Year: 2002

The Office for the Arts (OFA) has announced its support of 19 student arts projects taking place during Arts First weekend (May 2-5). Sponsored by the OFA grants program and selected by the Council on the Arts, the projects range from music and the visual arts to theater and the cultural arts. The Council on…

Per W&aumlstberg, a prolific Swedish author, human rights advocate, and a member of the Nobel Prize Committee for Literature, was at Harvard April 4 for a luncheon at the Faculty Club, sponsored by the Harvard Foundation. W&aumlstberg, who earned a Harvard A.B. degree in Comparative Literature in 1955, recalled being accidentally locked overnight in Widener…

He is quiet and unassuming, but massage therapist Bob Collins attracts a lot of attention as he walks through a Holyoke Center administrative office. A chorus of unsolicited praise pours from offices: Hes amazing. The best. One touch and I was hooked.

Employee discount at Peabody

March Madness came to Harvard Law School (HLS) this year, even though the only court students set foot on was a court of law.

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. Individuals wishing to meet with President Summers or Provost Hyman will be welcomed on a first-come, first-served basis. A Harvard ID is required.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, April 6. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

April 29, 1636 – John Harvard marries Ann Sadler, sister of the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge University. Just over a year later, they emigrate to New England.

Morning Exercises

Following a nationwide search that began last fall, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Tuesday, April 9, that he has appointed Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, leading historian of education and president of the Chicago-based Spencer Foundation, as the next dean of the Graduate School of Education. Lagemann succeeds Jerome T. Murphy, who served as dean from 1992…

Eating more fish may help save your life, according to two new studies.

In March, 23 volunteers from Harvard traveled to rural North Carolina to rebuild the Antioch United Holy Church, destroyed by arson. Their work transformed the students as well as the church. Gazette photographer Justin Ide and writer Beth Potier joined them to document this Alternative Spring Break experience.

Goethe called architecture frozen music. What harmonies might he have heard had he visited the Fogg Museum? Perhaps a Haydn symphony to go with the buildings Georgian fa&ccedilade, or a Palestrina madrigal to complement the interior courtyard (a replica of the Sangallo loggia at San Biagio, Montepulciano), or a Purcell overture to echo against the…

Yellow and green are considered colors of healing in a number of ancient traditions. This past March in dazzling arrays of golden daffodils these colors filled the modern offices throughout the University. And these bright visitors were intimately connected with healing. Daffodil Days at Harvard is a yearly fund drive that raises money for the…

Having banished a C-Span crew who were busily setting up under the misapprehension that they would be allowed to record the proceedings, Stephen Jay Gould trudged to the podium of the Natural History Museums Geological Lecture Hall carrying a heavily laden canvas tote bag. The tote contained his latest book, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory,…

AIDS is in the air in Botswana. On the airwaves, actually. They call it the radio disease, according to Harvard AIDS Institute Chairman Max Essex, because so many public service announcements urging safe sex are broadcast.

In a matter of minutes, a line of tense Harvard Medical School (HMS) seniors turned into a talkative mob outside the Medical School Registrars Office Thursday (March 21) as Match Days anxiety turned to relief with the opening of a little white envelope.

Harvard faculty to shine at Literary Lights

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. Individuals wishing to meet with President Summers or Provost Hyman will be welcomed on a first-come, first-served basis. A Harvard ID is required.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 30. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

March 24, 1943: John F. Connolly – familiar to generations of students as John the Yard Cop – turns 75, still making his rounds as the dean of Crimson police. A native of Charlestown, he began working at Harvard in 1906.

Former U.S. Sen. and former Harvard Professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan will be the Commencement speaker at this year’s afternoon exercises on June 6.

Robert E. Rubin ’60 will become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced today.

Following a nationwide search that began last fall, President Lawrence H. Summers announced today that he has appointed Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, leading historian of education and president of the Chicago-based Spencer Foundation, as the next dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Lagemann succeeds Jerome T. Murphy, who served as dean from 1992 through…

Periodically, the Harvard Administrators Forum has sponsored fairs for the Harvard community, showcasing various departments and services. This year, as we all know, was different, and as a result, the forum decided the focus of its event should be giving back to the community. Thus, the volunteer fair of Wednesday, March 27.

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has awarded $220,000 to a research team involving five University faculty members to realize a project in Religion in Global Politics. This decision marked the centers third annual award of a Weatherhead Initiative grant, a program established in 1998 by a generous gift from Albert and Celia Weatherhead and…

On Friday, April 12, at 3 p.m., a service of thanksgiving for the life of Nathan Marsh Pusey 28, 24th president of Harvard College, will be held in the Memorial Church.

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges faced hostile crowds as the first black child to attend an all-white New Orleans school. Since then, Bridges has become iconized by Norman Rockwell in a painting of the girl in a white dress escorted by federal marshals, and by Robert Coles in a picture book for children…

Harvard undergraduates are notoriously extracurricular. When the books close, the lights come up on student-sponsored concerts, plays, operas, or house formals.