Sylvia Mathews Burwell ’87, former president of American University and former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has been elected president of the Harvard University Board…
The scientist put what looked like black dust into a dish of water. Instead of dust, however, the particles were actually diodes, capable of emitting light under the right conditions. In the dish sat a cylinder, patterned with tiny dots of solder connected by threadlike lines of solder. The goal of the experiment was to get the tiny electronic devices to land on the solder dots.
From street vendors in India to fighter pilots in the U.S. Air Force, from teen pregnancy to religious asceticism, issues of gender united academics from around Harvard Friday (April 19) in an unusual cross-disciplinary conference.
For a team that was forced to share last seasons Ivy crown with the Harvard softball squad (thanks to some late-season Harvard heroics), Cornells 5-1 win over the Crimson this past Sunday (April 21) was a fitting bit of redemption for the Big Red. As Cornell drilled five hits in the fifth inning against Harvard in the first contest of the doubleheader, the Big Red simultaneously managed to bury Harvard hopes for another (partial or otherwise) Ivy crown. Likewise, the defeat knocked the hot Crimson team out of contention for a NCAA Tournament spot. Still, posting a strong 10-2 record in the Ivies (26-8 overall), the Crimson managed to secure second place behind the eventual champion Princeton Tigers – way ahead of the remainder of the Ivy pack, including third-place Cornell, who are .500 with two league games remaining.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has been selected by Harvards Nieman Fellows to receive the 2002 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism.
For the first time in most peoples lives, they will be able to see every planet in the solar system in one evening. The celestial show has already begun and will go on until early May. If you miss it, youll have to wait at least 70 years for a rerun.
The easygoing friendship between Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin was evident from the start of the event that capped the Third Annual Harvard Colloquium on International Affairs Friday night, (April 12), Rubins keynote address.
<April 28, 1865 – The Act of this date abolishes all ex officio members of the Harvard Board of Overseers, except the Harvard President and Treasurer (membership had long included state officials). This action, accepted by the Governing Boards in the same year, permanently severs the University from state government. The Act also provides that the 30 Overseers are to be elected in Cambridge on Commencement Day by holders of bachelors, masters, and honorary degrees. By 1916, the vote extends to all Harvard -degree-holders. A 1921 Act gives the Governing Boards the right to adopt new rules for Overseers elections without recourse to the Massachusetts General Court.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, April 13. 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.
Springfest, the traditional seasonal party and concert put on by the Undergraduate Council (UC), is, this year, going to break a bit from tradition. The event is still the undergraduate be-there-or-be-square to-do of the season, but this time it has a co-sponsor – President Lawrence H. Summers. Summers wants to take advantage of a golden opportunity to get better acquainted with the undergraduate population through his participation in the April affair.
Three selected for book-collecting prize Two seniors and one freshman have been awarded the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting. David Orenstein ’02 received a first prize of $1,000…
Spreading the wealth of the industrialized world to developing nations will certainly ease poverty, but the problems leading to international terrorism are too complex to be solved by economic programs alone, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen said Saturday, April 13.
As the Harvard baseball team warmed up to a blaring rendition of Welcome to the Jungle this past weekend (Saturday, April 13) at ODonnell Field, the tune could have served as a harbinger for the Radcliffe rugby team, playing within earshot on their home pitch. The young Radcliffe team (just two seniors deep) entered some pretty hostile terrain against a more experienced University of Massachusetts, Amherst squad. And once the dust settled, and there was plenty, UMass – a national title contender for the past three straight years – had manhandled Radcliffe, 32-3.
A new School of Public Health (SPH) study finds that among high-income nations, the United States has the highest rate of female homicide victimization. The United States accounts for 32 percent of the female population among 25 high-income countries, but 70 percent of all female homicides, and 84 percent of all female firearm homicides. Some 4,000 American females are murdered each year.
The recent anthrax scare and continuing threat of bioterrorism is prompting the revision of sometimes antiquated public health laws, but experts caution that drafters have to carefully consider whether the new laws trample civil liberties in efforts to protect public health.
In a monastery in northern India, thinly clad Tibetan monks sat quietly in a room where the temperature was a chilly 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Using a yoga technique known as g Tum-mo, they entered a state of deep meditation. Other monks soaked 3-by-6-foot sheets in cold water (49 degrees) and placed them over the meditators shoulders. For untrained people, such frigid wrappings would produce uncontrolled shivering.
In an hour-long debate in the ARCO Forum on April 11, two presidential environmental advisers – one currently in the Bush administration, the other previously in the Clinton administration – politely squared off on several controversial environmental issues. Among them: the urgency of human-induced global climate change, the need for increased conservation measures, and the eco-philosophy of President Bush that has left many seeing red, not green.
Michael Crichton 64, HMS 69, best-selling author and blockbuster director, came to Harvard Medical School Thursday, April 11, to deliver a lecture advertised as exploring the busy intersection of The Media & Medicine.
It was dark driving down the Dominican Republics narrow roads at 3 oclock in the morning. It was dark hiking into the Parque Nationale del Este, negotiating dirt trails by flashlight on an expedition to collect insects from the forest canopy above.
David A. Wan, currently president of the Penguin Group, the global trade book division of Pearson plc, has been named president and chief executive officer of Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP) Corp. Wan will succeed Linda Doyle, who will assume a faculty teaching position at HBS. Doyle has been HBSPs president and CEO since 1994. The transition will begin in May, with Wan assuming the CEO position July 1.
Their legs may be failing, buttressed by canes and walkers their hearing is amplified by mechanical aids the color of their hair is, for most, a distant memory.
When the curtain rises on The Happy Few, this years freshman musical, audiences will meet a stressed-out and sometimes sordid cast of characters (and stereotypes): exhausted test-takers, Wellesley co-eds on the prowl for rich Harvard husbands, a miserable daughter trying to escape from the clutches of her overbearing father, and a scheming dean, intent on expelling any free spirits from campus. For just one night, the frazzled student characters sing in the shows first number, Lord let me sing out free from dread.
Filmmaker Richard Rogers was known for his appetite for knowledge and his omnivorous interest in the world around him. That interest is reflected in the diversity of the films he made, ranging from portraits of American writers to an exploration of the Nicaraguan revolution to the biography of an early 19th century rural midwife, to searching investigations of his own life and family history.
When the curtain rises on The Happy Few, this years freshman musical, audiences will meet a stressed-out and sometimes sordid cast of characters (and stereotypes): exhausted test-takers, Wellesley co-eds on the prowl for rich Harvard husbands, a miserable daughter trying to escape from the clutches of her overbearing father, and a scheming dean, intent on expelling any free spirits from campus. For just one night, the frazzled student characters sing in the shows first number, Lord let me sing out free from dread.
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