Year: 2006

Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman has announced appointments that carry two University cross-disciplinary science initiatives to the next level of their development:

Musical theorist V. Kofi Agawu, a scholar whose research and writing span musical traditions from Gustav Mahler to the Ewe people of Ghana, has been appointed professor of music and African and African-American studies in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates: Today, April 20, 4-5 p.m. Thursday, May 11, 4-5 p.m. Sign-up…

April 5, 1931 – Easter Sunday. The Russian bells of Lowell House ring out for the first time in Cambridge. April 10, 1950 – Ralph J. Bunche – AM ’28,…

What film would you least like to see with your tasty feet dangling in the deep and your nervous hands treading water, not to mention the complete exposure of one of your most important assets protuding from an inner tube? The answer is self-evident. On April 13, the fearless undergraduates of this fair University showed…

As the first psychologist, indeed the first non-physician from any discipline, to receive full clinical as well as research psychoanalytic training in America, Margaret Brenman-Gibson, PhD, broke ground for and inspired so many who came after her. Having accomplished this as a woman only confirmed the conviction she conveyed that doors would, indeed must, open…

As June 30 approaches, offices throughout the University will be closing the books and the files on the 2005-06 academic year. To help staff in charge of keeping the Universitys files in order, the Records Management Office (RMO) is offering two important workshops in May and June.

The Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) invites University faculty, staff, students, and alumni to its upcoming conference, titled Harvard Vision 2020: A Bridge to Campus Sustainability, to contribute their thoughts on how Harvard can address the demands of environmental sustainability in its future campus design, development, and operations. The three-day conference, which kicks off April…

The I Tatti Renaissance Library (ITRL) has received a grant of $1.2 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue producing bilingual editions of important Latin writings from the 14th to the 16th centuries. The series, sponsored by the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti near Florence, is published by…

Ronold Wyeth Percival King, mentor to 100 doctoral students in the Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, died peacefully in his home in Winchester, Mass., on April 10 at the age of 100. King was born in Williamstown, Mass., in 1905. He received his A.B. and S.M. degrees in physics from the University…

Arts First, Harvards annual festival of students in the arts, will celebrate its 14th anniversary May 4 – 7. Sponsored by Harvard Universitys Board of Overseers, the festival involves more than 2,000 students presenting over 200 concerts, theatrical and dance productions, multimedia presentations, exhibitions, and public artworks. The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA),…

Harvard Magazines Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2006-07 academic year will be Casey N. Cep 06 and Emma M. Lind 09. The two were selected from a competitive evaluation of 20 student writers applications for the position. The fellows will join the editorial staff during the year, contributing to the magazine as undergraduate…

Harvard scientists have solved the puzzle of how to generate a special form of wave in small electronic devices, allowing the electrical equivalent of the pulses of light that carry signals through optical cables.

Fifty students from the Graduate School of Design (GSD) climbed out onto Gund Halls stepped roof this week (April 19 and 20) to strew sedum on the rectangles of gravel ballast. The project is a pilot study to see if Gund will become Harvards first building to be retrofitted with a green roof.

Career resiliency is the ability to remain employable in the midst of the constant changes in todays job market, said Devin Ryder, senior consultant for career management at Harvards Office of Human Resources. Its a persons ability to adapt and change in the workplace as needed, including a willingness to keep updating ones skills, she…

Walkers wanted: University to back Walk for Hunger The Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs will celebrate its 20th anniversary as a contributing donor on behalf of Harvard faculty,…

In Denmark, it takes two days to open a new business in Italy, two months.

Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo warned April 12 that poverty is the enemy of democracy in Latin America and said that despite Perus recent economic gains, he did not do enough to improve the lot of Perus poor during his five-year term.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 17. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www. hupd.harvard.edu/.

A memorial service for George W. Mackey, the Landon T. Clay Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, will be held at the Memorial Church on April 29 at 2 p.m. Mackey died…

A Harvard professor and a Radcliffe Fellow were awarded Pulitzer Prizes in letters April 17 for a factual reconstruction of Britains brutal suppression of Kenyas Mau Mau rebellion and a novel about the wartime journey of an absent father.

John Robinson Brooks, emeritus Frank Sawyer Professor of Surgery, died on October 15, 2001, at the age of 82. John, HMS 43, was a loyal and vital part of the Harvard community for the better part of sixty years. He was born in Cambridge and educated both at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, graduating…

Can you name your states senators? Can you list the original 13 Colonies? Do you know what the four parts of the first amendment are, or what freedoms are guaranteed by the Bill of Rights?

Muslim rage over cartoons published in Denmark depicting the prophet Muhammad and the genocidal killings in Darfur, Sudan, may seem at first glance to have little to do with one another, but in a talk April 12, Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka used the two events to make a powerful case against Islamic territorial…