Tag: Campus
-
Campus & Community
Bradford Cannon
Bradford Cannon, a caring, talented, imaginative plastic surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) was an acknowledged surgical pioneer for much of the twentieth century. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1907, to Walter Bradford Cannon born in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and Cornelia James Cannon of Cambridge, MA. A year later his father…
-
Campus & Community
HSPH dean receives highest honor from Cyprus
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Dean Barry R. Bloom has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Makarios III, which is the highest honor awarded in the Republic of Cyprus to individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the welfare of the Cypriot people.
-
Campus & Community
Attempted armed robbery reported
On March 18 at approximately 1:15 a.m., a male undergraduate student reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) that he was the victim of an attempted armed robbery while walking on John F. Kennedy Street.
-
Campus & Community
College adds ‘Life Skills’ to its menu
Members of the Harvard community are authorities in game theory, Celtic poetry, and quantum mechanics — and in emergency plumbing repairs, automobile maintenance, and preparing a mean tiramisu. Until now, students have had scant opportunity to tap the vast campus expertise that resides outside the classroom. That’s changing this year, though, with the expansion of…
-
Campus & Community
SEAS debuts new seal, which captures the idea of ‘coming full circle’
Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) announced the debut of its new seal earlier this week. The design is based on the seal created for the Harvard School of Engineering in 1936 by Pierre de Chaignon la Rose (class of 1895).
-
Campus & Community
Aizenberg named McKay Professor of Materials Science
Joanna Aizenberg, a leader in the analysis of unique biomaterials that have evolved to carry out multiple functions in some organisms, has been appointed Gordon McKay Professor of Materials Science in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and its School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), effective July 1, 2007.
-
Campus & Community
Alan J. Stone to stay on
Alan J. Stone has agreed to stay on as vice president for Government, Community and Public Affairs through the 2007-08 academic year, President-elect Drew G. Faust announced Monday (March 19).
-
Campus & Community
Wassersteins give $25 million to HLS
The Wasserstein family has made a $25 million gift to Harvard Law School to support construction of Wasserstein Hall, the new academic center of the Harvard Law School (HLS) campus, Dean Elena Kagan announced today (March 22). The gift is the second biggest in the Law School’s history.
-
Campus & Community
Harvard announces tuition increase, rise in aid
Harvard College tuition will rise 3.9 percent to $31,456 for academic year 2007-08, and need-based scholarship aid will grow by 6.8 percent to $103 million. The total package (tuition plus room, board, and student services fee) will be $45,620, a 4.5 percent increase over last year. More than two-thirds of the Harvard entering class receives…
-
Campus & Community
Composer Adams to be awarded Arts Medal
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams ’69, M.A. ’72 will return to Harvard to accept the 2007 Harvard Arts Medal as a part of the Arts First weekend festivities (May 3-6). Adams will take part in a variety of forums that will provide opportunities to learn about his artistic accomplishments firsthand, including a lecture by the…
-
Campus & Community
Bill Gates to speak at Commencement
William H. (Bill) Gates, one of the world’s most influential business leaders and foremost philanthropists, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises during Harvard’s 356th Commencement on June 7.
-
Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 12. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
-
Campus & Community
NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof to deliver KSG address
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has been named this year’s graduation speaker at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Kristof will deliver his remarks June 6 in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
-
Campus & Community
Health, wellness classes offered
The Center for Wellness and Health Communication at Harvard University Health Services will offer several sessions and courses this spring ranging from yoga and Reiki to integrating feng shui in the workplace.
-
Arts & Culture
The Fromm Players present!
Music lovers will soon have a chance to hear pieces by some of the most influential classical composers working today performed by one of the most honored groups of players specializing in new music. And it’s all free!
-
Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
March 5, 1954 — The Faculty of Arts and Sciences approves the Special Standing Program recently proposed by the Educational Policy Committee. The program allows specially qualified high-school students who have completed 11th grade to enter as freshmen, specially qualified freshmen to enter as advanced-standing sophomores, and honors candidates to have one or two required…
-
Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 5. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
-
Campus & Community
Deadline for HMS grant
Each year more than 50 postdoctoral and faculty fellowships/grants are available to the Harvard medical community by invitation only. The private foundations that fund these grants permit a limited number of individuals to be nominated for these awards. In order to choose candidates that will represent the Harvard medical community in the national competitions, the…
-
Campus & Community
MAC moves equipment to QRAC and Gordon
Following the closing of the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) the week of March 19, MAC equipment will be made available to recreational users at the QRAC (66 Garden St.) and the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis facility (65 N. Harvard St.).
-
Campus & Community
‘Redefining Health Care’ collects Hamilton Award
“Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results,” by Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, a senior institute associate at Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, has been awarded the 2007 James A.…
-
Campus & Community
Faculty Council
At its 11th meeting of the year on March 7, the Faculty Council considered support of study abroad programs and a motion concerning scholarly publishing licensing, and discussed Dean Jeremy R. Knowles’ upcoming “Letter on Growth and Renewal of the Faculty.”
-
Campus & Community
Faculty of Arts and Sciences – Memorial Minute
On October 12, 1997, when Isadore Twersky died, Jewish studies lost one of its giants, and a remarkable chapter in the history of the field came to a close.
-
Campus & Community
Nine Harvard affiliates named Soros Fellows
Nine Harvard-affiliated students are among the 31 recipients recently named Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellows. Soros Fellows receive half-tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States, as well as a maintenance grant of $20,000 per year.
-
Campus & Community
Attempted armed robbery reported on Memorial Drive
On March 2, at approximately 9:45 p.m., a male graduate student reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) that he was the victim of an attempted armed robbery along Memorial Drive. While walking in the vicinity of Plympton Street, the victim was grabbed from behind by an unidentified male, who, while holding a knife,…
-
Campus & Community
HRES approves 2007-08 Affiliated Housing rents
Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) has announced the approval of the new rent schedule for approximately 2,800 Harvard-owned apartments rented by graduate students and other University affiliates. The new rents will take effect July 1, when the 2007-08 rental season begins.
-
Campus & Community
Betensky named HSPH professor of biostatistics
Rebecca Betensky has been promoted to professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). She is also an associate biostatistician at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.
-
Campus & Community
Lipsitch promoted professor of epidemiology at HSPH
Marc Lipsitch has been promoted to professor of epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). He first joined the School’s faculty as an assistant professor in 1999, becoming an associate professor in 2004.
-
Arts & Culture
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 (ranging from $100 to $2,500) for relevant research projects.