Tag: Campus

  • Campus & Community

    GSD Alumni Council creates fund in honor of Altshuler

    Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) Alumni Council Chair Michaele Pride announced at the council’s meeting in October that an endowment has been established in the name of GSD Dean Alan Altshuler. The Alumni Council–Alan Altshuler Fund for Financial Aid recognizes Altshuler’s strong commitment to increasing student financial aid during his tenure at the…

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    Finding shelter: Community Gifts supports Just-A-Start

    This is the second in a series of Gazette articles highlighting some of the many initiatives and charities that Harvard affiliates can support through this month’s Community Gifts Through Harvard campaign. The Community Gifts campaign allows you to donate to a charity of your choice through cash, a check, or a payroll deduction.

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    Somber, joyful service marks 75th birthday

    Over a thousand people crowded into the Memorial Church Sunday (Nov. 11) for a special birthday. Seventy-five years earlier, almost to the minute, the Colonial-style structure was dedicated on Armistice Day 1932.

  • Arts & Culture

    Digging history in Harvard Yard

    It was crowded in the hole in Harvard Yard, with sophomore Reyzl Geselowitz and freshman Alison Liewen crouching in the square pit, elbow to elbow and more than a yard deep in Harvard’s dark earth.

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    Bloom to step down as dean of Harvard School of Public Health at close of academic year

    Barry R. Bloom, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health, announced today that he will step down from his position as the School’s leader at the end of the current academic year.

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    Flu vaccination clinics are armed and ready for you

    Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) is offering free flu shots to members of the Harvard community.

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    HMS Dean Flier hails new, cooperative era in Harvard science

    Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey Flier said Friday (Nov. 2) that new approaches are needed to advance the fight against disease and embraced cross-institutional collaborations at Harvard as a way to bring new thinking to old problems.

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    Karen Armstrong will make the ‘Case for God’ in Noble Lectures

    Acclaimed author and religious historian Karen Armstrong will present “The Case for God” during the three-day William Belden Noble Lectures at the Memorial Church Nov. 13-15 at 8 p.m. Armstrong, the author of some 20 books, including the best-selling “A History of God” and “The Battle for God,” is renowned for her ideas about the…

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    This month in Harvard history

    Nov. 23, 1876 — Princeton convenes a meeting in Springfield, Mass., that results in the formation of the Intercollegiate Football Association (Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia). Yale decides not to join but does contribute to the development of the IFA’s modified rugby rules.

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Nov. 5. 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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    Faculty Council

    At its fourth meeting of the year on Nov. 7, the Faculty Council received an update on General Education, considered the role of the Faculty Council as raised by a Nov. 3 Boston Globe article concerning the Harvard University Art Museums, and was joined by Professor J. Lorand Matory for a discussion of the concerns…

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    David Clarence McClelland

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences October 16, 2007, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

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    Hay memorial set for Nov. 18

    A memorial service for Elizabeth Dexter Hay, embryologist and educator at Harvard Medical School (HMS), will be held Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. in the rotunda of HMS’s New Research Building at 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur.

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    HMS field station founder Elizabeth Lindemann dies

    Elizabeth Brainerd Lindemann, a staff member of the Wellesley Human Relations Service, a field station of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), from 1948 until 1965, died July 20 at Kendall at Hanover, a Quaker-sponsored continuing care community in New Hampshire. She was 94 years old.

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    Second class of Lemann Fellows welcomed

    Kenneth Maxwell, director of the Harvard University Brazil Studies Program at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) and visiting professor of history, has announced the arrival of the second class of Lemann Fellows.

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    HMNH’s Wild Wednesdays receives sponsorship

    Distrigas of Massachusetts/SUEZ Energy Resources has announced its support as the lead corporate sponsor of Wild Wednesdays, a program for urban youth at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH).

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    Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies awards prizes

    The Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Kodansha Publishers hosted the 13th annual Edwin O. Reischauer/Kodansha Ltd. Commemorative Symposium and the 12th annual awarding of the Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies on Oct. 19. These prizes are given annually by Kodansha Publishers for the best essays written by Harvard University students on Japan-related topics. The…

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    Faust, Pilbeam greet freshman parents

    To an assemblage of 1,000 freshman parents on Oct. 26 in Sanders Theatre, Dean of Harvard College David R. Pilbeam offered a welcome. “Your freshman is already a member of the extended Harvard family.”

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    This month in Harvard history

    Nov. 6, 1770 — Rumblings of Revolution: Joseph Avery, Class of 1771, orates on “Oppression and Tyranny” before the Speaking Club.

  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 24. 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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    President’s office hours 2007-08

    President Drew Faust will hold office hours for students and staff in her Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

  • Campus & Community

    Hay memorial set for Nov. 18

    A memorial service for Elizabeth Dexter Hay, embryologist and educator at Harvard Medical School (HMS), will be held Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. in the rotunda of HMS’s New Research Building at 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard University Health Services offers flu vaccination clinics

    Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) is offering free flu shots to members of the Harvard community.

  • Campus & Community

    Blood drive in Holyoke Center

    The Office for Sponsored Programs is holding a blood drive Nov. 6 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Holyoke Center (conference room 704) for the benefit of Mount Auburn Hospital.

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    Berkman named director of Center for Population and Development Studies

    Social epidemiologist Lisa Berkman has been appointed director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman announced today (Oct. 26).

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    Harvard president announces task force on the arts

    Harvard President Drew Faust announced today (Nov. 1) that she is creating a University-wide task force to examine the place of the arts at Harvard. Chaired by Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt, the task force draws its membership from faculty, students, and others across the University who represent many fields and modes of engagement with…

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    James Harriman Jandl

    Dr. James H. Jandl died on July 17, 2006 after a prolonged illness. He spent his entire career at Harvard Medical School where he became one of the world’s premier experimental hematologists. He was also a highly effective teacher and a renowned textbooks author.

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    Du Bois Institute announces appointment of 20 fellows for 2007-08

    Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, has announced the appointment of 20 new fellows for the 2007-08 academic year.

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    University announces this year’s public-spirited Zuckerman Fellows

    A trustee of the University of Notre Dame, a former naval intelligence officer, and a former special assistant to the Iraqi Ministry of Health are among this year’s Zuckerman Fellows.

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    Reynolds Fellows are active social entrepreneurs

    A documentary filmmaker, a former vice president for Teach for America, and a cellist for the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as a lawyer, two M.D. candidates, and five M.B.A. candidates, are among the Reynolds Foundation Fellows for 2007–08.