By day, they hit the books and the labs, making the rounds in their academic pursuits. But by night, a talented coterie of School of Public Health (SPH), Medical School…
Its the Mail Jail Harvards Dead Letter Office and into it go letters and packages that are undeliverable because of incomplete addresses that often consist of just a name…
A group of Harvard undergraduates met in Athens, Greece, during spring break, March 25-29, to coordinate the World Model United Nations (WorldMUN). The diplomatic simulation allowed students, representing United Nations…
Three Selected for 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship Three members of Harvards faculty are among the 182 artists, scholars, and scientists awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Guggenheim Fellows…
On a still spring night in Cambridge, more than 100 people gathered at Harvard Yard for a candlelight vigil and march to draw attention to the issue of violence against…
April is Alcohol Awareness Month The Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) offers free, confidential help with alcohol problems to all Harvard faculty, staff, retirees, and their families. For telephone…
The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) supports direct student involvement in the arts to integrate creative thinking and expression into the undergraduate educational experience. Harvard students are embarking…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 15. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.…
Nationally eminent constitutional scholar and Dean of the Stanford Law School Kathleen Sullivan will deliver an address on “The Constitution in the Twenty-first Century” in Longfellow Hall on Appian Way…
Alex S. Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of PBS Media Matters, has been named the new director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public…
Under threatening skies and windy conditions, over 300 Harvard tennis fans and alumni joined in the celebration to dedicate the new Beren Tennis Center. The ceremony, held on center court,…
Carnegie Mellon University has awarded its $50,000 Dickson Prize in Science to Howard Raiffa, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor in Managerial Economics, Emeritus, a pioneer in the field of decision…
Terry L. Murphy of Boston has been named managing editor of the Harvard University Gazette. A 20-year veteran of newspaper editing and reporting, Murphy was a copy editor at the…
Members of the Harvard community will have a chance to participate in the third International Conference on Internet & Society. The University is providing a forum for leading scholars, practitioners,…
It was one of the most horrific episodes in recent world history. Almost 400 villages in Northern Iraq were eliminated in 1987 and 88 with thousands of inhabitants allegedly…
Name tags might have been necessary the first few weeks, with all the young faces assembled on Harvard’s women’s lacrosse team. Of the 25 players on the roster this spring,…
Roscoe Pound Professor of Law James Vorenberg, the ninth dean of Harvard Law School, former Watergate associate special prosecutor, and first chair of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission, died on…
Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree (from left), Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Mrs. Cecelia Marshall (wife of the late Justice…
The Peabody Museum will host a symposium on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). A Decade of NAGPRA: Reviewing the Law will take place Friday, April 14th,…
Founders and graduates of Harvards Afro-American Studies Department came together last weekend to reflect on the struggle that gave the department birth, to plot strategies for the future, and to…
The Graduate School of Education’s literacy laboratory will be renamed the Jeanne S. Chall Reading Laboratory in honor of its founder and a leading expert in reading research and instruction…
Each year, the department of chemistry and chemical biology receives a number of corporate fellowships for organic chemistry research. These fellowships are sponsored by several corporations whose support has been…
The following members of the Faculty have been elected to the Council for terms beginning on July 1, 2000: Professors John Y. Campbell (Economics), Jay M. Harris (NELC), Pamela K.…
Quality-of-life factors are the most significant determinants for prospective faculty when theyre considering a job offer, according to a new study conducted by the Project on Faculty Appointments at the…
Nearly 300 students turned out for the first annual H’ARD CORPS (Harvard Community Outreach and Public Service) event on Saturday. Breaking into teams, they worked on 18 different projects in…
For many of us, food can be a powerful reminder of who we are and where we come from. But the foods that Rebecca Weisinger 02 remembers from her family…
Declaring that music has been central to the African-American experience since slavery, Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. announced Friday the creation of the first endowed professorship in…
Two books and a work-in-progress have been named winners of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project, an awards program jointly administered by the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University…
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