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Contents for September 21, 2000
News and Features
- PBHA brings Harmony to the children
The four boys clustered around the drum pounded it rhythmically -- almost -- filling the small gymnasium with sound and sending tobacco bits ritually sprinkled on the drum's skin bouncing into the air.
- Divinity Hall to be rededicated
Divinity Hall, the first Harvard University building constructed outside the Yard, will be rededicated September 22 at 1:30 p.m. after extensive renovations. The building was the residence of such intellectual luminaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodor Parker, and George Santayana.
- Black alumni will gather at HLS celebration
More than 80 years after Harvard Law School (HLS) awarded a degree to the nation's first black law school graduate, a group of defiant attorneys led by Harvard's own Charles Hamilton Houston '22 launched a lengthy and contentious court battle that would eventually topple the notorious "separate but equal" doctrine segregating blacks from whites in the nation's public schools.
- GSE leadership program gets $3.6 million Gates grant
The Change Leadership Group (CLG) will be the first such program in the nation to recruit, train, and supervise a network of education experts to deliver on-site training and support to school districts around the country. Using adult development theories on how adults learn, change, and develop, the CLG will work with school districts to identify organizational, structural, and cultural changes at every level to enable all students to achieve higher standards.
- East Boston gets helping hand
A below-market rent for a renovated East Boston apartment looks more than pretty good to Javier Loaiza, who is raising his daughter, Dahiana, by himself and feeling stretched a bit thin financially.
- Provost grants to promote interchange
Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced a new round of grants under the Provost's Fund for Student Collaboration. These grants are designed to promote intellectual interchange across faculties of the University. The deadline for grant applications is Oct. 6.
- A message from the Presidential search committee
- Grants help Pluralism Project cultivate 'national conversation
The Ford Foundation recently awarded a grant of $641,000 in supplemental support to the Pluralism Project for "development of a project that serves as a national research and policy resource on world religions in America."
- HLS students honored for community service
Sixteen members of the Harvard Law School (HLS) Class of 2000 have received the inaugural HLS Student Community Service Awards in recognition of their service to the Harvard Law School community.
- Summer workers are recognized for efforts
Workers from the 2000 Summer Youth Employment Program were honored at an with a pizza party in August to recognize their efforts. In addition to lunch, the students were given tours of Harvard Yard. They also met with other students from Cambridge and Boston at the Events and Information Center.
- When canoes fly: move puts crafts in suitable environment
Last week, Peabody Museum staff removed 28 canoes, kayaks, outriggers, and dugouts from the sixth floor of the Botanical Museum where they had been stored for more than 20 years.
- Raise high the roof beam
Werner Otto Hall is undergoing renovations until October.
- Partial ceiling collapse at Stoughton Hall spurs inspection
All's well at Stoughton Hall following a partial ceiling collapse last week.
Faculty
- Greenblatt named University Professor of the Humanities
President Neil L. Rudenstine has announced that Stephen Greenblatt, a world-renowned scholar of Renaissance literature, has been named John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities. With this appointment, Greenblatt joins a select group of Harvard professors "working on the frontiers of knowledge ... in such a way that they cross the conventional boundaries of the specialties."
- Giles named new Nieman curator
Robert H. Giles has been selected as the next curator of the University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism, President Neil L. Rudenstine announced last month.
- Laying down the law: Zittrain wants to bring order to the Wild Wild Web
You might say Jonathan Zittrain was way ahead of his time. When the recently appointed assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School (HLS) was all of 12 years old and most of his friends were whiling away their summer days riding their bicycles or playing baseball, young Jonathan was hammering away on the keyboard of his new $200 J.C. Penney computer.
- Carbon bits to revolutionize computer construction
A new way of building computers involves the world's strongest material in the form of exotic tubes 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. Called nanotubes, they are a hundred times stronger than steel, able to bend without breaking, and efficient at conducting electricity. But to see them you have to look into a powerful microscope. "Nano" means billionths of a meter, or a hundred-millionths of an inch -- smaller than the usual meaning of small.
- Labor director is named: Jones works to keep relationships respectful, consistent and fair
David A. Jones, who has served Harvard as director of Workforce Initiatives since January 1999, has been appointed director of Labor and Employee Relations. He replaces Kim Roberts who resigned in June to return to New York.
Arts
Other stories
Obituaries
- Economist David Bell dies at 81
David E. Bell, the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Population Sciences and International Health Emeritus, died Sept. 6, 2000, after a brief illness. He was 81.
- Law professor David A. Charny dies at 44
Employment and corporate law specialist David A. Charny, the David Berg Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, died unexpectedly, after a brief illness, on Thursday, Aug. 31. He was a resident of Cambridge.
Fellows
- Weatherhead Center for International Affairs names 2000-01 fellows
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has named 21 international affairs practitioners from around the world as fellows for 2000-01. Established in 1958, with the founding of the Center, the Fellows Program welcomes mid- to senior-level diplomats, military officers, politicians, journalists, and others working in the realm of international affairs to pursue independent study and research at the University for one academic year.
- Center for the Study of World Religions names new fellows
The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at the Harvard Divinity School is host to 32 fellows and visiting scholars from around the world for the 2000-01 academic year.
- Shorenstein announces fellows
The Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government has selected five distinguished journalists and scholars as the 2000 Fall Fellows. Among the fellows are a chief researcher for the Science Office of Sun Microsystems, and a correspondent from The New York Times. The fellows will spend the fall researching and writing on topics as varied as televised election debates, media and race, and the "journalistic tribe."
- Society of Fellows welcomes its Junior Fellows
Nine doctoral candidates of exceptional promise have joined the Society of Fellows as Junior Fellows. The Society gives scholars at early stages of their careers an opportunity to pursue their studies in any department of the University, free from formal requirements. They must demonstrate exceptional ability, originality, and resourcefulness.
Copyright 2000 President and Fellows of Harvard College
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