Year: 2004

Kenneth John Ryan, M.D. was born the son of a wealthy industrialist in New York City in 1926 into some comfort and good fortune. Severe financial reverses during the Depression and his mothers death when he was ten resulted in the dissolution of his family. Thrust into the foster care system of his time, Ken…

William Vincent McDermott, Jr., was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on March 7, 1917, son of Mary Feenan and William V. McDermott. Dr. McDermott died at his home in Dedham, on July 19, 2001, surrounded by his family and loved ones.

Israels elder statesman and Nobel laureate, Shimon Peres, told a rapt audience at the Kennedy School of Governments John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum that terrorism – a swamp made of desperation – will not prevail, and that a peaceful co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians is possible in our lifetime.

History graduate student Ben Waterhouse is working on a research paper about the building of Bostons Prudential Center in the early 1960s. He plans to examine the influence of corporations in bringing the massive building project to fruition and the reaction of ordinary people to that corporate influence.

Here’s the problem. You’ve just been offered the job of your dreams, but congratulations are not yet in order. Up next is the salary negotiation, and if you happen to be a woman, you are – statistically speaking – in trouble. You will end up with a lot less than your male counterpart. You’ll also…

The Noma-Reischauer Essay Prizes in Japanese Studies for the best graduate and undergraduate essays on a Japan-related topic were awarded on Oct. 15, at the 10th annual Edwin O. Reischauer/Kodansha Ltd. Commemorative Symposium. The Reischauer Institute of Japanese studies hosted the event.

A new exhibition organized by students in a Harvard seminar on the history of printmaking challenges viewers to approach printmaking as a language with its own vocabulary, grammar, syntax, poetry, and prose. On view at Harvards Fogg Art Museum through Jan. 30, Prints: System, Style, and Subject includes 53 works from the Harvard University Art…

Americans have more places to turn for news coverage than ever, but its the quality of the content that concerns ABC News President David Westin. Westin told an audience at the Kennedy School Forum Monday night (Oct. 25) that an explosion of opinions on the airwaves is beginning to drown out reporting of the facts.

Attention must be paid.

The Fogg Art Museum will host Bridging the Gaps: African American Art Conference 2004 – a two-day symposium sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research – on Nov. 5-7. Presenters are invited to explore the generational, methodological, and ideological gaps that exist within the field of African-American art, and…

Eight new fellows have been selected for the 2004-05 Administrative Fellowship Program. Of the eight fellows, five are visiting fellows and three are resident fellows. Visiting fellows are talented professionals drawn from business, education, and the professions outside the University, while resident fellows are professionals currently working at Harvard who are identified by their department…

A new national poll by Harvard Universitys Institute of Politics (IOP) finds exceptionally high interest in the presidential campaign on college campuses, and turnout among college students is expected to rise dramatically. Nearly 72 percent of college students report that they are certain they are registered to vote and definitely plan on voting this November.…

As Americans prepare to elect a president next month, most of them can be confident in one thing: Each vote, whether cast by pulling a lever or checking a box or touching a computer screen, will be veiled in complete anonymity. For the most part, no one but the individual voter will ever know whether…

Yaa Bruce 05 conducted biomedical research in Beijing Katherine Jarvis-Shean 05 learned the ins and outs of running an organic farm in Oliveto, Italy and Andréa Mayrose 06 worked in a pediatrics ward at a hospital in Ngaoundéé, Cameroon – just a sampling of the variety of internships that 31 Harvard students arranged, secured, and…

Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, is the recipient of this years Carl Sandburg Award. Given annually by the Chicago Public Library (CPL), the award honors a significant work or body of work that has enhanced the publics awareness of the written word and reflects…

Tailback Clifton Dawson ’07 tallied three touchdowns to lead 19th-ranked Crimson to a 39-14 win against host Princeton this past Saturday (Oct. 23). In the process, the sophomore set a…

Harvard midfielder Alisha Moran 05 (left) tries to tame a bouncing ball and simultaneously outrace her University of Connecticut opponent on Wednesday (Oct. 27). The Crimson squeaked past the visiting Huskies, 1-0, to improve to 7-5-2.

A crowd of 200,000 braved gusty conditions to take in the 40th annual Head of the Charles Regatta this past weekend (Oct. 23-24). Meanwhile, between the banks of the river, the choppy water on the famously windy course with six bridges tested boats from Harvard, Radcliffe, and across North America and Europe.

Inspired by the great impact wrestling has made on his family, David G. Bunning 88 has endowed Harvards wrestling coach position. The gift was announced at the Friends of Harvard Wrestling kickoff dinner, held on Saturday (Oct. 23).

After recently calling for a renewed national effort against a persistent smoking threat, the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) will take the occasion of its annual Julius B. Richmond Award (to be given today, Oct. 28) to confer its highest honor on three state attorneys general and on an advocate for children who successfully…

Postdoctoral fellow in the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Jinbao Qian died suddenly on Oct. 22. Qian was 38. When Qian left his native China in 1994 to pursue a doctorate at Harvard, he had already made his mark in the field of history. An archivist at the Historical Archives of China in Nanjing, he had…

Six years after leaving the New York City theater scene for Boston and a new job as a fundraiser, Karen Rives says her joy has returned and the Harvard community is the beneficiary.

HPT picks Wang for second straight year The Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) has selected Derrick L. Wang ’06 to compose the score for this year’s show: “Terms of Frontierment.” HPT…

You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends. Or can you?

No official polls have been conducted at the Holyoke Center, but there does seem to be a certain consensus on some of the more important issues of the day.

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 for the week ending Oct. 25. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A memorial service in honor of John E. Mack, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School since 1972 and founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital, will be held at the Memorial Church on Nov. 13 at noon. Mack was struck by a car and killed on Sept. 27 in London. He…

Oct. 15, 1901 – The Harvard Union (now the largest part of Barker Center for the Humanities) is dedicated. Oct. 1, 1908 – With 59 students, the Graduate School of…