After two years of excavating, pounding, drilling, and building, the east light court of Widener Library has been transformed into a luminous new reading room. Made possible through the generosity of Charles G. Phillips 70 and his wife Candace, the Phillips Reading Room is a controlled room for the use of noncirculating materials that are requested from the Harvard Depository or borrowed through interlibrary loan, and for materials paged from the stacks for authorized library visitors.
Democratic Republic of Congos President Joseph Kabila outlined his vision for bringing prosperity and democracy to his war-torn country at the ARCO Forum Monday night. The 29-year-old president – who took office just nine months ago, after the assassination of his father and the countrys president Laurent Kabila – said rebel forces are keeping the country in a state of constant, internal political chaos.
Four distinguished scholars gathered at the Center for European Studies Oct. 29 to pay 90th-birthday respects to their former professor, Samuel Beer, the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Emeritus.
A panel of luminous talents will gather at Sanders Theatre to talk about the effect of Sept. 11 on the arts and the creative process. The world-altering day and its consequences will be the subject of the panel discussion Sprung From Ruins. The panel will take place on Friday, Nov. 9, at 3 p.m. and will include singer/songwriter James Taylor author and visiting lecturer at Harvard Jamaica Kincaid actor Mandy Patinkin visual artist Elizabeth Murray playwright John Guare and dancer/choreographer Trisha Brown. John Rockwell 62, editor of the Arts and Leisure section of The New York Times, will moderate.
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons presented an annual award for outstanding longtime service to seven alumni/ae at the Faculty Club last Friday (Oct. 26). This years recipients are James Bernstein and Barbara Bernstein 49 and 53, Rockville Center, N.Y., 70 years of service, total Gertrude B. Brekus 50, Palm Beach, Fla., 25 years of service Dwight K. Nishimura 49, Houston, 40 years-plus of service Joan S. Goshko 61, Marblehead, 25 years of service Susan D. Heath 67, Pound Ridge, N.Y., 25 years-plus of service Michael Grace, Ph.D. 72, Alberta, Canada, 30 years-plus of service.
Three alumni have been named recipients of the 2001 Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Alumni Achievement Award. The winners – Douglas Bereuter, Anne Reed, and Barbara Roberts – were honored at a dinner at KSG on Friday, Oct. 26.
A pygmy hippo has died at the Franklin Park Zoo and Judy Chupasko is troubled. Not because of its death: all indications are that the 33-year-old male died of natural causes.
A pygmy hippo has died at the Franklin Park Zoo and Judy Chupasko is troubled. Not because of its death: all indications are that the 33-year-old male died of natural causes.
Like many Bostonians, Diane Decker once viewed the areas myriad fundraising walks as little more than a disruption of traffic. Decker, undergraduate coordinator at Harvards Dudley House, certainly hadnt participated in any.
A young woman stands at a crossroads in her life, unsure of which path to take. Should she fulfill her fathers dream and become an architect, or should she follow her heart and try to make it as a professional dancer?
1. With the acceptance of a full-time appointment in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, an individual makes a commitment to the University that is understood to be full time in the most inclusive sense. Every member is expected to accord the University his or her primary professional loyalty, and to arrange outside obligations, financial interests, and activities so as not to conflict or interfere with this overriding commitment to the University.
John Douglas, a Southern Californian who grew up swimming, surfing, and playing water polo, gets a special sense of satisfaction from teaching adult beginners to swim.
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,…
For most people, the world of late antiquity can hardly be said to be a subject of pressing and immediate concern, unless of course it happens to be the setting for a film about an indomitable gladiator or the internecine struggles of decadent aristocrats.
Dunns to assume APS executive officer position The American Philosophical Society (APS) has named husband – and – wife team Mary Maples Dunn, most recently the acting dean of the…
Ask Elliot Hammerman about his work, and hell show you pictures. Pictures of smiling adults, pictures of himself and his colleagues dressed up in costume, pictures of kids – lots and lots of kids – in hospital johnnies or baseball uniforms or their Sunday best.
Six faculty members from Harvard Medical School (HMS) are among 60 new members recently elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. With their election, members make a commitment to volunteer on committees engaged in a broad range of health policy issues.
Niall Kirkwood’s Scottish accent may be tricky to detect and trickier still to identify, but despite the years he has spent in this country – years that have softened his…
Lene Hau, the woman who stopped light completely, then released it at will, has won a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship. She and 22 other winners will receive $100,000 a year for the next five years to spend as they wish. No accounting of how the money is spent is required by the giver of the awards, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago.
Symphony of Sound The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra rehearses for its first concert for the academic year, Saturday, Oct. 27 at 8 p.m., in Sanders Theatre. The evening will begin with the…
At its third meeting of the year, the Faculty Council met with deans Susan Pedersen (history and undergraduate education), Jeffrey Wolcowitz (economics and undergraduate education), and Deborah Foster (folklore and mythology and undergraduate education), and with Professor William Fash (anthropology), chair of the facultys Standing Committee on Out-of-Residence Study, to discuss the study abroad program in Harvard College.
Oct. 5, 1740 – Fresh from haranguing 15,000 on Boston Common, the dynamic revivalist George Whitefield breezes in to preach at the Cambridge meetinghouse, inspiring division within families and churches, and much soul-searching among College youth. President Edward Holyoke entertains him, but Whitefield has harsh words for a Harvard in which tutors neglect to pray with, and examine the hearts of, their pupils, who read bad books.
Despite reports of suspicious packages and materials at Harvard, no materials to date have been received that have been hazardous to the communitys health and safety.
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