The coldest place in the universe is not millions of miles away in a dark corner of outer space but in an exotic laboratory in Cambridge, Mass. It’s a place where Harvard University researchers are slowing and compressing light and probing exotic states of matter.
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.
Harvard University announced June 28 the establishment of a new interdisciplinary Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), based at Harvard Business School and directed by Michael E. Porter.
June 1, 1774 Several parliamentary punishments for the Boston Tea Party (December 1773) take effect, and British troops occupy Boston. “[C]onsidering the present dark aspect of our public Affairs,”…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending June 9. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…
John Kenneth Galbraith has received Indias second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, comparable in importance to the U.S. Congressional Medal of Freedom.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright will receive the Radcliffe Medal from the Radcliffe Association on Friday, June 8, during the associations annual luncheon in Cambridge. The Radcliffe Medal is awarded yearly to an individual whose life and work has had a significant impact on society.
The worlds longest continuous study of physical and mental health has come up with predictors that individuals can use to determine how well they will age.
Eight men and three women will receive honorary degrees in Harvards 350th Commencement Exercises this morning, including Robert Rubin, who also will deliver this years Commencement Address.
June 19, 1638 Shortly before this date, Nathaniel Eaton, first Master of the College, moves with his family from Charlestown into a house in the Yard. By Sept. 17, he has already assembled and begun teaching the first freshman Class of nine. Until the Bay Colony starts using coins for commerce, students for many years pay their tuition and living expenses in commodities ranging from agricultural products and livestock to boots, cloth, and hardware.
June 19, 1638 Shortly before this date, Nathaniel Eaton, first Master of the College, moves with his family from Charlestown into a house in the Yard. By Sept. 17, he has already assembled and begun teaching the first freshman Class of nine. Until the Bay Colony starts using coins for commerce, students for many years pay their tuition and living expenses in commodities ranging from agricultural products and livestock to boots, cloth, and hardware.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, June 2. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.
When Timmy OSullivan started working at Harvard, things were different. I started on June 30, 1959, says OSullivan, his ruddy complexion and lilting accent confirming the national origin his name suggests. I started as a dining hall busboy. But in those days it was very different. In the summer, I switched outside and worked on the grounds. After a number of years of bussing and groundskeeping, OSullivan put in for a transfer to the Athletics Department and spent the next 12 years at his first driving job – at the wheel of the ice rinks Zamboni.
The John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the Sylvia E. Kelman Summer Internship recipient. The internship will provide a $4,000 stipend to support a master in public policy (M.P.P.) student in a public sector work/training program. In so doing, the Sylvia E. Kelman Summer Internship introduces students to careers in public service.
Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine announced today the appointment of Joseph Connors as director of Villa I Tatti, effective in the summer of 2002. Located on the outskirts of Florence, the Villa is Harvards international center for advanced study of the Italian Renaissance.
The newly established Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) recently received major commitments of support for its research and education programs. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) will allocate physical and faculty resources to the center, including new space for the China Project – HUCEs multidisciplinary research program on energy use and environmental protection in China. An award from the Henry Luce Foundation will fund the China Project Fellows Exchange Program, a reciprocal exchange of environmental scholars, from undergraduate students to senior faculty, between Harvard and Chinese universities.
Calling the endowment of new professorships one of his highest priorities in the coming years, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles recently set a goal of expanding the Harvard College faculty by 60 members overall.
Santiago Creuheras, who graduates today (June 7) with two masters degrees (a master of liberal arts in history and a master of liberal arts in government) and a certificate of special studies in administration and management from the Harvard Extension School, has been pursuing what often seems a highly improbable path toward his goals. It is this path that has led him from Mexico to Washington, D.C., to Cambridge and the Harvard Extension School.
To an audience of about 100 freshly minted Phi Beta Kappa graduates and the esteemed faculty members who led them, Garrison Keillor extolled the virtues of laziness and failure.
The Graduate School of Education (GSE) has awarded six fellowships to outstanding Cambridge and Boston public school teachers. The Conant Fellowships, named after Harvard president (1933-53) and School of Education…
The following are the graduating seniors elected to Phi Beta Kappa: Deborah Jo Abel, Cabot, Earth and Planetary Sciences; Michael Ugo Antonucci, Winthrop, Biology; Tal Astrachan, Cabot, Psychology; James Carl…
Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine bid farewell to the Class of 2001 Tuesday even as the students bid goodbye to him as the Universitys outgoing 26th president during the traditional pre-Commencement Baccalaureate Service.
John Lithgow ’67 “After Harvard, I spent two years on a Fulbright, studying acting in England. And after that, I spent a year working for my father, acting at Princeton’s…
The Harvard Directory Project has announced Hannah Sarvasy ’03 as the winner of the 2001-02 student directory cover art competition. Sarvasy’s painting, “Weld Boathouse and the Charles,” will appear on…
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