Events
Professor Discusses Impact of Social Attitudes on Rape Culture
Recognizing how current social attitudes towards rape have come into being will help students dismantle a rape culture that places undue burden on victims, according to Tithi Bhattacharya, an associate professor at Purdue University who spoke at Dudley House Thursday evening.
Sheryl Sandberg Urges Students to be Fearless, Ambitious
Sheryl K. Sandberg ’91, chief operating officer of Facebook, told audience members in a packed Sanders Theater to be aggressive in pursuit of their ambitions.
More Than 1,000 Protest Tyga
An online petition urging administrators to cancel Tyga’s performance at Yardfest garnered more than one thousand signatures on Change.org late Sunday night, circulating via Facebook and email.
Seinfeld Star Jests with Immediate Gratification Players
Actor Jason Alexander, of “Seinfeld” fame, held a Chapstick tube to his lips as a faux cigarette while making farting noises alongside members of the Immediate Gratification Players on Thursday.
Former President of Mexico Talks in Kirkland
Former President of Mexico Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa spoke at Kirkland Common Room Tuesday, challenging critics of his crackdown on drugs and organized crime in Mexico and suggesting ways gun control and immigration reform in the U.S. could benefit both nations.
"All Things Considered" Host Talks Radio, Competitive Media Culture
Millions of Americans hear her voice on the radio each week, but members of the Harvard community had a chance to see National Public Radio reporter and “All Things Considered” host Melissa J. Block ’83 speak in person on Monday afternoon.
Nicholas Kristof Awarded Goldsmith Career Award
New York Times columnist and former Crimson news editor Nicholas D. Kristof ’81 described what he sees as the three major challenges in the field of journalism Tuesday night after accepting the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at the Harvard Kennedy School’s John F. Kennedy Jr. forum.
Parents of the Class of 2014 Descend on Cambridge
After years of attending back-to-school nights and parent-teacher conferences, mothers and fathers of College juniors congregated in Cambridge this past weekend for an occasion that, for many, represented the last explicitly “for parents” event of their son or daughter’s childhood.
HRO Concert
The Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra, conducted by Federico Cortese, plays in Sanders Theater on Saturday evening. The classical works of Leonard Bernstein, John Adams, and Johannes Brahms came alive through the notes!
Students Speak about Big Ideas, Issues, and Interests
Students gathered for Harvard Speaks’ first event of the semester on Tuesday night, where undergraduates delivered presentations on topics ranging from disaster in Madagascar to a time management iPhone app.
Actor Sean Penn Discusses a Post-Earthquake Haiti
Panelists Sean Penn, former Haitian Prime Minister Michèle D. Pierre-Louis, and General P. K. Keen headed a discussion last night about post-earthquake recovery in Haiti at the Harvard Kennedy School JFK Forum.
Mitchell J. Silver, President of American Planning Association, addresses students and other members of the Graduate School of Design this evening on planning for the 21st Century. By highlighting the impact of social and generational transformations and using Raleigh, NC, as an example, he urges planners of the future to tackle the societal challenges we are facing through planning.
Royal Society President Calls for Integration of Science and Policy
Greater efforts should be taken to integrate scientific research into policies, Paul M. Nurse, the president of the Royal Society, said at the Science and Democracy Lecture Series on Wednesday evening.
Al Gore Talks Climate Change
Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore ’69 praised recent efforts of Harvard students involved in environment and divestment campaigns during a speech focused on the health hazards of global warming which he gave in Memorial Church on Wednesday night.
Repower Greece
Alexandros Costopoulos introduces his Repower Greece project on Tuesday. At the event, eight speakers delivered their ideas about re-energizing the Greek economy through social entrepreneurship.
Speakers Discuss Possibilities for Greek Recovery
A group of student and faculty presenters from the Boston area advocated investing in the brainpower of the Greece’s citizens to improve the troubled country’s economic outlook at an event Tuesday evening.
Alumni Panelists Discuss Sports Careers
Speaking at a panel in the Science Center on Tuesday about careers in sports management, former Crimson pitcher William “Ben” Crockett ’02 paused for a long moment before answering a question about his days working as a front office intern with the Boston Red Sox.
Eminent Musicians Reunite in Kirkland
The so-called Kogan Chang Ma Trio—a group of three friends at Harvard who went on to become some of the College’s most famous musical alumni—reunited Tuesday afternoon in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room for an installment of the Office for the Arts’s Learning from Performers program.
94 Students Celebrate Mid-Year Graduation
Ninety-four students were officially recognized Thursday afternoon as mid-year graduates of Harvard College at the Graduate Recognition Ceremony in the Radcliffe Gymnasium.