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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
May 21, 1940 — “The Harvard Crimson” publishes a statement endorsed by hundreds of students vowing “never under any circumstances to follow the footsteps of the students of 1917” who had gone off to fight in World War I. Thirty-four members of the Class of 1917 defend their actions in a statement published on May…
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Science & Tech
‘Black Holes’ at the Museum of Science
The exhibition “Black Holes: Space Warps & Time Twists,” produced by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will open at the Boston Museum of Science on June 21. The exhibit journeys to the edge of black holes to discover how recent scientific research is challenging notions of space and time, and, in the process, turning science…
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Campus & Community
Reischauer Institute seeks submissions for essays
The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies is now accepting submissions for its 2009 Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies, given to the undergraduate and graduate students with the best essays on Japan-related topics. The submission deadline is June 30, and $3,000 will be awarded for the best graduate student essay and $2,000 for the…
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Campus & Community
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures awards prize
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures recently awarded Liyun Jin ’12 and graduate student Maria Khotimsky its V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prize for their essays on Russian literature. Prizes of $500 each went to Jin for her essay “The Unattainable Ideal of Motherhood in ‘War and Peace’” and to Khotimsky for her paper titled “Internatsional…
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Campus & Community
Martins receives top honor
Princess Anne of Britain presented a Whitley Award, one of the world’s top prizes for grassroots nature conservation, to Dino J. Martins of Kenya, for his work to improve local understanding of and win greater protection for the pollinators that underpin farming in and around the Great Rift Valley and Taita Hills.
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Campus & Community
Hehir to receive honorary degree
J. Bryan Hehir, the Parker Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), will be awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters by Elms College at its annual commencement exercises on May 17.
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Campus & Community
Forstein honored with the Art of Healing Award
Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), a Harvard-affiliated public health care system, has recently presentedMarshall Forstein, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, with its second annual Art of Healing Award. The award recognizes an individual for exemplary leadership, advocacy, and innovation in healing.
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Campus & Community
YIVO to honor Dershowitz
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will honor Alan M. Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS), on May 26 at its 84th annual benefit dinner. The ceremony will be held at the Center for Jewish History in New York City. Dershowitz will be honored alongside Matthew Goldstein, chancellor of…
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Campus & Community
Center for Jewish Studies names Podhoretz prize winners
Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2009 Norman Podhoretz Prize in Jewish Studies and the 2009 Selma and Lewis Weinstein Prize in Jewish Studies.
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Campus & Community
William Curry Moloney
William Curry Moloney was born in Boston on December 19, 1907. He attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester and then Tufts Medical School and took up the practice of Hematology on the Tufts service at Boston City Hospital in 1932. He was married to the late Josephine O’Brien for more than 50…
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Campus & Community
Renowned Lincoln historian David Herbert Donald dies at 88
David Herbert Donald, Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of American Civilization Emeritus, died Sunday (May 17) of heart failure at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He was 88. Donald, a leading historian of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, was born in 1920 in Goodman, Miss., then a segregated town,…
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Campus & Community
Tribe and Ochs honored by Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus
The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) announced May 13 that it will present its Veritas Award to Laurence H. Tribe ’62, J.D. ’66, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor. As one of the nation’s foremost constitutional law experts, Tribe has advocated for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights for more than a…
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Campus & Community
Gates Scholars gather at Loeb
Inside the fanciful rooms of Loeb House, people swarmed around a select cadre of students — most were dressed casually, with tired end-of-semester eyes, but all sharing one unique bond: They are Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS).
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Campus & Community
Sullivan presented Joseph L. Barrett Award
Rory Michelle Sullivan ’09 of Quincy House was presented the Joseph L. Barrett Award at a special ceremony May 6. The Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC), which is a resource center for academic and personal development serving Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Kennedy School, and the Graduate School of Education,…
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Campus & Community
HAA selects 2009-10 Aloian Memorial Scholars
Karl Kmiecik ’10 of Cabot House and Kirsten Slungaard ’10 of Eliot House have been named this year’s David and Mimi Aloian Memorial Scholars. The two will be honored at the Harvard Alumni Association’s (HAA) fall dinner. The criteria for the awards reflect the traits valued and embodied by the late David and Mimi Aloian…
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Arts & Culture
Cortese new conductor of Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OfA) and Music Department announced that Federico Cortese has been appointed conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO).
