Beginning Sunday, Aug. 19, the HOLLIS Portal, a gateway to Harvard libraries electronic resources such as Lexis-Nexis, MEDLINE, OED, and all electronic journals, will institute a University-wide authentication system – the University personal identification number (PIN) service.
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, revolutions and rebellions were occurring at a rate that made established regimes tremble. In addition to the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789, and a dozen rebellions that swept across Europe from Italy to Ireland, there were slave insurrections in Surinam (1763) and Haiti (1791), an unsuccessful rebellion in the Brazilian province of Minas Gerais (1789), and, between 1816 and 1824, a series of revolutions in South America led by Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín.
Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and Taiwanese foreign minister Hung-mao Tien signed an agreement last month establishing the KSG-Taiwan Leadership Program. The new…
Summer school occupies one of the darkest chambers of high schools hall of horrors. Theres the shame of having failed a class – or several – during the year, the agony of waking up early and going to school on beautiful summer days, the ache of spending sultry evenings with homework assignments instead of with friends.
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.
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