Tag: Campus

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard launches new Web interface for HOLLIS

    Earlier last month, students, faculty, and staff began exploring a trial version of a completely new Web interface for HOLLIS — Harvard’s Online Library Information System.

  • Campus & Community

    A sampling of classes in new Gen Ed curriculum

    With this fall’s formal launch of the new Program in General Education (Gen Ed) just a few months away, undergraduates are sampling from eight courses being offered this spring under the Gen Ed rubric.

  • Arts & Culture

    ‘What’s so funny ’bout peace, love, and sustainability?’

    Even on Earth Day — an April celebration of the environment since 1970 — humor traditionally has had little place. There’s always more oh-oh than ho-ho.

  • Campus & Community

    Earth Day draws thousands

    While joggers and strollers streamed merrily along sunny Memorial Drive on Saturday (April 25), Robert M. “Rob” Gogan Jr. was just a few yards away, bobbing in a kayak while combing the banks of the Charles River for litter.

  • Campus & Community

    In brief

    PBK ELECTS 24 JUNIORS; HMS’S NEW FOLKMAN FELLOWSHIP; EALS ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS

  • Arts & Culture

    Sing a song of praise

    Every Monday a small group of students gathers in Andover Hall for a sacred musical journey.

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    April 10, 1950 — Ralph J. Bunche — AM ’28, PhD ’34, Director of the United Nations Trusteeship Department, and future winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize — is appointed to a government professorship. He is the first black named to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Bunche expects to do teaching and research…

  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 21. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

  • Campus & Community

    Despite economy, Daffodil Days still comes up roses

    With good news comes the bad news. This year’s Daffodil Days, held on March 16, raised $51,726 in funds for the American Cancer Society — the first time in its 22-year history that this year’s total did not surpass the previous year’s total ($53,329). However, with the economic downturn taken into consideration, “I still think…

  • Arts & Culture

    Handel’s ‘Saul’ to be performed in memory of John Raymond Ferris

    The Harvard University Choir and the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra will present Handel’s magnificent oratorio “Saul” on April 26. The performance is dedicated to the memory of John Raymond Ferris, University organist and choirmaster from 1958-1990, who passed away last summer.

  • Nation & World

    LGBT conference on ‘Politics, Policy and Progress’ at HKS

    On Friday (April 24) the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) will host a conference titled “Politics, Policy, and Progress: Gay Rights as Human Rights.” Among the many guests in attendance will be Lance Black, the Oscar award-winning screenwriter for “Milk.” The event, beginning at 12:30 p.m., will take place at the Kennedy School, with panels in…

  • Health

    Two Harvard freshmen recognized by Discover Magazine

    Harvard College freshmen Anastasia Roda and Isha Jain have recently been featured in Discover Magazine’s “Teen Genius: 5 Promising Scientists Under 20,” which highlights outstanding young scientists who tackle some of the biggest challenges in science.

  • Arts & Culture

    Seniors Buzney, Barron win Mellinger Award

    Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) members Catherine Buzney ’09 and Christine Barron ’09 have been named recipients of the Rachel Mellinger Memorial Award.

  • Health

    Chylack, Dowling ARVO Fellows

    The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) has named Harvard Professor of Ophthalmology Leo T. Chylack Jr., and Gordon and Llura Gund Professor of Neurosciences John E. Dowling as 2009 fellows. Chylack and Dowling will receive their fellowships in May at the annual ARVO meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council

    At its 11th meeting of the year on April 22, the Faculty Council reviewed the proposed Extension School courses for 2009-10; considered a proposal for a new Department of Human Evolutionary Biology; and discussed Google and the Harvard College Library. The council’s final meeting of 2008-09 will be on May 13. The preliminary deadline for…

  • Campus & Community

    Wood memorial April 26

    Carroll Emory Wood Jr., 88, a University professor of biology and curator of the Arnold Arboretum, died March 15. He was teacher and mentor to many botanists and students at and at the University of North Carolina. A specialist in the flora of the Southeastern United States, he initiated, supervised, and edited a comprehensive flora…

  • Campus & Community

    Brenner named SEAS associate dean for applied mathematics

    Frans Spaepen, interim dean at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and John C. and Helen F. Franklin Professor of Applied Physics, has appointed applied mathematician Michael P. Brenner as the School’s first associate dean for applied mathematics.

