Campus & Community
-
Why row from Boston to London? Because it’s there.
Spaulding Rehabilitation physiatrist, team taking new route, aim to set records
-
Next up for House renewal: Eliot
Building refresh aims to boost accessibility, preserve historic character
-
FAS receives gift to bolster arts, humanities, and strengthen financial aid
Business leader Joseph Y. Bae ’94 and novelist Janice Y. K. Lee ’94 expand upon three decades of supporting academic excellence, opportunity at Harvard
-
Dean’s legacy honored
Hoekstra, Faust, colleagues laud Robin Kelsey, who will step down from his arts and humanities deanship
-
Tested most by game he didn’t play
Portrait honors Harvard’s first Black lacrosse player, whose 1941 benching in the South sparked outcry
-
‘Shed the tears … get up and fight some more’
Justice Sonia Sotomayor on importance of civic engagement, youth involvement, giving back
-
At Busch Hall, Clock’s Time Has Come Again
The hands of time will begin turning again today on Busch Hall. It has been more than four months since the circa 1930 tower clock was disassembled, removed, and then…
-
Conference to Explore Experience-Based Education
The Harvard Outward Bound Project and the Experiential Educators Network are planning a conference for those interested in learning more about experiential or experience-based education. The conference, called “The Common…
-
Experience, Education Link Real World to Classroom
The class started off easily enough. Graduate School of Education Lecturer Meg Campbell said it was to be student-directed, following the principles of experience-based education. She had given the assignment…
-
Law Students Offer Free Tax Assistance
The Harvard Law School Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) is providing free, confidential assistance in preparing state and federal tax returns to low-income, elderly, and handicapped residents of Boston,…
-
University Asks That Harvard Pilgrim Trademark Case Be Heard in Federal Court
Facing a state court deadline last week to respond to the Attorney Generals lawsuit about Harvard Pilgrim Health Cares use of the Harvard name, the University has responded by requesting…
-
KSG Joins Women.Future Conference on April 5
The Kennedy School of Government will participate via satellite in the global “Women.Future Conference” to be held on Wednesday, April 5, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The conference will…
-
Young Scientists’ Club
Every Tuesday afternoon for the past eight weeks, kids in the Young Scientists Club turned the Harvard Museum of Natural History into their own research lab to learn about light.…
-
Air Pollution Deadlier Than Previously Thought, SPH Study Finds
According to Joel Schwartz, associate professor of environmental health at the School of Public Health, “Air pollution kills about 70,000 Americans each year. Thats more people than die from breast…
-
College Students Binge More Frequently, Survey Finds
College students are drinking more and college administrators are enjoying it less, according to a nationwide study of binge drinking. Approximately one in four (23 percent) of more than 14,000…
-
Barlett and Steele Awarded Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to journalists from Time Magazine by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy…
-
Conference on Minorities And Women in Science Set for March 17 and 18
The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations is sponsoring the Seventh Annual Science Conference, titled “Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics” Friday and Saturday, March 17…
-
Seamus Heaney To Give Haviaras Lecture April 6
Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet Seamus Heaney will give the inaugural Stratis Haviaras Lecture, titled “Room to Rhyme,” in the Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland St., on Thursday, April 6,…
-
Tending Her Gardens
The Harvard Gazette
-
Beloved Music Teacher Vosgerchian Dies At 77
The Harvard Gazette
-
Newsmakers
The Harvard Gazette
-
Notes
The Harvard Gazette
-
Weatherhead Center Announces Faculty Research Program for 2000-01
The Harvard Gazette
-
Radcliffe Institute To Host South African Leaders
While South Africans around the world celebrate their countrys Human Rights Day on Tuesday, March 21, Sheila Sisulu, the South African Ambassador to the United States, will be at the…
-
Appiah Named Director of South Africa Fellowship Program
For years, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah has espoused the ideal of bringing a multidisciplinary approach to the study of ethnic history and identification. Since…
-
Season Ends, Coach’s Fight for Health Continues
Kathy Delaney-Smith rode her bike to the office the day after the devastating 96-74 loss to Dartmouth ended the Crimson womens basketball season. It had been only days earlier, coming…
-
Credit Union Receptionist June Dowling Dies
June Dowling, a receptionist at the Harvard University Employees Credit Union since 1989, died on March 6, three months after being diagnosed with cancer. She is survived by her husband,…
-
Kovach Prepares To Bring Journalistic Lessons into Boardrooms
The Harvard Gazette
-
John McCarthy, Retired Stonemason, Dies at 88
The Harvard Gazette
-
Navin Narayan, Student Who Was Rhodes Scholar, Dies of Cancer
The Harvard Gazette
-
Robert J. Orchard Named Director of Loeb Drama Center
The Harvard Gazette
-
Police Log
The Harvard Gazette
-
Conference Showcases Public Service Careers for Undergraduates
The Harvard Gazette
-
Freshman Skater Crowned National Champ
The Harvard Gazette
-
Players Make Cancer Battle a Team Effort — Student-athletes respond to Delaney-Smith’s openness in her fight with breast cancer
Courtney Egelhoff leaned in close, her face just inches from her coachs blonde, shoulder-length hair. Intent with concentration, Egelhoff combed and snipped. Combed and snipped some more. The scene was…
-
Immersed in Words: Connie Juel Plans to Take Harvard into Schools
Newly appointed professor of education and incoming director of the Harvard Literacy Laboratory Connie Juel is moving some of the services of the renowned lab into public schools. This is…