Three of the 21st centurys foremost writers of English gathered at Harvard March 8 to read from their works. Sponsored by the Harvard Advocate, Americas oldest college literary magazine, the event featured poet John Ashbery 49, and prose writers Jamaica Kincaid and Salman Rushdie.
In an effort to improve medical teaching in an era when research is king and technology and societal changes are dramatically revising what it means to be a doctor, Harvard Medical School is launching an organization to recognize and support its best teachers and to innovate in medical education.
Can the nations oldest university, one with its roots sunk deep in American soil, embrace globalization? And what does this buzzword of globalization mean for education beyond swapping students across national borders?
The National Cancer Institute has awarded Harvard a $40 million chemistry grant to develop a laboratory that will dramatically enhance researchers ability to find the proteins involved in disease and identify agents that can manipulate them.
Martians battled humanity at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) Thursday night (March 7), and, to the delight of a partisan home crowd, the humans won.
When Gweneth Newman and Katherine Alberg Anderson decided to enter a design competition as a final project in their course on watershed management, they had no idea that they would end up $5,000 richer.
Since 1985, Harvard libraries increased spending on serial publications by 162 percent, while the total number of serials they purchased rose only 7 percent. Part of this disparity reflects the addition of electronic versions of journals, yet it also represents the expanding gap between the price of information and the ability of libraries to purchase it – a gap that demands new models of scholarly communication. The Harvard library community recently gathered to explore the issue at a program called Transforming Scholarly Communication. The meeting was aimed at raising awareness in the library community in anticipation of taking these issues to faculty and graduate students.
Terrorism can be located in the human heart. Soft-spoken Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh spoke these words to a hushed crowd at the Memorial Church March 8. We can remove terrorism from the human heart through the practice of deep listening. Deep listening can help remove wrong perceptions.
From National Public Radio to pierced teenagers in the yarn store, everyone knows that knitting is suddenly cool. Its the new yoga, says one magazine article its part of a post-Sept. 11 trend toward cocooning, say psychologists.
Robert Nozick, Pellegrino University Professor, will be remembered at a memorial service next Thursday, March 21, 2 p.m., in the Memorial Church. A reception will follow at the Faculty Club.
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.
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