Year: 2007

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Elder statesman’ brightens big day

    On Thursday afternoon (June 7), in the shade of a tree in the Old Yard, Philip Keene of Natick, Mass., sat in a wheelchair holding a small sign that read “1925.” Nearby was Thayer Hall, where he lived as a senior 82 years ago.

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    Honorary degree recipients and citations, 2007

    Three women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard’s 356th Commencement. President Derek Bok read the citations.

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    Commencement marked by solemnity, joy … sunshine!

    Gown-gown issues On Commencement Day, what’s under those black gowns? Don’t ask. But an informal survey of Harvard College footwear revealed high heels, sandals, running shoes, dress shoes for men (rare), and — most of all — flip-flops, the 21st century’s footwear for all occasions.

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    Barbara J. McNeil named acting dean of Harvard Medical School

    Barbara J. McNeil, the Ridley Watts Professor of Health Care Policy and Professor of Radiology, has been named acting dean of the Harvard Medical School effective July 1, President-elect Drew Faust announced today.

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    Gates urges graduates to tackle global inequity

    Microsoft founder Bill Gates returned to Harvard Thursday (June 7) to finally collect his degree — an honorary doctorate — and to urge the Class of 2007 to change the world for the millions who live in poverty and die of preventable diseases each year.

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    Remarks of Bill Gates, Harvard Commencement 2007

    President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates: I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.”

  • Arts & Culture

    With a little help from his PC

    With “The Ringo Starr Fine Art Show” paying a visit to 60 Church St. in Harvard Square for a three-day stint starting today (June 7), some might assume that the man who rocked the kit for the most influential band in the history of rock ’n’ roll has traded in his sticks for paint and…

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending June 4. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

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    Newsmakers

    Altshuler to stay through fall Alan A. Altshuler, who announced last fall that he will step down as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), has agreed to stay on as dean for the fall semester until a new dean is selected. Altshuler was appointed acting dean of the School in July 2004…

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    Career forum, June 12

    Employment Services, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, will host its ninth annual career forum on June 12. The event will be held at the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. and will be open to the public from 4 to 6:30 p.m.

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    Faust installation, Oct. 12

    Incoming President Drew G. Faust will be formally installed as Harvard’s 28th president on Oct. 12 at an outdoor ceremony in the Tercentenary Theatre. An academic procession, featuring representatives of universities from around the world, will begin at 2 p.m. The installation will begin at 2:30 p.m. The event will be open to all faculty,…

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    Memorial services set for Ketelhohn, Carroll

    Gene Ketelhohn, Cabot House building manager, 60 Gene G. Ketelhohn, the building manager of Cabot House since 1983, died May 26 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He was 60.

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    Seven HBS students honored for their service to School, society

    Seven members of the Harvard Business School M.B.A. Class of 2007 will take home more than the coveted diploma they are receiving today from HBS Dean Jay O. Light. Anthony D’Avella, Sachin Jain, José Antonio Morán, Jean-Philippe “JP” Odunlami, John Serafini, Heather Thompson, and Arturo Weiss Pick are winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award.

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    DRCLAS awards certificates, names thesis prize winners

    The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded a total of 33 Certificates in Latin American Studies this year. Thirty undergraduates from 12 academic departments and two doctoral students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences received the certificate. To be eligible for the certificate, students must complete an approved course…

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    Hoopes Prize winners for ’07 are announced

    More than 70 Harvard College seniors have been named Thomas T. Hoopes Prize winners for outstanding scholarly work or research. The prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes ’19. The recipients, including their research and advisers, are as follows:

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    Radcliffe awards ’07 Fay Prize to two pioneering Harvard seniors

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has named Harvard seniors Rowan W. Dorin, a history concentrator, and Emily Vasiliauskas, a literature concentrator, the winners of its 2007 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize. Both winners were selected for their senior theses, which provide important, new contributions to their respective fields. Dorin was selected for…

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    Committee on African Studies awards grants

    The Harvard Committee on African Studies has awarded 13 research grants for Harvard undergraduates and graduate students to travel to sub-Saharan Africa during the summer of 2007. The undergraduates are juniors who will be doing research for their senior honors theses. The graduate students will be conducting research for their doctoral dissertations.

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    Richardson Fellowships are awarded

    The Class of 2007 recipients of the Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service will help others in locations from Ghana to Los Angeles, aiding teenagers with sickle cell anemia and assisting low-income students to prepare for entry into top colleges.

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    Herchel Smith Fellowship awardees named

    The following undergraduates have been selected as winners of the 2007 Herchel Smith Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship. The fellowship aims to support academically motivated Harvard undergraduates in pursuit of personally significant scientific research experiences during the summer or on a leave of absence. The scholarships will support research projects undertaken with an established research center…

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    Kistefos Public Service Fellows named at KSG

    A Norwegian government attorney and a fomer adviser at the Norwegian Mission to the United Nations have been named Kistefos Public Service Fellows at the Kennedy School of Government. The fellowship program was established in 2006 by a donation of more than $1 million from Kistefos AS, one of Norway’s leading privately owned investment companies.

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    Center for European Studies announces 2007-08 student grants

    Continuing its tradition of promoting and funding student research on Europe, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced its selection of 41 undergraduate students for thesis research grants and internships in Europe this summer. Additionally, more than two dozen graduate students have been awarded support for their dissertations.

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    Extension School awards

    The Harvard Extension School has announced the following student prize and faculty award winners for 2007.

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    Davis Center announces award winners

    The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies has announced the recipients of fellowships, prizes, research travel grants, and internships for 2007-08.

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    South African Fellowship Program certificates awarded

    Professor Felton Earls, director of the Harvard South African Fellowship Program, recently awarded special certificates signed by interim President Derek Bok.

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    Remarks of President Derek Bok

    I will have to go back to the history books. I’m not sure I’m the shortest [LAUGHTER] living president. Our first president, Master Eaton, had a rather short tenure. He…

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    Harvard Graduate School of Education awards six Conant Fellowships

    The Harvard Graduate School of Education presented six outstanding educators from the Boston and Cambridge public school systems with James Bryant Conant Fellowships on May 31. Each of the recipients will receive one year of study at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).

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    Scholar, critic, poet, prize winnner Vasiliauskas is off to the other Cambridge

    Emily Vasiliauskas may be the only undergraduate at Harvard who has learned German specifically so she could read the poetry of Paul Celan.

  • Arts & Culture

    From reality TV to reality (really)

    Nate Dern isn’t really a geek, but he plays one on TV.

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    Forward is the only direction ice maestro Du knows

    With his hockey skates strapped on and big pads in place, Kevin Du ’07 looks like any speedy Crimson player, flashing a stick and making the puck dance.

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    Ball-carrier Dawson rushes the future

    While nearly every college senior can relate to the anxiety of an uncertain future, very few have the luxury (or is that curse?) of seeing how those hopes and dreams unfold on television. Harvard football running back Clifton Dawson, glued to ESPN for a solid weekend this past April during the NFL Draft, is among…