George Buckley to deliver coral reef lecture The Harvard Extension Alumni Association is sponsoring a lecture on coral reef ecology by underwater photographer, biologist, and Extension School lecturer George Buckley…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Sept. 30. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…
The Rockefeller Center exhibit “Of Reflections and Ceremonies: Meeting With a Mazatec Shaman” features a collection of photographs by Montreal-based artist Dominique Pepin that is the result of three years…
More than 300 students and community members attended a big-screen showing of the presidential debate Tuesday night at the ARCO Forum at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Although…
Eight visting Wasserstein Fellows and one fellow-in-residence have been named at Harvard Law School. The program brings outstanding public interest attorneys from across the country to campus for one or…
Rising to 265 feet, the church has the honor of being the tallest in New England. Its height includes the metal spire, culminating in a weather vane in the form…
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards were established in 1990 to recognize alumni who provide outstanding volunteer service to Harvard through alumni activities. This year’s recipients will be honored on…
Michael Armini has been appointed director of communications at Harvard Law School, a newly created position designed to support the Law School’s current strategic planning initiative. Armini served most recently…
James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, and Susan Flannery, director of the Cambridge Public Library (CPL), recently agreed to forge “a…
Celebrating the acquisition of a stately 1920’s-era apartment building using funds from Harvard’s 20/20/2000 initiative, Cambridge City officials hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday at the site of its latest…
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) announced the 2000-01 Carr Center visiting faculty and fellows. The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy…
Mark Twain knew darn well what he was doing when he wrote “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”: he was pokin’ at a beehive. And for more than one hundred years,…
According to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), a freshman student was assaulted while standing in Annenberg Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 26, at approximately 9:30 in the morning. The affiliate…
College can be a difficult place. Students, especially at schools like Harvard, often have the pressure to succeed continually bearing down on them. Most are living away from home for…
September 28, 2000 Starting Sept. 29, the Museum of Natural History will give visitors a chance to bask in the beauty of a thousand butterflies. Specimens of every size, shape,…
Last May, the Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies, appointed by President Neil L. Rudenstine and composed of faculty and senior administrators from across the University, released its final report.…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies will hold the second annual John T. Dunlop Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 12, at the Graduate School of Design. The lecture, titled “The US…
Harvard University’s endowment posted its highest return since 1983 in the year ending June 30, 2000, increasing to approximately $19.2 billion on a 32.2 percent return despite an unremarkable year…
Recent accounts of young school students shooting each other has sent a shiver through the nation; journalists call the killings an “epidemic” and legislators have begun debates on new gun…
David Fithian has been named Assistant Dean of Harvard College, effective immediately. Fithian, who was appointed by Dean of Harvard College Harry L. Lewis, will work on a variety of…
Christine Smith points to a small limestone capital, a fragment of a French medieval abbey. It is mounted high on the wall of an exhibition room at the Fogg Museum.…
Harvard seeks its second victory of the season when it travels to Lafayette this Saturday for a non-conference tilt. It is the sixth meeting between the schools in a series…
The Hauser Center is a University-wide, interdisciplinary research center that seeks to expand understanding and accelerate critical thinking about civil society among scholars, practitioners, policy makers and the general public.…
The gauntlet hit the floor with a bang during last week’s Askwith Education Forum on “The Homework Wars” sponsored by the Graduate School of Education (GSE) and moderated by Emily…
The Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees will be meeting during the fall and spring to consider nominees for honorary degrees in 2002. Members of the Harvard community are invited to…
Harvard Divinity School has announced the establishment of the Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan Professorship in Islamic Religious Studies. The new chair, whose title honors the family of His Highness Sheikh…
With one collective eye focused on a controversial and colorful past and the other gazing ahead toward an uncertain future, some 600 African-American graduates of Harvard Law School (HLS), joined…
Humberto Cuartas and his 9-year-old son are homesick. Even so, they aren’t quite ready to pack up and go back to their home in Medellin, Colombia. Cuartas, a waiter at…
Diego Rios has big plans for his career at Harvard. The 32-year-old Colombian native has worked as a waiter at the Faculty Club for the past four years, eagerly taking…
To help employees learn basic language skills and/or prepare for the Graduate School of Education, the Bridge Program has teamed up with doctoral students in the National Center for the…
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