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…
Andrea Kurtz, a chemistry concentrator and a resident of Kirkland House who plans to do graduate work in her field this fall at Stanford University, is the winner of this years Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, awarded by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to a graduating senior.
Seventy-three undergraduates have won the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work or research. The $2,500 prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes 19. The Hoopes Prize recipients are as follows:
About 60 Harvard College seniors signed a written pledge on Thursday, May 31, to live life as environmentally friendly and as socially conscious as possible.
Two historians, a composer, and a physicist received Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) medals at a ceremony on Wednesday, June 6, at the Faculty Club. The 2001 Centennial Medalists are Bernard Bailyn Ph.d. 53 Caroline Walker Bynum, 62, Ph.D. 69 Elliott Carter, A.B. 30, A.M. 32 and Walter Kohn, Ph.D. 48.
The Institute of Politics (IOP) has awarded more than $100,000 to Harvard students for summer internships in the public sector. As part of three separate programs offered by the Institute,…
Alexis Craig ’02, of Lowell House, will intern at the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit at the District Attorney’s Office in Austin, Texas. Roopal Patel ’03, of Lowell House, will intern…
The snow was compact and the toboggan glided to the snowmobile trail head more easily than I had expected. I had a plastic sled with an unwaxed snowboard mounted on the bottom, and over 120 pounds in gear and supplies, enclosed by a brown tarp tied to the device with a thin nylon cord. The others – the Innu participants – had wooden or aluminum toboggans with belongings twice the weight of mine tightly roped down and covered with anything from recycled canvas strips to clear plastic. It occurred to me later that the Innu walkers were going to live in the country (nutssimat), while I was only prepared to camp. Unlike with our gear, for the most part we were all dressed uniformly, with handmade caribou moccasins and snowshoes prepared by a number of elders – technologies that would outlast our synthetic equipment. We had all made it to the trail outside of Happy Valley, and our 150-mile walk to Minipi (pronounced Mananipi in Innu) was to begin.
For Kathleen Dawson, spending a year at the Harvard Graduate School of Education was as much catharsis as it was education, the final marker of a 26-year journey in search of family, purpose, and excellence.
Twelve students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) are recipients of Fulbright Grants that will allow them to conduct dissertation or other advanced research abroad next year.…
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.
Staff photos by Jon Chase Following is the text that Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., used to introduce the gift of Nok sculptures to the Rudenstines on May 12: In…
Hundreds of Harvard Law School alumni will convene in Paris later this month to take part in the schools second Worldwide Alumni Congress – an international gathering of the Law School community featuring both intellectual and social activities.
After tracking the health of Harvard alumni for 41 years, researchers offer this advice for a longer life: exercise, exercise, exercise, and quit smoking.
You eat a wonderful meal in an Italian restaurant and ask the chef for the recipe. But by the way, you say, I cant afford veal so I ordinarily use ground beef. I cook for 50 instead of for two, and I dont like broccoli. But please tell me the recipe.
With spring cleaning in full swing, Harvard’s Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) provides members of the Harvard community a list of charitable organizations throughout Greater Boston that would make…
May 6, 1951 The new Eliot Bridge across the Charles River at Gerry’s Landing is dedicated to the memory of President Charles W. Eliot and his son Charles Eliot,…
Harvard’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) has announced the three faculty members who will receive this year’s PBK Teaching Prize. The prize, now in its 20th year, will be…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, May 26. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…
A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on Thursday, June 7. For the 13th consecutive year a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvards 350th Commencement Exercises.
On June 6, Greta Van Susteren, CNN legal analyst and host of The Point With Greta Van Susteren, will deliver Harvard Law Schools 2001 Class Day address. The speech will begin at 2:30 p.m. on the steps of Langdell Hall on the Law School campus.
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…
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