Author, activist, and pastor the Rev. Anthony Campolo will be in residence at the Memorial Church as the 2002 Easter Missioner. Along with his wife, writer and editor Peggy Campolo, he will lead a series of events on the topic Jesus Is Alive: Now What? All events take place at the Memorial Church and are free and open to the public.
Harvard and the Rowland Institute for Science, an interdisciplinary research institute in Cambridge, have negotiated a merger agreement, to become effective later this spring. This merger aims to both strengthen and enrich the Rowlands intellectual and physical resources, building on a longstanding collaborative relationship with Harvard, and to enable Harvard to develop its research and teaching opportunities, drawing upon the unique resources of the institute.
Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE) has announced the approval of the new rent schedule for approximately 2,300 Harvard-owned apartments rented by graduate students and other University affiliates. The new rents will take effect July 1, when the 2002-03 rental season begins.
Harvards Class of 2006 has been selected from a record pool of 19,605. The 2,068 admitted students were notified by letter and e-mail on Wednesday, April 3. The percentage of admitted students was the lowest in Harvards history (10.5 percent).
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced that financial support for short-term intellectual collaborations will be made available for exploratory and advanced seminars. These seminars are intended to offer resources for Harvard faculty and their colleagues at other universities in developing new ideas. The Radcliffe Institute will provide a meeting space, travel and hotel expenses, and administrative support for the seminars.
College students have continued binge drinking at about the same rate over the past 10 years, despite increases in alcohol education programs and substance-free on-campus housing, and a decrease in high school binge drinking, according to a Harvard School of Public Health study.
Harvard Club of NYC in Cambridge Members of the admissions committee of the Harvard Club of New York City will be at Pound Hall (Room 334) and the Murr Center’s…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering a fellowship award for the 2002-03 academic year for doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic consistent with the centers research agenda. The Meyer Dissertation Fellowship award, named in honor of John R. Meyer, professor of capital formation and economic growth emeritus, of the Kennedy School of Government, provides a $5,000 stipend. Acceptance of the award comes with the understanding that the Joint Center will have the option of publishing a portion of the paper as a Joint Center working paper, or in the annual State of the Nations Housing Report.
John M. Shlien, professor of education and counseling psychology emeritus, died on March 23 at his vacation home in Big Sur, Calif. Shlien, 83, was a leading researcher in the field of counseling and psychotherapy. He had been suffering from cancer for several months.
Harvard undergraduates are notoriously extracurricular. When the books close, the lights come up on student-sponsored concerts, plays, operas, or house formals.
On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges faced hostile crowds as the first black child to attend an all-white New Orleans school. Since then, Bridges has become iconized by Norman Rockwell in a painting of the girl in a white dress escorted by federal marshals, and by Robert Coles in a picture book for children featuring Bridges. The person, not the icon, will speak to the Harvard community on Thursday, April 18, at 6 p.m. in the Memorial Church. The conversation with Bridges is co-sponsored by the Divinity School, the Graduate School of Education, the Harvard Childrens Initiative, Adams House, the Division of General Pediatrics at Childrens Hospital, and the Memorial Church. An informal reception and book signing will follow the event.
On Friday, April 12, at 3 p.m., a service of thanksgiving for the life of Nathan Marsh Pusey 28, 24th president of Harvard College, will be held in the Memorial Church.
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has awarded $220,000 to a research team involving five University faculty members to realize a project in Religion in Global Politics. This decision marked the centers third annual award of a Weatherhead Initiative grant, a program established in 1998 by a generous gift from Albert and Celia Weatherhead and the Weatherhead Foundation.
Periodically, the Harvard Administrators Forum has sponsored fairs for the Harvard community, showcasing various departments and services. This year, as we all know, was different, and as a result, the forum decided the focus of its event should be giving back to the community. Thus, the volunteer fair of Wednesday, March 27.
Following a nationwide search that began last fall, President Lawrence H. Summers announced today that he has appointed Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, leading historian of education and president of the Chicago-based Spencer Foundation, as the next dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Lagemann succeeds Jerome T. Murphy, who served as dean from 1992 through June 2001, and Judith Singer and John Willett, who have served jointly as acting dean since Murphy’s departure. Lagemann will assume her duties in July.
March 24, 1943: John F. Connolly – familiar to generations of students as John the Yard Cop – turns 75, still making his rounds as the dean of Crimson police. A native of Charlestown, he began working at Harvard in 1906.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 30. 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.
In a matter of minutes, a line of tense Harvard Medical School (HMS) seniors turned into a talkative mob outside the Medical School Registrars Office Thursday (March 21) as Match Days anxiety turned to relief with the opening of a little white envelope.
AIDS is in the air in Botswana. On the airwaves, actually. They call it the radio disease, according to Harvard AIDS Institute Chairman Max Essex, because so many public service announcements urging safe sex are broadcast.
Having banished a C-Span crew who were busily setting up under the misapprehension that they would be allowed to record the proceedings, Stephen Jay Gould trudged to the podium of the Natural History Museums Geological Lecture Hall carrying a heavily laden canvas tote bag. The tote contained his latest book, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, plus several of his earlier volumes.
Yellow and green are considered colors of healing in a number of ancient traditions. This past March in dazzling arrays of golden daffodils these colors filled the modern offices throughout the University. And these bright visitors were intimately connected with healing. Daffodil Days at Harvard is a yearly fund drive that raises money for the American Cancer Foundation.
Goethe called architecture frozen music. What harmonies might he have heard had he visited the Fogg Museum? Perhaps a Haydn symphony to go with the buildings Georgian façade, or a Palestrina madrigal to complement the interior courtyard (a replica of the Sangallo loggia at San Biagio, Montepulciano), or a Purcell overture to echo against the baroque English woodwork in the Naumburg Room.
The University of Maine men’s hockey team clinched the opening round of the NCAA East Regionals, 4-3 in overtime, on Saturday afternoon (March 23) at the Worcester Centrum, ending Harvard’s…
The sixth annual Celebration of Faculty and Staff Authors at the Graduate School of Education was held at the Gutman Library on March 8. This gala event, sponsored by the Deans Office, honored 32 GSE authors who published books or created multimedia productions during the past year. The occasion also marked the 82nd anniversary of the Schools founding on March 8, 1920.
At the Faculty Councils 11th meeting of the year, Professor William Fash (anthropology) and Professor William Kirby (history) presented the Report on Study Abroad prepared by the Facultys Standing Committee on Out-of-Residence Study.
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