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HUA Funds Declaration Day, Discusses Joint DSO Initiatives at Weekly Meeting
The Harvard Undergraduate Association allocated $5,000 for its annual Concentration Declaration Day event and shared plans for collaborations with the Dean of Students Office on voter engagement and intellectual vitality initiatives during a Tuesday evening meeting.
HUA Funding Remains the Same Despite 10 Percent Drop in SAF Funding
The Harvard Undergraduate Association announced the Dean of Students Office allocated $522,500 to the HUA for this academic year, during their general meeting on Tuesday.
The HUA Formed a Team to Resolve a Constitutional Crisis. It’s Not Going Well.
The Harvard Undergraduate Association has a problem: its problem solving team is better at creating problems than solving them.
HUA Missed Constitutional Club Funding Deadline
The Harvard Undergraduate Association opened their club funding applications Thursday, blowing past a constitutionally-mandated deadline to begin the club funding process.
Attendance Surges at First Harvard Undergraduate Association Meeting of the Year
Turnout skyrocketed at the first general meeting of the Harvard Undergraduate Association Sunday evening, as roughly 40 people showed up at the inaugural meeting of the academic year — triple the attendance at most meetings last semester.
HUA Forms Executive Cabinet to Serve ‘At the Discretion’ of Co-Presidents
Harvard Undergraduate Association Co-Presidents announced the formation of an executive cabinet, a new administrative entity that will report directly to the co-presidents.
HUA Problem Solving Team Blows Past July Deadline, Leaving Future in Doubt
The group assembled by the Harvard Undergraduate Association in response to a constitutional crisis that resulted in the indefinite postponement of all student referenda last semester has stopped meeting and does not appear to have any plans to resolve the dispute, a member of the group said.
Roy Mottahedeh ’60, Pioneering Middle East Scholar Who Sought to Bridge U.S.-Iran Divide, Dies at 84
Roy W. P. Mottahedeh ’60, a longtime professor at Harvard who served as the founding director of the University’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, died late last month at the age of 84.
‘Can’t Survive on 5.5’: The Months-Long Printer Strike in 1974
The Harvard University Printing Office has been shuttered for over 20 years. But in the spring of 1974, the Office dominated the local news when more than 30 printers went on strike for months.
Harvard and the Effort to Bring Back the Wooly Mammoth
Harvard Medical School professor George M. Church didn’t think that by the end of his breakfast in Harvard Square, he would have $100,000 to bring back the wooly mammoth.
Former Congressman Joe Kennedy III Discusses Finding Political Common Ground at IOP Forum
Former Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III (D-Mass.) discussed the importance of respecting political differences and forging consensus by drawing on his experience as United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland at a Harvard Institute of Politics forum on Tuesday evening.
Former HKS Dean Graham Allison Met With Chinese President Xi Jinping During Beijing Visit
Former Harvard Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison ’62 met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during a nine-day visit to Beijing late last month.
Harvard to Bring Back Introductory History Course for Fall Semester
The Harvard History department will resurrect an introductory undergraduate History course this fall after almost two decades.
Harvard, BU Physicists Create New Tool to Probe High-Pressure Superconductors
Harvard and Boston University professors developed a tool that enables researchers everywhere to make measurements of different phenomena in high-pressure environments such as earthquakes, phase transitions, and superconductors.
