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Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 24
At its fourth meeting of the year on Oct. 24, the Faculty Council continued its discussion of proposed updates to the College’s alcohol policy and heard a presentation on House renewal.
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Calm rising through storm
Harvard University, with its 20,000 students and 500-plus buildings, joined the rest of the Eastern Seaboard Monday in getting pummeled by Hurricane Sandy, as the wet, windy, and widespread behemoth...
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HMS faculty member wins Young Leader Award
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced that Somava Stout of Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is one of 10 winners of its first-ever RWJF Young Leader Award....
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Doctoral student awarded fellowship
Plamen Nikolov, a doctoral student in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health, has been selected a DDIG Fellow under the National Science Foundation (NSF)...
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Growing community for students
It’s been an unqualified success since its launch four years ago, and now Harvard University’s Graduate Commons program is growing. At the start of the fall 2012 semester, the popular Harvard...
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Halloween on the move
On the steps of the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), in the quickly darkening gloom on Wednesday, several unusual characters began the terrifying Halloween tradition of … stretching. Approximately 30...
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Open enrollment ends Nov. 14
Open enrollment, the annual period when Harvard employees can make changes to their benefits, began Oct. 31. Employees have until Nov. 14 to review and make needed changes to their medical, dental, and...
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Harvard’s changing financial profile
The University issued its annual financial report today, with a letter from Vice President for Finance Dan Shore and Treasurer James Rothenberg highlighting how Harvard’s financial profile “has changed...
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Woodworkers
Hidden in the Mather House basement is a small room known as the wood-turning studio, run by Alan Hark, an accomplished artist and wood turner. He’s spent his 18-year career perfecting the craft of the...
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Students furnish feedback on furniture
When Natalie Jacewicz ’13 and her blockmates moved into Winthrop House, there were some unexpected challenges — getting a futon for their common room up four flights of stairs was one. “Aside from the...
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Empty Bowls to fill coffers
An empty bowl can be a symbol of hunger and need. An empty bowl also can be an object of grace and beauty. And when members of the Harvard community and their neighbors roll up their sleeves and turn...
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Election 2012 at Harvard
As voters across the United States traipsed to the polls and awaited the election results, so did students, faculty, and staff members at Harvard, the University that helped to educate both major...
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Imagine if everyone gave
Last year, Harvard Community Gifts, an annual drive to encourage giving in the holiday season, raised more than half a million dollars in support of more than 450 nonprofit organizations. This year,...
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HBS’s Thomas K. McCraw Sr., 72
Thomas K. McCraw Sr., a renowned and much-honored Harvard Business School (HBS) historian, teacher, and author, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for his book “Prophets of Regulation,” died Nov. 3 at...
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Reising serves those who serve
Harvard Law School (HLS) student Jesse Reising was eager to start his career as an officer in the U.S. Marines Corps upon his graduation from Yale — until his dream was derailed by a violent collision...
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Memories and beginnings
Eighty years to the day from when Harvard’s Memorial Church was dedicated in honor of the University’s dead from World War I, members of the University community gathered again in the sacred space on...
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William Kaye Estes
William Kaye Estes, Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, earned recognition early on as a member of a rare category containing those who exhibited both sterling personal leadership...
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‘Having it all’ at Harvard
Lately, three little words have the power to turn a conversation among women on a dime. Harvard, home to ambitious female faculty and staff of many ages, isn’t immune to the national debate over...
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Robert Dorfman
Robert Dorfman, the late David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, was a leader in the introduction of mathematical methods to economics in the twentieth century. He died on June 24,...
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Boston neighborhoods talk
If a neighborhood could talk, what would it tell you about its citizens, its resources? A lot, it turns out, as the newly launched website of the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) makes clear. By...
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