Year: 2001

Shavell assumes presidency of law association Steven Shavell, the Samuel R. Rosenthal Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS), has assumed the presidency of the American Law and Economics…

Garrison Keillor, creator and host of Minnesota Public Radios A Prairie Home Companion, will be the orator at next weeks Harvard Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises. The first academic event of Commencement Week, the exercises will take place at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, June 5, following the induction of about 100 seniors into the…

On June 6, Greta Van Susteren, CNN legal analyst and host of The Point With Greta Van Susteren, will deliver Harvard Law Schools 2001 Class Day address. The speech will begin at 2:30 p.m. on the steps of Langdell Hall on the Law School campus.

A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on Thursday, June 7. For the 13th consecutive year a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvards 350th Commencement Exercises.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, May 26. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

Harvard’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) has announced the three faculty members who will receive this year’s PBK Teaching Prize. The prize, now in its 20th year, will be…

May 6, 1951 – The new Eliot Bridge across the Charles River at Gerry’s Landing is dedicated to the memory of President Charles W. Eliot and his son Charles Eliot,…

With spring cleaning in full swing, Harvard’s Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) provides members of the Harvard community a list of charitable organizations throughout Greater Boston that would make…

You eat a wonderful meal in an Italian restaurant and ask the chef for the recipe. But by the way, you say, I cant afford veal so I ordinarily use ground beef. I cook for 50 instead of for two, and I dont like broccoli. But please tell me the recipe.

After tracking the health of Harvard alumni for 41 years, researchers offer this advice for a longer life: exercise, exercise, exercise, and quit smoking.

When Katherine Merseth fills out a form that asks for her profession, she always writes teacher.

The Harvard University Library and three major publishers of scholarly journals – Blackwell Publishing, John Wiley &amp Sons, and the University of Chicago Press – have agreed to work together in developing an experimental archive for electronic journals. The preservation and the archiving of electronic journals – which are increasingly born digital and for which,…

If any of the 120 Harvard managers attending the Sixth Workforce Management Conference on Friday, May 18, were hoping for a free lunch and an easy day out of the office, they were sorely disappointed.

For many years, Stanley Cavell, Ph.D. 61, has been at the forefront of combining philosophical inquiry with the study of film. Thanks to the generosity of retired Harvard faculty member and filmmaker Robert G. Gardner 48, A.M. 58, Cavells contributions to the area of film studies have been permanently honored with the creation of the…

Thirteen U.S. journalists and 12 international journalists were appointed Monday to the 64th class of Nieman Fellows.

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the winners of a fellowship created for the schools top students by Imagitas, a Waltham, Mass.-based government-solutions company. The Imagitas Fellows Program is designed to encourage public service and explore new ways of using private sector resources to solve public sector challenges. Maxwell Kennedy, chairman of the…

Study links child care to aggression. This recent headline, and others like it, has some parents wondering if preschool might be the first step to reform school.

Harvard University and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) announced today a new partnership to create The Cambridge-Harvard Summer Academy, a summer school program for Cambridge students.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences recently announced the names of 209 distinguished scholars, scientists, artists, business executives, educators, and public officials who have been elected to membership in…

At first glance, Lama Migmar Tseten seems out of place in Cambridge, his maroon robes and tranquil demeanor a sharp contrast to the bustling chic and intellectual tweeds of Harvard Square.

Megan named director of Office for the Arts

After three years as a Rhodes Scholar and six months fulfilling his ROTC obligations as an artillery lieutenant at Fort Sill, Okla., Neil Rudenstine came to Harvard as a graduate student in English literature.

Holloway to meet with Nobel Laureates The Department of Energy has selected Ayana Holloway, GSAS, as one of 31 outstanding research participants to attend the 51st convention of Nobel laureates…

Thanks to the cooperative efforts of the University community and Harvard Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO), a record 1,590 tons of paper have been recycled through the 2001 fiscal year. Now, with student move-out and Commencement just around the corner, FMO will be sponsoring several different efforts over the next few weeks to reduce the amount…

The University and the union representing Harvard dining service and Faculty Club workers, HEREIU Local 26 (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union) have entered into a new five-year collective bargaining agreement. The agreement, which was ratified by union members last week, will become effective on June 20. Under its terms, the 500 workers employed…

May 6, 1945 – At noon a novel contraption appears on high as a helicopter hovers over Harvard and lands on the riverbank in front of the Business School. A…

Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine announced today the appointments of Robert Woodruff as artistic director, Gideon Lester as associate artistic director/dramaturg, and Robert J. Orchard as executive director of the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) to take effect in August 2002.

He took genuine pleasure in befriending people and making lesser lights feel at ease. He loved teaching and was always surrounded by students.

With a devoted following among students, staff, and faculty, and sworn testimonials of increased dexterity, relaxation, and balance of body and mind, the meditative practice of tai chi is a force to be reckoned with. So much in fact, that the Harvard Crimson selected classes in tai chi – which is said to foster the…