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…
Harvard Law School unveiled a portrait of U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts, the first and only openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual member of the federal judiciary, on Saturday, Oct. 27. Batts, a 1972 graduate of Harvard Law School and 1969 graduate of Radcliffe, was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1994 by President Clinton. Simmie Knox of Silver Spring, Md., a distinguished and prolific artist who is currently working on the official portrait of Clinton, painted Batts portrait. It was presented to the Law School by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Alumni/ae Committee of the Harvard Law School, which also raised the funds for it. I am so touched and amazed that anyone would do this, said Batts, who attended the unveiling. In fact, I am as embarrassed as I am pleased.
Two films produced and directed by independent filmmaker Barbara Hammer, a 2001-02 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be shown at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square Nov. 16 – 18. The film series, which will mark the Boston premiere of History Lessons, is co-sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute and the Brattle.
More than 70 original prints from the Harvard Theatre Collections Hoyningen-Huene archive are on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) exhibition The Look: Images of Glamour and Style, Photographs by Horst and Hoyningen-Huene. As chief photographers at Vogue, Horst and Hoyningen-Huenes elegant style heavily influenced fashion photography of the mid-20th century. This exhibition features dramatic black-and-white photographs dating from the 1930s to 1950s of actors, artists, models, and socialites.
Eight new fellows have been selected for the 2001-02 Administrative Fellowship Program. Of the eight fellows, five are visiting fellows and three are resident fellows. Visiting fellows are professionals drawn from business, education, and other fields outside the University, while resident fellows are minority professionals currently working at Harvard who are identified by their department and identified by the fellowship program review committee to have the leadership potential to advance to higher administrative positions.
Harvard is singing. And playing. And rehearsing. Every corner of every building that can be pressed into service hums with melody. Even Jack Megan, the new head of the Office for the Arts, discovered he has to share his Common Room with Tom Everetts Jazz Band practices once a week.
The Harvard University Choir has announced the appointment of the first class of 10 Choral Fellows for the 2001-02 academic year. The program, which took eight years to develop, is unique to the American university system and marks the latest development in the long tradition of choral music at Harvard.
Barely two months after Sept. 11, students in Religion 1529 are grilling Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies and director of the Pluralism Project, on religious tolerance, respect, and understanding. A teaching fellow roams Science Center B with a microphone like a talk show hostess, amplifying questions that are as academic as they are heartfelt. What do you do when your religious beliefs insult anothers religion? How can we reconcile that religion, with its enormous capacity for peacemaking, can also promote violence? For 20 minutes after the class ends, students linger, vying for one-on-one time with Eck, who has spent much of the past weeks fielding similar questions from major news outlets.
Matthew Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, has been raising his voice in opposition to biological and chemical weapons since 1963. He investigated the largest known outbreak…
At its fourth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council received a report on the work of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies from the chair of the committee, Professor Lawrence Katz (economics).
Higginbotham remembered Brandeis University Professor Anita Hill joins Law Professor Charles Ogletree Jr. and others at the Law School on Monday (Nov. 5) to talk about the legacy of A.…
Nov. 24, 1873 – Charles Sprague Sargent officially begins a 54-year term as first Director of the Arnold Arboretum (est. 1872). Sargent soon enlists the aid of pioneering landscape architect…
KSG offers book tours on Web The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is offering book tours these days. Using the power of the Web, the school is highlighting recent publications…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 3. 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,…
William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd president of the United States, will deliver an address to Harvard Universitys students, faculty, and staff at 2:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, at the Albert H. Gordon Track and Tennis Center.
When the student came to University Health Services (UHS), he was afraid that he would never run again. Doctors in his native Italy had told him that he should stop running, a biting disappointment for someone who liked to play soccer.
More than 60 Harvard managers and human resources professionals learned how to hang on to valued employees when author Martha R.A. Fields discussed her book Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them. How to Keep Them last Tuesday (Oct. 30) in the Harvard Information Center. The event, sponsored by the Office of the Assistant to the President, brought together some of the areas top human resource managers for a lively panel discussion on employee retention. Top administrators at Fidelity Investments, Shell Oil Co., CISCO Systems, City Year, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were among the panelists who shared their organizations stories at the event and in Fields book.
Primed and prepped all season long, the 7-0 Harvard football team doesnt do downtime. No soon after taming the Columbia Lions (2-5, 2-3 Ivy) 45-33 last Saturday (Nov. 3) in Manhattan, the unbeaten Harvard football team had its sights set on the next (and biggest) test yet, an undefeated Penn team. Saturdays Ivy showdown of the unbeaten – the first of its kind since 1968 – assures the winner at least a share of the Ivy League title, something the Crimson last enjoyed in 1997.
Margaret Atwood, the recipient of the 2000 Booker Prize for her novel The Blind Assassin, will speak at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on Monday, Nov. 19, as part of the Deans Lecture Series. Atwood will deliver her talk, How I Became a Writer, at 4 p.m. at the First Church Congregational, 11 Garden St., in Cambridge. The event is free and open to the public. Atwood will sign copies of The Blind Assassin at a reception immediately following the lecture. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
The days just before Thanksgiving are reportedly the heaviest travel time of the year as millions of Americans board airliners to join distant family and friends for the holiday.
College students strongly support U.S.-led air strikes and the use of ground troops in Afghanistan although support is approximately 10 percent lower than the general population, according to a new survey of undergraduates throughout the country conducted by the Institute of Politics (IOP). The survey also found that trust in government and civic engagement has risen significantly among college students during the past 18 months.
A plaque bearing the names of three Radcliffe women who died for their country in World War I will be unveiled at 11 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, in Harvards war memorial, the Memorial Church. The Harvard community is invited to attend the ceremony.
Ever since those horrifying moments when two passenger jetliners smashed into the World Trade Center towers seven weeks ago, Americans have been glued to their television sets with a seemingly insatiable appetite for information. And the TV networks have responded with a steady stream of around-the-clock coverage that has usurped the traditional formats and time constraints. The breadth and depth of coverage of the story is virtually unparalleled in television history.
The Community Gifts Through Harvard Campaign bears a special burden this year. The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 have created both material and psychological needs for many individuals. Even those not directly affected by the attacks have been shaken by them in ways that may not be immediately apparent.
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