Group will include higher education, healthcare, and cultural institutions, seek to leverage buying power to advance cost-effective, green production projects
While South Africans around the world celebrate their countrys Human Rights Day on Tuesday, March 21, Sheila Sisulu, the South African Ambassador to the United States, will be at the…
For years, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah has espoused the ideal of bringing a multidisciplinary approach to the study of ethnic history and identification. Since…
Kathy Delaney-Smith rode her bike to the office the day after the devastating 96-74 loss to Dartmouth ended the Crimson womens basketball season. It had been only days earlier, coming…
June Dowling, a receptionist at the Harvard University Employees Credit Union since 1989, died on March 6, three months after being diagnosed with cancer. She is survived by her husband,…
Courtney Egelhoff leaned in close, her face just inches from her coachs blonde, shoulder-length hair. Intent with concentration, Egelhoff combed and snipped. Combed and snipped some more. The scene was…
Newly appointed professor of education and incoming director of the Harvard Literacy Laboratory Connie Juel is moving some of the services of the renowned lab into public schools. This is…
“Is the brain shaped and even changed by its experiences with language?” wonders Mary Helen Immordino-Yang. “Does language change the way people think?” A former seventh-grade science teacher, Immordino-Yang is…
Melding the tools of cognitive development, developmental psychology, art, brain-imaging technology, and education, Kim Sheridan is trying to unlock the mystery of artistic taste. It has taken years for Sheridan…
Michael Connells fascination with “neural networks”computer programs that simulate the activity of brain cells or neurons and actually learn over timestems in no small part from a “crystallizing moment” he…
In his book All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, Michael MacDonald chronicles his childhood in a predominantly poor, Irish-American neighborhood in Boston during the antibusing riots of the 1970s.…
In this season of presidential primaries, education has at long last become a critical component of the stump speech, superceding even crime and foreign affairs. Every candidate is eager to…
At its 10th meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed with Anne Taylor, Vice President and General Counsel, and University Attorneys Robert Iuliano and Allan Ryan, the present status…
Once the province of astronomers, land planners, and geoscientists, in the past several years, geospatial data and the tools to analyze it have become increasingly available and valuable …
Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Harbison 60 (AM 68) will receive the 2000 Harvard Arts Medal on May 6 as part of ARTS FIRST 2000, the eighth annual celebration of…
President Neil L. Rudenstine (left) shakes hands with Alina Das ’01, student director of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter at the University Lutheran Church, on Tuesday while Joanne Engquist, a…
The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering a fellowship award for the academic year 2000-01 for doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic…
The Third International Harvard Conference on Internet & Society, to be held May 31-June 2, will explore the impact and implications of the Internet in transforming industry, government, and individual…
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