Physician and acclaimed novelist underlines immigrants’ contributions to Harvard and the nation, urges graduates to show courage, character in the face of hardship
Ask yourself why paper currency is still engraved, and you will stumble into the exacting and elegant realm of the repeatable image. The query will take you back at least 150 years, to a time when engraving was an immensely popular printmaking technique. So much so, in fact, that in the 19th century the term engraving was used to describe any reproductive print. Of course the invention of photography nearly wiped it out, but there was a time when the technique was so highly regarded that a Civil War engraving of Abraham Lincoln done after a Matthew Brady photograph was far more valuable than the original. Today, engraving is still used to print money because it is hard to counterfeit, and because it carries intrinsic prestige.
With electronic privacy becoming more difficult to attain for everyone from governments to lovers, the need for an unbreakable code is rising rapidly toward the top of many most wanted lists. Michael Rabin, the Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, says he has come up with the solution: a code that cannot be deciphered even by those who have both the key and unlimited computer power.
Freshman Sara Williamson doubled in the bottom of the seventh to drive in the winning run of a 5-4 decision against Boston University this past Tuesday afternoon at Harvards Soldiers Field. The loss ended an 18-game win streak for the Terriers, while extending the Crimsons run to a season-high five games. With the win, the team improves to 18-15, 9-3 Ivy.
The NFLs Cleveland Browns have signed Harvard All-America offensive tackle Mike Clare 01 to a free agent contract. Clares signing gives Harvard six players who have signed professional football contracts in the last four years.
As chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Orrin Hatch yields significant influence over the future direction of the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Utah Republican told a packed audience at the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) on Monday night that hes determined to keep politics out of it.
Former U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt slammed President George Bushs global warming record Sunday, delivering a combination call to action and political stump speech to an enthusiastic Earth Day crowd of about 800 gathered in Sanders Theatre.
The Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Council on the Arts have announced the winners of the 2000-2001 prizes for outstanding accomplishments in the arts. The winners are as follows:
Harvard Law School announced today that its library – the largest law library in the world – has received its most significant gift in more than 150 years, a major collection of rare English law books spanning 400 years of legal writing from 1491 to 1891.
He was committed tirelessly to hard work, clearly an example to family, friends and colleagues. His contagious joy in life with that infectious, irrepressible chuckle, encompassed his work, his relationships to people, as well as his travels, and delight in being exposed to the new and challenging.
In the communal living room at Bostons South Cove Plaza Saturday, under the quiet swirl of twin paddle fans, words from two languages – rapid-fire Chinese and slow, careful English – mingled in the rooms slowly stirring air.
As the Massachusetts Hall sit-in over wages for the Universitys lowest-paid workers extended into its eighth day on Wednesday, protesters and members of the Harvard administration searched for a resolution to the standoff.
Harvard faculty, staff, and retirees pledged a record-breaking $966,400 to local charities through this years Community Gifts through Harvard Campaign, surpassing last years mark by more than $95,000.
As the Massachusetts Hall sit-in over wages for the Universitys lowest-paid workers extended into its eighth day on Wednesday, protesters and members of the Harvard administration searched for a resolution to the standoff.
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, April 21. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…
Kirschner wins Gairdner International Award The Gairdner Foundation of Toronto has named Marc Kirschner, the Carl W. Walter Professor of Cell Biology, as one of the four recipients of the…
Rosalynn Carter to speak at ARCO Forum Former first lady Rosalynn Carter will speak at the ARCO Forum, Kennedy School of Government, on Monday, April 30, at 6 p.m. Her…
Last years report on United Nations Peace Operations began with a somber statement: Over the last decade, the United Nations has repeatedly failed to meet the challenge of protecting people from war. The report, compiled by a panel of experts from all six continents and chaired by Lakhdar Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign minister, proposes extensive reforms of UN peacekeeping operations.
As the Massachusetts Hall sit-in over wages for the Universitys lowest-paid workers extended into its eighth day on Wednesday, protesters and members of the Harvard administration searched for a resolution to the standoff.
As the Massachusetts Hall sit-in over wages for the Universitys lowest-paid workers extended into its eighth day on Wednesday, protesters and members of the Harvard administration searched for a resolution to the standoff.
For 10 years, Alan DAndrea labored to find the cause of one of the rarest diseases on Earth. Called Fanconi anemia, it affects only 500 families out of 280 million people in the United States.
Every time Harvard sophomore Sandra Nudelman sees her grandfather, she is thankful for the 19-year-old nursing student whose donated liver saved his life. Her grandfather, Norman Rudow, waited from late…
Enrique Anderson Imbert, the Victor Thomas Professor of Latin American Literature at Harvard University from 1965 until his retirement in 1980, died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this past Dec. 6.…
Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business will hold its second semiannual conference on Thursday, April 26, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Charles Hotel. The organization’s goal is to promote…
April 4, 1945 At the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, Calif., the Radcliffe Club of San Francisco performs launching honors for the S.S. Radcliffe Victory, one of several wartime Victory…
The following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, April 14. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29…
Harvard University April 2001 Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Let me first thank the many of you who have offered your good wishes as I prepare to take up…
The Harvard Cancer Society and the Asian American Brotherhood are working with the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) to recruit more minorities for the National Marrow Donor Registry. Each year, more than 30,000 children and adults in the United States are diagnosed with life-threatening blood diseases like leukemia. For many of these patients, a marrow or stem cell transplant is the only chance for a cure.
Frederick Schauer, academic dean and Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School of Government, is among a distinguished group of scholars, scientists, and artists awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
People with heart disease who consume an average of 14 alcoholic drinks a week appear less likely to die from a heart attack than nondrinkers. Low to moderate drinking is also associated with a lower risk of heart failure among older people.
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