In preparation for Phase 2 of the Widener Library renovation project, scheduled to begin this fall, scaffolding has been erected temporarily in the librarys lobby to aid architects in gathering preliminary information pertaining to the original structure of the building.
Carl Hagen regretted that he had but one life to give for his – butterfly. George Washington regretted that his pheasants didnt last longer, and Mugger, well, Mugger was an enormous saltwater crocodile and if he regretted anything at all, it was probably eating the horse that brought about his doom.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) has announced a $3.6 million dollar grant to LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas to administer a new program – the Leadership Fellowship Program for Latin America and the Caribbean. The five-year grant is designed to train up to 50 fellows through short-term, masters, and doctoral degree programs in key thematic areas critical to the overarching WKKF goal in the region, which is to implement and disseminate models to break the cycle of poverty.
The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology welcomed the Kush Club Summer Program on Tuesday, July 10. A youth organization established in 1989, the Kush Club is dedicated to studying and promoting public awareness about the history, culture, and artistic achievements of Africa in antiquity.
Last Thursday, on a day as beautiful as any this summer has offered, 14 Boston-area high school science teachers sat in the dark learning about mechanisms of cholesterol homeostasis. Later that day, they watched blood clot.
Harvard Law School (HLS) has received a $500,000 gift to establish the Bob Barker Endowment Fund for the Study of Animal Rights. The fund will support teaching and research at HLS in the emerging field of animal rights law. The income generated by the gift will fund periodic courses and seminars at HLS on animal rights taught by visiting scholars having a wide range of views and perspectives. In addition to classroom instruction, the gift will assist visiting and permanent faculty members in conducting research in this growing discipline.
In an effort to encourage fairness in newspaper journalism and honor an exemplary example of fairness in news coverage, the former managers of The Boston Globe have announced the establishment of the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard will administer the award.
The Kuwait Program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) held its first Executive Program in Kuwait on Global Challenges and Security in the Gulf from June 11-13. The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, the sponsor of KSGs Kuwait Program, hosted the three-day seminar. Twenty-nine senior executives from the government, military, and private sectors of Kuwait and the Gulf participated in the program.
Under the artistic direction of Thomas Everett, the Harvard Summer Pops Band will present its annual concert at the Hatch Shell on Saturday, Aug. 4, at 7 p.m. Bassoonist Dale Clark will be the guest soloist. The Harvard Summer Pops Band will also perform in Harvard Yard on Wednesday, Aug. 1, at 4 p.m.
Since summers lease hath all too short a date, why not make the most of it by catching a performance of Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream, staged in the open air of Adams House courtyard?
A century after it was given to Harvard by railroad tycoon Edward Harriman, the Tlingit totem pole that formerly stood guard in the Peabody Museums Hall of the North American Indian is returning to its original home on the coast of Alaska.
In July 2, 1641 – President Henry Dunster marries Elizabeth Glover, widow of Cambridge clergyman Jose Glover, who owned the English colonies first printing press. (In 1640, this machine had produced the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published by English colonists in America.) By 1646, the press is installed in the Presidents Lodging. Sometime before Dec. 1654, Dunster gives or sells the press to the College.
Haley Surti 01, died in a bus accident in Peru, on June 12. Haley was a resident of Mather House, a concentrator in biochemistry, a writer/researcher for Lets Go, and a member of the South Asian Association (choreographer and dancer), the Mather House Chamber Music Society (violinist), Kuumba, and the womens lacrosse team. She was also the fundraising director for Project Baby at the Boston Medical Center (2000-01), a teacher in Costa Rica for Worldteach (1999), a tutor at the Bureau of Study Counsel, a volunteer for the Mission Hill Afterschool Program, and the editor of Sanskar, an anthology of South Asian poems and short stories. After graduation, Haley had planned to spend the summer in Peru and Bolivia, and the fall in India.
Gazette reporters Ken Gewertz, Beth Potier, and Alvin Powell roamed through Commencement Day, eyes, ears, and notebooks open. Some of their observations follow.
Having ridden his political fortunes from the Holbrook Town Planning Board to the Massachusetts state legislature to Washington, D.C., White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card knows a thing or two about public service. Card shared many of those lessons during an inspirational Class Day address to Kennedy School graduates and their parents on Wednesday, June 6.
At the Radcliffe Associations annual luncheon on Friday, June 8, Madeleine Albright provided the star-power, but she shared the spotlight with womens education, womens advancement, and the new role of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
The President of the Harvard Alumni Association announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers last week. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the Universitys 350th Commencement. The five newly elected Overseers, in order of their finish, are Harold Hongju Koh, 20,519 Susan Graham Harrison, 19,406 Paul A. Buttenwieser, 18,099 Bruce M. Alberts, 17,941 Deborah C. Wright, 17,913 and the candidate who received the sixth-highest number of votes, 15,913.
One week he dodged grizzly bears another time it was an attack by raccoons on yet another day he found evidence of wild bobcats inside the Chicago city limits. That all happened to Richard Forman as part of a project to visit the most remote areas in the contiguous United States.
Former Harvard coach Robert L. Scalise has been named Harvard’s Nichols Family Director of Athletics, announced Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, at a press conference on Monday, July 16.
On Friday, June 8, at approximately 4:50 a.m., an assault and battery was reported inside the entry gate to the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Bryant and Scott Streets.…
Paul Bénichou, a critic recognized by students of French literature as one of the premier scholars of the 20th century, died in a Paris hospital on Monday, May 14. He…
Harvard University announced yesterday (June 13) that the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, professor in religion and society and chair of the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Divinity, will resign as head of Harvard Divinity School (HDS) at the end of 2001 to become president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, a network of more than 1,400 social-service agencies across the country. Catholic Charities USA made a concurrent announcement yesterday at its headquarters in Alexandria, Va.
Center for Ethics accepting fellowship applications The Center for Ethics and the Professions is accepting applications for 2002-03 residential faculty fellowships in ethics. Fellows will participate in the center’s weekly…
James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, has been elected president of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD).
Institute for Advanced Theatre Training names new director The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) has announced that Hungarian theater and film director János Szász has been appointed director of the A.R.T…
The University has announced this year’s Harvard Housing Innovations Program (HHIP) grant winners. The awards ceremony took place on Friday, June 8, at the Business School. These awards are the…
As a 10-year-old child visiting a historical society in Cabot, Vt., Sarah Anne Carter was fascinated by two small dolls dressed in plain black, lying in wooden coffins. Carter has…
Under the auspices of the Alumni Association of Phillips Brooks House Association, nine students are interning this summer at not-for-profit organizations and one government agency. The host agency is paying each intern’s salary, except for two students who are receiving work study funding.
After finishing high school in her native Greece, Marina Gerolimatos spent several years studying cosmetology near Athens, then earning a scholarship to study the profession in Paris. While her siblings left for the United States, she finished her studies in Paris and went back to Greece, near her mother, to open what became a successful beauty salon.
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