Task Forces on Women release findings
Harvard’s Task Forces on Women Faculty and on Women in Science and Engineering, appointed three months ago to address concerns of women faculty and women in science throughout the University, Monday...
View ArticleGreen Campus contest puts wind in energy’s sails
The Harvard Green Campus Initiative is giving Harvard students and staff the chance to turn their energy conservation habits – or their new resolutions to conserve – into clean wind power. The EmPOWER...
View ArticleGreen Campus Initiative looks at global environment
The Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) invites University faculty, staff, students, and alumni to its upcoming conference, titled “Harvard Vision 2020: A Bridge to Campus Sustainability,” to...
View ArticleGeography center launched
Those of us who remember grammar-school geography lessons as a tedious affair involving a pink and green window shade map and a chalky wooden pointer would probably never guess that, in fact, it is...
View ArticleHarvard Stem Cell Institute researchers granted approval
After more than two years of intensive ethical and scientific review, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Harvard and Children’s Hospital Boston have been cleared to begin experiments...
View ArticleHonorary degrees awarded at Commencement’s Morning Exercises
Six men and three women received honorary degrees at this morning’s 356th Commencement Exercises. Biographical sketches of the honorands appear below. Daniel Aaron Doctor of Letters Harvard...
View ArticleHonorary degree recipients and citations, 2007
Three women and six men received honorary degrees at Harvard’s 356th Commencement. President Derek Bok read the citations. Daniel Aaron, Doctor of Letters A man of good hope who speaks to the...
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Imagination before hubris
Don’t just do better, be better. That was the exhortation that students attending the 2013 Finance Conference at Harvard Business School received Sunday from economist Lawrence H. Summers. Summers, a...
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James Lawrence Medoff
James Medoff, Meyer Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry, was a farsighted labor economist who spent his entire career at Harvard. His scholarly contributions expanded the vision of his field. He...
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Crisis simulation maps national security risks of digital currency
The year is 2021, and the nation is in crisis. North Korea has just tested a missile that will soon be capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the continental U.S. The move took Washington by...
View ArticleMajor support for University in legal battle over admissions approach
Hundreds of social scientists, Nobel Prize-winning economists, corporate executives, higher-education experts, attorneys general from 15 states, 15 colleges and universities, as well as 26 Harvard...
View ArticleFed needs to get tough on rates now, Summers says
It’s time for the Federal Reserve to take an honest appraisal of the economy and start raising interest rates more aggressively to bring soaring inflation under control and perhaps soften the effects...
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