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Tag: Campus
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Campus & Community
Accreditation process advances
For the past year and a half, Harvard has been preparing for its 10-year re-accreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC).
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Campus & Community
Print directories canceled
This fall, Harvard’s traditional phone directories are going the way of the dinosaurs, with paper savings measured in tons.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Divinity School
A new lecture series presented by the Center for the Study of World Religions explores ecology in light of religion.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard School of Public Health
A new center focusing on mathematical modeling of drug resistance, seasonal infectious diseases, and intervention allocation will be established at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
President Drew Faust and FAS Dean Mike Smith welcomed Cherry A. Murray as the new dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with a formal reception on Sept. 8. Murray began her post as dean on July 1.
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Nation & World
Designs for enduring structures
As the hurricane bears down on the village, the people do what many all over the world do: head to the local school for shelter. A place of learning in normal times becomes a place of refuge during disasters.
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Campus & Community
Hasty Pudding Club Forms at Harvard: September 8, 1795
On this day in 1795, 21 Harvard students gathered in a dorm room and formed a secret social club to cultivate “friendship and patriotism.” Members agreed to take turns providing a pot of hasty pudding for the meetings. Thus did the Hasty Pudding Club, the nation’s oldest dramatic institution, get its name…
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Campus & Community
Welcoming Gen Ed
In a celebratory forum in Lowell Lecture Hall Sept. 3, Harvard President Drew Faust and others explain and extol Harvard’s new General Education requirements, which take effect this year with the Class of 2013.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Kennedy School
The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations will convene a Consultative Conference on International Criminal Justice at United Nations headquarters in Manhattan Sept. 9-11.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard University Extension School
The Harvard University Extension School will celebrate its centennial anniversary this fall. A private convocation will be held Sept. 25, and a public panel on the future of technology is slated for Nov. 18.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: Harvard Divinity School
On Sept. 10, at 4:30 p.m., a cow will cross the Yard — in celebration of the achievements of Hollis Professor of Divinity Harvey Cox, who retired in June.
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Campus & Community
Executive Vice President Lapp brings experience to Harvard
In high-profile positions in New York and at the University of California, Harvard’s new executive vice president established a reputation as a collaborative leader with a knack for creative problem-solving.
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Campus & Community
Around the Schools: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
The Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH), based at SEAS, launched its new Innovation Space Sept. 1. The space expands SEAS’s resources for experiential innovation education and provides Harvard’s undergraduate student innovators with the first dedicated environment for learning and working in teams on entrepreneurial projects.
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Campus & Community
Senior saves you the search for quiet spaces on campus
Caitlin Rotman ’10 reveals a few quiet spaces and tranquil places around campus.
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Arts & Culture
Up Close, part 2
In the fast pace of our daily lives we may overlook the details which, collectively, create a stunning backdrop for all that happens within the University. Hundreds of historic volumes stand as individual works of art inside the Houghton and Widener Libraries.
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Science & Tech
Humans and computers connect in Discovery Room
Chia Shen at the Scientists Discovery Room Lab is devising new ways for researchers to visually explore large data sets.
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Campus & Community
Class of ’13 launches into Gen Ed
As the newly arrived Class of 2013 settles into the brick dormitories of Harvard Yard, they are already distinguished as the first matriculating class to study exclusively under the new requirements of Harvard College’s Program in General Education.
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Campus & Community
Fine Arts Library reopens
The Fine Arts Library (FAL) is now open in its temporary space in the Littauer Building in the North Yard.
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Campus & Community
Department of Music’s Marvin set to retire after the school year
The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) and the Harvard University Department of Music have announced that Jameson Marvin will retire as director of choral activities at Harvard.
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Campus & Community
Harvard University Police Department releases security report
The HUPD has released a report which includes information on how to report a crime, HUPD’s crime prevention programs, and other important information about security and HUPD services on campus.
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Campus & Community
Davis Center announces 2009-10 visitors and award recipients
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies recently announced a total of 20 incoming fellows, visiting scholars, and award recipients for the 2009-10 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Parmigiani and Dominici named professors of biostatistics at HSPH
Giovanni Parmigiani and Francesca Dominici have been named professors of biostatistics at HSPH.
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Campus & Community
IOP’s resident, visiting fellows for fall
The Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics (IOP) recently announced its six resident fellows and three visiting fellows for the fall semester.
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Science & Tech
Two centers join fellowship programs
The Berkman Center and the Center for Research in Computation and Society (CRCS) have joined their fellowship programs for the 2009-10 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Greening the meaning of bottom line
Christine Benoit, an expert on buying just enough and from the right places, brings her ethic of green living to the Harvard procurement process.
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Arts & Culture
‘The Donkey Show’ kicks off a first season for Diane Paulus
Harvard’s new American Repertory Theater director Diane Paulus ’88 takes a classic Shakespeare comedy for a spin on the disco floor with “The Donkey Show.”
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Campus & Community
Chairs, tables, performances come to the Yard
To enhance the Harvard community’s campus experience, the University will install tables and chairs within Harvard Yard and the Radcliffe Quad and host open-air performances.
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Campus & Community
Former homeless man takes part in Harvard Business School seminar
Ron Brummitt, who has a degree in psychology and is an ordained minister, was at Harvard in July to take part in Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management, a weeklong, HBS seminar that aids senior executives from the nonprofit sector in developing leadership strategies.
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Campus & Community
Baseball-themed picnic a ‘hit’ with Cambridge seniors
Sponsored by the Office of the Mayor for Cambridge and the Office of the President of Harvard University, the annual Harvard Yard Picnic draws hundreds of senior members from the local community to Harvard Yard to enjoy food, friends, and music.