Year: 2006

Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1991 to 2002, has agreed to serve as Interim Dean of the Faculty beginning July 1, the University announced today. Named by incoming Interim President Derek Bok, Knowles will serve until the selection of a permanent dean by the next president of Harvard.

What happens when the Kyoto Protocols first commitment period comes to an end after 2012? Twenty-five leading scholars, including economists, political scientists, legal scholars, and natural scientists, recently asked – and tried to answer – that question, examining alternative international strategies to address the pressing problem of global climate change after 2012.

The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute at Harvard is now accepting submissions for its 2006 Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies, given to the undergraduate and graduate student with the best essays on Japan-related topics. The undergraduate award is $2,000 and the graduate award is $3,000. The deadline for submission is June 30. Papers written this academic…

Six Harvard College students have been awarded the first annual Lester Kissel Grants in Practical Ethics to carry out summer projects on subjects ranging from Indias market in human organs to the role of luck in legal responsibility. The students will use the grants to conduct research in the United States or abroad, and to…

Stavins co-editing new Journal of Wine Economics The Journal of Wine Economics, a new scholarly periodical published earlier this month for the first time, is co-edited by Robert Stavins, the…

Undergraduate education at Harvard has improved significantly in recent years. The reason? A growing number of students are spending time away from Harvard.

Discrimination and racial injustice led James Sidanius to leave the United States for Sweden in the early 1970s. But instead of putting discrimination behind him, the move changed his perspective and prompted him to make the study of discrimination and group oppression his lifes work.

The Universitys Presidential Search Committee, comprising the six members of the Corporation other than the president along with three members of the Board of Overseers, announced the membership of both the faculty advisory group and the student advisory group for the search on Friday (May 12).

Poised to become the worlds most populous nation by 2040, India faces daunting challenges: huge burdens of disease, lack of needed medical care in many regions, and a dearth of public health professionals. In an attempt to deter a looming crisis, the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has collaborated with the Indian government, the…

Fred S. Rosen, M.D., a world leader in pediatric immunology and the first James L. Gamble Professor of Pediatrics, died on May 21, 2005, a few days short of his 75th birthday. His career was marked by his devotion to his patients, by his talent for converging seemingly disparate scientific and clinical information in developing…

John Jack Douglas Crawford, II, had a stroke during the night after his 85th birthday on April 16th, 2005, and died three days later. Jack was known to many as one of the founders of pediatric endocrinology, as well as the developer of the electronic osmometer, and to his children and the neighborhood children in…

What makes a good leader? Are leaders born or made? Which is the more important guide for a leader, the head or the heart?

The Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard received an award earlier this month from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) for more than $18 million to support genomic studies aimed at unveiling the genetic variations that underlie common human diseases.

Three Harvard seniors were honored as Joseph L. Barrett Award recipients at a special ceremony this past Monday (May 15). Administered by the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC), the award commemorates Barrett (Class of 73) and is given in recognition of promising young people at Harvard College who have enhanced the learning of others with…

Gennaro Chierchia, one of the worlds leading formal semanticists, has been named Haas Foundations Professor of Linguistics in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

Deborah Sykes was on her way to work at the Winston-Salem Sentinel newspaper in North Carolina on the morning of Aug. 10, 1984. She parked her car and began walking the few blocks to her Sentinel office. She never made it.

The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) Tuesday (May 16) announced the selection of Daly Genik Architects of Los Angeles to design the first Harvard visual arts center in Allston-Brighton, Mass., for students and the public.

Dr. Stanley J. Korsmeyer, Sidney Farber Professor of Pathology and Professor of Medicine, at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, died at age 54 on March 31, 2005. A lifelong non-smoker and vigorous man in seemingly perfect health, he succumbed to the ravages of lung cancer after a heroic 15-month battle. Prior to…

Womens tennis looks to individual champs The Harvard women’s tennis team fell to Purdue, 4-2, this past Friday (May 12) in the NCAA regionals at Combe Tennis Center on the…

Harvard University announced Monday (May 15) that David Rockefeller, a member of the Harvard College Class of 1936 and longtime benefactor, has increased to $25 million his endowment gift to support Harvards Latin American studies center. The new gift of an additional $10 million to the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies will support…

Harvard University Provost Steven E. Hyman has named Jorge Domínguez, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, to the newly created post of vice provost for international affairs.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 15. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

May 3, 1943 – The Harvard Corporation hosts an informal dinner for the heads of Cambridge government in the Eliot House rooms of the Society of Fellows. The results are…

A memorial service for Julius Babbitt M.P.A. 01, director of Alumni Programs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), will be held Friday (May 19) at 1 p.m. at Memorial Church. A reception will immediately follow in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

Kathleen McCartney, Gerald S. Lesser Professor in Early Childhood Development, will be the next dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers announced Tuesday (May 16).