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…
Daniel J. Simons, Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, and Lionel Hall proctor Susan Wright received the first annual John H. Marquand Awards for exceptional advising and counseling at a reception Monday evening (Nov. 5). The prize, awarded to one faculty member and one nonfaculty adviser, honors legendary Dudley House senior tutor John H. Marquand.
What could be more fun than playing in the mud? Imagine this: Slippery mounds of oozing clay seeping through your fingers, dramatically changing shape under shifting pressures. Your eyes trained on a rising gray slab-becoming-cylinder, growing taller (and more delicate) as you guide, pull, stroke carefully up … wheel spinning, knees steady, back tense, a little more even pressure from both hands … gently lifting, lifting, steady, and then, then … Thwack! The 15-inch vase of your dreams flies across the room, hits a wall and slides down to the studio floor in a heap of gray slop. You get to clean up and start all over. New clay, new throwing determination, new dreamy vase/pot/bowl idea to obsess upon, and a host of witnesses who cant wait to watch you do it all over again. Theres nothing better.
Harvard’s women’s golf team finished its official fall season in solid standing, but the season’s high point came Oct. 28, when the team beat Yale in a scrimmage.
A fire in the Eliot House grill, located in the basement below M-Entry, forced the evacuation of approximately 430 Eliot House students Sunday night shortly after 8 p.m..
After a Bambi-like season opening flop this past Saturday (Nov. 3) against Brown – a 4-2 loss vs. a team projected to finish last in the ECAC – the Harvard mens hockey team (1-1-0, Ivy 1-1-0) sprang back with a sure-footed 5-2 win over Ivy rival Dartmouth on Sunday at home. Though the 15th – ranked Big Green managed an early 2-0 lead, Harvard stayed cool in skating to victory, producing five unanswered goals and 26 saves courtesy of goaltender Will Crothers 04.
Steven E. Hyman, former professor of psychiatry at Harvard and current director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), has been named provost of the University, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday, Oct. 29.
Penetration is never easy for a sperm. Getting to an egg has been compared to a salmon swimming upstream to spawn. Both have to lash their tails vigorously to reach…
In honor of the holiday, the Harvard Lampoon building is trying to look scary but only succeeds at looking a bit winsome. Neither Christopher Angelakis nor Helen Shapiro, lunching on the steps, seems the least bit intimidated.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 27. The official log is located at HUPD headquarters, 29 Garden St.
The Harvard field hockey team (8-6, 3-2 Ivy) dropped its second consecutive match against an Ivy opponent this past Friday (Oct. 26), falling 4-2 at home against Dartmouth, but bounced back in a 1-0 win over cross-town rival Boston University – the teams first against the Terriers in 10 years – on Sunday (Oct. 28). In the Ivy standings, the Crimson now shares the third place slot with the Big Green, after first place Princeton and second place Penn.
Extending its unbeaten streak to six games in astonishing fashion this past Saturday at Harvard Stadium, the Crimson football team (6-0, 4-0 Ivy) rallied from a 21-point halftime deficit to defeat Dartmouth (1-5, 1-3 Ivy) 31-21. A season-record crowd of 12,000 witnessed what proved to be the largest come-from-behind victory in the programs 128-year history.
A group of summer interns are showing the way to a more environmentally friendly Harvard, featuring cars that run on soybeans, efficient buildings, and organically nurtured lawns.
It is the nations public health system, not the military, that is squarely in the path of terrorist attacks using biological weapons, and it is the public health system that should be strengthened to deal with future assaults, according to experts gathered at the School of Public Health last week (Oct. 25-26).
As policymakers scratch their heads over what to do about increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, Harvard atmospheric chemistry researchers are pioneering new ways to measure these levels. Were chasing air masses, says Christoph Gerbig, a research associate working with Steven Wofsy, Abbot Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science. Wofsy, Gerbig, and graduate student John Lin are working on a pilot experiment to determine carbon dioxide amounts on regional and continental scales by chasing blocks of air with an airplane.
Howell Jackson has been named associate dean for research at the Law School (HLS). In this position, Jackson will oversee, coordinate, and promote the Law Schools extensive research activities, including research by members of the faculty and the work of HLSs 17 research centers, programs, and projects.
In todays workplace, where Wall Street rules, the World Wide Web sets the speed limit, and change is status quo, doing work that is both professionally excellent and ethically responsible is harder than ever. Yet some professionals manage, even amidst this turbulence, to do good work. Others fail. Why? What conditions need to exist for workers to look themselves in the mirror and be proud of what they do for a living?
Sixteen new fellows have joined the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard this fall for one or two semesters of the 2001-02 academic year. Founded in 1975, the institute is the oldest research center of its kind, and has supported the scholarly work of nearly 300 alumni.
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.
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