Year: 2006

Brazelton’s work is recognized Thomas Berry Brazelton, clinical professor of pediatrics emeritus at Harvard Medical School, was honored with a lifetime achievement award from the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy…

Dean Jamison, an economist internationally renowned for his research on how the field of economics impacts social welfare and global health, has been appointed the T&G Angelopoulos Visiting Professor of Public Health and International Development at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Jamison is also a professor…

The goal of political engagement continues to drive Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP).

A University of California, Berkeley, professor questioned the widespread opposition to paying women for the eggs needed to conduct embryonic stem cell research Tuesday (Oct. 3) and said there are many unanswered questions such research raises for society.

Kenneth Olden, former head of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), has been appointed to the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) as a Yerby Visiting Professor in Environmental Health. Olden is a nationally recognized figure in the field of environmental health, having led NIEHS from 1991 to 2005. During that period, he…

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures on Poetry have from the beginning taken a broad definition of “poetry.” Those appointed to deliver them have included musicians – Igor Stravinsky and John Cage, for example – and visual artists such as Frank Stella, as well as poets in the more usual sense, such as T.S. Eliot.

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. 6, 1862 – The Overseers confirm the Rev. Thomas Hill, Class of 1843, AM 1846, as Harvard’s 20th President. His brief tenure brings higher admissions standards, a series of…

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Harvard University’s Harvard Forest $4.9 million to study drivers, dynamics, and consequences of landscape change in New England. The six-year grant, the largest in the Harvard Forest’s 99-year history, will support research on forest responses to natural and human disturbances across the northeastern United States.

The academic job search has just taken a quantum leap. A database with thousands of faculty and staff jobs at 35 institutions of higher education and affiliated teaching hospitals is now available online at http://www.newenglandherc.org. The database was launched Monday (Oct. 2) by the New England Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (New England HERC), whose aim…

Five Boston-area universities, including Harvard, have joined the city of Boston in a new initiative to support learning in 10 Boston Public Schools.

In one of the largest philanthropic gifts ever for cancer research, the Starr Foundation recently announced a $100 million award to fund a five-year consortium spanning five leading biomedical institutions in Boston and New York that is aimed at harnessing the power of genomic technology for the understanding and treatment of cancer. The Broad Institute…

The rules of intercollegiate cross country state that each school needs only seven runners to make up a team. Fielding just eight runners this past Friday (Sept. 22) at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet in Boston’s Franklin Park, the Harvard’s women’s squad discovered the potentially critical importance of this convention when a Crimson freshman – unfamiliar with…

GPR technology lecture focus The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology will present a free lecture on Oct. 4 at 5:30 p.m. on the use of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) in…

David Williams has joined the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) faculty as the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health. His work explores social influences on health, including trends and specific mechanisms by which socioeconomic and racial differences affect physical and…

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…

On Thursday (Sept. 21), as the sun began to set, an ethereal female voice called out over the Charles River, sending a shiver through the hundreds of spectators standing on its banks. It was a call to fall.

More than 800 students will participate in 33 dance, music, theater, and multidisciplinary projects at Harvard University this fall. Sponsored in part through funding from the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) Grant Program, the grants are designed to foster creative and innovative artistic initiatives among Harvard undergraduates.

The Kavli Foundation and Harvard University have agreed to establish the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology (KIBST). The endowment from the Kavli Foundation will help to boost the University’s research efforts at the interfaces of biology, engineering, and nanoscale science. In particular, the gift will fund postdoctoral research fellows and support a lectureship…

Dawson, Crimson tame Bears, 38-21 All-America running back Clifton Dawson ’06 rushed for three first-half scores to help propel the Crimson past reigning Ivy champion Brown, 38-21, this past Saturday…

F. Barton Harvey, chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer of Enterprise Community Partners, will deliver the eighth annual John T. Dunlop Lecture – “A Decent Home and Suitable Living Environment for All Americans: Rhetoric or Legitimate Goal?” – Oct. 3 at 6 p.m. in Piper Auditorium (Harvard Graduate School of Design). The…

Amir Yacoby, a condensed matter physicist whose work has illuminated the behavior of electrons confined to fewer than three dimensions, has been appointed professor of physics in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1, 2006.

The Indian defense minister, Pranab Mukherjee, presented his country’s perspective on a long list of security issues, including nuclear technology in India and Iran and the war on terror, in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Kennedy School of Government Monday (Sept. 25) evening.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Sept. 25. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

September 1959 – Quincy House opens as the eighth upperclass undergraduate residence and the first addition to the Harvard House system since completion of the original group in 1931. It…

Four decades after Julius Richmond wrote a prescription in the journal Pediatrics to fight childhood ills, Harvard is stepping in to fill it, creating a new Center on the Developing Child to foster scientific inquiry and to inform real-world solutions.

The presidents of Serbia and Croatia shared a stage for the first time at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Friday (Sept. 22), together espousing regional stability, European Union membership, and economic development.