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.
In a season marked by near-perfect execution, the most ordinary blunder can seem downright freaky. So when the Harvard football team (5-0, 2-0 Ivy) committed four turnovers (and enough bad snaps to fill a beatnik café) against Ivy rival Princeton (1-4, 1-2 Ivy), it seemed as if Halloween had made an early appearance this past Saturday (Oct. 20) at the stadium.
The new fall fellows at the Center for Business and Government (CBG) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) include high-level bank and finance officers from Asia, Internet entrepreneurs, leading policy-makers, and top researchers from around the world. The fellows will tackle projects ranging from charting political and economic reform in China to creating an international blueprint for electricity market restructuring. Together, the fellows bring experience building businesses from Bangladesh to Boston and manning the helm of financial institutions, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations from Europe to the Far East.
Twenty-five years ago, when research ruled at Harvard, President Derek Bok set out on a seemingly quixotic mission to increase incentives for teaching. His campaign created the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, which marked its 25th anniversary Friday (Oct. 19).
Approximately 200 representatives from offices across the University gathered in the Ropes Gray Room of the Law School on Oct. 24 for a luncheon kicking off the 2001 Community Gifts through Harvard Campaign.
Robots made the surgical team last year, providing remarkably tremor-free and precise hands for surgeons. They also offer the benefit of smaller incisions and shorter recovery times. But these high-tech devices, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved for use in minimally invasive gallbladder and gastroesophageal reflux disease surgery, havent made a surgeons job that much easier – or quicker. Thats because they are not easy to maneuver, and its hard for the surgeon to see more than a very small area at once.
It was arts and crafts night with a twist this past Sunday evening (Oct. 21) in the Carpenter Center pit, as glue, tape, twine, shattered pottery, and Yoko Ono all came together to commemorate her latest installation, Mend Piece to the World. The outdoor exercise of mending shattered pottery offered the large crowd an opportunity not only to get up close and personal with the prolific pioneer of experimental art, music, performance, and cinema, but also to reflect – constructively – on the events of Sept. 11.
The Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School recently welcomed four fellows to its Freeman Foundation Chinese and Southeast Asian Fellowship and Cultural Exchange Program. The program, now in its fifth year (having resumed after a one-year sabbatical in 1999-00), aims to promote cross-cultural exchange and dialogue in the field of medical anthropology. Of the four Freeman Fellows, three come from China and one from Indonesia.
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