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…
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.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 20. The official log is located at HUPD headquarters, 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: Oct. 26 Nov. 29 Dec. 13…
Jeanne Friedmann Westheimer, former assistant dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), died at Mount Auburn Hospital on Oct. 20. She was 86.
Judith Vichniac, the former director of studies for the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and a senior lecturer in Harvard College since 1989, has been appointed the director of the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She began her duties in September.
There’s no place like home ‘Nest!’, a public artwork created by the Reclamation Artists in collaboration with Harvard students, explores the concept of ‘home’ as it relates to the multiple…
Rachel, a young shiatsu practitioner, grips Kathleen Whites left wrist and announces that her pulse is a little slow. I probably need some sleep, White says, and I wont get any till after Halloween.
When eight members of the class of 2004 returned to Harvard this fall, they had to make an adjustment uncommon to other sophomores. During the summer they had become published authors and were soon to become household names among the new freshman class.
Elena Kagan, a former senior White House official, and John Coates, once a high-powered corporate attorney, have been appointed professors of law at the Law School (HLS). Kagan is an expert in administrative law, while Coates is a corporate and financial law specialist.
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