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.
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).
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