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.
March 29, 1872 – The Arnold Arboretum (the nations oldest arboretum) formally comes into existence when, at the discretion of three Boston trustees (George B. Emerson, John James Dixwell, and Francis E. Parker), a residuary bequest of over $100,000 from New Bedford (Mass.) merchant James Arnold is legally transferred to the Harvard Corporation to develop a scientific station for the study and cultivation of trees. The Corporation agrees to let the fund grow to $150,000 before devoting the net income to (1) maintaining an institution to be known as the Arnold Arboretum and (2) supporting an Arnold Professor to oversee it. The Corporation also agrees to locate the Arboretum on 120 acres in the Jamaica Plain/Forest Hills section of West Roxbury (Boston) left to it by Benjamin Bussey. (Subsequent additions increase the size to more than 265 acres.)
The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations presents Per Wästberg, a member of the Nobel Prize Committee of the Swedish Academy. Wästberg will discuss The Nobel Prize: Who Gets It and Who Does Not, on Thursday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m., at the Memorial Church. This is the inaugural Peter J. Gomes Lecture.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, March 16. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Harvard fencing sends three to NCAA Championships Junior foiler Ben Schmidt has been selected to compete at the NCAA Fencing Championships slated for March 21-24 at Drew University in Madison,…
The way the word model is used in academic discourse can seem a bit of a letdown for those who grew up gluing together miniature aircraft carriers from boxes full of tiny plastic parts or stretching tissue paper over the balsa frameworks of World War I biplanes. Too often in academe models turn out to be something entirely abstract – numerical constructions that exist only in the electronic environment of a computer.
To the tune of 85-58, the North Carolina Tar Heels tripped up the Harvard womens basketball team this past Saturday (March 16) at the Big Dance in Chapel Hill. Capitalizing on superior quickness and physical play – and the Crimsons cold shooting (33 percent) – the fourth-seeded Tar Heels, who led by 18 at the half, broke the game open with a 13-0 run early in the second quarter. Ivy League Rookie of the Year Reka Cserny led the Crimson with 16 points, while sophomore Tricia Tubridy made some noise with four blocks. The loss capped an Ivy title winning campaign for the Crimson (22-6), and the Ivy Leagues highest NCAA Tournament seeding at 13.
Talk about a turnaround. After dropping seven of their final 10 regular season games, the Harvard mens hockey teams postseason hopes werent exactly sky high. Yet with a most unusual three game win streak under their belt: all OT wins – against Brown, Clarkson, and Ivy Champion Cornell – the Crimson suddenly finds itself thrust into the thick of the 2002 NCAA Tournament. Beating Cornell in double overtime 4-3 on Saturday, March 16, in Lake Placid, N.Y., the Crimson extended its very own March madness by capturing its sixth ECAC title, its first since 1994, while receiving an automatic bid to the NCAA regionals.
William Christie 66, internationally acclaimed harpsichordist, conductor, musicologist, and teacher, will receive the eighth annual Harvard Arts Medal.
Business leaders in human resources and knowledge management gathered at the Faculty Club Wednesday, March 13 for the quarterly meeting of Learning Innovations Laboratories (LILA) of the Harvard Graduate School of Educations Project Zero. LILA participants discuss organizational change and share stories from the trenches, said David Perkins, professor of education and facilitator of LILA. These are not corporate bottom-line people. These are people concerned about the human dimension, about getting people to work together, he said.
Sixteen Harvard-related students are among the 30 recipients for the 2002 Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship. Fellows receive a $20,000 maintenance stipend plus half-tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States. Of the 16 recipients from Harvard, 11 are present or to be enrolled graduate students, four are alumni, and one is an undergraduate.
William Saturno was hot, frustrated, low on food, low on water, and low on patience when he sought shade in a trench dug by looters at the San Bartolo archaeological site deep inside the Guatemalan jungle.
Last month, when Professor Charles Lieber and his students made wires whose thinness is measured in atoms instead of fractions of an inch, he boasted excitedly that there are so many potential uses for this technology that we feel like kids in a candy shop.
George Francis Carrier, one of the worlds pre-eminent applied mathematicians and T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics Emeritus, died of cancer in a Boston hospital on March 8. He was 83 and lived in Wayland.
To reach Hal Hartleys office, you must descend into the basement of Sever Hall and wend your way through a maze of low-ceilinged corridors, stopping in momentary perplexity at restroom doors and emergency exits until you find yourself in the warren of rooms that houses the filmmaking faculty of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES).
Lifting the U.S. ban on paid organ donations might help meet the desperate need of thousands of sick and dying recipients, but some fear it would also expand a thriving international market that already views the poor as little more than a source for spare parts.
Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has announced this years Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. Honored for their eminence in history, literature, or art, as such terms may be liberally interpreted, the new fellows are Tom Conley, professor of romance languages and literatures Peter Ellison, professor of anthropology Michael McCormick, professor of history Michael Sandel, professor of government Kay Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History.
Old-school feminism came to the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study last week (March 12), as author and activist Andrea Dworkin spoke and signed copies of her latest book, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, at the Cronkhite Living Room.
The urge to help others may not be universal, but it is unquestionably widespread, and, just as surely, its an urge that has been strengthened by the unforgettable events of six months ago. On March 27, Harvard employees will have the opportunity to attend the first Harvard Volunteer Fair to explore specific ways they can satisfy that urge. The fair is being held by the Harvard Administrators Forum and will take place in Loker Commons (lower level of Memorial Hall) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Longtime benefactors Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood have donated Mrs. Calderwoods extensive collection of Islamic art to Harvards Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The gift continues the Harvard University Art Museums leadership role as a recipient of major acquisitions for the purpose of teaching and research.
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