Year: 2000

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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.…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

The Joint Center for Housing Studies will hold the second annual John T. Dunlop Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 12, at the Graduate School of Design. The lecture, titled “The US…

Last May, the Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies, appointed by President Neil L. Rudenstine and composed of faculty and senior administrators from across the University, released its final report.…

September 28, 2000 Starting Sept. 29, the Museum of Natural History will give visitors a chance to bask in the beauty of a thousand butterflies. Specimens of every size, shape,…

College can be a difficult place. Students, especially at schools like Harvard, often have the pressure to succeed continually bearing down on them. Most are living away from home for…

According to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), a freshman student was assaulted while standing in Annenberg Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 26, at approximately 9:30 in the morning. The affiliate…

Workers from the 2000 Summer Youth Employment Program were honored at an with a pizza party in August to recognize their efforts. In addition to lunch, the students were given…

Nine doctoral candidates of exceptional promise have joined the Society of Fellows as Junior Fellows. The Society gives scholars at early stages of their careers an opportunity to pursue their…

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Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Sept. 16. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

It was a modest armada. Last week, Peabody Museum staff removed 28 canoes, kayaks, outriggers, and dugouts from the sixth floor of the Herbarium and Botanical Museum where they had…

Robert H. Giles has been selected as the next curator of the University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, President Neil L. Rudenstine announced last month. Before coming to Harvard, Giles, 67,…

Georgi wins Dirac Medal for contributions to physics Howard Georgi, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, has been awarded the Dirac Medal for his pioneering work in theoretical physics. Georgi shares the…