History was made on May 6 as His Excellency President Stjepan Mesic was the first Croatian president to deliver a public address at Harvard. Mesics subject was Southeast Europe: From War to Stability.
Between jolts from his pager and rings from his desk phone, Atul Gawande pulls up X-rays on his computer and confers with his officemate, a fellow resident, about how best to handle a patients internal laceration. They speak in a seemingly cryptic language run over with acronyms and words ending in -tosis and -itis. Its 8:30 p.m. on a Tuesday and patients need beds, tests, and treatments. In the fluorescent light of an office lined with textbooks as big as toaster ovens, there is little of the quietude and serenity that is characteristically associated with a writers life.
Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers began a trip to the People’s Republic of China on May 10 and will visit the country through May 14. During his visit, Summers will deliver an address at Peking University, announce a joint Harvard/Development Research Center/Tsinghua University mid-career program, visit with various government and education officials, and speak with alumni who have gathered from all across Asia.
An article that appeared on page 13 of the May 2 issue (Silbert, Farrell receive activist award at KSG), mistakenly reported the amount of the award as $10,000. The amount is $100,000, to be shared by the two recipients. The winners also received a commemorative sculpture designed by Maya Lin, the creator of the Vietnam War Memorial.
Ashish Rajpals life journey has followed a meandering path. A native of India, he was launched on an international business career before a passion beckoned him to the Himalayas, then sent him to Harvard, where hes pursuing a masters in education at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) this year.
The Advanced Management Development (AMD) Program at the Harvard Design School is now accepting applications for its second class. The program is a long-term, high-level, international educational experience for successful real estate executives who want to expand their horizons and prepare to assume larger roles of leadership in their communities and in the industry.
Drinking tea on a regular basis may help protect patients with existing cardiovascular disease, according to a study in the May 7 issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, which finds that tea consumption is associated with an increased rate of survival following a heart attack.
Un libro te lleva al cualquier sitio que tu quieras: a book takes you wherever you want to go, 9-year-old Gabriel Castro told Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers on Friday (April 26).
Recent evidence for the existence of strange types of stars made from a new form of material raises some questions about the stability of matter in the universe.
A photo that appeared on page 12 of the April 25 edition should have identified Alison Vaughan as the executive director of Tutoring Plus of Cambridge. She was incorrectly listed as a tutor. The Gazette regrets the error.
At its 14th meeting of the year the Faculty Council considered a proposed merger of the departments of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and Sanskrit & Indian Studies with Professor Peter Bol (chair, E.A.L.C.) and Professor Leonard van der Kuijp (chair, Sanskrit and Indian Studies).
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, April 27. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. Individuals wishing to meet with President Summers or Provost Hyman will be welcomed on a first-come, first-served basis. A Harvard ID is required.
With globalization linking their fates, the developed world cannot afford to leave the developing world behind, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Wednesday (April 24), urging support for African efforts to help themselves.
President Lawrence H. Summers and seven Harvard professors are among the 72 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, the academy announced Tuesday (April 30). Members are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those elected bring the total number of active members to 1,907. With its eight new members, Harvard tied the University of California system for the highest number of electees this year.
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced the recipients of the 2002 Harvard Medal: Peter A. Brooke 52, M.B.A. 54, Sharon Elliott Gagnon, A.M. 65, Ph.D. 72, John A. Lithgow 67 and Daniel C. Tosteson 46, M.D. 48. First given in 1981, the Harvard Medal recognizes extraordinary service to the University. President Lawrence H. Summers will present the medals during the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association on the afternoon of Commencement, Thursday (June 6).
Harvard seniors Erica Levy, Christopher Papagianis, and Marc Wallenstein have been awarded the George Peabody Gardner Traveling Fellowship for 2002. The fellowship, available to graduating seniors who are concentrators (or joint concentrators) in the Departments of Visual and Environmental Studies, Anthropology, English, History and Literature, Literature, or Philosophy, is awarded to students who demonstrate a curiosity about the history and customs of cultures other than their own. The award includes a stipend for a year of travel and study.
Up until the month of showers, success for the Harvard baseball team appeared to be postponed indefinitely. The Crimson notched just three victories in 14 outings during their opening month of play, dropping their first six games of the season. Yet ever since a doubleheader sweep over reigning Ivy champion Princeton in early April, Harvard has continued to pour it on, winning 12 out of their last 22 games, while improving to 15-21 overall (11-5 Ivy).
The events of Sept. 11 have changed the way America responds to disasters, Daniel A. Craig, regional director (Region One) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), told a Harvard audience last month. FEMA needs to lead the charge in implementing these changes.
An article by Les Gura of the Hartford Courant about an instructor at Yale University who became the focus of stories that unfairly cast him as a murder suspect, is the inaugural winner of the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. The award, endowed by the former publisher of The Boston Globe and the Taylor family, and administered by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, carries a $10,000 prize.
Harvard Business School (HBS) students Matthew Mugo Fields 02 and Lucas Klein 02 and their business partner Jason Green like to begin their business plan presentations with a question: How does the U.S. Government forecast prison growth?
The Association of Theological Schools (ATS) in the United States and Canada and the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., have named François Bovon as a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology for 2002-03. Bovon, the Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion at the Divinity School, was named a fellow in the category of Bible and the Church, and will write on the topic of The New Testament and Early Christian Apocrypha.
The Joint Center for Housing Studies, a collaborative unit affiliated with the Harvard Design School and the Kennedy School of Government, has named masters degree candidates Connie Chung and Alastair Smith as its 2002 Emerging Leaders Fellowship recipients. Both Chung, an urban planning candidate at the Graduate School of Design, and Smith, a masters degree candidate in the Public Policy and Urban Planning Program at the Kennedy School of Government, have several years of experience in community development.
Paid family leave is where the rubber of two of Americas most cherished private institutions – the family and business – meets the road of public government.
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