Physician and acclaimed novelist underlines immigrants’ contributions to Harvard and the nation, urges graduates to show courage, character in the face of hardship
Drew Gilpin Faust to give public lecture Drew Gilpin Faust, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and a leading historian of the Civil War and American South, will…
Harvard announced today a major increase in its annual scholarship program for undergraduates. The new plan underscores Harvards dual commitment to need-blind admissions and need-based aid, and reduces the amount that students are expected to contribute to their education. Students will now face less debt on graduation, and they will have more time to concentrate on academic and extracurricular pursuits while they are in the College.
Historian Karen Armstrong to deliver Tillich Lecture Karen Armstrong, a distinguished historian and interpreter of religion, will deliver the Paul Tillich Lecture, titled “The Search for the Sacred,” on Tuesday,…
At its 10th meeting of the year, the Council reviewed the Feb.13 Meeting of the Faculty, and the agenda for the March 13 Meeting. The Council also continued its discussion…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 17. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…
Minh-Chau Le has no recollection of the war. Born long after Saigon fell to the Communists in 1975, the 21-year-old Harvard seniors impressions of Vietnam are more contemporary – bustling open-air marketplaces, floating bridges, and fertile farmlands. To Le, Vietnam is a place not of bombs and destruction, but of opportunity.
The challenge of collecting sports memorabilia at Harvard, says the Hall of Athletic History volunteer curator Warren Renny Little 55, is that all the equipment is signed in and signed out, so no one ever thinks about keeping it. For Little – a Harvard athletics devotee since his track days – the task of assembling a three-dimensional collection of Harvard athletic artifacts to accompany the Murr Centers timeline mural, is further strained by eBay, neglected attics, and of all things, competition against specialty shops and local taverns. A lot of these artifacts end up in bars in South Boston or in places like Leavitt & Pierce tobacco shop, he concedes.
Michael Rodman, a 1999 graduate of the Kennedy School of Government, has been named the news officer at Harvard Law School (HLS). Rodman – who assumed his new role earlier this month – will be the schools primary media contact and a key member of the communications staff.
Near a river in Guodian, China, not far from a farmhouse made of earth and thatched with straw, Chinese archaeologists in 1993 discovered a tomb dating back to the fourth century B.C.
It’s my absolute favorite thing to do in the world. When you’re singing with good technique, it’s an entirely engrossing experience. The sound fills your chest, your head, your ears. You can feel the paper vibrating in your hand. You can even feel the wood of the pews vibrating.
Thomas J. Healey, advisory director at Goldman, Sachs & Co., will move from the New York boardroom to a Cambridge classroom as he prepares to share what hes learned with students at the Center for Business and Government (CBG) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG).
John G. Ruggie, assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, will join Harvards John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) as the Evron and Jeanne Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced.
United by their differences, a group of Bosnian women from the torn nations various ethnic groups spent last week at Harvard, talking about their pasts, sharing their visions of the future, and building coalitions to make that future happen.
New Jerseys Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, Al Gores campaign manager, and the former governor of Puerto Rico are among the distinguished public servants who have been chosen for fellowships at the Institute of Politics (IOP) this spring.
Four new area codes are being added in eastern Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy has mandated that they be added to existing calling areas. This change requires that all local calls in eastern Massachusetts must be dialed using 10 digits. This change does not apply to the Universitys Centrex numbers.
The sports world is an unusual arena where cultural heroes are born, where the bonds between teammates are strongly forged and, often, where gay athletes face their biggest challenge, according to panelists discussing the subject Sunday.
Undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty who are U.S. citizens are eligible to apply for research and study scholarships in China for the 2001-02 academic year. Five full scholarships, which include tuition, housing, health insurance, and books, and 10 partial scholarships, covering only tuition, will be offered at one of approximately 80 Chinese universities. The scholarships are made possible through an agreement between the Ministry of Education of the Peoples Republic of China and Harvard University. The application deadline is Thursday, March 15.
With the beginning of Spring term, the Harvard College Library, in collaboration with Harvard Arts and Sciences Computing Services (HASCS), launched wireless Ethernet services in Lamont Library. The introduction of these services at Lamont represents the first deployment that is primarily intended to serve the undergraduate student body.
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…
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