The following were elected to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Faculty Council for a three-year term (2008): Judith Ryan* (Germanic Languages and Literatures) to the tenured seat in the humanities Elizabeth Spelke (Psychology) to the tenured seat in natural sciences Arthur Kleinman (Anthropology) and Everett Mendelsohn* (History of Science) to the tenured seats in the social sciences J.D. Connor (English and American Literature and Language, and Visual and Environmental Studies) to the nontenured seat in the humanities and Salil Vadhan* (Engineering and Applied Sciences) to the nontenured seat in the natural sciences.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OConnor (left) presented five medals from the Creativity Foundation on May 21 to students of outstanding creativity in the arts, sciences, entrepreneurship, and public service. Among the recipients was Lowell Houses Shaw Natsui 05.
To the strains of We Are Family, 519 students who participated in the Bridge program this year were recognized for their academic achievement at the Horner Room in Agassiz House on Sunday (May 22).
The life and writings of Harvard graduate Henry David Thoreau have for a century and a half spurred writers, artists, naturalists, and everyday citizens to engage more deeply with the natural world. One such person is Scot Miller, a native Texan whose nature photography has taken him all over the United States and Europe.
On a sunny day before the floods of May, a couple of students take a TV kind of attitude to their laptop, while in the background sits a member of that disappearing species, the reader.
For the first time, amateur and professional astronomers have teamed up to discover a new planet circling a distant star. The planet was detected by looking for the effect of…
A new way to administer therapeutic RNA molecules that efficiently guides them to cells throughout the body is being reported by researchers at the Harvard-affiliated CBR Institute for Biomedical Research…
Reporting in the May 12 issue of Nature, astronomers announced that they have penetrated the heart of the universe’s most powerful explosion – a gamma-ray burst (GRB). Using the PAIRITEL…
Exercise plays a role in preventing breast cancer, and research strongly suggests that breast cancer patients who are more physically active improve their self-esteem and body image. Now, a landmark study from the Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) finds that exercise after diagnosis may help breast cancer patients live longer. The study appears in the May 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
A group of students at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) have won a competition to design permanent housing for survivors of the December 2004 tsunami disaster.
Boys & Girls Club to honor Capuano, McCluskey The West End House Boys & Girls Club of Allston-Brighton will honor Congressman Michael E. Capuano and Harvard Director of Community Relations…
The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced that Sir Kieran Prendergast has been named Goodman United Nations Fellow for the 2005-06 academic year. Prendergast will be affiliated with the Schools Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
The South Asia Initiative (SAI) at the Asia Center has announced its first completed cycle of Das and Menezes Travel Grants to the Indian Subcontinent. Grants were awarded for research travel to Harvard faculty and graduate students from across all the Schools, and to undergraduates at the College.
Seven Harvard faculty members were recently elected as members of the American Philosophical Society (APS). The nations oldest learned society, APS is devoted to the advancement of scientific and scholarly inquiry.
May 1943 – Shortly before Commencement, the Qing (Ch’ing) Dynasty stone dragon just west of Widener Library is set on a new base. The dragon had been a Tercentenary (1936)…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 16. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
On May 18, Cambridge School Volunteers Inc. (CSV) honored its more than 1,000 volunteers who have served in grades K-12 of the Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) during the 2004-05 academic year at a reception hosted by the University at the Faculty Club. Together, these volunteers have provided more than 60,000 hours of individualized academic services to Cambridge youth.
Center court took center stage in first round NCAA womens tennis action against Maryland this past Friday (May 13). With the doubles point up in the air following host Harvards 8-1 thrashing of the Terrapins in court 1 and Marylands 8-4 win in the far court, the tiebreaker pitting the Crimson duo of Elsa ORiain 07 and Courtney Bergman 05 against Neda Mihneva and Tamar Huppes was suddenly thrust into the spotlight.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences recently announced the election of 196 new fellows and 17 new foreign honorary members. Among this latest class of leaders in scholarship, business,…
The principal objective of the awarding of the Harvard Medal is to recognize extraordinary service to Harvard University. Extraordinary service can be in as many different areas of University life as can be imagined, including teaching, fundraising, administration, management, generosity, leadership, innovation, or labors in the vineyards.
The 2005 Kennedy School Spring Conference opened Friday (May 13) with a thoughtful discussion of the top challenges facing both the global community in general and the academic community in particular.
Thirty Harvard undergraduates have been named recipients of the second annual Herchel Smith Harvard Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships. After seven pilot projects were awarded last year, 2005 marks the first year of a full cohort of fellows. The program is designed to support promising undergraduate scientists in a formative, self-designed laboratory experience at the early stages of their academic life during 10 weeks of the summer.
Sitting forward and big-eyed in their seats, or leaning back with eyes closed and only their ears open, a recent Sanders Theatre audience let the sounds of Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms inspire them, amuse them, thrill them, bring them a momentary moment of peace. Nothing unusual about that – except in this case the audience of 400-plus consisted almost entirely of Cambridge elementary school students, their teachers, and chaperones. The free Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) Childrens Concert is, according to the chair of the HRO outreach committee Johann Cutiongco 06, one of the most fun and meaningful events of the year.
For 30 years, Learning From Performers has been bringing artists to Harvard to lecture, teach, and interact with students. Just a partial list of the performers who have spent anywhere from a day to a week at Harvard under the auspices of the program is enough to widen the eyes of even the moderately starstruck – Mel Gibson, Whoopi Goldberg, Mandy Patinkin, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Isaac Stern, Mstislav Rostropovich, Beverly Sills, Mark Morris, Judith Jamison, Bill T. Jones, Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughn, Bobby Short, Tony Kushner, Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, David Hockney, Maurice Sendak.
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