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Health
‘Super-recognizers’ are the ones who really will never forget a face
Some people say they never forget a face, a claim now bolstered by psychologists at Harvard University who’ve discovered a group they call “super-recognizers”: those who can easily recognize someone they met in passing, even many years later.
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Campus & Community
Grad housing that fosters community
Many Harvard College alumni cite their life in the Houses as one of the best aspects of their undergraduate years. Living with students from diverse backgrounds who hail from different parts of the country — and different parts of the globe — leads to broadened interests, a more capacious worldview, and lifelong friendships.
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
May 26, 1902 — The Harvard Corporation approves the construction of a temporary addition to the south side of Boylston Hall. Completed over the summer and measuring 83 by 33 feet, the add-on consists of a single large laboratory for elementary-chemistry classes and a general-use basement. The addition opens in the fall, with a stucco…
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Arts & Culture
REISCHAUER INSTITUTE SEEKS PAPERS
The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies is now accepting submissions for its 2009 Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies, given to the undergraduate and graduate students with the best essays on Japan-related topics. The submission deadline is June 30, and $3,000 will be awarded for the best graduate student essay and $2,000 for the…
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Campus & Community
Semitic Museum to host tour of ‘The Houses of Ancient Israel’
The Semitic Museum will host a lunchtime tour of “The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine” on May 21 at 12:15 p.m., offering a view of life in an ancient Near Eastern agricultural society. The exhibit — which displays family dwellings, palaces, and temples — is arranged in terms of the different types of…
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Campus & Community
ROWLAND INSTITUTE NAMES TWO NEW JUNIOR FELLOWS
The Rowland Institute at Harvard has selected two new junior fellows for the institute’s fellowship program:Christopher T. Richards, a teaching fellow and research assistant in organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard, and Yuki Sato, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Campus & Community
Marshall service on Friday
A memorial service for Martin V. Marshall, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS), will be held on May 15 at 2 p.m. in the Class of 1959 Chapel on the HBS campus.
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Campus & Community
Omeljan Pritsak
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 5, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Omeljan Pritsak, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Pritsak’s work transformed our understanding of East Slavic history.
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Nation & World
HBS teams share dreams for success
In a series of presentations in Burden Auditorium, teams of students recently presented their ideas and dreams for entrepreneurial success at the final round of Harvard Business School’s (HBS) 13th annual Business Plan Contest.
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Campus & Community
Jeremy Randall Knowles
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 5, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Jeremy Randall Knowles, Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and former Dean of the FAS, was placed upon the records. Knowles set the standard for selfless service and was a…
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Campus & Community
Business School’s Milton P. Brown, retail and marketing expert, 90
Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Emeritus Milton P. Brown, an expert in retailing and marketing who for almost half a century influenced thousands of M.B.A. students and executives through his skills as an extraordinarily talented teacher, died on April 25 in Exeter, N.H. He was 90 years old.
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Campus & Community
Weissman internships will support 50 students abroad
This summer, the Weissman International Internship Program will send a record 50 students abroad as interns, working in 25 countries across the globe. The interns will engage in a wide range of private and public sector opportunities, including ventures in art and architecture, business, environmental sustainability, foreign policy, human rights, international development, journalism, public health,…
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Campus & Community
Twenty-four elected to Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Beta Kappa recently elected 24 students from the Class of 2010 to the Harvard College chapter of Alpha Iota of Massachusetts.
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Campus & Community
Waldheim appointed professor, chair of landscape architecture
Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design Mohsen Mostafavi announced the appointment of Charles Waldheim as professor of landscape architecture and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at GSD, effective July of this year.