Harvard Divinity Today, Spring 2010
In this issue: News From Around the School; Faculty Appointment; Celebrating a Green Campus; Career Services; The Other Side of Disaster; Dean's Distinguished Service Award Download this issue
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HDS Is University Leader in Recycling
New bag count data taken by Harvard University Operations Services shows that Harvard Divinity School captures 70 percent of its refuse for recycling or composting. This figure leads all University faculties and was announced in the February Recycling...
Witnesses to History
The horrific story of a condemned town is just one of many remembered in a new digital archive at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), one that evokes the horror of the Holocaust and the courage and hope of a small...
'Doing Justice to Life': A Conversation With Social Anthropologist Michael D. Jackson
Michael D. Jackson has been Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School since 2005. The author of numerous books of anthropology, including the prizewinning Paths Toward a Clearing, At Home in the World, and The Politics...
Reflections on Human Rights in Honduras After the Coup
For a week in late January 2010, five Harvard Divinity School students witnessed firsthand the impact of human rights abuses suffered by many Hondurans after the 2009 coup, in which the former Honduran president, Manuel Zelya, was ousted by the country's...
HDS Alumna Is New President of Spalding University
Spalding University announced this week that Tori Murden McClure, MDiv '89, will become the university’s 10th president, effective July 1, 2010. McClure, who serves as vice president of external relations, enrollment management, and student affairs at...
Bill McKibben Offers 'Reality Check' on Economic Growth
On Monday, March 8, Bill McKibben will present a lecture as part of the Ecologies of Human Flourishing series, sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. The lecture, "Reality Check: How the Facts of Life on a...
Islamic Treasures a Click Away
The Islamic Heritage Project, a unique and extensive collection of Harvard’s vast Islamic material is now easily accessible through the Internet.
The Other Side of Disaster
Rick Santos, MTS '92, has spent years working for nonprofit organizations that provide relief, medical aid, and economic development for people all over the world, but while attending a work-related meeting in Haiti on January 12, he found himself on the...
Celebrating Black History Month at HDS
Each year, Harambee: Students of African Descent at HDS organizes a series of special events to commemorate Black History Month (BHM). This February, Harambee again offers several opportunities for those within the Harvard community, as well as our...
Francis Clooney Named New Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., has been appointed the next director of the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School, beginning July 1, 2010. He will succeed Donald K. Swearer, who is retiring at the end of June after six years...
Compassion for Others, Commitment to Service
I am the third oldest of 10 children, born into and raised in a supportive Roman Catholic family. While my mother is Catholic, my father is Jewish, and I grew up culturally celebrating my father's Jewish heritage alongside my mother's Catholic tradition...
