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…
The next Silicon Valley could well be in Boston, but it is likely to be heading a biomedical rather than a computer revolution, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers predicted Thursday (Nov. 29) in a speech before about 300 doctors, researchers, and other medical personnel at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Tara McAllister, this years winner of the Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize, sits in the Japanese Tea House at 5 Bryant St. The prize is awarded each year to an outstanding student of Japanese who has completed at least two years of Japanese language study at Harvard. McAllister will be honored at a private reception on Friday, Dec. 7.
At Harvard Law School (HLS), where many students are training for careers that will put astonishing demands on their time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith moderated a discussion Thursday evening (Nov. 29) that focused tightly on the demands of law careers. Smiths latest public television documentary, Juggling Work and Family With Hedrick Smith, devotes a segment to lawyers in Boston.
Whitney Espich, a former manager at Citigate Cunningham and the former communications officer at Monticello, has been appointed director of communications at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
As the academic year began this fall, the annual rites of passage from high school to college, from vacation back to school, were rendered indelible by the events of Sept.…
While the rarity and beauty of Harvard’s Glass Flowers have won them fame and made them the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s (HMNH) most popular exhibit, the glass animals exist…
When Harvard’s founders committed themselves to a “learned ministry” for the New World, they could hardly have imagined study carrels with dataports or periodicals like Syzygy: Journal of Alternative Religion…
The toughest problem facing the U.S.-led operation in Afghanistan is not bombs, bunkers, or refugees, but the depth of its own resolve, according to former Institute of Politics Director and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jonathan Moore.
Laying the groundwork for an effective new national governmental infrastructure in Afghanistan will require a thoughtful, sustained, and integrated international effort.
If you asked most college students at most colleges to name their favorite class, chances are the words “freshman chemistry” wouldn’t come up all that often. On the other hand,…
SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE 12/12/01 Lithium drugs may reduce the risk of suicide among people with severe recurrent depression by as much as 82 percent, according to a new Harvard…
SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE 12/6/01 Lauren Baer and Sarah Moss, both Harvard College seniors, have won Marshall Scholarships. The prestigious scholarships allow young American leaders to study at a university…
SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE 12/10/01 Five Harvard University students were selected as Rhodes Scholars, giving Harvard the most scholars in the nation, the scholarship trust announced Sunday, Dec. 9. The…
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, or Mad Cow disease) has not been detected in the United States. The first major analysis of what would happen if BSE were introduced into the United States finds that there is little chance that the disease will be a serious threat either to the American cattle herd or to public health. The work was done for the U.S. Department of Agriculture by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis (HCRA), part of the School of Public Health (SPH).
Francis Daniels Moore, former surgeon-in-chief at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) and the Moseley Professor of Surgery Emeritus at Harvard Medical School (HMS), died on Nov. 24 at the age of 88. In 1954, Moore was a member of the surgical team that performed the worlds first successful human organ transplant – the transference of a kidney between identical twins.
Jack Megan, the new director of the Office of the Arts (OFA), is a multitalented artist in his own right. A jazz pianist, composer, actor, and playwright, he has been a passionate devotee of the arts since childhood.
Kindergarten teacher Maurice Rabb spends his evenings coordinating speech therapy for a student. Joy Kraft, a high school social studies teacher, wheels her teaching materials from classroom to classroom in a suitcase. Nate Monley takes a student fishing to gain his trust. Georgene Acosta rallies her English as a Second Language students to testify before the school board. Geneviève DeBose reaches out to a troubled student, only to lose him.
While a record 6,128 students applied for admission under the Colleges early action program this year, applications have remained just over the 6,000 level for the third year in a row. Last year, 6,096 applied early, while the previous year saw 6,026 applicants.
A festive mood and spirited audience welcomed former U.S. President Bill Clinton to Gordon Track on Monday (Nov. 19), providing a counterpoint to the serious issues of globalization and terrorism that he addressed in his 45-minute speech.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 24. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.
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: Nov. 29 Dec. 13 Feb. 1,…
On Nov. 16, the Widener Library Periodicals Reading Room opened in its new location on the first floor of the library. The room features comfortable seating, HOLLIS terminals, onsite staff, and a selection of the more heavily consulted periodicals and newspapers. Wideners current, unbound journal collection will be housed in the adjacent stacks for easy access. The refurbishment of the Periodicals Reading Room is a part of the Widener Stacks Renovation project.
Edmund Spevack, a former Harvard lecturer on history and literature, passed away in his native Muenster, Germany, on July 2, 2001, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 38.
Professor Don C. Wiley, John O. Loeb Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, has been reported missing by the Memphis, Tenn., police since Nov. 16. Wiley, in Memphis attending a board meeting of the St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital, was last seen the evening of Nov. 15. His car was discovered the morning of Nov. 16, parked on a bridge over the Mississippi River. Memphis law enforcement officials report no evidence of foul play. FBI officials are monitoring the investigation, and Harvard remains in daily contact with law enforcement members. Wiley, a pre-eminent structural biologist, has conducted key research on the structure of viruses and proteins in the human immune system. In 1999, Wiley and Jack Strominger, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, won the prestigious Japan Prize for their discoveries of how the immune system protects humans from infections. In 1995, Wiley and Strominger won Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards for their work on the immune system. A $10,000 reward for information related to Wileys disappearance has been made possible by contributions from Harvard and St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital.
Elizabeth Spelke was surprised to discover how much infants know about whats going on around them. The newly tenured professor of psychology was just as surprised by their limits. In some situations, counting, for example, babies act more like monkeys, rats, or pigeons than humans.
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