Author Kathleen Norris will give the 2000-01 William Belden Noble Lectures on Feb. 26, 27, and 28 at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Church. The lectures are free and open to the public. Norris will also preach on Sunday, Feb. 25 at 11a.m. Her sermon is titled It Is Good for Us To Be Here.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America have acquired the papers of Shirley Graham Du Bois (1896-1977). An influential artist and activist, Graham Du Bois was the second wife of the renowned African-American intellectual leader W.E.B. Du Bois. The collection includes Graham Du Boiss personal correspondence, private papers, professional work, and photographs. It documents her dynamic and diverse life – as composer, playwright, biographer, teacher, civil rights champion, proto-feminist, American Communist Party member, participant in the African liberation struggles, proponent of Maoist China, and longtime friend, then beloved spouse of W.E.B. Du Bois during his last 12 years. Purchased by an anonymous donor for the Du Bois Institute and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Shirley Graham Du Bois collection will be housed at the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe.
The Harvard University wrestling team (9-4) captured its first Ivy League Championship in school history, defeating Brown University (10-9) 30-7 this past Saturday, Feb. 17, at a dual meet held at Boston University. After a 25-11 loss against Penn earlier this month, the Crimson grapplers bounced back with a 37-6 win over Princeton.
Radcliffe Dean Drew Gilpin Faust has received a report from an Ad Hoc Committee appointed last summer to help her chart a course for Radcliffe during its critical, early years as an institute for advanced study. The report, representing the work of distinguished scholars and academic leaders from outside Harvard, recommends organizational structures and intellectual agendas that will enable Radcliffe to best fulfill its stated mission – to support the creation of new knowledge – at the very highest level of quality.
February 1952 – President James Bryant Conant and an alumni committee publicize plans for a $5 million campaign to revitalize the Divinity School. The drive seeks to increase endowment sixfold…
When a gay tutor at Mather House opted to leave Harvard after becoming a target of harassment last year, his friend Serre-Yu Wong 01 was devastated. That was a sad moment for our community because we couldnt come together enough for him, in support of him.
Cells from fetuses implanted in the brains of a dozen people with Huntingtons disease improved the ability of nine of them to control their movements and has, perhaps, postponed their deaths.
Scholarships for one academic year of study or research in China are made possible through an agreement between the Ministry of Education of the Peoples Republic of China and Harvard University. For academic year 2001-2002, five full scholarships (covering tuition, housing, health insurance and books) and ten partial scholarships (covering tuition only) will be offered for study or research at one of approximately 80 Chinese universities authorized by the China Scholarship Council to admit foreign scholarship students. Harvard undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty who are citizens of the United States are eligible to apply. The application deadline is Thursday, March 15, 2001. For more information contact the Committee on General Scholarships, 218 Byerly Hall 495-5126 or email to cgs@fas.harvard.edu.
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 Stride Rite Post-Graduate Public Service Grants support involvement in public service projects during the year following graduation. Graduating seniors are eligible to apply and receive grants between $10,000 and $25,000. Funded programs are to be full time and community-focused
February 1949 As a gesture of sympathetic distress over a Jan. 26 fire that destroys 11 of 12 great murals in the Gondo (Golden Hall) of Horyu-ji Monastery at…
Lunch with Sen. John McCain have a shot at stardom with a nonspeaking, walk-on role in the hit TV show Dharma & Greg tour the set of ER or The West Wing get into the action as a ballboy or ballgirl at a Celtics game shadow CNN correspondent William Schneider for a day.
Almost two years ago, senior Marta Szabo found out she was pregnant just weeks before her spring exams, and although Szabo is now successfully juggling classes and diapers, she said it hasnt been easy. So with the hope of making the experience of unexpected pregnancy easier for future students, Szabo joined a group of six other panelists at a Pregnancy Resource Forum held at the Quincy House Feb. 7 to investigate what resources pregnant students have.
Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule, distinguished archaeologist, classicist, and art historian, died last Tuesday, Feb. 6 at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She was 72. Vermeule was professor emerita at Harvard University.
Facing the challenges of tomorrow Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences prevPage 3next The Graduate School Admissions. The number of applicants rose again this year,…
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Former South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk made a case for international protection of minority groups to a receptive but sometimes skeptical audience that questioned his role in the abuses of South Africas discarded apartheid past.
East Asian Legal Studies accepting submissions The East Asian Legal Studies (EALS) program of the Harvard Law School (HLS) will award the Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize to the…
William Olney, a former fundraiser for Harvard University, died Jan. 3 in his home in Westwood, Mass. He was 76. From 1962 until his retirement in 1988, Olney was the…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 10. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…
Subramaniam Ramakrishnan, senior associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), died Feb. 7. Ramakrishnans relationship with the University started in 1975, when he was awarded a fellowship at the Kennedy School. From 1982 to 1999, he worked as a senior associate at HIID. Ramakrishnan had directed and taught in HIID workshops for government officials from all over the world since 1990.
By any account, the 19th century cholera epidemics were horrible. Rumor and ignorance fed fear of a disease that could strike in the afternoon and kill by bedtime. In Charles Rosenbergs eyes, though, the epidemics are also a lens through which to view American society.
The annual Walter Channing Cabot Fellowships have been conferred on four members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The recipients are: Mario Davidovsky, Fanny P. Mason Professor of Music Peter Galison, Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics Katharine Park, Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science and Robert Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy.
Internationally renowned pianist Eugen Indjic 69 was a recent visiting artist with the Office for the Arts Learning from Performers series. Above, Indjic talks to performer Berenika Zakrzewski 04 at the Dunster House Library.
Ann Marie Cody 03 has long been reaching for the stars. As a high school student in Harvard, Mass., Cody was intrigued by the evidence detected by astrophysicists in 1995 that at least 30 Jupiter- and Saturn-like gaseous planets are orbiting distant stars. Not only have these discoveries provided spectacular confirmation that our solar system is not alone, says Cody, but they have also revolutionized current theories on the formation of planetary systems. One of the most surprising findings has been the counterintuitive observations that many of these massive new planets orbit extremely close to their parent stars.
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