Year: 2002

HOLLIS unavailable on 27th The Harvard University Library (HUL) has announced that the HOLLIS Catalog will be unavailable from 4 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Friday (Dec. 27). HOLLIS will…

Harvard employees currently paid on a semimonthly basis will find something extra in their first paychecks when they switch to biweekly pay in January – an advance equal to nine days pay without taxes or deductions.

MVP Morris named top senior Harvard wide receiver Carl Morris ’03 – named the Ivy League’s most valuable player for the second consecutive season – received the Harry Agganis/Harold Zimman…

Thirty years ago, when Emily Mann 74 was an undergraduate directing plays at the Loeb Drama Center, someone told her that as a woman, she couldnt possibly have a career as a playwright and theater director. Had she considered childrens theater?

There are those who say America is losing its regional identity, that theres no more difference between Spokane and Spotsylvania, Klamath Falls and King of Prussia than there is between fast-food stops along the interstate. They say the mass media has homogenized our culture, making us all look the same, dress the same, act the…

There were just enough moments of dazzle and dominance in this past Saturdays (Dec. 7) womens hockey match-up at the Bright Hockey Center that host Harvard appeared to be playing against an ice version of the Washington Generals – that hapless squad of fall guys made infamous by the Harlem Globetrotters. Though for the No.…

Matthew Shair takes his inspiration from nature. The recently tenured professor of chemistry and chemical biology tries to solve natures mysteries and learn enough in the process to improve upon the mother of life. His work is called biomimetic synthesis, mimicking the way that life works by mixing chemicals in a laboratory.

At the Askwith Education Forum at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Friday (Dec. 6), Al Gore introduced himself as the former next president of the United States and closed with a cautious endorsement of the electoral college system that kept him from that post in 2000.

Dear Colleagues, I am writing to bring to your attention a Harvard initiative concerning scholars who face persecution…

Dec. 3, 1948 – The 110-member Harvard University Band makes its second appearance at Symphony Hall, Boston. The program features well-known marches and traditional band music, along with works by…

Lewie Remele 06 hangs holiday decorations inside his dorm room in Grays Hall.

Thinking outside the box seems to have given Harvard students the edge in the Rhodes Scholarship competition this year. Four Harvard College students and one from the Medical School received the prestigious award – more than from any other school. All of them are pursuing academic careers that are interdisciplinary and unconventional.

If chickens could talk, would they have anything interesting to say? Most scholars think not. But Marc Hauser, a Harvard professor of psychology, disagrees with them.

Robert C. Clark will conclude his service as dean of Harvard Law School at the end of the 2002-03 academic year, he announced Nov. 25.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation of Menlo Park, Calif., has awarded $1.25 million to the Harvard University Library (HUL) to support the librarys Open Collections program. The new, Harvard-wide program reflects the Universitys long-term commitment to the creation of comprehensive, subject-based digital resources that link throughout the Harvard library system. Once created, these new…