Ali S. Asani, Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Cultures, will join 24 students in being honored at the annual David Aloian Dinner and Student/Faculty Award Ceremony to be held at the end of the semester in the Quincy House Dining Hall. For the past 20 years, the director of the Harvard Foundation and the dean of Harvard College have presented Harvard Foundation Awards to students who have made significant contributions to intercultural and interracial understanding and harmony at Harvard College.
The U.S. Treasury Department tapped into Harvards scholarly expertise last Friday (April 26) when about 100 government officials attended a seminar in Washington titled Islamic Finance 101.
Two people who have spent much of their lives working to challenge and correct social injustice were recognized this past Tuesday (April 30) at an award ceremony organized by the Kennedy Schools Center for Public Leadership.
Daniel R. Glickman, who has spent more than 25 years in public service on both the federal and local levels, has been named director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School of Government by Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. Glickman will succeed Sen. David Pryor, who will be leaving the directors post in June after two years at the Kennedy School.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the nations pre-eminent learned society and research institution, announced earlier this week its newly elected fellows and foreign honorary members. Members of this years class – composed of 177 fellows and 30 foreign honorary members – were honored for their achievements in fields ranging from mathematics to medicine, from computer science to literary criticism, and from public affairs to the performing arts. Thirteen members of Harvards faculty have been elected to join the 2002 class.
Rodney A. Hawes (MBA 69), reflected in a video monitor, speaks at the dedication of the new Harvard Business School building that bears his name at a ceremony Friday (April 26). Hawes Halls eight classrooms are equipped with advanced technology to facilitate the dynamic interchange between faculty and students in the Schools hallmark case teaching method. HBS Dean Kim B. Clark, members of the Hawes family, and architects from the firm Einhorn, Yaffee, Prescott Architecture & Engineering P.C. also attended the dedication.
Claire Mallardi, lecturer on dramatic arts and artistic director Emerita, Radcliffe College, has been named the recipient of the 2001-02 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award. Administered by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, the award carries an honorarium of $10,000.
Add parades, a cappella, and fan dancing to the seven livelies and youve got some small notion of the astonishing array of arts and entertainment that will be offered up to the Harvard Community and friends over the upcoming week known as Arts First. This 10th anniversary of the annual event features concerts, poetry readings, dance recitals, childrens Shakespeare, Christian a cappella, and a musical about a homicidal barber whose victims end up in pies.
Springfest this year bloomed into a bigger, better event that included the entire Harvard College community, thanks to co-sponsorship from President Lawrence H. Summers.
Grownups and children filed quietly into the Memorial Church on April 18, their faces bright with expectation. A group of teenagers with the letters YMCA emblazoned across their sweatshirts looked for a pew where they could sit together as the church quickly filled.
To be more accessible to alumni and to offer improved programs and services, the Harvard Alumni Association has moved. The new address is: University Place, 124 Mt. Auburn St., sixth floor, North Entrance, Cambridge, MA 02138
At its 13th meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed possible changes in grading practices and policies in Harvard College with deans Susan Pedersen (history and Undergraduate Education) and Jeffrey Wolcowitz (economics and Undergraduate Education).
April 1943 – Signs of the times, as reported by Douglas A. Brown 44 (Harvard Alumni Bulletin): The end of an era came last week on Soldiers Field as the sole surviving representatives of the cavalry and horse-drawn artillery units of the Military Science Department were ridden off by student cadets to an MP detachment in Maynard [Mass.]. As the Army became more and more mechanical, less and less emphasis was placed on the Harvard Regiment, and now the stables along the Parkway are empty. Since [1919,] the year after the Armistice [, . . .] the Army has maintained a string of horses at Soldiers Field for the use of the R.O.T.C. regiment, and in years past the mounts have been used by R.O.T.C. polo teams and various horse-drawn outfits, but polo teams were discontinued last year and intensive class work and drill leave little time for equitation classes and privileged riding.
Harvard University officials participated April 24 in a mock disaster exercise organized by the city of Cambridges Local Emergency Planning Committee. The drill involved local, state, and federal response teams, Cambridge Public Health and School Departments, Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology officials, Boston and Somerville representatives, and other health and environmental organizations.
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.
Hiking to the far reaches of his classroom and laboratory – 3,000 wooded acres in Petersham – Harvard Forest director David Foster stops to admire a small plot of trees that have been pulled down by researchers to simulate the effect of a hurricane.
In spite of a sluggish regional and national economy, Harvard employees dug deeper than ever to help those in need, pushing the 2001 – 2002 Community Gifts Through Harvard over its $1 million goal and 12 percent over last years total. In all, Harvard faculty, staff and retirees donated $1,053,756 to charities through one-time donations or regular paycheck withdrawals.
A four-decade-old civil war and more than a decade of narco-terrorism have left Colombias civil institutions bruised and bloody, seriously undermining Latin Americas oldest democracy. Every 20 minutes a Colombian is killed almost 40,000 Colombians have been killed in the past decade. Approximately 1.6 million of Colombias 40 million people are poverty-stricken refugees who have run away from their villages to escape the violence. The civil war is largely funded by Colombias cocaine production, which is 80 percent of the worlds total.
Herchel Smith, a distinguished chemist and philanthropist, recently bequeathed to Harvard new legacies that, when combined with his lifetime generosity, could amount to $100 million over time to support graduate fellowships, new science professorships, and an exchange program for postdoctoral fellows between Harvard and Cambridge universities. The gift, which is among the largest ever received by Harvard, will provide unprecedented funding for the sciences.
I contemplated taking too many pills less than a week after I arrived at Harvard. Depression was tightening its grip on my mind, and I was certain that I was powerless to stop it. In the world according to depression, you did not earn any of the positive things that happen in your life, and the negative events were your fault even before they happened.
Rachel G. Bratt, a leading expert on the housing and community development sectors, has been named a fellow at Harvards Joint Center for Housing Studies. Bratt is a professor at Tufts University, where she served as a chair of the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from 1995 to 2001. She has been on the Tufts faculty since 1976.
The daily rhythms of the body – once thought to be strictly governed by a master clock lodged in the brain – appear to be driven to a remarkable degree by tiny timepieces pocketed in organs all over the body. Whats more, these peripheral timepieces appear to be strikingly idiosyncratic in appearance – more like Swatch watches than the classic Timex. Clocks located in the liver and heart appear to use very different sets of genes to perform essentially the same functions, researchers at the Medical School (HMS) and the School of Public Health (SPH) report in the April 21 Nature online.
For the 10th straight year, Harvard will explode with the creative outpouring of students, faculty, and alumni next weekend (May 2 – 5), as Arts First fills the entire campus with a riot of color, sound, and motion.
In his introductory remarks at a lecture Sunday night (April 21) sponsored by the Museum of Natural History (HMNH) at Sanders Theatre, Mellon Professor of the Sciences and Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus E.O. Wilson called Richard Leakey a heroic figure whose life is an epic. He briefly recounted Leakeys bio: The son of the paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey, as a young man Leakey switched to the family business – namely discovering fossils in East Africa that illuminate African animal history and the early evolutionary history of the human species. He went on to become director of the National Museums of Kenya and of the Kenya Wildlife Service to lead the ban on the ivory trade to raise $150 million for wildlife conservation and – despite an airplane crash that cost him both his legs but scarcely slowed him down – to be appointed head of Kenyas civil service and secretary of the cabinet.
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