Garrison Keillor, creator and host of Minnesota Public Radios A Prairie Home Companion, will be the orator at next weeks Harvard Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises. The first academic event of Commencement Week, the exercises will take place at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, June 5, following the induction of about 100 seniors into the national honor society. The Sanders Theatre ceremony, featuring choral music by the Commencement Choir, is free and open to the public.
Shavell assumes presidency of law association Steven Shavell, the Samuel R. Rosenthal Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS), has assumed the presidency of the American Law and Economics…
For 26 years, Cathy Craddock has taught some of the youngest scholars in the Harvard community: preschoolers who attend the Oxford Street Day Care Cooperative, one of six Harvard-affiliated day-care centers.
Harvard Law School Dean Robert C. Clark has announced that students and alumni who take jobs in fields not traditionally considered “law-related” will be eligible for the school’s loan forgiveness…
Barry Mosers delicate pen-and-ink rendition of the restored Memorial Hall tower on the dust jacket of Neil L. Rudenstines new book Pointing Our Thoughts: Reflections on Harvard and Higher Education, 1991-2001 stands as an appropriate symbol of its authors achievement as Harvards 26th president.
Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, has been named among the class of 2001 Carnegie Scholars by the Carnegie Corporation of…
Harvard Law School’s Program on International Financial Systems has received a grant to study worldwide capital adequacy regulation of financial institutions. The project, supported by Swiss Reinsurance Co., will involve…
In 1721, Cotton Mather listened to the slave Onesimus describe how Africans used fluid from a mild smallpox infection to inoculate the healthy against the disease.
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced that it is awarding 55 student grants and fellowships amounting to nearly $200,000 for the 2001-02 academic year. Fifteen grants will support…
Conjuring images of dancer Isadora Duncan on the beach and comedian Lucille Ball at the candy factory, the founder of the Society for Ladies Who Laugh Out Loud gave about 30 Harvard women some seriously silly advice during a noontime talk Thursday, May 24.
Seven seniors and one graduate from the University have been selected as Gates Scholars. The new scholarship program, set up by a $210 million trust from the Bill and Melinda…
The Department of Music has announced its fellowship and award recipients. More than $150,000 went toward fellowship and award programs for the department’s graduate and undergraduate students. The John Knowles…
The Boston Living Center is always a little hectic right before lunch when volunteers get things ready for the 75 to 100 members who will drop in for food and the fellowship of others who have HIV/AIDS. But on this sunny Saturday in April, its downright crazy.
When Martin Sullivan became director of the New York Museum in the 1980s, he was surprised to learn that one of his official titles was Keeper of the Wampum.
Osler Peterson’s deep analytical understanding and critique of the health care system of our own and many other countries earned him not only admiration but also a great deal of…
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 15, 2001, the following Minute was placed upon the records. Sterling Dow was born on 19 November 1903…
Staff photos by Justin Ide It’s moving time again: cars on curbs, sore muscles, stuffed cars, sidewalk couches, a scarcity of boxes, and a profusion of parents
Anthony K. Tjan, founder and former executive vice president of ZEFER, a leading Internet-focused consulting and services firm, is returning to Harvard June 7 as a fellow at the Belfer…
Harvard is quietly greening. And though it’s spring, the greening in this case is not just getting the Yard ready for Commencement. It’s an effort to get Harvard to practice…
Harvard College Library has received approval to proceed with Phase 2 of the Widener Library renovation. While the Widener stacks renovation project currently under way affects levels 1-10 in the…
Legal scholar Lani Guinier ’71, author Esmeralda Santiago ’76, and former Vermont Gov. Madeleine May Kunin B ’92 are among the distinguished women who will be honored by the Radcliffe…
After a period of productive negotiation, we have reached agreement on the terms of a new three-year contract that includes wage and benefit improvements as well as a new emphasis on education and professional development for staff. The new contract, which was ratified by the unions members on May 1, will go into effect on July 1, 2001.
Seven scholars from Ukraine, Poland, and the United States have been selected as the first recipients of the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellowships in Ukrainian Studies at Harvard University. The…
Hello, our names are Benjamin Bath and Julia Berthet. We are seventh-grade students from the Graham & Parks School. Every year our school sends junior high students to different workplaces across Cambridge. The objective: to give students a taste of what a week of work is like. We were assigned to work at the Harvard University Office of News and Public Affairs.
A team of researchers, led by Gökhan S. Hotamisligil, associate professor of nutrition at the School of Public Health, has successfully generated mice resistant to atherosclerosis and has discovered an important new pathway that could be manipulated to prevent and treat the disease. Atherosclerosis is a progressive disease in which fat and cholesterol are deposited along artery walls, creating fatty lesions, plaque, and obstructions that lead to an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. The study appears in the June issue of the journal Nature Medicine (http://www.nature.com/nm/).
Discovery of the skull of a shrewlike animal the size of a paper clip pushes back the origin of mammals, including humans, to 195 million years ago. Found in China, the tiny skull shows evidence that the first mammals evolved from reptiles 45 million years earlier than widely believed.
Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree…
The University Center for the Environment (HUCE) hosted a reception for Gilbert Butler Jr. ’59 honoring his generous support of the China Project – Harvard’s multidisciplinary research program on energy…
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