Making government work better, both at home and abroad, is the goal behind a $50 million endowment grant awarded today by the Ford Foundation to the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). It is the largest single donation KSG has ever received and the largest single endowment ever made by the Ford Foundation.
Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Paul Grogan will leave Harvard July 1 to take the helm of The Boston Foundation, a philanthropy dedicated to building community in Boston and helping the citys poor.
Associate Vice President for Human Resources Polly Price has announced the appointment of Henry Ryan as director of Workforce Initiatives for Harvard University. Ryan joined the University on Monday, April 2.
Harvard collected a record $34,101 for the American Cancer Societys annual Daffodil Days fundraiser this year, topping last years total by 2.2 percent and helping fund the Cancer Society programs, including research seeking a cure for the disease. This years results come just months after the University was recognized in February for being the top single-site seller in New England. This is the fourth consecutive year the University set an all-time high for contributions during Daffodil Days.
How are women faring in the information technology (IT) industry? Researchers from the Radcliffe Public Policy Center (RPPC) will address that question during a three-year study – funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) – of women working in IT. RPPC will partner with the Massachusetts Software and Internet Council (MSIC) to study employees in its member firms, using cutting-edge Internet-based survey technology in addition to field interviews. The project will establish the nations first systematic research database concerning workers in the IT industry.
The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering a fellowship award for the 2001-02 academic year for doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic consistent with the centers research agenda. The award will provide a stipend of $10,000. The Meyer Dissertation Fellowship is named in honor of John R. Meyer, professor of capital formation and economic growth emeritus, of the Kennedy School of Government.
Relationships between black and white women in literature have provided a sometimes painful mirror of racial stereotypes in the real world, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison said Tuesday, concluding, however, that literature today has gotten beyond stereotypes, no longer mirroring reality but running ahead of it.
John E. Dowling, the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard University, was recently awarded the prestigious Llura Liggett Gund Award from The Foundation Fighting Blindness.
Veritas Forum returns to Harvard After a two-year hiatus, the Veritas Forum returned to Harvard yesterday (Wednesday, April 4), and will run through Monday, April 9. Through lectures, panels, and…
Each year, the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology receives a number of corporate fellowships instrumental in the training of graduate students in organic chemistry. The 2000-01 research fellowships are sponsored by Eli Lilly Research Laboratories, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., and Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research. Ten graduate students have been awarded the fellowships this year.
Eleven Harvard University students and graduates are among the 30 recipients for the 2001 Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship. Fellows receive up to a $20,000 stipend plus half tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the U.S.
There were cockroaches perched on little kids fingers, cockroaches cupped in kids hands, cockroaches crawling on the table – and 9-year-old faces screwed up in an odd mixture of excitement, disgust, and delight.
After last months 3-1 loss against Ivy rival Dartmouth in the ECAC Championship game, and a 6-3 upset in the first ever NCAA Womens Championship Semifinal in Minneapolis versus the eventual national champion Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs, this seasons brilliant Crimson squad found its post-season solace wherever it could, and not surprisingly, in a number of ways.
President holds office hours President Neil L. Rudenstine will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on April 4. Provost Harvey V.…
Leverett A. Martel, who worked for 20 years in the purchasing department at the University, died on Friday, March 9, in Rockport, Mass. He was 82. Martel was employed at…
Botterill named Ivy player of the year Harvard University women’s hockey forward Jennifer Botterill ’02, was unanimously named the Ivy League Women’s Hockey Player of the Year. Botterill finished the…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 17. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…
Babies come into the world with musical preferences. They begin to respond to music while still in the womb. At the age of 4 months, dissonant notes at the end of a melody will cause them to squirm and turn away. If they like a tune, they may coo.
Elaine Kamarck, senior policy adviser to the Gore 2000 campaign, returned to Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG) as faculty-in-residence at the Center for Business and Government (CBG). As a White House insider, Kamarck will share her experience in the classroom and bring that insight to her research at the Center.
Darell Fields does not see in black and white, but in “blackness.” The term, according to the associate professor of architecture at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), refers not…
Mark J. Roe, a Columbia Law School professor and current visiting professor at Harvard Law School, has been named professor of law at Harvard – a tenured appointment. A 1975 Harvard Law graduate, Roe has written extensively on corporate law and new methods of corporate reorganization and bankruptcy. At Harvard, he has taught corporate finance and reorganization, as well as a seminar on advanced issues in corporate law.
Elaine Kamarck, senior policy adviser to the Gore 2000 campaign, returned to Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG) as faculty-in-residence at the Center for Business and Government (CBG). As a White House insider, Kamarck will share her experience in the classroom and bring that insight to her research at the Center.
Home style maven Martha Stewart touted the “power of a single idea” at Sanders Theatre last week and told students that anyone can head their own company if they set…
The mayor was vacillating. The police were posturing. The ACLU was pontificating. And hip-hop star Big X, having been stopped by police for a tilted license plate and detained for three hours, said his actual crime was DWB – driving while black. It was a press conference from the front lines of the urban American battlefield, and it was acted out on the stage of the Littauer Penthouse at the Kennedy School by Dorchester high school students.
His warm and enthusiastic teaching style endeared him to generations of undergraduates, and he firmly guided over twenty graduate students as they began their physics careers.
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