Year: 2004

Each year, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) selects a number of distinguished scholars and professionals, many from Latin America, to spend a minimum of one semester at Harvard. While in residence, visiting scholars and fellows spend time working on their own research and writing projects, making use of the Universitys extensive…

The new wing on the Nieman Foundations home at Harvard University was dedicated Monday (May 24) in honor of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for its long-standing support of the Nieman mission to elevate the standards of journalism.

The Chayes International Public Service Fellowship program provides Harvard Law School (HLS) students with an opportunity to work in international public service for the summer. Students work within governments of developing nations making difficult transitions to peace and democracy, as well as with the intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that support them.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 20, 2004, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Who among us hasnt appreciated the convenience of filling a prescription at 10 p.m., pleading with tech support when our computers freeze the night before a big deadline, or enjoying a midnight burger at a highway rest stop? As our lives fill to overflowing and families increasingly send two parents into the workplace, weve grown…

A professor of government and a professor of English and American literature and language have won this years Roslyn Abramson Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching.

Its that time of year again! Against the imposing pillars of the Memorial Church, Alan Young works on a giant supporting beam for the Commencement tent as it is hoisted up by a crane. See Commencement Exercises guidelines.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University will honor a molecular biologist, a neuroscientist, and an award-winning director, writer, and producer, among others, at its annual Radcliffe Day celebration on June 11.

To Marcia Morgan, receiving the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Administrative/Professional Prize was a huge surprise.

On May 12 the Harvard Foundation and the Harvard Alumni Association sponsored an evening in honor of Senior U.S. Federal District Court Judge A. David Mazzone 50 at his undergraduate residence, Kirkland House. The evenings program, hosted by Harvard Foundation Director S. Allen Counter and Kirkland House Masters Tom and Verena Conley, began with a…

The Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics at Harvard University has announced its graduate student dissertation fellowship and research grant recipients for 2004-05. This interdisciplinary initiative, which supports faculty and student research across the University, promotes research and knowledge connecting the study of freedom, justice, and economics to human welfare and development.

The amount of potential nuclear weapons material secured in the two years immediately following Sept. 11, 2001, was less than the amount secured in the two years immediately prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to official data described in a new report from Harvard University on steps needed to keep nuclear weapons out of…

Harvards Kennedy School of Government has named Edward L. Glaeser co-director of the Schools Taubman Center for State and Local Government and co-faculty director of the Schools Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. A longtime faculty affiliate of both the Taubman Center and the Rappaport Institute, Glaeser will assume his new posts July 1. Alan Altshuler,…

Crimson fall fighting in Tulsa The Harvard men’s tennis team nearly knocked off reigning national champion Illinois in NCAA Sweet 16 action this past Saturday (May 22), before losing a…

Tragedy awaited them within, but out in the garden of the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) ticket holders were basking happily in the warm afternoon sun and enjoying a selection of scrumptious hors doeuvres.

Harvard University and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers have reached agreement on the terms of a new three-year contract, to go into effect on July 1, 2004. The Agreement, which must be ratified by the unions members before it becomes official, provides for wage increases, a strengthened commitment to work security, substantial…

Paul Barreira, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and chair of the Student Mental Health Task Force, is the new director of University Counseling, Academic Support, and Mental Health Services at Harvard University, announced David Rosenthal, director of Harvard University Health Services (UHS). In this position, created on the recommendation of the Student…

Harvards Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) is the final resting place for some 330,000 preserved birds, the silent inhabitants of a collection dating to 1846. For the collections new curator, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Scott V. Edwards 86, part of the excitement of returning to Harvard is the challenge of breathing new life…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 22. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

May 8, 1944 – Harvard receives a copy of the Gutenberg Bible (Mainz, Germany, ca. 1455), one of only 10 complete or near-complete copies known to be in the United…

Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree…

Steven Pinker is looking into peoples’ brains to try to see what’s on their minds. The Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard disagrees with those who think that, at birth, it’s nothing.

Harvard Law School visiting researcher Michael McCann knows a few things about the upcoming National Basketball Association (NBA) draft June 24. He’s quite certain that several of the top picks will be high school seniors taking the fast lane to a professional career by avoiding the traditional detour to college.

The Task Force on Undergraduate Life found that anchoring Harvards future in Allston to the undergraduate experience would be a very positive development, helping to enhance the undergraduate experience through academic, cultural, and artistic activities.

Harvards acreage in Allston can provide the elbow room to construct new research laboratories nurturing a host of interdisciplinary, cutting-edge science functions that embrace emerging fields and enable powerful new scientific partnerships, according to a task force studying science and technology opportunities in Allston.

To many at Harvard, the Charles River was thought to be a potential impediment to creating an expanded campus in Allston. But according to members of the Allston Life Task Force, The main obstacle is not the physical distance, but the psychological experience of traveling between Cambridge and Allston. The river, in other words, is…

Uneasy is the title of the Department of Visual Studies (VES) Thesis Exhibition and the feeling embodied in almost all the works displayed. First to greet the visitor is Grace Catenaccios glitter-loaded schoolgirl ballerina, who assumes a triumphant end-of-routine pose. Her expression is uncertain, braced for disapproval.

Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Lincoln Professor of History at Harvard University, has been elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society (APS). Election to the APS honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields. There are currently more than 700 APS members around the world.

The Center for International Development (CID) has awarded 30 grants to Harvard undergraduate students to support international development internships and research projects this summer.

From its earliest years, Harvard has trained professionals for leadership roles. Identifying how Harvards professional Schools might foster greater collaboration to educate tomorrows leaders was a key goal of the Task Force on Professional Schools.