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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
May 9, 1643 — Lady Mowlson (Ann[e] Radcliffe) creates Harvard College’s first scholarship fund with a gift of £100. The “Harvard Annex,” founded in 1879 for women’s education, formally adopts her maiden name in 1894 to become known as Radcliffe College.
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 28. 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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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
RUVKUN RECEIVES GAIRDNER AWARD; HARVARD PROFESSOR ELECTED TO LEAD HUMANE SOCIETY BOARD; PHARR RECEIVES JAPANESE AWARD
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Campus & Community
Janet Ward McArthur
Janet Ward McArthur was born in Bellingham, WA, on June 25, 1914 and died at the age of 92 among friends at North Hill, Needham MA, on October 6, 2006.
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Nation & World
Ash Institute names top innovations in government
The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) recently announced the Top 50 programs of the 2008 Innovations in American Government Awards competition.
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Campus & Community
Harvard economist and adviser to presidents Houthakker dies at 83
Harvard economist Hendrik Samuel Houthakker, 83, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers for two presidents and holder of a papal knighthood, died on April 15 at Genesis Healthcare in Lebanon, N.H.
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Nation & World
Excellence in teaching is recognized
Allan M. Brandt acknowledged the pedagogical achievements of Harvard’s graduate students, as well as preceptors, lecturers, and undergraduate course assistants at the biannual Teaching Excellence Awards Reception last Thursday (April 24).
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Campus & Community
SEAS tackles Cambridge/ Allston links in design class
Fifteen undergraduates reported on “Bridging the Gap: Connecting Harvard’s Allston and Cambridge Communities.” Their semester-long mission: devising a plan to keep the campus together even as it expands across the Charles River, while finding a way to preserve what they viewed as the essential characteristic of everyday student life — serendipity.
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Health
HMS Health Care Policy Department marks 20th anniversary
There have been many changes in the health care landscape over the two decades since Harvard Medical School’s (HMS) Department of Health Care Policy was inaugurated, but much work remains to ensure equitable, effective health care for all. That was the message of speakers at the 20th Anniversary Symposium of Harvard Medical School’s Department of…
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Campus & Community
National Academy of Sciences elects eight Harvard professors
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has announced the election of eight Harvard faculty members among its new field of members.
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Nation & World
Faux terrorist exercise proves fruitful
At Harvard, the half-day terrorist attack exercise played out in a truncated version for 90 tense minutes Monday evening (April 28) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, the chief public venue of the John F. Kennedy School of Government (HKS).
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Campus & Community
Stephen Greenblatt to be honored
Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt will join seven other distinguished artists and writers to be inducted into the 250-member American Academy of Arts and Letters next month.
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Campus & Community
Memorial services for Meyers, Knowles
GRAD STUDENT ISAAC MEYERS MEMORIAL SERVICE SET FOR MAY 7; JEREMY KNOWLES TO BE REMEMBERED AT SERVICE ON MAY 30
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Arts & Culture
From breaking to Brahms: Everything under the sun to shine at Arts First
For the 16th year in a row, Arts First will color the Harvard campus next weekend (May 1-4) with more than 200 music, theater, dance, film, and visual arts events and performances.
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Arts & Culture
Fourteen awarded fellowships to further artistic development
The Office for the Arts (OfA) at Harvard and the Office of Career Services (OCS) recently announced the 2007-08 recipients of the Artist Development Fellowship.
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Arts & Culture
Ghent Altarpiece is window into history of art
To Hugo van der Velden, professor of history of art and architecture in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Ghent Altarpiece is more than a landmark — it’s also an excellent teaching tool. The painting is the focus of Van der Velden’s History of Art and Architecture course, “Jan van Eyck and the Rise…
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
April 23, 1949 — For the eighth consecutive time, the Harvard Varsity Crew wins the Compton Cup Race on the Charles, outrowing teams from Princeton, MIT, and Rutgers. “All of the races were rowed under miserable conditions — wind, rough water, rain, and, in the varsity race, semi-darkness,” notes Athletics Director William J. Bingham ’16.
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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 http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
Kagan joins American Indian Empowerment Fund
Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan has been named an advisory board member of the American Indian Empowerment Fund (AIEF).
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Campus & Community
Portrait of a master
Rulan C. Pian (right) watches at Cabot House as S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation, and foundation intern Marisol Pineda-Conde unveil Pian’s portrait.
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Campus & Community
Cash Receipts closes May 9, re-opens May 12 at 1033 Mass. Ave.
Next month, the Cash Receipts Office will move to its new home on the mezzanine level at 1033 Massachusetts Ave.
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Campus & Community
Panels, lectures to mark Asia Center anniversary
The Harvard University Asia Center, which celebrated its official opening in March 1998, will commemorate its 10th anniversary May 1-2.
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Campus & Community
Kleinman named next director of Asia Center
Arthur Kleinman has been appointed the next director of the Harvard University Asia Center. He succeeds Tony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and the first Victor and William Fung Asia Center Director.
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Campus & Community
Organic matters: The Yard returns to its roots with help of GSD
On April 16, seeding began with a healthy dose of “compost tea” — a liquid biological amendment — from the brewing vat located just past the entrance to the Yard across from the Science Center.
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Nation & World
Cronin takes long view of Boston schools, from busing to the MCAS
Joseph Cronin ’56, MAT ’57, came to Harvard on April 16 to examine the Boston Public Schools system’s struggles and successes over the past 76 years, detailed in his new book, “Reforming Boston Schools, 1930-2006: Overcoming Corruption and Racial Segregation” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
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Arts & Culture
Houghton exhibit features Islamic sciences
If scholarship is the only reliable means of time travel, the Houghton Library offers up Harvard’s latest time machine: “Windows into Early Science,” an exhibit of scientific manuscripts, maps, and illustrated books on display through May 23.
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Campus & Community
Ash Institute announces system reform semifinalists
Earlier this month, the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) announced eight semifinalists for the 2008 Annie E. Casey Innovations Award in Children and Family System Reform.
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Arts & Culture
The complex legacy of slavery in Brazil
On Thursday (April 17), Lilia Moritz Schwarcz joined Zephyr Frank, assistant professor of Latin American history at Stanford University, for a lunchtime conversation about race in Brazil in both the era of the slave trade and today. The event, titled “Slavery, Abolition and Race in Brazil,” was part of an ongoing series in the Brazil…