Wednesday (May 7) by Harvard Universitys vice president for administration details a series of actions taken by the University in the last three months to increase wages for service workers, enhance education and training programs, and develop long-term improvements in the climate for workers on campus. The report shows that the University is on schedule in its implementation of recommendations made in December 2001 by the Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) concerning compensation and employment practices for Harvards lowest paid workers.
On Oct. 16, 1859, John Brown and 21 men – 16 whites and five blacks – raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, W.Va., with the intention of distributing arms to Southern slaves and fomenting a violent uprising.
Marie Trottier has been in cereal and CD commercials, music videos and movies. Shes played a debutante, a dictator, and Elvis, complete with a white jumpsuit and sunglasses.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of Harvards W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, has announced the appointment of 12 new institute fellows for the 2002-03 academic year.
David Brion Davis, professor of history at Yale University and one of the worlds leading authorities on slavery, delivered the Nathan I. Huggins Lectures last week (April 30, May 1-2). The three lectures were titled: The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery, 1819: Signs of a New Era, and The African-American Impact on American Abolitionism and Southern Responses to the Perils of Antislavery. The lectures were sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute.
Juan Flores of the City University of New York threatens to douse Columbia Universitys Rodolfo de la Garza with a bottle of water during a panel discussion on Latinos Remaking America Thursday (May 2) at the Graduate School of Educations Askwith Education Forum. Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Nieman Foundation, the forum capped a daylong conference at the GSE titled Latinos at the Crossroads, which released research from the book Latinos: Remaking America, edited by Thomas Professor of Education Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco.
The Harvard baseball team scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth to beat Brown, 2-1, in a one-game playoff contest held Wednesday (May 8) at ODonnell Field. With the victory, the Crimson clinched the 2002 Red Rolfe Division Championship. Harvard will host Princeton – the Lou Gehrig Division champs – in a best-of-three series this weekend (May 11-12) for the Ivy League title. The winner of that series will then advance to the NCAA Tournament as the Ivy League representative. The Crimson last won the Ivy title in 1999. First baseman Josh San Salvador 02 (left) puts the tag on a Brown baserunner in an unsuccessful pick-off attempt in Wednesdays action.
The Harvard mens heavyweight crew won its 12th straight race on the Charles this past Saturday (May 4), edging Northeastern by 2.8 seconds to remain perfect on the spring. The win wrecked the Huskies hopes for an undefeated season.
The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) has received a $705,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund two three-year postdoctoral fellowships in conservation science at the Straus Center for Conservation. The grant will enable scholars to pursue postdoctoral scientific research within an art museum setting. Fellows will draw upon the Straus Centers outstanding resources, including the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, and the collections of HUAM.
Four faculty members have been named this years Harvard College Professors in recognition of their outstanding work as undergraduate teachers as well as for their exceptional achievements in graduate education and research.
The link between terrorism and global poverty isnt as clear as many initially thought and may not exist at all, panelists said at a two-day conference (May 3-4) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government that sought real-world suggestions on how to cut terrorism off at the roots.
An unusual collaboration of academic, government, and citizen organizations including the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) is taking aim at the asthma epidemic raging in the United States by seeking solutions in Bostons public housing projects.
Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell (D-Maine), nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating the Good Friday peace accord in Northern Ireland, has accepted an invitation from Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. to address graduates of the Kennedy School on Wednesday, June 5. Mitchells speech will begin at 10 a.m. in the ARCO Forum.
An adorable – well, not really – squirrel snacks on some garbage outside the Science Center. Despite a warm winter, Harvards squirrel population has grown accustomed to easy pickings.
As one of the largest population groups in history moves toward retirement, a Harvard colloquium has been organized to explore the ramifications of a phenomenon that will impact the economy, health care, politics, and culture in the United States and around the world. The Demographic Revolution: Prospects for a Maturing World will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., May 18, at the Ames Courtroom at the Law School.
Dressed in a T-shirt, jeans, and sneakers, the youthful-looking Edward Zwick 74 was scarcely distinguishable from the Harvard undergraduates who came last Friday (May 3) to hear him speak.
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (HILR) – a membership organization offering courses in a variety of liberal arts subjects to former professionals and academics – is presenting a concert on May 18 in Sanders Theatre featuring internationally renowned violinist Joseph Lin. A 2000 Harvard graduate, Lin will be joined by pianist Benjamin Loeb 89, and cellist Sarah Carter, currently a sophomore at Harvard. The concert, which is open to the public, will benefit the Phillips Brooks House Association, a Harvard student-run public service organization with a dual mission of social service and social action.
Twenty-four juniors have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the nations oldest undergraduate honors organization. Their names, concentrations, and Houses follow:
The Stride Rite Community Service Program hosted its 14th annual awards reception on Tuesday (May 7) in appreciation of undergraduates who are dedicated to community service. At this years reception – Public Service: A Lifetime Commitment – which included a public service panel and awards ceremony, four postgraduate fellowships and 10 senior recognition awards were given.
Fair weather, fanfare, food, and a certain amount of foppery were just the trimmings in the feast of arts events and exhibitions that marked this years Arts First celebration. Starting off on a rather raw Thursday, the festival was, happily, greeted by warm and sunny weather for the following few days as talent staged a coup all across the University. From the classy co-ed a cappella of the Callbacks to the inspired improvisational comedy of On Thin Ice to Scandinavian fiddle music, this years offerings held the Harvard Square area enthralled. While classical music reverberated in the Fogg Art Museum Courtyard, Loker Commons was wailing the blues, and the Holden Chapel was filled with the spirit of Gilbert and Sullivan. As much variety could be found in the dance recitals, plays, films, readings, and exhibits livening up every corner of the campus. Arts First 2003 will have a tough act to follow!
Two scientists whose cardiovascular research has been credited with saving thousands of lives were honored on Wednesday (May 8) with the 14th annual Warren Alpert Foundation Scientific Prize at a ceremony at the Ritz Carlton Hotel.
Samantha Power, lecturer in public policy and outgoing executive director of the Kennedy Schools Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, has been bestowed the National Magazine Award by the American Society of Magazine Editors. The award honors Power and The Atlantic Monthly magazine for her article, Bystanders to Genocide, which appeared in the September issue of the magazine. The article explained the Clinton administrations response to the murder of 800,000 Rwandans in 1994.
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