Business leader Joseph Y. Bae ’94 and novelist Janice Y. K. Lee ’94 expand upon three decades of supporting academic excellence, opportunity at Harvard
The front-runner in this years presidential campaign is no one at all, says a new survey conducted by the Kennedy School of Governments Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and…
Sheila Burke, executive dean of Harvards Kennedy School of Government, has accepted a post as Undersecretary for American Museums, Programs and National Outreach at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.…
A southern African nation that has been decimated by a quick-spreading subtype of the AIDS virus is now ground zero in the battle against it. Dedication ceremonies for the new…
Black students at Harvard Medical School, in conjunction with the Office of Human Resources, Student Affairs, the Joint Committee on the Status of Women and other student groups, invite all…
The Newton-based company, Imagitas, has established a new summer fellowship program at the Kennedy School of Government. The program will pay a stipend of $7,000 each to ten to fifteen…
In 1979, Harvards 40 Iranian students underwent an overnight transformation. From being nationals of a “friendly” country, under the Shah, they became suddenly suspect when an Islamic fundamentalist regime swept…
A memorial service for Perry Townsend Rathbone ’33, will be held Friday, Feb. 25, at 4:00 pm in Memorial Church, the Reverend Peter Gomes presiding. Rathbone was the director of…
Hoping to foster international good will and peacekeeping, more than 2,000 college students from all over the world will gather in Boston this week to participate in Harvards National Model…
Rev. Gomes Delivers Sermon at University of Cambridge The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes delivered one of six formal “University Sermons” in the Church of St. Mary the Great at…
Harvards Memorial Church will host the 101st annual William Beldon Noble Lectures, which will be given by the Right Rev. John S. Spong, on March 6, 7, and 8 at…
Journalist Helen Thomas to Speak at Law School The Harvard Law School Forum will present speaker Helen Thomas, “dean” of the White House Press Corps and UPI-Washington Bureau chief, on…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 12. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden…
It¹s a yearly tradition for members of the Harvard Neighbors Quilting Group to make quilts for the children’s ward of Cambridge City Hospital and present them on Valentine’s Day.
At noon on a very wet Valentines Day, a lively group of seventh graders from the Grover Cleveland Middle School in Dorchester entered a lecture hall in Byerly Hall to…
Harvard sophomore Jennifer Botterills overtime goal gave Harvard (15-4-3) a 4-3 win over Northeastern in the championship game of the 22nd-annual women’s Beanpot Tournament at the Bright Hockey Center. Botterill,…
One of the grand mysteries of language concerns the nature of vowels and consonants. Are they really different entities processed separately by the brain, or just artificial labels developed for…
The Harvard Native American Program and the Askwith Education Forum at the Graduate School of Education will present artist Melanie Yazzie in a lecture and slide show titled “Holding the…
A alleged campus thief and convicted trespasser was back in Cambridge District Court this week, after attempting to elude Harvard University Police by fleeing cross-country. Andre Stuckey was led off…
At its ninth meeting of the year the Faculty Council received a report from Nancy Maull, Administrative Dean; David Zewinski, Associate Dean for Physical Resources and Planning; and Vincent Tompkins,…
John P. Holdren, the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, has won the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for his work to…
Claudia Huettner can switch off deadly leukemia in mice simply by putting an antibiotic in their drinking water. Her system even causes regression of advanced stages of the cancer. When…
The problem defied Einstein, but Harvard physicist Juan Maldacena is using black holes and tiny cosmic strings to help figure out the “Theory of Everything.” A newly minted Harvard physics…
Rahim Oberholtzer remembers his shock when Maury Povichs voice came over his headset telling him he had won more than a million dollars. It was $1.12 million, to be precise.…
Desan Receives Legal History Award The American Society for Legal History has awarded Professor of Law Christine Desan the Erwin C. Surrency Prize for the best article published in volume…
Portfolio Review Extended The Harvard Neighbors Art Committee has extended its annual review for Harvard-affiliated artists interested in applying to exhibit during the 2000-2001 academic year. Faculty and staff with…
A raspberry has only 8 percent as much genetic material as you or me. That’s expected; raspberries aren’t too smart or complex. But an onion isn’t very complex either, and…
Following are some of the incidents reported to the HUPD for the week ending Feb. 5. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden Street. Jan. 31:…
Although more African-Americans and Hispanics are buying homes in municipalities surrounding Boston, these buyers are concentrated in a small number of communities and are thus segregated from white homeowners, according…
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