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…
It’s the rarest, shortest-lived matter in the universe. In fact, it’s antimatter – the opposite of matter. When the two meet, they annihilate each other in a burst of energy.
Theres a buzz around the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and its not just the whir of construction equipment in Radcliffe Yard. If you listen closely, youll hear excited discussion of the four new academic leaders that Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute, has recruited to help implement the Radcliffes mission.
As the Philadelphia Mens Dragon Boat Team paddled ahead of the pack in New Yorks 2001 Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, they were pursued by an unlikely rival. Rhythmically plunging their paddles forward, steadily pulling their paddles back, the Harvard Dudley House Dragon Boat team stroked to keep pace with the first-place team. The team from Philadelphia, which recently represented the United States at the International Dragon Boat Federation Championship, sliced through the murky waters of Meadow Lake to earn victory and $2,000 of the $10,000 in cash awards they would win that day. Yet no team was happier with its finish than the undersized team from Harvard.
Two untenured members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named this years Roslyn Abramson Award winners for outstanding undergraduate teaching.
Award-winning novelist Margaret Atwood and Princeton University President Shirley Caldwell Tilghman are among the speakers who will participate in The Deans Lecture Series, sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
The Murray Research Center at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will hold a day of activities in celebration of its 25th anniversary on Friday, Sept. 28, in Radcliffe Yard. Dedicated to the study of lives over time, the Murray Center promotes the use of social science data to explore human development and social change.
The photograph is titled Amis des espagnoles (French for friends of the Spanish). It was taken in 1968 by Malick Sidibé, and there is something oddly familiar about it.
When Saif Shah Mohammed came to Harvard as a freshman three years ago, it was the first time he had been in the United States. A native of Bangladesh who grew up in Kuwait, now a senior concentrating in economics, Shah Mohammed says that living in America has affected him profoundly.
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.
September 19, 2001 Dear Members of the Harvard Community: The shocking events of last week leave all of us with a profound and enduring sense of loss. We grieve together…
Harvard University Health Services (UHS) is providing buses for members of the Harvard community to get to blood donation centers at Brigham and Women’s and Children’s hospitals in the Longwood…
Responding to calls from students of various cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations will remain open to provide a place for students to gather and talk about the terrorism tragedy, according to Foundation Director S. Allan Counter Jr.
All Harvard Medical School affiliated hospitals are on alert. Childrens and Brigham and Womens hospitals have cancelled elective surgery and in-patient visits to conserve resources, especially blood. These facilities, as well as Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are collecting blood. At noon on Wednesday, Susan Craig of Childrens noted that donor lines are stretching out the door.
The reception to welcome the new Nieman Fellows, scheduled for 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, has been canceled due to the tragic events of Tuesday. No alternative reception is scheduled at this time. Call (617) 495-2346 if you have questions.
As the bell of the Memorial Church called the Harvard community to a vigil in Tercentenary Theatre Tuesday evening, its inscription – “In memory of voices that are hushed” –…
As the horrendous images of devastation at New York’s World Trade Center and destruction at the Pentagon blanketed the airwaves Tuesday, Harvard absorbed the awful news, shook off the shock,…
“It felt like a movie.” Two students from New York City, Madeleine Elfenbein ’04 and Luke Stein ’02, described their dazed reactions to yesterday’s tragedy the same way. Katy Brodsky…
Counseling and support University Health Services (UHS) is providing mental health outreach and support throughout the Harvard community. Groups are being set up throughout the campus. Group Sessions HUHS Holyoke…
Infectious bacteria that have developed resistance to even the most potent antibiotics are making hospital stays increasingly hazardous. Take the drug vancomycin, for example, which used to be a last line of defense against virulent strains of enterococci and staphylococci that can be life-threatening. These bacteria continually develop new ways to beat vancomycin.
Researchers at Harvard-afilliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Children’s Hospital, and other institutions have pinpointed a region on human Chromosome 4 that is likely to contain a gene or genes associated with extraordinary life expectancy. Their findings, reported in the Aug. 28 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may lead to a better understanding of the aging process.
Fata Nhail reaches up and hooks his fingers around a water pipe near the ceiling of the basement room in Grays Hall, one of those being used for evening classes by the Refugee Youth Summer Enrichment Program (RYSE).
Aug. 11, 1637 – John Harvard formally becomes a “Townsman” of Charlestown. He and his wife are given land on Gravel Lane. The town contains about 150 houses. August 1819…
Burns, served Harvard for 43 years, dies at 79 Robert Burns, retired Harvard parking director, died July 30 in Boston. He was 79. Burns began his career at the University…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for July 16 through Aug. 11. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…
Fun works at HUDS Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS), the nation’s oldest collegiate food-service operation, is featured in best-selling author Leslie Yerkes’ latest book, “Fun Works.” In the book and…
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