Tag: Campus
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Campus & Community
Harvard College sets Cambridge Queen’s Head opening for April 19
Following intensive consultation with students and some two years of planning and preparations, Harvard College will open the Cambridge Queen’s Head on April 19. The new 176-seat pub in Loker Commons, intended to augment the College’s House-based social life with a comfortable common venue for meeting and socializing, will debut with some 15 special events…
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Campus & Community
Faust inauguration set for October
The inauguration events for Harvard’s 28th president, Drew Gilpin Faust, will take place beginning the evening of Oct. 11. The inauguration will continue with the installation ceremony scheduled for Oct. 12 at approximately 2 p.m. More details will be made available as plans progress.
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Campus & Community
College announces new sophomore advising plan
Harvard College has announced a new preconcentration advising program to help rising sophomores. As the former freshmen are being welcomed into House life, advisers will help them choose their concentration.
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Campus & Community
Donella Rapier to step down as vice president for alumni affairs and development
Donella M. Rapier, vice president for alumni affairs and development, announced today (Feb. 26) that she will step down from her position effective June 30, 2007.
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Campus & Community
‘There’s Something About Ben’
In three decades of acting, Ben Stiller admits that he’s had some challenging roles. “‘There’s Something About Mary.’ There were some tough scenes in there,” he told a very young questioner at Harvard tonight (Feb. 23). “Don’t see it, though.”
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Arts & Culture
Boym turns chance errors into chancy art
Svetlana Boym leads a double life. Her faculty Web page identifies her as the Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature. She is the author of several scholarly books and teaches courses with titles like “Memory and Modernity” and “Russian Culture from Revolution to Perestroika.”
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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 Feb. 26. 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
MAC renovations update
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.).
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Campus & Community
Lemann Professor nominated young global leader
The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently nominated Tarun Khanna, an authority on strategy and emerging markets and Harvard Business School’s Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, as a Young Global Leader 2007.
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Campus & Community
NSP names Harvard senior Josh Bolian top volunteer
Harvard senior Josh Bolian has been selected Volunteer of the Year out of 550 candidates by the National Student Partnerships (NSP). The nation’s only year-round, student-led service organization, NSP works one-on-one with low-income community members by providing intensive on-site and referral services.
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Campus & Community
CC Wang
CC Wang of the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital died peacefully at his home in Lincoln, MA on the evening of December 14, 2005. Dr. Wang was 83 years old at the time of his passing.
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Campus & Community
Howard Wilson Emmons
Howard Wilson Emmons, Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, and Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, the father of and a leading contributor to modern home fire research, died in his 86th year on November 20, 1998.At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 16, 2006, the Minute…
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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 Feb. 19. 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
Still time to order daffodils, help American Cancer Society
Daffodil Days, one of the University’s most popular and colorful fundraisers, is now accepting orders from the Harvard community for the bright bouquets, which cost $7 each and include 10 stems. For $25, the bouquet includes a limited edition, collectible Boyds Bear teddy bear.
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Campus & Community
Porter, Teisberg win Hamilton Award for ‘Redefining Health Care’
“Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results” (Harvard Business School Press) by Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, based at Harvard Business School, 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,…
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Campus & Community
Memorial services
Orlov-Rubinow service on Feb. 25 Service for HBS’s Robert Newton Anthony on March 2
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Campus & Community
Kuwait Program accepting grant proposals
The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the 12th funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With the support of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, a Kennedy School faculty committee will consider applications for one-year grants (up to $30,000) and larger grants for more extensive proposals to support advanced research…
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Campus & Community
Contemporary art curatorship established by Houghtons
Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM), has announced the establishment of the Maisie K. and James R. Houghton Curatorship of Contemporary Art at the HUAM. This new position was funded by a gift from the Houghtons, and will be filled by its first incumbent, Helen…
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Campus & Community
Composer Gunther Schuller named ’07 Fromm Professor of Composition
The Harvard University Department of Music has announced the appointment of Gunther Schuller as Fromm Visiting Professor of Composition. This is the second time Schuller has received this appointment.
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Campus & Community
Hasty roasts Ben Stiller as its Man of the Year
The producers of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Evan Eachus ’08 and Scott Wilmore ’08, will present Man of the Year honoree Ben Stiller with his Pudding Pot on Friday (Feb. 23) at 8:10 p.m. in the Zero Arrow Street Theatre, prior to the start of the opening night performance of “The Tent Commandments.” The theater…
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Campus & Community
‘Roast World’
A wind chill in the low single digits and streets that resembled the Greenland ice sheet could not keep this year’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year parade from being one of the most festive and raucous in recent memory.
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Campus & Community
College offers 28 secondary fields to undergraduates
Ten months after professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to establish secondary fields as part of the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review, the College has approved and is now offering 28 of the optional programs to undergraduates.
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Campus & Community
Once again, record numbers apply for admission to the College
Nearly 23,000 students have applied for admission to the Class of 2011. While the final number is yet to be determined, thus far 22,920 have applied, exceeding the previous record of 22,796 for the Class of 2009 and last year’s 22,754.
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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 Feb. 12. 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
Jerome Hamilton Buckley
Jerome Hamilton Buckley, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, was born in Toronto on August 30, 1917, and received his secondary education at Humberside Collegiate Institute where the principal called him “one of the most brilliant pupils” ever to attend the school.
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Campus & Community
CES welcomes spring fellows
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies has announced the arrival of its 2007 spring fellows. The center is dedicated to fostering the study of European history, politics, and society at Harvard. Visiting scholars play an active role in the intellectual life of the center and the University. While in Cambridge, the scholars conduct…
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Campus & Community
Office for Arts announces spring grant recipients
Sponsored in part by Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OfA) grant program, more than 1,000 students will participate in 38 projects in dance, music, theater, and multidisciplinary genres at the University this spring. Grants are designed to foster creative and innovative artistic initiatives among Harvard undergraduates.