Blue skies shone and balloons bobbed over Tercentenary Theatre on July 31, as Harvard University and the city of Cambridge welcomed nearly 1,000 Cambridge senior citizens to the 26th annual Harvard Yard Picnic.
This is how Jordan Swanson is spending his last summer as a Harvard undergraduate: June in Bangladesh as a U.S. State Department intern investigating human rights abuses, July and August in Thailand conducting malaria research.
Biomedical trade show to be held next month The 2001 Biomedical Research Equipment and Supplies Exhibit will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 19, and Thursday, Sept. 20, from 9:30 a.m.…
Forty-nine concerned citizens from all over the United States came to the Summer Leadership Institute (SLI), sponsored by the Divinity Schools (HDS) Center for the Study of Values in Public Life to train clergy, lay leaders, and community developers in inner-city economic improvement.
Harvard University joined Brigham and Womens Hospital and the nonprofit tenants organization Roxbury Tenants at Harvard in an unusual three-way land-swap agreement that will make way for a new medical center while preserving affordable housing in Bostons Mission Hill neighborhood.
Merrell Aspin is working as an intern with the Massachusetts Division of Medical Assistance in the Managed Care Program, where she is researching contracting issues for the divisions upcoming contracting process. She is a student at the School of Public Health (SPH).
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.
Since a Harvard graduate student published his Ph.D. thesis three years ago, evidence has been accumulating that women are the real movers of society, spreading their genes as they married and moved in with their husband’s families.
The permanent reversal of Type 1 diabetes in mice may end the wrenching debate over harvesting stem cells from the unborn to treat adult diseases. Researchers at Harvard Medical School killed cells responsible for the diabetes, then the animals’ adult stem cells took over and regenerated missing cells needed to produce insulin and eliminate the disease.
On Monday, July 16, Associate Vice President for Human Resources Polly Price and Vice President and General Counsel Anne Taylor released a statement to the University Community concerning the reclassification of certain jobs in beginning administrative and professional grades that would make the positions eligible for overtime pay. The statement explains why the reclassification is necessary under the Fair Labor Standards Act and expresses appreciation for the thoughtfulness and hard work of human resources directors, managers, and other employees across the Universitys Schools and units in bringing the Universitys diverse and complex range of work responsibilities into alignment with external legal requirements. The statement, which human resources officers across the University were encouraged to share broadly within their Schools and departments, is reprinted in full below. Individual employees who have questions about reclassification should contact their HR representative for further information.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks ending June 16, June 23, June 30, July 7, and July 14. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.
One of nature’s best shows features the signals that fireflies exchange as they search for mates on warm summer nights. Few people can watch it without wondering how the little bugs turn their belly lanterns on and off so quickly.
July 2, Lawrence H. Summers first full day on the job, greeted Harvards 27th president with a mix of ordinary tasks, celebratory events, and plenty of hard work.
If you watch carefully, you can see the Earth move, says Albert Szabo, pointing to a rainbow sparkling on the back of a black leather chair. As the Earth rotates, he explains, sunlight shining through the prisms he has fastened to the window cause bands of colored light to migrate around the room.
With a trumpets fanfare, a custom-made video, the gracious words of outgoing President Neil L. Rudenstine, and a catered bash with a live band, Harvard honored its heroes on June 13 in Sanders Theatre.
For 44 years a small disc-shaped metal canister rested in a closet at the Comparative Literature Departments office in Boylston Hall. Nobody opened it. Nobody knew what it was.
With barely a week of summer vacation behind them, about 40 Boston Public School teachers and administrators returned to work, rolling up their sleeves June 28 and 29 at the Boston-Harvard Leadership Development Initiative summer institute at the Faculty Club.
Political scientist Louise Richardson, an associate professor of government at Harvard University and the head tutor in the Universitys department of government, has been appointed executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Richardson assumed her new responsibilities on July 2.
Harvard Law Schools Berkman Center for Internet & Society has announced a new project to create public policies that support digital entrepreneurship. The project, Open Economies, will support developing nations seeking to embrace digital technology and digitally enabled entrepreneurship as a means to economic development.
They stand in mammoth clusters along the streets of nearly every major city they loom like glistening monoliths at the edge of suburban highways they are omnipresent – the huge glass boxes in which the worlds business is transacted.
The NCAA Division I Womens Basketball Committee has selected Indianapolis, Boston, and Cleveland as the sites for the 2005, 2006, and 2007 NCAA Womens Final Fours, respectively.
The crimson Veritas banner flew alongside the black, gold, and red German flag when summer arrived in downtown Dresden this June, as more than 150 U.S. and German scholars celebrated 35 years of the study of Germany and Europe at Harvards Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES).
Five students in the Graduate School of Design (GSD) received Fulbright Cultural Exchange Grants. The 2000-01 winners were announced at the GSD Commencement in June. The following list of grant recipients, which includes their nation of study and project title, reflects this years diversity of interests, skills, and backgrounds.
Richard P. Rogers, director of the Film Study Center and senior lecturer in Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), died Saturday, July 14, in his home in Wainscott, N.Y. The cause of death was metastasized melanoma. Rogers was 57.
Almost a half century after the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that Southern school segregation was unconstitutional and inherently unequal, a new study from The Civil Rights Project at Harvard shows that segregation continued to intensify throughout the 1990s. The study, Schools More Separate: Consequences of a Decade of Resegregation, by Professor of Education and Social Policy Gary Orfield with teaching fellow Nora Gordon, analyzes statistics from the 1998-99 school year, the latest data available from the National Center of Education Statistics Common Core of Education Statistics.
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