Year: 2003

Tests of a new vaccine against the virus that causes AIDS are being launched simultaneously in the United States and southern Africa. It is the first time that such a test will be conducted in the United State and Africa at the same time.

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced that it is awarding 60 student grants and fellowships amounting to more than $100,000 for the 2003-04 academic year. Sixteen grants will support Harvard College undergraduates, 28 will support graduate students, and additional awards will be made to undergraduate and graduate student groups for their own projects.…

The people of New Mexicos Mimbres River Valley lived a thousand years ago in small villages up and down the river.

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded 51 summer research travel grants to students either traveling to Latin America or to cities within the United States while researching Latin American topics. This year, the center awarded 23 undergraduate awards and 28 graduate awards.

Staff photos by Kris Snibbe On Commencement morning, it hovers, gossamer-like, over a stage packed with dignitaries. Its peaks rise majestically and dip sharply, evoking a turbulent sea or the…

With a record number of applicants numbering more than 100, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded more than 70 internship grants to Harvard undergraduate and graduate students. The centers internship coordinator helps students take advantage of DRCLAS contacts to find an internship that best meets their interests. Students are then…

Graduate student awards The Department’s Oscar S. Schafer Award is given to students “who have demonstrated unusual ability and enthusiasm in their teaching of introductory courses, which are designed to…

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse 68, award-winning biographer Brenda Murphy Maddox 53, attorney Martha Minow Ed.M. 76, and pediatrician Perri Klass 78, M.D. 86 are among the distinguished women who will be honored by the Radcliffe Association at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study during Commencement/Reunion Week.

Each summer, up to 12 students in graduate-level programs at Boston University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Suffolk University, and Brandeis University have the opportunity to experience working in the public sector through the Rappaport Public Policy Internship Program.

Four Harvard seniors have been selected next years Harvard-Cambridge Scholars, allowing them to follow interests ranging from poetry to social justice to foreign policy in an unfettered program at Cambridge University.

Jeremy R. Knowles and Robert C. Clark have each been named to the newly created position of Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, effective July 1, President Lawrence H. Summers announced today.

Thirteen U.S. journalists and 12 international journalists were recently appointed to the 66th class of Nieman Fellows. Established in 1938, the Nieman program is the oldest midcareer fellowship for journalists in the world. Fellowships are awarded for an academic year of study in any part of the university to working journalists of accomplishment and promise.…

The Harvard Committee on African Studies has awarded six grants for Harvard undergraduates and doctoral students to travel to Sub-Saharan Africa this summer. The three undergraduates who received grants will be doing research for their senior honors theses. One of these grants is funded by contributions from individual members of the Harvard African Students Alumni…

Undergraduates interested in Africa will soon be able to take advantage of a new concentration in African studies, thanks to a cooperative arrangement between the Department of Afro-American Studies and the Committee on African Studies.

The post-Sept. 11 spike in youth interest in national politics is fading and, though the war on terror rages on, U.S. politicians and community leaders getting back to business as usual are again turning off the generation that will make up Americas future leaders.

A new survey by the Institute of Politics shows that todays college students defy common assumptions about them and are engaged, vote, and are not affiliated with either major political party.

Brendan P. McGrath Memorial Golf Outing set The third annual Brendan P. McGrath Memorial Golf Outing – named in honor of the assistant director for University and Commercial Real Estate…

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Gordon Teskey, appointed professor of English and American literature and language in 2002, is putting the finishing touches on a book-length manuscript to be published by Harvard University Press under the title, Delirious Milton: The Poet in the Modern World.

Hastings elected to NAS In recognition of his distinguished career and continuing achievements in original research, J. Woodland Hastings, Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences, was one of 72…

Based on the latest advice from the World Health Organization (WHO), Harvard University lifted its restriction on travel to Hong Kong, effective May 23. Travelers to Hong Kong are advised to continue to observe precautions to safeguard their health. Travelers from Hong Kong who are visiting Harvard are asked to know the symptoms of SARS…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 24. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

May 5, 1969 – The Harvard Corporation approves the creation of a 15-member University Benefits Committee to oversee and develop faculty-staff benefit plans (for pensions, medical insurance, etc.) throughout the institution.

Morning Exercises

A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on Thursday (June 5). For the 15th consecutive year, a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvards Commencement Exercises.

C. Dixon (Dick) Spangler Jr., M.B.A. 56, has been elected president of the Universitys Board of Overseers for 2003-04. He will succeed Thomas S. Williamson Jr., A.B. 68, following Commencement on June 5.

Ryan Quill puts a fresh coat on the columns of the Memorial Church in preparation for Commencement.

In order to gain admittance to Harvard Yard on Commencement morning, June 5, guests must have Commencement tickets, which they will be required to show at our gates.