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Arts & Culture
Celebrating thirty years at helm of choruses at Harvard
“It’s one of those great moments in Western music. It’s the highest level of the compositional technique of Bach, one of the most difficult [pieces] to sing,” said Jameson Marvin, director of choral activities and senior lecturer on music at Harvard University. Marvin will conduct the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, an undergraduate chorus, along with musicians…
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
March 23, 1639 — In recognition of John Harvard’s recent bequest, the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony orders “that the colledge agreed upon formerly to bee built at Cambridg shalbee called Harvard Colledge.”
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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 athttp://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
Gallery seeks submissions
The Harvard Neighbors Gallery is now accepting portfolio submissions from eligible Harvard-affiliated artists (including current or retired full- or part-time faculty and staff and their spouses/partners).
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Campus & Community
Not too late to get flu shot
With the flu season often lasting through April, there is still plenty of time and good reason to get immunized if you have not already. Following immunization, it takes approximately 10 days to develop antibodies and be protected.
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Campus & Community
Faculty climate survey online
The Harvard University Faculty Climate Survey is available online on the Faculty Affairs Web site (http://www.faculty.harvard.edu). The survey was conducted in academic year 2006-07 by the Office of Institutional Research and the Office of Faculty Development and Diversity. Highlights of the survey results were published in last year’s End of Year Report, which is also…
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Nation & World
Can corporations police themselves effectively?
On the surface, one might argue, it looks like the business world is headed in a decidedly socially conscious direction. Coffee giant Starbucks supports fair prices for its coffee growers. Wal-Mart, the department store dynasty, has instituted a number of measures to lighten its environmental footprint. Companies everywhere tout their eco-friendly products and packaging, and…
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Campus & Community
Senior awarded prestigious Churchill Scholarship
The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States has named Harvard senior Alison Miller among its 2008-09 scholars.
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Campus & Community
Flavell receives Weintraub Award
Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate Steven Flavell has been selected, along with a dozen other graduate students from North America, to receive the 2008 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award sponsored by the Basic Sciences Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC).
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council
At its ninth meeting of the year on March 5, the Faculty Council discussed the Rules of Faculty Procedure. The council next meets on March 19. The preliminary deadline for the April 8 Faculty meeting is Monday (March 17) at 9:30 a.m.
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Campus & Community
Pool school to open April 5
Each spring, Harvard Swim School provides swimming and diving lessons for children and adults. Held at Blodgett Pool, the Saturday morning lessons will commence April 5 and run through May 10.
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Campus & Community
Malkin Athletic Center to upgrade exercise equipment
Seeking to improve health and recreation on campus, Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and Bob Scalise, director of athletics and interim executive dean of FAS, announced Tuesday (March 11) that funds have been made available to purchase new fitness equipment for the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC).
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Arts & Culture
Redman ’91 to be awarded 2008 Harvard Arts Medal
In conjunction with Harvard’s Arts First festival (May 1-4), Grammy-nominated saxophonist, recording artist, and jazz bandleader Joshua Redman ’91 will receive the 2008 Harvard Arts Medal. President Drew Faust will present the award to Redman, who is the 14th distinguished Harvard or Radcliffe alum or faculty member to receive this accolade for excellence in the…
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Nation & World
Provost’s Fund for technology seeks proposals
The Office of the Provost makes funds available to faculty for University projects that promise to alter and improve teaching and learning through the use of technology. The Provost’s Instructional Technology Fund is made up of two funds: the Innovation Fund and the Content Fund. The Innovation Fund is for large-scale projects that propose to…
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Campus & Community
Harvard students named Soros Fellows
Four Harvard students are among the 30 recipients recently named Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellows. Now in its 11th year, the fellowship helps prepare new Americans, including naturalized citizens, resident aliens, or the children of naturalized citizens, for opportunities for leadership in various fields in the United States.
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Campus & Community
Nieman Foundation announces I.F. Stone Award
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is establishing an award that recognizes journalistic independence and honors the life of investigative journalist I.F. Stone. The I.F. Stone Medal will be presented annually to a journalist whose work captures the spirit of “independence, integrity, courage, and indefatigability” that characterized “I.F. Stone’s Weekly,” published from 1953…
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Campus & Community
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences hacking incident
A Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Web server that contained summaries of GSAS applicant data for entry to the Fall 2007 academic year, summaries of GSAS housing applicant data for the 2007-08 and 2006-07 academic years, and administrator information was hacked by an outsider and compromised in a way that the data…
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Campus & Community
Not too late to get flu shot
With the flu season often lasting through April, there is still plenty of time and good reason to get immunized if you have not already. Following immunization, it takes approximately 10 days to develop antibodies and be protected.
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Campus & Community
PBHA, Harvard Club offer fellowship
The Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) along with the Harvard Club of Boston announced a new nonprofit management fellowship for graduating seniors of the College at a reception Monday (March 3). Beginning with the class of 2008, each year a graduating senior from Harvard College will have an opportunity to develop his or her nonprofit…
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Campus & Community
Co-House masters named for Currier House
Richard Wrangham and Elizabeth Ross have been appointed co-House masters of Currier House, beginning July 1, for the 2008-09 academic year. Shahram and Laura Khoshbin served as interim co-House masters of Currier House in 2007-08.
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Campus & Community
Black Students Association honors pair for activism, service
The Harvard Black Students Association honored Robert Lewis Jr., vice president for program at the Boston Foundation, and critically acclaimed actress Gabrielle Union with its Crimson and Black Leadership awards on Feb. 29. Crimson and Black is an annual event at the University designed to showcase the achievements of Harvard’s past black students while addressing…
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Campus & Community
Transition under way
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith and Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Tamara Elliott Rogers have announced details of a transition that is under way in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and University development offices.
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Arts & Culture
Master artist gives master class
Herbie Hancock radiated coolness — from his hip, all-black attire, to his trademark, slightly tinted glasses, to his deep soulful voice, to his calm, measured delivery. And as unmistakable as his aura of cool was his sincerity. Both qualities and more were on display Friday (Feb. 29) in the junior common room in Kirkland House…
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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 athttp://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
Undergrad grants available through Schlesinger Library
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites Harvard undergraduates to make use of the library’s collections with competitive awards of amounts up to $2,500 for relevant research projects.
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Campus & Community
HKS unveils new Web presence
With the launch of its new Web site earlier this week, the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has changed its URL to http://www.hks.harvard.edu. Visitors who use the old address will automatically be redirected to the new HKS site.
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Campus & Community
Toynbee Prize to honor McNeill
The Toynbee Prize Foundation will honor distinguished historian William H. McNeill at an award ceremony April 25 at the Harvard Faculty Club. Chartered in 1987, the foundation contributes to the development of the social sciences, as defined from a broad historical view of human society and of human and social problems.
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Campus & Community
Kennedy School student wins OPC Foundation Award
Harvard Kennedy School student Sheila Lalwani was recently awarded a $2,000 Overseas Press Club (OPC) Foundation Scholarship at the foundation’s annual scholarship luncheon held at the Yale Club in New York City.
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Campus & Community
Indecent exposure reported at Mill and Plympton streets
A female undergraduate student reported that she was the victim of an indecent exposure on Sunday (March 2) at approximately 9 p.m. The victim reported that after entering the intersection of Mill and Plympton streets, she was approached from behind by an unknown male who tapped her on the shoulder.