Year: 2006

Nov. 13, 1875 – New Haven, Conn., hosts the first Harvard-Yale football game, which Harvard wins, to the delight of some 150 student boosters from Cambridge. November 1903 – After…

You would not expect someone being honored with an award named for the first woman tenured in the Harvard Faculty of Education to be even a bit down on education for women.

Harvard University has launched the Harvard China Fund, a new University-wide initiative under the direction of William C. Kirby, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of History and director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.

Rodney Gove Dennis, who died on Oct. 12 after a short illness, wrote poetry and made music while curating manuscripts at Harvard’s Houghton Library. In his retirement he reconnected with the study of Latin using his poetic skills to translate the works of Catullus, Tibullus, and the Medieval Latin poet Giovanni Pontano. His life was…

Strengthening African governance is the goal of a new ranking system in development at the Kennedy School of Government. Drawing heavily on the pioneering work of the director of the Belfer Center’s Program on Intrastate Conflict Robert I. Rotberg and generations of his students, a team of researchers under his direction will create an annual…

Julia Sweeney, Grammy-nominated former star of “Saturday Night Live,” went looking for God – and found out there was no God. “And that’s the good news,” she said.

Hellenic Studies receives Onassis International Prize The Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University has been awarded a 2006 Onassis International Prize for its ongoing commitment to the promotion of…

Ethics center accepting fellowship applications for 2007-08 The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University is currently accepting applications from graduate students who are writing dissertations or…

Harvard postdoctoral scholar in English Laura Thiemann Scales is among seven scholars recently awarded fellowships for the 2006-07 academic year at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).

For 39 Harvard students, summer vacation this year wasn’t a vacation at all. It was up to 12 weeks of full-time work in a variety of countries – the requirement for being in the Weissman International Internship Program.

Jennifer Arcila ’08 (Russian studies) traveled to Moscow to intern with the Carnegie Moscow Center. She translated the center’s online newsletters and publications from Russian to English, and assisted scholars…

The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) strives to provide individuals committed to invigorating the public sector in those regions of the world with educational opportunities to explore effectual and pioneering means of governance. For this reason, the program awards fellowships to enable individuals from Southeastern and…

Harvard, Radcliffe crew have legs at Head of the Charles Radcliffe rowing grabbed a pair of fifth-place finishes in collegiate and lightweight eights at the 42nd annual Head of the…

Out of the dozens of club offerings annually pitched and promoted to Harvard’s freshman class, what would possess Cambridge’s newest residents to sign up for rugby – that brutal pastime favored on the other side of the pond? More perplexing still, why are some of Harvard’s newest female students clamoring to join the scrum (and…

U.S. News & World Report announced on Monday (Oct. 23) its 2006 listing of “America’s Best Leaders,” and Eric Lander, the director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, is among those recognized.

“OOOOHhhh!” the audience of high school students gasped as one when the emaciated image of Joseph, a poor Haitian stricken with both AIDS and tuberculosis, flashed onto the screen at Cambridge Rindge & Latin Friday morning (Oct. 20).

A former Israeli air force pilot and a former Palestinian guerilla brought a message of peace to the John F. Kennedy School of Government Tuesday (Oct. 24), saying both sides must abandon violence if the conflict is to be resolved.

The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard has announced its 2006-07 class of postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and visiting fellows. Each year, a small but distinguished group of scholars are named to spend an academic year at the center revising their dissertation manuscripts for publication (postdoctoral fellows) or giving seminars and consulting with…

A drug being tested now may kick off a new heart health revolution by raising levels of HDL, or “good” cholesterol, in the body, much as statins used today lower LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, according to a prominent cardiologist at one of the nation’s top heart hospitals.

Despite the 13th Amendment and the United Nations’ prohibition of slavery in 1949, millions of people continue to work under forced conditions. To help broadcast their plight to a wider audience and promote awareness of the crisis, Zoe Trodd and the group Free the Slaves have helped the slaves themselves speak out loud and clear.

The John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School announced Oct. 17 a $1.25 million gift from the George Family Foundation that will provide 15 fellowships to students pursuing concurrent degrees at the Schools. The gift will also expand the Kennedy School’s leadership development programs.

Starting in the second century B.C., the 4,000-mile Silk Road was a shifting network of trans-Eurasian trails and oases. For 1,500 years, it linked what is now China in the East to the Mediterranean in the West. The Silk Road – named in the 19th century – was a commercial highway but also a highway…

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.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been appointed the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, interim President Derek Bok announced today (Oct. 23).

At its fourth meeting of the year on Oct. 25, the Faculty Council received a report from Professor Lisa Martin, the senior adviser to the dean on diversity issues, and…