Year: 2005

The Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government has recently announced the availability of predoctoral fellowships for the 2005-06 academic year. The center supports research in areas relating to leadership and the dynamics of progress and change. This fellowship is intended to expose the successful applicant to the academic literature on leadership…

The Holyoke Center Arcade looks open for business as night falls.

March 1925 – The Harvard-Boston (Egyptian) Expedition discovers, intact, the secret tomb of Queen Hetep-heres I, mother of King Cheops (a.k.a. Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid). This spectacular find…

At its 10th meeting of the year on March 9, the Faculty Council heard a report from the Harvard College Curricular Review Committee on General Education. Committee members present included Professors Charles Maier and Michael Sandel, and student representative Matthew Mahan 05. Council member Alison Simmons also serves on the General Education Committee.

Harvard University Art Museums will host the Tanglewood Marionettes as part of its upcoming Sackler Saturday event on March 12. The performance, titled Perseus and Medusa – A Tale From Ancient Greece, tells the classic Greek myth of Perseus and his quest to defeat the snaky-haired Gorgon Medusa. The show begins at 11:30 a.m., and…

An Institute of Politics student policy group got some expert advice about legislative redistricting Monday (Feb. 28) from a veteran on the front lines: an incumbent congressman voted out of his seat after a round of redistricting before the 2004 election.

Moira Whelan, who most recently served on the Homeland Security Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives as communications director for the minority, has joined Harvards Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs as the director of communications and outreach. Whelan will coordinate the centers outreach to the media and Capitol Hill.

Under the baton of music director and conductor Jonathan McPhee, the Longwood Symphony Orchestra (LSO) will present the Weilerstein Trio on March 12 at 8 p.m. at the New England Conservatorys Jordan Hall. Featuring conservatory faculty members Donald Weilerstein (on violin) and Vivian Hornik Weilerstein (on piano), and their 21-year-old daughter Alisa Weilerstein (on cello),…

Harvard senior Mike Blumberg (in rear) prepares to return a shot from Cornells Mike Delaney during first-round action of the mens College Squash Associations Championship at the Murr Center this past weekend. Blumberg won the contest, 3-0, as Harvard went on to blank the Big Red, 9-0. The Crimson later downed Yale, 8-1, before falling…

Detur Book Prize winners of the Class of 2007 were honored at a Feb.7 reception in the Faculty Room in University Hall. One of the oldest prizes at Harvard College, the prize is intended to honor and congratulate sophomores on the high GPAs earned their first year at the College.

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

Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree Jr. issued a call to arms for Americans, in particular African Americans, to reject the status quo in American politics and consider new options for moving forward. Speaking Feb. 23 at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Ogletree noted that in modern history African Americans have been largely loyal…

In February, the Harvard Archive of World Music at Loeb Music Library, a unit of Harvard College Library, and the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for Sound Directions: Digital Preservation and Access for Global Audio Heritage, a project to create best practices and test…

The Harvard Film Archive will welcome the father of Korean cinema, renowned director Im Kwon-Taek to the University on March 4 for a screening of Chunhyang at 7 p.m. The next evening (March 5), a reception in Ims honor will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Sert Gallery Café, and will be…

Alexander F. Schier, a developmental biologist whose work has illuminated key embryonic molecules that shape masses of undifferentiated cells into complex organisms, has been appointed professor of molecular and cellular biology in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

It seemed clear in the lecture hall at Harvard Medical Schools Medical Education Center Tuesday (March 1) that doctors should help their patients – even when those patients are prisoners – and never, ever become their torturers.

A grant from Desmond Shum, chairman of Ocean Pacific Investment Management based in Beijing, will enable two Harvard graduate students to spend a year studying in China. These students, who will be studying in the fields of the contemporary Chinese social sciences, will receive a grant of $20,000 each. Students will apply to the Fairbank…

Crimson fencers capture six trophies at IFA Champs In a first for Harvard fencing, both the men’s and women’s teams captured the combined events of the ECAC-IFA Championships on Feb.…

After beating Dartmouth goalie Kate Lane early in the first period this past Friday (Feb. 25) at Bright Hockey Center, Laura Brady 08 briefly paused, scanned the visitors cage, glanced at her teammates for confirmation, and only then proceeded to celebrate her third goal of the season. Against the fiery Big Green, such composure proved…

Green Campus Initiative launches new Web site The Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) has launched a comprehensive new Web site highlighting green campus activities at the University. This online resource…

John Edwards to be visiting fellow at IOP during spring semester Former senator and Democratic vice-presidential nominee John Edwards will be one of three visiting fellows at the Institute of…

Short-term downturns in criminal activity do not necessarily result in sustained crime reductions. That is a primary finding in a new research report co-authored by Kennedy School Assistant Professor Brian Jacob.

Maria Valgenti loves to photograph buildings. She feels a rapport with them that eludes her when she tries to capture human subjects.

For the second straight year, the Office of the Provost will make funds available to faculty for University projects that promise to alter and improve teaching and learning through the use of technology. The Provosts Instructional Technology Fund is made up of two funds: the Innovation Fund and the Content Fund. The Innovation Fund is…