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…
A memorial service for Felicia Lamport Kaplan will be held on Monday, March 13, 2000 at 3 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, 1515 Massachusetts Ave.,…
Bill Kovach will receive this years Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at an award ceremony tonight (March 9) at 8:00 p.m. at the Kennedy School of Government. Kovach,…
The womans left lung had collapsed because a tumor blocked the airway leading to it. She could only survive in a hospital with the help of a machine that forced…
Erin Curran, 6, a 1st-grader from the Martha Jones School in Westwood, Mass., practices a wrathful roar while looking in a hand mirror after having her face painted inside the…
Callbacks Win A Cappella Semifinals The Callbacks, one of Harvards coed undergraduate a cappella singing groups, placed first in the Northeast Regional Final of the National Championship of Collegiate A…
Vacation Houses For Rent Harvards vacation houses on Sutton Island and Kittery Point, Maine, are available for rent to salaried faculty and officers of the University. Applications for weekly rentals…
Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced a new round of grants under the Provosts Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration. These grants are designed to promote intellectual interchange across Faculties of the…
Its not often opportunities like this one come knocking on a dormitory room door. So you can just imagine the reaction when 20 members of the Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships selection committee…
The moment I stepped into the Ben Shahn exhibition currently at the Sackler Museum, I had the feeling that I was in the presence of something uncannily familiar, a world…
President Neil L. Rudenstine hosted a lunch Tuesday, March 7, in honor of recently retired Cambridge mayors Frank Duehay (left) and Sheila Russell. The mayors and other guests were also…
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…
The life of Johann Sebastian Bach, from his music to his personal relationships with sons, students, and other contemporaries, is documented with selected original materials in an exhibition called “The…
The Wolf Foundation, an Israel-based organization dedicated to the promotion of science and art, has named Raoul Bott, the William Caspar Graustein Research Professor of Mathematics, winner of the 2000…
Juliana Paré-Blagoev believes that brain scan studies will not only yield scientific clues for furthering treatment of dyslexia, but also subtle, easily overlooked benefitssuch as a sense of hope, that…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 4. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden…
Harvard basketball senior captain Damian Long of Spokane, Wash., has been named Ivy League Player of the Week for the period ending March 5, while freshman guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman of…
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles has announced that for the 2000-01 academic year, Harvards package of undergraduate tuition, room and board, and student fees…
When David Weitz says his experiment is ready to fly, he means that literally. Like into space. Weitz has had four experiments aboard space flights, including three on the Mir…
A record 18,687 students have applied for the 1,650 places in the Class of 2004, according to the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, marking the ninth time in the…
Matthew Alper, director of administration and finance for the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at the Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has been named…
Harvard Provost Harvey Fineberg has announced two initiatives to help faculty and staff with child and elder care. He has approved an increase in the Universitys child-care scholarship fund, which…
To many, the most remarkable element of Harvards extensive athletics program and its high level of success is that its athletes must be just as dedicated to excellence…
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