Year: 2004

At the Harvard Divinity Schools (HDS) annual convocation Monday (Sept. 20), the Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes took full advantage of his first time speaking at the occasion by delivering a lengthy and impassioned plea for the school to rekindle the intellectual excitement and institutional vigor he encountered when he arrived at HDS as a…

The Kennedy School of Governments Carr Center for Human Rights Policy has announced the appointment of Fernande Raine as its new executive director.

Top Olympic and world skaters will continue their battle against cancer this fall as they again gather at Harvard to participate in An Evening With Champions – Americas premier figure skating exhibition.

Two polls this month from the John F. Kennedy School of Government show that a sizeable minority of universities are failing their obligation to help register collegiate voters and, despite that, young voter interest in the 2004 election is higher than four years ago.

For many parents, educators, and policy-makers in the United States, charter schools – innovative public schools that are free from much bureaucratic oversight but must compete for students in order to retain their charters – have held out enormous promise as a public alternative to failing traditional schools. So when the American Federation of Teachers…

Though the rain may have fallen indiscriminately upon the Harvard and Holy Cross football teams this past Saturday (Sept. 18) at the stadium, it was the Crusaders alone who felt the sting of a different kind of storm: sophomore running back Clifton Dawson. The second-year unleashed a torrent of offense against the Crusaders, amassing 184…

Its not often that you can get a group of high school students out of bed before 9 a.m. on a Saturday morning, but when its for an event such as the 4th Youth Leadership Forum, some motivated students will forgo their usual weekend sleep-in. Despite the torrential rain that fell this past Saturday, more…

Modern Greek Studies seeks submissions for conference Harvard’s Modern Greek Studies Program invites graduate students in modern Greek studies or in related fields to participate in a grad student conference…

Scientists create way to turn gene on and off as needed Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School have created a novel, elegant, and safer system for controlling…

For the second year in a row, Working Mother magazine has chosen Harvard as one of the 100 best places to work for women who juggle a career with raising children. Whats more, Harvard is the only university recognized this year and one of only three Massachusetts employers chosen for the distinction.

One of Steven Shapins current research projects is a study of the way science is conducted in the for-profit, high-tech sector. He is trying to understand how venture capitalists decide which research and which researchers to put their money on. He has discovered that the process is a surprisingly familiar one.

Cheryl Knott named an inaugural Emerging Explorer The National Geographic Society recently selected associate professor of anthropology Cheryl Knott to its Emerging Explorers Program. The new program recognizes and supports…

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

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

All members of the University community and their guests are invited to attend Harvards third annual Its Movie Time at Harvard, to be held this Sunday (Sept. 26) in Tercentenary Theatre.

Cox to be remembered at memorial service on Oct. 8 A memorial service for former Harvard Law School Professor Archibald Cox will be held on Oct. 8 at 2 p.m.…

Sept. 11, 1770 – With the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony temporarily convening in Harvard Hall, the spirit of public debate catches fire among students, and Samuel…

Two alleged incidents of indecent assault and battery were reported this week in the area of Harvards Cambridge campus. Wednesday (Sept. 22) at approximately 8:30 a.m., a graduate student reported that a male on a bike circled her then groped her as she was walking on Roberts Street toward Cambridge Street. On Tuesday (Sept. 21),…

A 23,000-year-old hunter-gatherers camp submerged under the Sea of Galilee for millennia has provided Harvard researchers with new information about early human diets, showing that grains were staple foods 10,000 years earlier than previously thought and shedding new light on agricultures roots.

Harvard University’s endowment earned a 21.1 percent return during the year ending June 30, 2004, bringing the endowment’s overall value to $22.6 billion. The continued strong returns buttress the endowment’s…

As she enters her sophomore year as dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan lays out an ambitious agenda for her tenure. Her immodest plans include expanding the faculty, changing the face of the campus, improving the student experience, and reviewing a curriculum that has served the school for well over a century.

As part of its weeklong orientation to life at Harvard College, the Class of 2008 caught the premiere screening of Empowering You,&dsquo a new video produced jointly by Harvard College and Harvard University Health Services, Sunday night (Sept. 12).

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates: Tuesday, Sept. 21, 4-5 p.m. (sign-up begins at 3 p.m.) Thursday,…

P S A are frightening letters for those diagnosed with prostate cancer, some 230,000 men every year. They stand for prostate-specific antigen, a protein the body secretes in excess when a man has the malignancy. It is used as a marker to both diagnose the disease and to detect its recurrence after surgery or radiation.…

Fewer college-educated women are keeping their maiden names at the altar, according to a Harvard study.

All members of the University community and their guests are invited to attend Harvard’s third annual “It’s Movie Time at Harvard,” to be held this Sunday (Sept. 26) in Tercentenary Theatre.