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…
Dayna Muller will be wired like an astronaut when she runs the grueling 26.2-mile Boston Marathon on April 17. A pillbox-sized sensor on one shoe will broadcast her running speed…
Monkeys can tell the difference between Dutch and Japanese as easily as human infants, language researchers have found. This ability makes humans less special than previously believed, and ties our…
Warfield Named Chair of Anesthesia and Critical Care at BIDMC Carol A. Warfield, associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, has been named chair of the anesthesia and critical…
Good morning. I’m very glad to be with all of you this morning, to celebrate your school and its achievements, and to wish you good fortune as you begin your…
They walk through the door with handfuls or even shoe boxes crammed with crinkled letters, receipts, and tax documents from their pension plans, banks, the Social Security Administration, and the…
Accolades abounded at Tuesday evenings “Harvard University Volunteer Recognition Program 2000.” Over 100 Harvard employees, who volunteer their time, were invited to the Law Schools Ropes and Gray Room for…
Harvard University is scoring high in U.S. News and World Reports latest rankings of the nations top graduate schools. The rankings were released this week, and are contained in the…