Lei, Zhou win Weintraub Award Graduate student Elissa P. Lei of the Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and Zhaolan Zhou, former graduate student in the Department of Molecular and…
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, these are a few of the things we know about global warming: The average land-surface temperature of the Earth has risen by 1 degree Fahrenheit in the past century. Precipitation has increased by about 1 percent, and the sea level has risen 6 to 8 inches, in part due to the melting of mountain glaciers.
In the good old days, intellectual property battles at the OK Corral were fair fights between evenly matched foes. When General William Westmoreland sued CBS for libel in 1982, each side had the financial heft to hire the best lawyers and state its case.
The central functions of an academic community are learning, teaching, research and scholarship. By accepting membership in the University, an individual joins a community ideally characterized by free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others, and openness to constructive change. The rights and responsibilities exercised within the community must be compatible with these qualities.
In view of campus events last spring and since, the President of the University and the Deans of the Faculties have had a series of discussions in recent months regarding the rights and responsibilities of members of the Harvard community. These discussions have resulted in a statement by the President and Deans, which follows.
Its one of the smallest things ever made but it promises to revolutionize some of the most important technologies in our lives. Its a wire as thin as 15 atoms that can make light by itself and behave as a complete electronic device. Such capabilities could lead to new ways to compute, communicate, encode, detect, and identify.
Feb 5., 1954 – At the winter meeting of the Massachusetts Bar Association in Springfield, Law School Dean Erwin Griswold discusses the soundness and landmark significance of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which has lately gained much attention during congressional investigations of domestic Communist activity. The talk is broadcast over New England commercial radio stations and rebroadcast over WGBH-FM.
With negotiations between the University and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) ongoing, students and union members demonstrated Tuesday for custodial wages higher than those offered so far by Harvard. The
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, Feb. 23. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
Like many other jazz lovers, Ingrid Monson welcomed the recent Ken Burns documentary on the history of the music. But she found that Burns gave insufficient attention to one vital aspect of this unique art form, its collaborative and socially expressive qualities.
A haunting fragility pervades Reason, the current production at the Market Theater. Throughout the evening, which is as whimsical as it is cerebral, a series of interwoven stories unfold and layers of understanding are stripped away to reveal others beneath. One perception encases the next like the peels of an onion.
With five Harvardians divided between Team Canada and Team USA (six including U.S. coach Ben Smith 68), last Thursdays Olympic championship game in womens hockey was guaranteed gold for the Crimson hockey program. For Canadian Jennifer Botterill 03, it was also a bit of redemption. As the youngest member of the 1998 silver-medal team in Nagano, Botterills wait for gold finally ended with a 3-2 upset of the favored Americans, ending the Yanks 8-0 dominance over the Canadians (in pre-Olympic competition).
The Princeton womens swimming and diving team soaked the competition this past Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (Feb. 21-23) at the 25th annual Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships at Blodgett Pool. In capturing their third straight Ivy championship, the Tigers extended their dominance to a league-leading 13 titles. Princeton commanded many of the team events, including the 800- and 1,650-yard freestyle relays, good for 706 total points. Brown took second with 691 points, while host Harvard, title victors in 1996, placed third with 655 points. Freshman Grace Coyle of Columbia University (above) completes a rotation in the 3-meter diving event in Fridays competition.
Six entries have been chosen as finalists for the 2002 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, which will be awarded at a ceremony on Tuesday, March 12, at 8 p.m., at the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs, Kennedy School of Government.
President Lawrence H. Summers (left) moderates the forum Healthier or wealthier … which comes first in the new global era? at the Kennedy School on Monday, Feb. 25. Panelists included Roberta Baskin (center), senior producer, ABC News 20/20 and Tim Evans, director, Health Equity, The Rockefeller Foundation.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, and spiritual leader to millions of Buddhists worldwide, will make a rare Cambridge appearance at the Memorial Church on Friday, March 8, at 7 p.m., in addition to a retreat on Saturday, March 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The events are free and open to the public, with free parking at the Broadway Garage on Felton Street.
A young psychology concentrator is leading a class discussion on decision-making and emotion, and Christine Soutter, graduate student and teaching fellow for this sophomore tutorial, cant believe what shes hearing. Although its just a few months into the students serious engagement with the subject, their discussion of emotion is at the level of polished graduate students.
More than anything, perhaps, it is an act of defiance – of light defying the encroaching darkness, of silence insisting on peace amid the crashing noise of a world chasing madly after temporal rewards.
Recording Secretary John Hanselman, who has shepherded alumni gifts to the University for nearly a quarter of a century, is leaving Harvard. Hanselman steps down today to take a new position as executive director of Cambridge in America, the U.S. branch of Cambridge Universitys alumni and development organization. He will direct the American fundraising for the university as it approaches its 800th anniversary.
This past Sunday, Feb. 25, Harvard musicians, music teachers, and music lovers got a hint of what to expect when James Levine takes over as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO).
Theres a story told of a poor farmer in a developing country who, when given access to a computer hooked to the Internet, was able to check commodity prices in faraway markets to see how he should price his goods.
A famously handsome former star of L.A. Law and future co-star of Julia Roberts was the emcee at the 17th annual Cultural Rhythms festival. Actor, director, and producer Blair Underwood accepted the honor of 2002 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, which is headed by S. Allen Counter. In a packed Sanders Theatre, President Lawrence H. Summers and Harvard College Dean Harry R. Lewis presented Underwood with a plaque in his honor.The debonair Blair then took charge of a dazzling celebration of performing arts from around the world.
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 Harvard’s custodial workers.
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