Year: 2005

Lee Breuer remembers visiting an ancient theater in Turkey where Greek tragedies were performed and asking the guide the purpose of a particular stone.

William H. Bond, who served for nearly two decades as librarian of Houghton Library, died Nov. 18, at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass., following a brief illness. He was 90.

You may not have noticed, but the smallest revolution in world history is under way. Laboratories and factories have begun to make medical sensors and computer-chip components smaller than a single blood cell or the periods on this page.

The defining mark of narrative journalism is the personality of the writer, the voice of the knowing ally – whole, candid, not speaking on behalf of any institution, corporation, government, ideology, chamber of commerce, or travel destination. … The genres power is the strength of its voice, writes Mark Kramer, organizer of the Nieman Narrative…

Men, women icers stand ground in poll On the strength of a three-game win streak, the Harvard women’s hockey team moved up a spot in this week’s U.S. College Hockey…

Speed beat out size in a big way this past Saturday (Dec. 3) at Lavietes Pavilion, as the visiting Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) mens basketball team served Harvard hoops its first setback of the season by a tally of 87-79. The loss snapped a five-game win streak for the Crimson club, who were off…

In honor of the 80th birthday of Higgins Professor of Biochemistry Jack Strominger, Harvards Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology is holding a major scientific symposium this Saturday (Dec. 10) at the New Research Building Conference Center (77 Ave. Louis Pasteur, Boston).

PBH gift drive under way Through Dec. 15, the Phillips Brooks House (PBH) will be accepting donations for its annual holiday gift drive. Members of the Harvard community are invited…

Two juniors awarded Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize Harvard College junior Nitipat Pholchai and senior Carly Cohen have recently been named co-recipients of the 2005-06 Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize. Given annually,…

The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a three-day conference at the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), South Building (1730 Cambridge St.), Dec. 9-11. The conference, titled Studying Modern China: Past, Present, and Future, will feature distinguished scholars from Harvard and other institutions in academic panels and…

Two fellows at Harvard Law Schools Berkman Center for Internet and Society – Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman – were recently awarded Best Journalistic Blog in English by Deutsche Welle for Global Voices Online, the nonprofit media project they co-founded and run (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/). The award recognizes the tremendous contribution made to citizens media in the…

Belva Brown Jordan has a passion for Volkswagen Beetles. It all started about 15 years ago: I was sitting on an airplane one day, said Jordan, and I opened up one of those airplane magazines where you can order stuff and there was this picture of a Franklin Mint Volkswagen Beetle, a classic Beetle, and…

The following seniors, listed below by their Houses, were nominated to Phi Beta Kappa in the latest round of elections on Nov. 14.

At a party hosted by President Lawrence H. Summers at his Elmwood Avenue home, he talks to some of his 80 guests – students studying at Harvard University after their schools were closed because of Hurricane Katrina.

A weeklong stay in a French villa, lunch with the lieutenant governor, a tour of the San Francisco mayors office, and four tickets to a Chicago Cubs baseball game are among the items up for bid at the 20th annual Student Internship Fund (SIF) auction at Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The auction will…

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 Dec. 5. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Dec. 29, 1627 – John Harvard enters Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England. Dec. 20, 1672 – Leonard Hoar, Class of 1650, is formally installed as Harvard’s third President and the…

Although there have not yet been any reports anywhere of human-to-human transmission of avian influenza, administrators from across the University gathered at Maxwell-Dworkin on Monday (Dec. 5) for a two-hour presentation by the Universitys Incident Support Team (IST) to further planning for dealing with a possible pandemic of the bird flu.

This stained glass window at Memorial Hall reminds the viewer of a time when the word ‘awesome’ referred to something that filled one with reverence, wonder, and awe.

Patricia A. King, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics and Public Policy at Georgetown Law Center, has been elected to become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced Sunday (Dec. 4).