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Precocious pundit Alexander Burns is off to D.C.
While still an undergraduate, Alexander Burns already had an impact on political discourse in the United States. Beginning in 2005, the history and literature concentrator has been a principal contributor to a political blog sponsored by the history magazine American Heritage. The job has allowed him to explore the pros and cons of contemporary issues,…
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HMS technical staff member Andrew J. Hession, 52
Andrew J. Hession, an HVAC technician for Harvard Medical School (HMS) for seven years, died on May 26 of complications from heart surgery.
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Dedicated seniors see value in giving back
As vice chairs of the Harvard College Fund’s Recent Graduates Committee, Eryn Ament Bingle ’95 and Thomas M. Reardon Jr. ’96, M.B.A. ’05 couldn’t help focusing on a nagging fundraising statistic: 60 to 70 percent of Harvard seniors give to a Senior Gift fund before graduation, but fewer than 20 percent of those same students…
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Preacher Siwo-Okundi attends to the ‘small voice’
Why do people suffer from the sins of others? Elizabeth J.A. Siwo-Okundi has long pondered this question as she has studied some of the most ambiguous and troubling passages in the Bible. A master’s of theology student at Harvard Divinity School, Siwo-Okundi has never shied away from difficult issues. Even while studying Old Testament stories…
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357th Commencement: Harvard confers 6,966 degrees and 104 certificates
Today the University awarded a total of 6,966 degrees and 104 certificates. A breakdown of the degrees by schools and programs follows. Harvard College granted a total of 1,564 degrees.
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A family’s recollections of commencements
In 1926, William Lawrence published his autobiography, “Memories of a Happy Life.” In 1967, his daughter, Marian Lawrence Peabody, then in her 90s, published “To Be Young Was Very Heaven.” These reminiscences show that although some things change, much stays the same, including certain rituals — and worries — around Commencement.
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English, Latin, graduate orators get a chance to make their voices heard
This morning’s orations bring together a young literature scholar on the eve of public service, a classics concentrator on her way to medical school (after a year of studying archaeology), and a U.S. Army officer who served in Iraq. In their own ways, the three orators represent Harvard’s diversity as it is measured by the…
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Winners of Howard T. Fisher Prize announced
The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science has named four students winners of the award for the 2007-08 academic year.
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Extension School awards student, faculty prizes
The Harvard Extension School has announced the following student prize and faculty award winners for 2008.
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DRCLAS awards grants, travel internships
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) is sponsoring more than 130 students traveling to Latin America for research and internships this summer.
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Three seniors will pursue public service as Richardson Fellows
The Class of 2008 recipients of the Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service will help others in locations from South Africa to Brazil, documenting human rights abuses, improving sanitation, and helping young women to gain economic autonomy.
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Student work graces Mass Hall
Bringing home (literally) Harvard’s newly invigorated commitment to the arts, President Drew Faust has opened up Massachusetts Hall to an exhibition of selected artwork by talented undergraduates.
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This month in Harvard history
May 4, 1943 — At the Boston Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Boston firm of Perry, Shaw & Hepburn accepts the J. Harleston Parker Gold Medal for Houghton Library as the best architecture in New England for 1942. The City of Boston has given the award annually since 1923.
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Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 27. 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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Knowles memorial set for May 30
A memorial service for former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles will be held Friday (May 30) at 11 a.m. at the Memorial Church. The Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Knowles died April 3.
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Radcliffe honors Alumnae Award winners
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has announced this year’s Radcliffe alumnae award winners, who will be honored at the annual Radcliffe Awards Symposium on June 6 at the American Repertory Theatre’s Loeb Drama Center.
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Bells ring in Commencement
A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next Thursday (June 5) in honor of Commencement. For the 20th consecutive year a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvard’s 357th Commencement Exercises.
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Barrett Award presented to three
Two Harvard seniors and a sophomore were honored as Joseph L. Barrett Award recipients at a special ceremony May 9. Administered by the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC), the award commemorates Barrett, who was killed in an auto accident in his senior year (1973). The award recognizes promising young people at Harvard College who pursue…
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Cohen named new chair of Department of Architecture
Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), recently announced the appointment of Preston Scott Cohen as chair of the Department of Architecture, effective July 1.
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Bhabha named senior adviser
Homi K. Bhabha has just been named senior adviser on the humanities to the president and provost. The position, a first for the University, takes effect July 1.
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Reminiscences of Maxim Gorky
In 1895, Russian journalist Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, a onetime shoemaker’s apprentice who had quit school at 10, adopted a new name: Maxim Gorky. After that, literary fame came fast and furious for this self-taught, fresh-voiced grandson of a Volga boatman. Gorky — the name means “bitter” — could tell a story, remember everything he read…
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This month in Harvard history
May 6, 1945 — At noon a novel contraption appears on high as a helicopter hovers over Harvard and lands on the riverbank in front of the Business School. A Coast Guard pilot and another officer alight from the craft to present a letter from the president of the Lexington Chamber of Commerce to a…
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Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 12. 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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Yivo institute honors Summers
The YIVO Institute for Jewish research honored Charles W. Eliot University Professor Lawrence H. Summers on May 13 at its 83rd annual benefit dinner. The ceremony was held at the Center for Jewish History in New York City.
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Faculty Council
At its 12th and final meeting of the year on May 14, the Faculty Council reviewed the Ph.D. program in African and African American Studies and approved the Student Handbook and Courses of Instruction for 2008-2009.
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Kieffer awarded International Reading Fellowship
Michael Kieffer, an advanced doctoral student in language and literacy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is the recipient of the International Reading Association’s (IRA) Jeanne S. Chall Research Fellowship.
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Harvard Magazine selects two Ledecky Fellows
Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2008-09 academic year will be Brittney Moraski ’09 and Christian Flow ?????10, who were selected after a competitive evaluation of writing submitted by student applicants.
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Community advisory
On May 6 at approximately 1:40 a.m., an undergraduate student reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) that she was the victim of an assault and battery in Harvard Yard near Houghton Library by the stairs going down toward Pusey Library.