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…
One of Harvards and Bostons most popular summer activities, The Tennis Camps at Harvard (TCH), offering adult and junior sessions, will be opening its 11th season on June 11 at the Robert M. Beren Tennis Center at Soldiers Field.
Four Harvard College sophomores will investigate the status of women at the University through fellowships awarded by the Christopher J. Georges Fellowship Fund. The four recipients, all members of The Harvard Crimson staff, are Lauren Dorgan, Anne Kofol, Kathryn Rakoczy, and Catherine Shoichet.
Anyone who knows Brooke Ellison wont be surprised that since her news-making graduation from Harvard College in 2000, she has written a book, kept a busy schedule of speaking engagements, and made plans to attend graduate school.
Houghton Library, the rare book and manuscript repository of the Harvard College Library, recently acquired the papers of author Gore Vidal. These papers together with the near-complete set of Vidal printed materials, collected over the years by Houghtons retired keeper of printed books James Walsh, make Houghton Library the center of Vidal studies.
Books may be accumulated and guarded, and the result is sometimes called a library but if the books are made to help and spur men and women on in their own daily work, the library becomes a vital influence, the prison is turned into a workshop, said Justin Winsor, librarian of Harvard College from 1877 to 1897.
Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1991, has announced his plans to end his service as Dean and to return to the Faculty at the end of this academic year.
GSD technical services staff joined 1.25 million other New England fans to celebrate the Patriots Superbowl win at a parade in downtown Boston. Standing on Tremont Street are (from left) Alix Rieskind, assistant head, visual resources Dave Ware, bindery assistant Janet Rutan, department head and Maria Tina da Rosa, serials assistant.
In Catherine Dulacs laboratory, male mice are acting strangely. They do not attack other males that invade their territory. They will even try to mate with the invaders.
Emaciated, bearded men stare with hollow eyes through the prison bars. Wrapped in blankets against the winter cold, they look, to a doctors trained eye, like men whose bodies are steadily weakening under the onslaught of cold and hunger, dysentery, and hepatitis.
At the ninth Faculty Council meeting of the year, Dean of Harvard College Harry Lewis (Computer Science) presented his 2000-2001 Report on Harvard College for discussion by the Council. Lewis also proposed a change in the Facultys definition of rape, to bring it into accord with Massachusetts law.
Feb. 10, 1853 – Jared Sparks steps down as President James Walker, Class of 1814, immediately succeeds him to become Harvards 18th President. Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morison describes Walker as stone deaf. Ironically, in the fall of 1856, music becomes the only new subject added to the curriculum during his presidency.
Papers for German conference sought The Eastern German Studies Association (EGSA) – an international network of scholars with research interests in the former German Democratic Republic and the new, eastern…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, Feb. 2. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: Feb. 8 March 5 April 10…
It may be the oldest of the arts. No materials required, only the body. Oh, yes, and something to get it moving – a song, a rhythm, the sound of wind in the trees or water over rocks, a feeling of joy, fear, sadness, anger, triumph, love, tenderness, desire, or the excitement of being alive. We all know these sensations. Sometimes they come over us when were alone listening to oldies on the radio, or they lift us from our chairs to prance before the mirror to a Mozart scherzo. Or the spell may descend en masse, say, at a cousins wedding, as the band segues from I Will Survive to Disco Inferno, and sitting it out is just no longer an option.
Just 14 seconds into the first power-play situation in the first period of the first round of Mondays Beanpot Tournament, Northeasterns Mike Ryan slapped a shot past Harvard goalie Dov Grumet-Morris 05. It wouldnt be his last. The Huskie forward went on to earn a hat trick in the 50th playing of college hockeys most mythical tournament, helping to down a never-quite-got-it-going Crimson team, 5-2 at the FleetCenter.
After an 8-0 drubbing of B.U. by B.C. in game one of the first round of Tuesdays 24th annual womens Beanpot Tournament, the small but passionate Matthews Arena crowd were treated to a finesse-filled thriller once Harvard and Northeastern took to the ice. Though, given the Beanpot history between these two teams, the final outcome – a 4-3 OT Crimson victory – just about seems standard. Sophomore Lauren McAuliffes goal in extra minutes marks the fourth consecutive year that Harvard has defeated Northeastern – in overtime – during Beanpot action. And though this wasnt the championship game as in past years, Harvard will get its chance next Tuesday (Feb. 12) against the Eagles.
Eating a lot of red meats, refined grains, french fries, and other typically Western foods will increase your risk of developing diabetes as an adult by more than half, according to a new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, author and Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education, has been named chair of the board of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Once a week, first-year medical student Janice Jin leaves the Longwood campus to travel to Chinatown where she spends a couple of hours talking with a group of recently arrived Chinese immigrants about how to communicate with doctors.
The Joint Program on Religion and Public Life at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is sponsoring a research colloquium series beginning on Feb. 12. The series, which will run through April 28, aims to discuss the work of leading scholars who address the interaction of religion and public policy in the United States. Sponsors of the colloquium hope to connect and encourage graduate students working on related topics, and to strengthen the links between institutional centers of activity devoted to research and practice in this area.
At the Kennedy School of Government Monday night (Feb. 4), Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris dodged protestors, deflected attacks, and headed off dimpled chad and makeup jokes to stick to her carefully worded guns.
Author and religious scholar Elaine Pagels will give the 2002 William Belden Noble Lectures in the Memorial Church on Monday-Wednesday, Feb. 11, 12, and 13 at 8 p.m. Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, Pagels is the author of The Origin of Satan, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, and The Gnostic Gospels, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award.
Foster honored for conservation efforts Charles Foster, a fellow with the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Kennedy School of Government, will receive a conservation citation from Interior Secretary…
In a windowless room in the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, David Ackerman sits amid an array of electronic paraphernalia that looks as if it might have been lifted from the bridge of a Klingon starship. The soundproof walls undulate with puckers of dark gray sponge. Intently tracking a sine curve on the computer screen before him, Ackerman lightly touches his keyboard. From somewhere in the darkness, music pulses forth: Duke Ellingtons Sultry Serenade, circa 1947.
The notes of Ralph Vaughan Williams Lark Ascending rolled over the audience, slow and melodious, almost haunting. But Daniel Chens violin performance wasnt in a classical concert hall, it was in the one of the linoleum-floored common areas of Youville Hospital.
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