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.
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.
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