Despite the numbers – 13 straight wins and a No. 13 seed – its not luck thats taken the Harvard womens basketball team to its 4th appearance at the NCAA Tournament this Saturday (March 16) in Chapel Hill, N.C. That fact can be squarely blamed on forward Hana Peljto 04 and center Reka Cserny 05. Harvards fab frontcourt – recently named the Ivy Leagues Player and Rookie of the Year, respectively – led the Crimson with 36 combined points per game, a 22-5 overall record, and an Ivy title.
Daniel Lieberman can see millions of years of human evolution at a glance. The collection of skulls on his office shelves come from chimpanzees, long-extinct humans, and modern men and women. The hollow eye sockets, ancient teeth, and empty skulls pose the same question every day: What made us different from our archaic ancestors?
As a result of productive collective bargaining, Harvard University and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254 have reached agreement on a new contract that will significantly increase wages and address the affordability of health care for Harvards custodial workers. The contract represents the commitment of Harvard and the union to maintaining a constructive relationship and includes many significant improvements for Harvards workers.
In last weeks Harvard in history column, the item for February 1963 incorrectly stated that Harvard University Press had occupied Randall Hall since 1916. The correct occupant was the University Printing Office.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, March 2. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
The father had high expectations for his son, hoping perhaps that he would write great literature one day. So he named the child Shakespeare, no small burden for a boy brought up on a farm on the West Indian island of Dominica. And with a surname of Christmas, you might expect a personage as windy and colorful as a Dickens character. But Shakespeare Christmas, known to his friends as Chris, is a shy, unassuming man of 54 who works as a custodian in the Music Department at Paine Hall. He acknowledges falling short of his fathers grandiose goals, but is content, he says, to have helped pave the way for his own children.
Just minutes after the Harvard womens basketball team won its seventh Ivy League crown, beating Yale 77-65 on Friday (March 1), senior captain Katie Gates reflected on her own start, as a kid fan of the University of Kansas womens team.
On March 4, President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles officially dedicated Harvards new Bauer Laboratory, which will house the Bauer Center for Genomics Research. The new building was made possible by a major gift from Charles T. (Ted) Bauer 42. For family, friends, alumni/ae, guests, and members of the faculty and staff, the dedication program included a tour of the new building, the dedication ceremony, and faculty-led symposia on genomics and on imaging and mesoscale structures. During the dedication, Dean Knowles gratefully acknowledged Bauers gift, and spoke of the excitement of faculty, fellows, and students about the new center: Ted, we recognize your prescience, we salute your generosity, and we thank you for launching biological sciences at Harvard so splendidly into the 21st century.
The health status of women and their children is a key factor influencing whether single mothers moving off welfare can remain employed, according to a study by researchers at the School of Public Health (SPH). Having a health limitation increased a womans probability of job loss by 57 percent, while having a child with a health limitation increased the risk by 33 percent. The study appears in the Winter 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Womens Association, http://www.jamwa.org.
Harvard Business School (HBS) officials recently announced the formation of the Service Leadership Fellows Program to encourage students seeking to make a significant contribution to society early in their careers to apply for one- or two-year postgraduate service fellowships.
Some anthropologists travel thousands of miles to reach their fieldwork sites. John L. Jackson Jr. traveled a few blocks to reach his, but its proximity didnt make gathering or interpreting the data any less challenging. As a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University, Jackson conducted his fieldwork in Harlem, just uptown from Columbias main campus.
During the first week of September 2001, the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) launched a unique program that brought 13 senior officials studying in an Asian university to take courses with their counterparts at the School.
Continuing to enact a strategic plan that calls for expanding its core faculty and fostering greater student-faculty interaction, Harvard Law School (HLS) has hired two new assistant professors. Ryan Goodman and Guhan Subramanian will officially join the HLS faculty in July and begin teaching in the fall.
The first-ever American Indian tribally operated eagle sanctuary that helps meet a pueblos religious and ceremonial needs, an internationally recognized Native American lacrosse team whose members travel abroad using passports issued by their Indian nation, and a tribal wellness program that prevents and combats diabetes are among the 16 finalists in the Universitys American Indian tribal governance awards program for the year 2002.
The Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government has announced the availability of one doctoral fellowship for the 2002-03 academic year. The fellowship, designed to provide the successful applicant with the opportunity to complete, or make significant progress toward the completion of his or her dissertation, is open to any student in good standing in a Harvard University doctoral or advanced degree program. Generally, the successful applicant will have advanced to doctoral candidacy. Applicants who have not yet advanced to candidacy, however, may be considered.
For the 2002-03 academic year, Harvards package of undergraduate tuition, room, board, and student fees will increase by 4.9 percent, to $35,950. Costs include: tuition, $24,630 room rate, $4,461 board, $4,041 health services fee, $1,020 and student services fee, $1,798.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter, wrote John Keats. In the silence of the Music Buildings Early Instrument Room, the unheard melodies are practically deafening.
Tickets are sold out for a public address by Democratic New York senator and former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is scheduled to address the Harvard community during a 3 p.m. speech at Memorial Hall’s Sanders Theater today, March 11.
When poet and author Carrie Allen McCray attended Alabamas Talladega College in the early 1930s, images of black women were everywhere: on pancake mix, on cookie jars, on salt and pepper shakers.
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