Year: 2005

Hypnotic, energetic, vital, moving, amusing, and gravity-defying are just a few of the adjectives that need to precede the premier word describing a recent University dance premiere – original. Harvard Dance Programs Spring 2005 Dancers Viewpointe V made the stage look like a trampoline last Thursday (April 14) as works of talented local and national…

Established in 1986, the annual Reischauer Lecture series is sponsored this year by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. Renowned international scholar Takeshi Hamashita will present the two remaining lectures.

Medical historian and Japanologist Shigehisa Kuriyama, who has brought an unusually broad perspective to the study of world medical history, has been appointed Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

Alexis Martire 05 plays number three doubles against Boston College on April 19 at home. The Crimson, ranked 19th in the nation, downed the Eagles, 6-1, to capture their sixth consecutive victory.

Golf struggles at Ivy champs Harvard’s men’s and women’s golf teams finished eighth and sixth, respectively, in Ivy League championship action this past weekend (April 16-17). The men turned in…

To anyone whose idea of a documentary film is an investigation of a specific subject using original footage, interviews, and archival images, the films of Ross McElwee may seem quirky, to say the least.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences March 15, 2005, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Participants on an independent bipartisan panel examining energy reform discussed recommendations to Congress Thursday (April 14) that would see caps on greenhouse gas emissions, new investments in nuclear and renewable technology, and financial support for clean coal plants.

Arts First, Harvards annual weekend festival of students in the arts, will celebrate its 13th anniversary May 5-8. Sponsored by Harvard Universitys Board of Overseers, the festival involves more than 2,000 students in presenting some 200 concerts, multimedia presentations, exhibitions, public artwork, and theatrical and dance productions.

A new national poll by Harvard Universitys Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, finds seven out of 10 of Americas college students are concerned Social Security will not pay out benefits when they retire, with students significantly more likely to support investment of Social Security taxes in private…

Failed Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards brought his positive populism back to the Kennedy School on April 13, sounding a call to eradicate poverty in the United States. Terming it his new cause, Edwards told a packed audience at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum that citizens and government working together have a lot…

After taking three out of four games against Yale this past weekend (April 16-17) at ODonnell Field, the Harvard baseball team seemed to climb the Ivy standings with the ferocity of a hot hit single on the Top 40 charts. With eight Ivy games left in this season-within-a-season, the Crimson, at 10-2 (17-10 overall), are…

Twenty-four Harvard College juniors were recently elected to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK), the national collegiate honors society. The newly elected members will be inducted on May 2.

Concert to raise funds for Sarcoma Foundation The premiere of “Cancione,” a work for strings by award-winning jazz violinist Ramsey Ameen, will be dedicated to the memory of the wife…

Four professors win Guggenheim Fellowships

More than 150 international leaders, scholars. and practitioners gathered at the John F. Kennedy School of Government last week for a four-day conference aimed at sharing experiences and fostering discussion on how to improve democracys functioning.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and lecturer in public policy at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Samantha Power speaks with photojournalist James Nachtwey prior to a panel discussion titled Photojournalism and Human Rights held as part of a weekend of events at Tufts University. Both Power and Nachtwey were recently named 2005 National Magazine Award…

In an effort to inspire a new wave of dialogue, action, and service among youth in the fight against HIV/AIDS, students from the Harvard Black Mens Forum (BMF), the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC), the Harvard African Students Association (HASA), and the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) will be co-hosting, for the first time, the Unite Against…

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

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 18. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A memorial service for renowned Harvard evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus, will be held April 29 at 2 p.m. in Memorial Church. Harvard faculty members James Hanken and Edward O. Wilson will deliver tributes. They will be joined by Walter Bock, professor of evolutionary biology at Columbia University Jared…

April 4, 1945 – At the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, Calif., the Radcliffe Club of San Francisco performs launching honors for the “S.S. Radcliffe Victory,” one of several wartime Victory…

As many as one out of three people in the world are infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis, public health experts estimate. That could lead to a global plague were it not for the fact that only one out of 10 infected people actually develops the disease.

In these uncertain meteorological times, an intrepid cyclist takes the chance that this blooming magnolia tree will not be covered with frost by the time she makes the first circult.

During an April 13 Capitol Hill breakfast for Harvard¹s congressional alumni and current members of the Massachusetts delegation, President Summers (right) spoke with attendees about a range of issues from student financial aid and Harvard¹s low-income student initiative to the importance of federal-university partnership in research. He chats above with Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and…