  • Campus & Community

    Board of Overseers elects senior officers

    The Board of Overseers of Harvard College, created in 1642 by the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, has elected Merrick B. Garland ’74, J.D. ’77, to be president of Harvard’s Board of Overseers for 2009-10 and Ann M. Fudge M.B.A. ’77, to be vice chair of the board’s executive committee for the…

  • Campus & Community

    New wheels on campus spin for sustainability

    There are some new wheels on campus, and they come attached to the new fleet of VeriFast Cycles, the first bicycles in a pilot bike-share program based out of Harvard’s undergraduate Houses. The program will officially be launched during Harvard’s Earth Day Celebration “Block Party” on Saturday (April 25), hosted by the Environmental Action Committee…

  • Campus & Community

    Eighteen faculty, affiliates named to 2009 class of AAAS Fellows

    The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) today (April 20) announced the election of leaders in the sciences, the humanities and the arts, business, public affairs, and the nonprofit sector. The 210 new AAAS Fellows and 19 Foreign Honorary Members join one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies and a center for independent…

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Board of Overseers voting in progress

    The spring election for new members of the Board of Overseers is now in progress. Eligible voters include all Harvard degree holders, except for employees of the University who are officers of instruction or administration. All degree-holding alumni may vote for Elected Directors. For more information, visit www.harvard.edu/alumni/elections.php.

  • Campus & Community

    MessageMe system to be tested April 16

    The University will test its emergency text-messaging system, MessageMe, on April 16. The test message will be broadcast midday to more than 14,000 Harvard community members who have signed up for the alert system to date.

  • Campus & Community

    Samuel H. Beer, Harvard scholar, dies at 97

    Samuel Hutchison Beer, the distinguished Harvard political scientist, died in his sleep at the age of 97 on April 7. For years, Beer was the world’s leading expert in British politics, but he also studied the American political system, and was active in American politics as a lifelong Democrat and chairman of Americans for Democratic…

  • Nation & World

    Harvard Kennedy School professors named 2009 Carnegie Scholars

    Associate Professor Asim Ijaz Khwaja and Assistant Professor Tarek Masoud of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (HKS) have been named 2009 Carnegie Scholars by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The honorees were selected for their compelling ideas and commitment to enriching the quality of the public dialogue on Islam.

  • Campus & Community

    Wood memorial April 26

    Carroll Emory Wood Jr., 88, a Harvard University professor of biology and curator of the Arnold Arboretum, died March 15. He was teacher and mentor to many botanists and students at Harvard and at the University of North Carolina. A specialist in the flora of the Southeastern United States, he initiated, supervised, and edited a…

  • Campus & Community

    Samuel P. Huntington service set

    A memorial service for Samuel P. Huntington, who was the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard, will be held on April 22 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.

  • Science & Tech

    Earth Week emphasizes notion of human stewardship

    Earth is shielded by a film of air barely 6 miles high. About 10 million species of plants and animals, including 6 billion humans, reside within this thin skin of gases.

  • Nation & World

    International Education Program fetes 10th anniversary

    A politician intends to revolutionize the educational system in Kenya. A husband-and-wife team offers professional development to teachers to reduce social violence, develop civic competencies, and help eradicate poverty in Mexico. A student hopes to work on international educational reform.

  • Arts & Culture

    Scholar enjoys wrestling ‘the Great Bear’

    Some scholars are hard-pressed to identify what exactly drew them to their field. Others can point to a specific “aha!” moment when they found their academic calling. In Justin Weir’s case, it all began with a bit of bureaucracy.

  • Arts & Culture

    Gail Mazur reads at Radcliffe

    After removing her soaked red sneakers, Radcliffe Fellow Gail Mazur read aloud from new poems Monday (April 6) in dry black socks. The poet was undeterred by the onslaught of gray rain that thrashed Radcliffe Gymnasium’s windows — a fitting backdrop for Mazur’s charged, emotional poems.