Year: 2002

Tennis pro Patrick McEnroe came to the Murr Center for an afternoon of tennis and tenacity with area inner city kids on Saturday (Oct. 19). Tenacity is an organization founded to bring tennis to urban kids in the Boston area. The organization is unique because it includes an academic component in its program. Tenacity reaches…

After marching 81 yards in the waning minutes of last Saturdays contest of regional supremacy at the stadium, the Harvard football team suddenly found itself hot on the heels of the Northeastern Huskies. That is, until they tripped.

Harvard Business School Press (HBS Press) and the Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) recently announced that they will develop a cobranded line of books focusing on leadership for the common good. David Gergen, public service professor and director of the Center for Public Leadership, and Barbara Kellerman, lecturer…

Tufts Universitys Global Development and Environment Institute (G-DAE) announced this month that it is awarding its third annual economics prize to Alice Amsden of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dani Rodrik of Harvard for their path-breaking work on globalization and the role of the state in development. They will receive their awards at a…

I just keep these for old times sake, says entomologist Louis Roth, pulling a box from the shelf above his desk in a small office in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ).

Author Plotkin to talk at Science Center Ethnobotanist and author Mark Plotkin, A.B.E. ’79, will discuss his new book, “The Killers Within: The Rise of Deadly, Drug-Resistant Bacteria” (co-authored with…

Wilson’s famed novel is re-released “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit,” the novel by Sloan Wilson ’42 that seemed to capture the mood of a generation when it was…

A snippet from the childrens book Frog and Toad are Friends is posted on the bulletin board outside David Laibsons Littauer Center office.

A memorial service for David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, will be held at the Memorial Church on Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. Riesman, best known…

President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 19. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Oct. 19, 1869 – At the meetinghouse of First Church, Unitarian, Charles William Eliot is formally installed as Harvard’s 21st President. From the outset, Eliot’s 105-minute address delineates his broad…

At its fourth meeting of the year the Faculty Council heard updates on the Freshman Seminar Program (from program director Elizabeth Doherty), and on the implementation of the 2001-02 legislation on grading practices (from deans J. Wolcowitz and J. OKeefe [Undergraduate Education]). The council also considered minor textual changes in the facultys Procedures for the…

A Harvard student has died of a mysterious illness with flu-like symptoms, and three others are in the hospital with what appear to be similar symptoms.

Authors, economists, social scientists, and CEOs will discuss a range of historical and contemporary issues surrounding women in bankruptcy, poverty, and economic development around the world, as part of the Radcliffe Institutes Women, Money, and Power conference on Oct. 24-25.

Nineteen international affairs practitioners from around the world have been appointed as fellows at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs for the academic year 2002-03. Established in 1958, the fellows program welcomes mid- to senior-level diplomats, military officers, politicians, journalists, and others working in the realm of international affairs to pursue independent study and research…

The Judge Baker Childrens Center is sponsoring a weekend conference on Oct. 25-27 to address how academic and social failure of youth and adolescents can be prevented if the necessary steps are taken early in childrens lives. Risk and Resilience: Protective Mechanisms and School-Based Prevention Programs is being held in partnership with the Substance Abuse…

The Rwandan genocide memorial was a tiny one-room church, pervaded still by a penetrating stench. On a table in the church was a pile of human skulls and femurs, a startling reminder of the people who sought shelter there in 1994 when the killers came calling.

Welcoming National Public Radio (NPR) senior European correspondent Sylvia Poggioli to an overflow-capacity brown-bag lunch at the Kennedy School of Government on Oct. 11, Shorenstein Center Director Alex Jones issued two warnings to the audience.

Professor of American Church History Emeritus C. Conrad Wright, a renowned scholar of American Unitarianism who received his bachelors, masters, and doctorate at Harvard and taught at the Divinity School from 1954 to 1982, will be honored at a reception this week at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library. The occasion for the reception is to celebrate…

Its more than just a pretty face.

Eileen Jackson Southern, an authority on Renaissance and African-American music and the first black female professor to be given tenure at Harvard, died Sunday (Oct. 13) in Port Charlotte, Fla. She was 82.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 12. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Members of the Radcliffe Womens Varsity Eights kibitz inside Weld Boathouse as they prepare for the upcoming Head of the Charles Regatta, which starts today (Oct. 17) and goes through Oct. 20. Liz OLeary (in red), head coach of the Radcliffe team, talks to Caryn Davies 04, the stroke of the Varsity Eight team. Davies…

Two co-hosts Paul Wylie 91 and Nancy Kerrigan, the 33rd An Evening With Champions was a homecoming of sorts: Both performed in the show several times before becoming Olympic medalists. Kerrigan enjoyed being back and contributing. Wylie, who has hosted the show for many years, said, What is wonderful is to see the new crop…

The controversy over cloning and stem cell research has maintained a steady boil over the past few years, with politicians, religious leaders, editorial writers, and ethicists vying to stir the pot of public opinion.

The identity of Harvard, the University, is known and renowned around the world. But can the same be said about Harvards identity in the digital world? Where does the University stand within the current framework of technology and new media?

Maybe you thought Chekhovs Uncle Vanya was a play about bored, morose Russians whining interminably about their frustrating provincial existences, but here in the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) scene shop its all about the ceiling.