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…
The Harvard Business School (HBS) Rugby Football Club seeks players from across Harvards graduate schools for training, matches, tours, or tournaments. Players of all skills and commitment levels are invited to attend.
A new online course catalog is poised to make life a bit easier for the more than 2,200 graduate and undergraduate students who cross school boundaries to register for courses each academic year.
As Brown’s Kelly Smith falls victim to the slick conditions on Ohiri Field last Saturday, Sept. 22, she strives to take down Harvard forward Beth Totman ’03. Totman tallied one goal in the
Influenza vaccination rates for a study group of Medicare recipients were much lower among African Americans (46.1 percent) than among whites (67.7 percent) a gap of 21.6 percentage points.
In his first public address on the Sept. 11 attack on America, the Rev. Jesse Jackson called for the country to rise from the tragedy and lead a new world of coalition, faith, and economic and political justice.
The Law Schools Laurence H. Tribe, the Ralph S. Tyler Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law, is this years winner of the Gay and Lesbians Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) Spirit of Justice Award.
The Council on the Arts at Harvard University has awarded 25 fall grants for 2001. Totaling nearly $10,000, the grants will support innovative and creative projects ranging from music and…
Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) made crime pay last week, as its annual bike auction turned 30 stolen and abandoned bikes into much-needed cash for its dozens of charity and human service programs.
Access to television has a direct association with childrens hours of viewing and school-related activity, according to a study from the School of Public Health. Children who do not have a television set in their bedroom spend about 40 minutes less per day watching TV or playing video and computer games than children who do and they read or do homework about 20 minutes more per day if their parents also set limits on television viewing. The study results are published in the September/ October issue of Ambulatory Pediatrics (http://ampe.allenpress.com/ampeonline/?request=get-current-issue).
On June 8, one day after Commencement, The Memorial Churchthe Memorial Church closed its doors for the summer for its first complete re-painting and renovation since 1932.
Medical School (HMS) researchers have identified a mouse gene that, in certain forms, renders mice resistant to anthrax – an often fatal disease that is caused by a bacterium thought to be a prime biological weapon in the terrorist arsenal. The genetic variants appear to work by enhancing immune cells’ response to the lethal toxin released by the anthrax-causing germ.
This past Friday afternoon (Sept. 21), members of Harvards Muslim community came to Lowell Lecture Hall for prayer. The gathering, known as Juma, is a regular weekly occurrence, but the events of Sept. 11 made it anything but ordinary.
A previously unknown function of blood vessels has been found. Beside supplying blood, they guide the formation of the pancreas and possibly other organs during the development of embryos, according to researchers at Harvard University.
Joseph Warren Gardella ’41, former dean of student affairs at Harvard Medical School (HMS), died June 12 at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Following his graduation from Harvard, the former Crimson…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Sept. 22. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29…
Plans for the inauguration of Lawrence H. Summers as Harvards 27th president on Oct. 12 continued to come together this week with faculty, students, and staff receiving letters of invitation to the installation ceremony, which is to take place in Tercentenary Theatre, the same location used for Commencement.
Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) will host a health fair on Wednesday, Oct. 3, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., on the Science Center grounds. The aim of the first…
The Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard has selected 17 associates for research projects for the 2001-02 academic year. Founded in 1980, the program enables outstanding scholars and practitioners from…
When you walk into the new Big Dig exhibition at Gund Hall from the Quincy Street entrance, the first thing that hits your eye is a pair of mural-sized photographs of Boston from the air.
Speaking at Morning Prayers Friday, Sept. 21, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers offered comfort and support to the campus while highlighting the Universitys unique responsibility in the face of last weeks attacks.
Harvard University’s endowment beat investment benchmarks in eight of 11 asset classes in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, but saw its overall value fall amid broader market declines.
A group of faculty at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), and the University of California, Santa Barbara, is one of a handful nationwide to win millions of dollars in National Science Foundation funding to begin a Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center – which will explore and manipulate items as small as a single atom.
More than 1,500 people packed a Memorial Church remembrance service on Friday, Sept. 14, capping a week in which the University community mourned the victims and struggled to make sense of the tragic crashes at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania.
At its first meeting of the year, the Faculty Council elected a Docket Committee for 2001-02 as follows: Professors Jay Jasanoff (linguistics), Robert Kirshner (astronomy), and Peter Marsden (sociology), with…
Sept. 19, 1639 – Accused of neglecting and physically mistreating students, Nathaniel Eaton is fined and discharged as Master of the College by the Great and General Court of Massachusetts…
On Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 1 a.m., the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to a report of an indecent assault. The freshman victim was entering the “A” entry door…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for Aug. 21 through Sept. 15. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…
Following the horrific tragedies in New York City and Washington, D.C., a number of threatening calls have come into the University, including a bomb threat that led some people to leave Holyoke Center on the morning of Friday, Sept. 14.
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