Year: 2003

In the event of divorce – statistically, the reality for nearly half the marriages in America – a prenuptial agreement has the potential to save the divorcing couple anguish, arguments, and thousands of dollars. It may represent an exit agreement far closer to their wishes than the court-ordered divorce. A good prenuptial agreement can even…

Science let its hair down in Harvards Sanders Theatre Thursday night (Oct. 2), laughing at its own foibles as it skewered dubious but real scientific achievements through the awarding of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes.

Harvard University has been awarded a $10 million Center of Excellence grant to establish the Harvard Center for Chemical Methodologies and Library Development (HCMLD). The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the grant.

The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations will host two veterans of World War II, one black and one white, as honorary guests on Oct. 16. The remarkable story of these two men – both former U.S. Army Air-Corps pilots – has recently come to light through reports from NBC News and the History…

Wine is in Paul Malagrifas blood. His grandfather, an Italian immigrant, made wine in his East Boston basement. I always said that I was going to carry on the family tradition, says Malagrifa, who has been playing with wine for nearly two decades.

Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan (above right) and Byrne Professor of Administrative Law Emeritus Clark Byse unveiled a portrait of Archibald Cox, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus and the first Watergate special prosecutor, Wednesday (Oct. 8). In addition to his long and celebrated career as a teacher and scholar, Archibald Cox was able…

Oct. 7, 1642 – By order of the Great and General Court, a reorganized Board of Overseers becomes a permanent part of College governance. Oct. 14, 1763 – At the…

A pedestrian waits for the traffic to abate before crossing Massachusetts Avenue from the Holyoke Center to the Yard.

Beatrice Blyth Whiting, a leading anthropologist of childhood and professor emerita of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, died on Sept. 29 of pneumonia at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. She was 89.

A new solar power installation on top of Harvard Business Schools Shad Hall has made the School a renewable energy pioneer and, supporters said, provide a concrete case study of the affordability of clean solar energy.

The secular and the divine at Harvard, once so intertwined as to be indistinguishable, have drifted apart throughout the Universitys history. It was, in part, concern for things divine that motivated Harvards founders, who anticipated the inevitable demise of the colonys English-educated clergy and dread[ed] to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches.

Nearly 400 Allston-Brighton residents and their families joined the Harvard Crimson at the 14th annual Allston-Brighton Family Football Day on Saturday (Oct. 4). Sponsored by the Office of Government Affairs and the Department of Athetics, the event offers Allston-Brighton football fans, young and old, complementary tickets and lunch at a football game each season.

With two such highly explosive football teams, Saturdays (Oct. 4) match-up between Harvard and Northeastern had all the makings of a scoring free-for-all. After all, the cross-town showdown featured two of the nations most offensively potent teams in Division IAA football (lest you forget, the Huskies racked up 72 points in their season opener, while…

Gender and race shared the stage at a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study conference marking the 60th anniversary of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America Friday (Oct. 2), a nod to the Schlesingers considerable holdings of African-American womens papers. The daylong event, Gender, Race, and Rights in African…

Hollywood came to Cambridge Monday night (Oct. 6), as the area premiere of the Boston-bred film Mystic River festooned Sanders Theatre with more glitz than is customary on a weeknight in Harvard Square. But at the event, a benefit for the venerable Harvard Film Archive (HFA) on its 25th anniversary, Boston and Cambridge outshone the…

John Dunlop, a distinguished Harvard scholar and administrator who played significant roles as a labor negotiator and government official, died Thursday morning (Oct. 2) at Brigham and Womens Hospital. He was 89.

The Lowell House windows provide an elegant frame to a recent rainy day scene in Cambridge.

Docents sought for Semitic Museum The Semitic Museum at Harvard University is looking for volunteers to guide tours for the upcoming exhibit “The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine,”…

Programs for city children before, during, and after school are the battleground for the nations future, and the quality of those programs will determine what kind of country we will be, Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers said Friday (Oct. 3).

This fall two exhibitions and a symposium commemorate the 50th anniversary of the appointment of Josep Lluis Sert as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD).

Provost Steven E. Hyman announced the appointment today of Thomas W. Lentz as Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, effective Nov. 15. Lentz is currently director of international art museums at the Smithsonian Institution.

The Memorial Church will host one of Americas most popular Buddhist teachers, Sharon Salzberg, for a two-day meditation workshop. Salzberg will present Meditation in the Memorial Church on Oct. 24, from 7 to 10 p.m., and Oct. 25, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Praised by the Dalai Lama as a psychologically skillful accessible teacher,…

In his long lifetime, Brad Washburn 35 has ascended heights most of us dont even dream of. Since scaling Europes highest peaks at age 16, hes mapped the now-standard route up Alaskas Mt. McKinley, created definitive maps of that mountain plus Mt. Everest, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and, in a reverse of altitude,…

HBS Press, RHK form venture Harvard Business School Press (HBS Press) and Random House Kodansha (RHK) recently announced that they will form a partnership to co-publish a select number of…

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall on the following dates: