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…
Myra Mayman, the founding director of Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OFA), has announced that she will step down at the end of June. In letters and phone calls to…
For a week in August, incoming Harvard Medical School students ignored the siren call of sun and sand for a chance to spend a week weighing and measuring preschoolers at…
Stebbins named fellow, curator at Fogg Museum Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. was named distinguished fellow and consultative curator of American art at the Fogg Art Museum in August. Stebbins is…
2000-01 directories to be distributed in November The 2000-01 Directory of Faculty, Professional and Administrative Staff will automatically be distributed to teaching faculty and all administrative and professional staff, as…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Sept. 23.The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.Sept.…
Two former world leaders, a prominent health care policy-maker, and the national campaign manager for John McCain’s presidential bid are among the fellowship selections at the Institute of Politics (IOP)…
One of Norman Janis’ earliest memories is standing on the beach at Coney Island at the age of 6 and singing “HMS Pinafore” to his parents and their friends. The…
The Paul Revere battalion, which includes students from Harvard, Tufts, Wellesley, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named the “Most Outstanding” by the U.S. Army, among more than…
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,…
The “10th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony” will be held Thursday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The ceremony honors scientifically minded achievements that “cannot or should…
The Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard has selected 15 associates for research projects in 2000-01. Founded in 1980, the program enables outstanding scholars and practitioners from the United States…
Harvard Law School has awarded Irving R. Kaufman Public Interest Fellowships to 22 graduating students and recent graduates. These fellowships are awarded in recognition and support of individuals who have…
A memorial service will be held for Masatoshi Nagatomi, professor of Buddhist studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, on Friday, Oct. 27, 2 p.m., at the…
When I knocked on her office door, Margo Seltzer, newly tenured professor of computer science, was changing her daughter’s diaper. “I’ll come back,” I said. “No need,” she replied. In…
As Harvard sophomore Jay Williams passed through customs and trudged toward the exits at Terminal E in Logan Airport two weeks ago, the colorful images reflecting off his sunglasses proclaimed…
The Harvard Art Museums (HUAM) are eager to help local schools plan curricula, arrange student visits, and generally make their superb collections available to the Cambridge community. That was the…
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