April 29, 1999
Simpson, Director of IOP, Is College Class Day
Speaker
Alan K. Simpson, director of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy
School of Government, will speak at this year's Class Day
exercises, to be held Wednesday, June 9.
Studies Find Cancer Drugs May Double As Heart
Savers
Two drugs being tested to shrink cancer tumors are showing
promise for slowing growth of fatty deposits in blood vessels that can
cause heart disease and stroke.
Wrinn Appointed Director of News
& Public Affairs
Joe Wrinn has been named director of news and public affairs at
Harvard University, effective in May.
Wrinn will succeed Alex Huppé, Harvard's director of public
affairs, who has been named vice president of PSC International, an
international public affairs consulting firm based in Boston and
Washington, D.C.
ARTS FIRST, Last, and Always!
Dance, theater, musical productions, poetry, and a parade are all part
of the seventh annual ARTS FIRST, Harvard and Radcliffe's arts
celebration, which will take place Thursday, May 6, through Sunday,
May 9.
Journal on Race Undergoes Many
'Transitions'
"We aim to be a clearinghouse for the freshest, most
compelling, most curious ideas about what it means to be black -- indeed,
what it means to be human -- today," says Henry Louis Gates Jr.,
W.E.B. Du Bois Professor in the Humanities and one of
Transition's editors.
Faculty Council
Memorial Services
Design School To Offer Continuing Education
BosTix at Harvard Expands Services
BosTix at Harvard has expanded its services to include Ticketmaster,
a major vendor of tickets for national concerts, sporting events,
Broadway shows, and other events.
Five Win Guggenheim Fellowships
From a Spanish Point of View
Magdalena Edwards '99 was born in Chile and learned
Spanish as her first language, but she has lived in the United States
since she was an infant. Acculturation came quickly, and she was
soon achieving at the level that would one day lead her to Harvard.
Still, she always felt a visceral attraction to the language and
literature of Latin America and Spain.
Work of Chilean Artist on Exhibit at Center for Latin
American Studies
The work of Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, a Chilean anthropologist and
artist, will be exhibited through the month of June at the David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies' Latin American
and Latino Art Forum.
Sean T. Buffington Named New Assistant Provost
Sean T. Buffington will become the new assistant provost for
Interfaculty Programs, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg announced this
week.
A Harvard College graduate with a strong interest in
interdisciplinary learning, Buffington has worked for the past two
years as a member of the University Development Office.
Tomorrow's Leaders Born at Edward S. Mason
Program
Mahuad's visit is a measure of the impact the program has
on its participants, who are high-level public sector professionals
from developing countries. The program is Harvard's oldest and
largest international program. It was begun by Edward S. Mason, a
Harvard economics professor.
UMASS Holds Off Harvard In Beanpot
Semifinals
The 17th-ranked Harvard men's tennis team clinched sole possession of
its fifth straight Ivy League title with a 6-1 win at Yale on Sunday, April 25. The
victory gives the Crimson a 6-0 league record with just one match left to play.
Harvard Beats Bulldogs to Clinch 5th Straight Ivy
Title
Massachusetts remains perfect in Beanpot play at 6-0 all-time
while improving its record to 22-12. Harvard falls to 21-14 despite
pounding out a season-high 18 hits.
Medical Area Students Launch Theatrical
Group
For the past nine months, students from the Medical, Dental, and
Public Health schools have shoved aside their textbooks to rehearse a
production of the 1960s love-rock musical HAIR, scheduled to
make its debut this weekend.
Urban Poverty Research Website Offers Latest
Information
State-of-the-art knowledge on decades of academic research on the
causes and consequences of urban poverty is now at the fingertips of
anyone with an Internet connection.
University Professor Emeritus Honored with
Lectureship
The Joint Center for Housing Studies will inaugurate a lecture in honor
of John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor Emeritus, on Tuesday,
May 4. Titled "Housing at the Millennium," the inaugural talk
will be presented by Kent W. Colton, the outgoing executive vice president
and CEO of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).
Thomas Hehir to Join School of Education Faculty as
Lecturer
Thomas Hehir, director of special education at the U.S. Department of
Education, will join the faculty at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) in
January 2000 as a lecturer in education.
Hehir is an expert in the area of policies and programs for the education
of disabled children.
For Many, Public Service is Heart of a Divinity
School Education
Several times a week, Paul Jones puts aside his books at the Divinity School
and makes time to work with homeless men at the Pine Street Inn in Boston.
The Passion and Perils of Book Collecting
Though not widely known, the fact that some Harvard students
actively collect books is no secret. In fact, several prizes exist at
Harvard that recognize those with superior collections.
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1999 President and Fellows of Harvard College
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