Sylvia Mathews Burwell ’87, former president of American University and former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has been elected president of the Harvard University Board…
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.
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.
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