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…
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.
Breathing a collective sigh of relief that they are not violating federal law, the nations teachers return this week to the widespread practice of letting students correct each others papers. On Tuesday, Feb. 19, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Falvo vs. Owasso School System, deciding that grading another students paper is legal. The court rejected the politically correct view that students grades must be secret from their classmates. The court offered the view that students can learn as much from grading each others tests as they do from taking them – and save their teachers time, as well. Yet, the case is not closed on the educational effectiveness of such practices.
The Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies, chaired by Professor Lawrence Katz, released its final report (the Katz Report) on December 19, 2001, after months of consultation, analysis, and…
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?
Five Massachusetts Democrats running for governor squared off on environmental issues Tuesday evening (Feb. 19), trading compliments, jabs, and even the occasional joke amidst talk of preserving open space, cleaning up Bay State waters, and disposing of ever-larger heaps of trash.
The human body shelters a zoo of microbes – thousands of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa. Some are helpful, some are harmful, many are unknown. Its a good bet that some of the unknowns provoke diseases whose causes remain a mystery.
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