Year: 2006

Sixty years ago, as a junior at Harvard, Leonard Bernstein ’39 already had a reputation among undergraduates for his precocious performances with the Works Progress Administration orchestra. He also cut classes, doodled instead of taking notes, and suffered unlikely lapses in scholarship. The future composer of wide fame got a “C” in at least one…

Among Harvard Medical School’s researchers and clinicians, nothing is in shorter supply than time – and time is money.

A three-year campaign to finance a new scholarship for a student from an underrepresented background in the name of Senior Admissions Officer David L. Evans has raised four times its $250,000 target and is already helping three Harvard College students.

Joseph Harrington, professor of environmental health engineering in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, passed away Oct. 9. He was 69 years old.

A howling electric guitar echoed off the stately, wood-paneled walls of the Barker Center’s Thompson Room last week as London School of Economics (LSE) professor Paul Gilroy wrapped up the W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures with an exploration of African-American identity and culture as seen through the life and influential music of Jimi Hendrix.

There is a health care revolution under way affecting more than a third of humanity.

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard recently announced that it has awarded 16 fellowships for the 2006-07 academic year.

Galebach paces Crimson effort at New England Champs Senior cross country runner Tim Galebach placed third in the varsity race at the New England Championships Oct. 7 at Franklin Park…

Folkman to deliver Eva Neer Memorial Lecture M. Judah Folkman, professor at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston, will deliver the annual Eva Neer Memorial Lecture at the M.D.-Ph.D.…

Interim President Derek Bok will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Oct. 24 and Dec. 11. Sign-up begins at 2:30…

Memorial celebration for Omeljan Pritsak announced A memorial service of the life and career of Professor Omeljan Pritsak will be held Oct. 20 at 2 p.m. in Appleton Chapel, Memorial…

Oct. 7, 1944 – The “Harvard Alumni Bulletin” tally of Harvard men known to have served in World War II reaches 23,400. Oct. 21, 1949 – Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal…

Free flu shots are now available for high-risk adults every Monday and Tuesday from noon to 3 p.m. at Harvard University Health Services at Holyoke Center.

With a record 800 Allston-Brighton residents turning out for Saturday’s (Oct. 7) Harvard vs. Cornell game, it’s clear that Harvard’s Allston-Brighton Family Football Day has become a great local tradition. For 17 years, Harvard has welcomed its neighbors to enjoy a hearty lunch, impromptu entertainment by the Harvard Band, and a spirited football game -…

Initiated in the 1960s, the Harvard-Yenching Institute’s Doctoral Scholars Program (DSP) now consists of two branches – Harvard-DSP and Non-Harvard DSP. Each year the institute invites Harvard departments of the humanities and social sciences to nominate candidates for Harvard-DSP scholarships. Although the candidates do not have to be faculty members or researchers, they must be…

Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, who finds joy in “discovering the sublime in the mundane,” has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

William Robert Hutchison, Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America, Emeritus, died on December 16, 2005, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, in the presence of his immediate family. He was 75.

In the 1930s, years before man landed on the moon or even orbited the Earth, a very young Frederick I. Ordway III ’49 took an interest in space travel. One day Ordway returned home from school to find a copy of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories left by the family maid on a dining room…

Tozzer Library reached a milestone in its 140-year history last month with the acquisition of the quarter-millionth volume to its collection of anthropology, archaeology, and ethnology materials. To mark the occasion, the library is hosting “Codices, Chimpanzees, and Curanderas: From the Field to the Shelf,” an exhibition to celebrate the literature of anthropology and to…

Fourteen tribal governments were recently honored and celebrated as examples of excellence by Harvard’s Honoring Contributions in the Governance of American Indian Nations (Honoring Nations) awards program. Based at the Kennedy School of Government, Honoring Nations is administered by the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. The project’s goal is to understand the conditions…

Harvard University’s Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the Kennedy School of Government, recently announced that Michael Gerson, former speechwriter and adviser to President George W. Bush, and Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey and administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will serve as IOP Visiting Fellows in October and December,…

Reginald Henry Phelps ’30, Ph.D. ’47, former associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), director of University Extension, and lecturer on German, died Sept. 28 in a nursing home in Westfield, Mass. He was 97.

Heading into Saturday’s game (Oct. 7) against the host Harvard football team, Cornell’s Big Red led all of Division I-AA in protecting its quarterback, giving up just 0.3 sacks per game. After Harvard’s defense amassed seven sacks en route to a 33-23 Crimson win – the team’s fourth straight to stay unbeaten on the season…

Orchestra auditions for ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ The Lowell House Opera will commence open orchestra auditions this weekend for its March 2007 production of Richard Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier.” Established in 1938, the…

The preliminary proposal, released by the task force Oct. 3 for discussion by the FAS, is intended as a series of suggestions for how most effectively to replace the college’s present “core curriculum.”