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…
The Harvard Corporation has approved plans for the Human Resources (HR) Project, which by April 2002 will implement improved computer systems for human resources, payroll, benefits, and time collection. The project will use PeopleSoft applications hosted and maintained by an outside application service provider. This approval constitutes the final step in a series of reviews and gives the green light to the second phase of Project ADAPT, Harvards effort to update its administrative computer systems.
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded 58 research grants and 39 internship grants to Harvard undergraduate and graduate students. Research and internship grant recipients, which…
The Harvard Cycling Team came back from Colorado trophy-less but energized by their first-ever trip to the National Collegiate Road Cycling Championships in Colorado Springs.
With a devoted following among students, staff, and faculty, and sworn testimonials of increased dexterity, relaxation, and balance of body and mind, the meditative practice of tai chi is a force to be reckoned with. So much in fact, that the Harvard Crimson selected classes in tai chi – which is said to foster the flow of a vital force (chi) throughout the body – as a top 100 must-do for Harvard students. Beginner tai chi student Rakhi Nandalal Mahbubani 04 seems to agree. My week doesnt start until Thursday she explains, referring to that days class.
Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine announced today the appointments of Robert Woodruff as artistic director, Gideon Lester as associate artistic director/dramaturg, and Robert J. Orchard as executive director of the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) to take effect in August 2002.
May 6, 1945 At noon a novel contraption appears on high as a helicopter hovers over Harvard and lands on the riverbank in front of the Business School. A…
The University and the union representing Harvard dining service and Faculty Club workers, HEREIU Local 26 (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union) have entered into a new five-year collective bargaining agreement. The agreement, which was ratified by union members last week, will become effective on June 20. Under its terms, the 500 workers employed in student dining halls, the Faculty Club, and campus restaurants, will see substantial, across-the-board increases in pay – increases that, in the words of the union, raised the bar, particularly for those working in campus restaurants.
Thanks to the cooperative efforts of the University community and Harvard Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO), a record 1,590 tons of paper have been recycled through the 2001 fiscal year. Now, with student move-out and Commencement just around the corner, FMO will be sponsoring several different efforts over the next few weeks to reduce the amount of reusable material that gets thrown out at this busy time of year.
Holloway to meet with Nobel Laureates The Department of Energy has selected Ayana Holloway, GSAS, as one of 31 outstanding research participants to attend the 51st convention of Nobel laureates…
After three years as a Rhodes Scholar and six months fulfilling his ROTC obligations as an artillery lieutenant at Fort Sill, Okla., Neil Rudenstine came to Harvard as a graduate student in English literature.
At first glance, Lama Migmar Tseten seems out of place in Cambridge, his maroon robes and tranquil demeanor a sharp contrast to the bustling chic and intellectual tweeds of Harvard Square.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences recently announced the names of 209 distinguished scholars, scientists, artists, business executives, educators, and public officials who have been elected to membership in…
Harvard University and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) announced today a new partnership to create The Cambridge-Harvard Summer Academy, a summer school program for Cambridge students.
Study links child care to aggression. This recent headline, and others like it, has some parents wondering if preschool might be the first step to reform school.
The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the winners of a fellowship created for the schools top students by Imagitas, a Waltham, Mass.-based government-solutions company. The Imagitas Fellows Program is designed to encourage public service and explore new ways of using private sector resources to solve public sector challenges. Maxwell Kennedy, chairman of the Watershed Institute, introduced the fellows during a reception at KSG on Thursday, May 17.
For many years, Stanley Cavell, Ph.D. 61, has been at the forefront of combining philosophical inquiry with the study of film. Thanks to the generosity of retired Harvard faculty member and filmmaker Robert G. Gardner 48, A.M. 58, Cavells contributions to the area of film studies have been permanently honored with the creation of the Stanley Cavell Curatorship of the Harvard Film Archive (HFA).
If any of the 120 Harvard managers attending the Sixth Workforce Management Conference on Friday, May 18, were hoping for a free lunch and an easy day out of the office, they were sorely disappointed.
The Harvard University Library and three major publishers of scholarly journals – Blackwell Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, and the University of Chicago Press – have agreed to work together in developing an experimental archive for electronic journals. The preservation and the archiving of electronic journals – which are increasingly born digital and for which, in many cases, no paper copies exist – present unique, long-term challenges to librarians, publishers, and, ultimately, to the scholars and researchers who will seek to access to them over time.
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