Featured series 
Month: September 2010
-
Campus & Community
Angeliki E. Laiou
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 11, 2010, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Angeliki E. Laiou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History, was placed upon the records. Laiou was known for her path-breaking research in Mediterranean economic and women’s history.
-
Campus & Community
Hard science, soft verse
Ron Spalletta, whose first poem has just been published, is a clerkship manager at Harvard Medical School.
-
Campus & Community
Men’s basketball releases 2010-11 schedule
The Harvard men’s basketball team has released its 2010-11 schedule, and will play its first game against George Mason on Nov. 13.
-
Campus & Community
Ash Center welcomes 2010-11 student and executive fellows
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School announced its 2010-11 student and executive fellows for the 2010-11 academic year.
-
Science & Tech
Forward, into the past
Harvard undergraduate Derek Robins recounts his summer spent doing astronomy research on campus.
-
Arts & Culture
A Short History of Cape Cod
Historian Robert Allison colors in Cape Cod’s record with photographs, historical figures, and far-from-dry tales in “A Short History.”
-
Campus & Community
Harvard College welcomes four Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholars
Four recipients of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship are now students at Harvard College.
-
Campus & Community
Divinity School professor wins book award for excellence
Divinity School professor Kimberley C. Patton has received an award for excellence in religion for analytical-descriptive studies from the American Academy of Religion for her book “Religion of the Gods: Ritual, Paradox, and Reflexivity.”
-
Campus & Community
BSC offers 5-week fall course on reading
The Bureau of Study Counsel’s Harvard Course in Reading and Study Strategies will open for registration on Sept. 7.
-
Campus & Community
Harvard hosts New England Writers Association luncheons
Harvard will once again serve as the host of the weekly New England Football Writers luncheons, which will be held each Wednesday at 11:45 a.m., from Sept. 8 to Nov. 17.
-
Campus & Community
New retirement investing options
Harvard reshuffles its retirement fund lineup, trimming the number of individual options while introducing adaptive “lifecycle funds.” The University will allow investment-savvy employees to invest in thousands of additional mutual funds through a new brokerage account option.
-
Arts & Culture
Pecos Pueblo Revisited: The Biological and Social Context
Peabody Museum Associate Curator Michèle Morgan and authors review significant findings at the historical New Mexico reserve, answering many questions about the population and behavior of the Pecos pueblo.
-
Arts & Culture
Saturday Is for Funerals
Max Essex, the Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences, and Unity Dow track the Botswana HIV/AIDS crisis through heartrending narratives of those affected by the disease — an estimated one out of four adults.
-
Health
Horns aplenty
A new exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History highlights the enormous diversity of antlers and horns and examines how they came into being and what they’re used for.
-
Campus & Community
John C. Nemiah
John Case Nemiah, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at both Harvard Medical School and Dartmouth Medical School, died on May, 11 2009, at the age of 90, in Nashua, New Hampshire. Widely beloved as a teacher, editor, academic leader and friend, he served as the Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the Beth Israel Hospital from 1968 to 1985.
-
Campus & Community
Robert Smith
On November 25, 2009, Dr. Robert Moors Smith died two weeks before he would have been 97. A pioneer of modern anesthesia practice, he was considered the “Father of Pediatric Anesthesiology” in the United States.
-
Nation & World
Tracing the roots of political thought
Going back millennia, Harvard’s Eric Nelson studies the emerging republican ideals that defined liberty and eventually displaced monarchy.
-
Campus & Community
Invitation from President Faust
President Drew Faust invites the Harvard community to join her and Charlie Gibson, former host of ABC’s “Good Morning America” and now a visitor at the Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, for a year-opening conversation on Sept. 21 at 4 p.m. in Sanders Theatre.
-
Campus & Community
Stepping into action
Harvard’s pre-orientation programs point incoming freshmen to the city, the country, and the campus in an effort to give students a head start on adjusting to college life by building community through the outdoors, the arts, and more.
-
Campus & Community
Class of 2014 Convocation
Harvard’s leaders welcomed the Class of 2014 Tuesday (Aug. 31), in a convocation ceremony filled with pomp and circumstance. They urged the new students to use their College years as a time to experiment, learn, and discover.
-
Campus & Community
A message of inclusion
Harvard President Drew Faust opened the first Morning Prayers of the new school year with a message of inclusion for both the University and its students.
-
Arts & Culture
‘Africans in Black & White’
The Du Bois Institute opens a new exhibit at the Rudenstine Gallery in conjunction with the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium and a 10-book series.
