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Campus & Community
20 faculty members named to 2008 class of AAAS fellows
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAAS), one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers, today (April 28) announced the election of 20 Harvard University faculty members and affiliates to its new class of members.
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Campus & Community
David Rockefeller gives $100 million for Harvard undergraduate programs
David Rockefeller, a member of the Harvard College Class of 1936 and longtime University benefactor, has pledged $100 million to increase learning opportunities dramatically for Harvard undergraduates through international experiences and participation in the arts.
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Campus & Community
President Faust announces committee to enhance spaces on Harvard’s Cambridge campus
Harvard University President Drew Faust today announced the formation of a University-wide steering committee to explore ways to enhance Harvard’s Cambridge campus to ensure that the physical environment better supports the intellectual and social vitality of the University.
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Campus & Community
Journalist forum focuses on climate change, cities
Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a Cambridge, Mass.-based research foundation, recently brought together 45 print, radio, and television journalists from across the country to discuss the emerging connection between climate change and cities.
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Nation & World
Scholarly journal reveals precious gems; marks major milestone
One of the oldest scholarly theological journals in the country, the HTR celebrated its 100th anniversary last Friday (April 11) at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) with a day of talks by several HDS scholars.
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Campus & Community
Krister Stendahl, 86, was HDS dean from 1968-1979
Krister Stendahl, who played a crucial role in shaping the life and work of Harvard Divinity School (HDS), just as he was also a pioneer in the broader realm of ecumenical relations, died on April 15 at the age of 86.
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Arts & Culture
Cultural creativity in the Ethiopian diaspora
A Radcliffe Fellow this year, Kaufman Shelemay was co-organizer of “Cultural Creativity in the Ethiopian American Diaspora,” a conference held at Harvard this week (April 13-14).
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Arts & Culture
Hamlisch offers vital audition advice
The multigifted and much-admired musical composer Marvin Hamlisch taught a master class in the New College Theatre on “The Art of the Audition” recently (April 9) under the auspices of Learning From Performers.
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Arts & Culture
Iraqi film series offers rare glimpse into bleak world
Beginning today through Saturday (April 17-19), the Tsai Auditorium at the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) will host selections from the first international Iraq Short Film Festival (originally held in Baghdad in 2005).
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Arts & Culture
The perils of historical fiction
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, author of the celebrated “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,” delivered the Tanner Lectures at Harvard last week (April 9-11).
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
April 14, 1944 — In honor of the 50th anniversary of the American movie industry, Warner Brothers presents the Harvard Film Service with a reprint of a 150-foot film of Mark Twain made in 1907 by Thomas Edison with a hand-cranked camera.
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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 14. 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
Longtime Harvard staff member Hoppe dead at 88
Retired Harvard University staff member Ruth Hoppe died April 2 at Mount Auburn Hospital. She was 88. A 30-year employee at the Widener Library at Harvard University, Hoppe worked in the interlibrary loan department.
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Campus & Community
Knowles memorial service to be held May 30
A memorial service for Jeremy R. Knowles will be held May 30 at 11 a.m. at the Memorial Church.
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Campus & Community
Social Science Research Council gives grant to Harvard centers
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) has awarded $52,289 to three Harvard centers: the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Harvard Asia Center.
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Campus & Community
Hammonds opens faculty diversity forum
Evelynn Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies and senior vice provost for Faculty Development and Diversity (FD&D) opened a three-day forum last Friday (April 11) at the Charles Hotel titled “Advancing and Empowering Scholars: Transforming the Landscape of the American Academy Through Faculty Diversity.”
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Health
Nobel Prize winner discusses judgment and intuition
“Most of the time,” said noted psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman to a packed house of students, scholars, and faculty at the Yenching Auditorium (April 15), “we run at very low effort.” It was a sobering claim for the heady academic set, but according to Kahneman, no one is immune from the diagnosis. Even…
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Campus & Community
Digging spoons: GSD café has tableware fit for composting
Beginning earlier in the spring semester, the Chauhaus café at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) started providing only tableware made from bio-based plastics fit for composting.
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Campus & Community
Going for the green at Harvard
William James Hall and the Hoffman Labs have emerged victorious in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Environmental Competition 2008, Harvard’s biggest and most comprehensive eco-contest ever.
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Campus & Community
Mora to step down as vice president for finance
Elizabeth Mora, a senior member of the University’s financial administration since 1997, today (April 15) announced her intention to step down as vice president for finance and chief financial officer.
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Campus & Community
DRCLAS names Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor
The Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies has named distinguished journalist and Hispanic publisher Edward Schumacher-Matos the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor for Latin American Studies.
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Campus & Community
Thoughtful House renovation planned
More than bricks and beams, it is the people of the 12 undergraduate residential Houses who make the structure of residential life at Harvard transformational, complex, and robust. So, when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences decided to invest in student life by renovating the Houses, supporting House life was the guide for reinforcing and…
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Campus & Community
This year’s HAA Global Series leads to China
In March 2008 Harvard President Drew Faust traveled to Shanghai, China, for the sixth Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Global Series.
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Campus & Community
Shapiro offers guidance on humanities, career path
First-year students joined Robert Shapiro ’72, member of the Board of Overseers at Harvard and president of the Peabody Essex Museum, for a career conference in the Humanities Center on April 2. The event was the third in a series of conferences titled “Humanities: A Way in the World” that explore how concentrating in the…
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
April 25, 1674 — The Harvard Corporation orders that “freshmen of the Colledg shall not at any time be compelled by any Senior students to goe on errands or doe any servile work for them. And if any shall præsume to send them in times injoyned for study both the sender and the goer shall…
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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 March 3. 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
In brief
PDK TALK TO EXPLORE LEADERSHIP, LAST CALL FOR ARTISTS, FREE TICKETS FOR YING SWAN SONG, DUMBARTON OAKS SET TO REOPEN
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Campus & Community
Association for Women in Psychology honors Caplan
Paula J. Caplan, lecturer on studies of women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard, has received a distinguished career award from the Association for Women in Psychology at its annual conference in San Diego last month. At the conference, Caplan delivered a lecture titled “Defying Authority: The Liberation and Poignancy of Challenging the Status Quo.”