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Derek Lamb, an Academy Award-winning animated film producer and one of Harvard’s first lecturers on film animation, died this month in Poulsbo, Wash. of cancer. He was 69. Lamb came to Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in 1964 after Robert G. Gardner ’48—who was then the coordinator for the Light and Communications workshops—saw Lamb’s animated short “The Great Toy Robbery.” “I was really rolling in the aisles...
...Journal that they suspected “foul play” but would not elaborate. Shahabuddin was a member of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. He was made a full professor in January of 2004, and won the engineering school’s Great Teacher award later that year. He was also awarded the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award by the school’s Alumni Association. Columbia students were informed of his death by e-mail on Friday. Faculty in his department were shocked by the death. The head of his department, Professor Guillermo Gallego, said that...
...flying high after being selected as one of this year’s 85 Rhodes Scholars. But the selection committee passed over College undergraduates for only the second time in 75 years.Kelly, a 2005 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, said he feels fortunate to have received the award, especially considering the caliber of his competition.“The other candidates were phenomenal,” Kelly said. “You almost go into it thinking you are going to lose because everyone is so amazing. I am really happy.” Recipients of the Rhodes...
...posters adorn the walls, while wooden beer kegs double as tables. It's here that customers can risk curiosities like Tahitian Hinano beer, Baadog from Mongolia, Black Sheep from the Faroe Islands, and fruit and chocolate beers. For $150 you can try a bottle of Framboise Boon 1986, an award-winning, vintage, limited-edition, microbrewed raspberry beer?no wonder it's so pricey. There's a legion of glasses in a plethora of sizes and shapes?the bartenders know which container best complements which drink. If you get your fill of beer, Delirium offers genever, a type...
...Council.Reading Rousseau’s autobiographical “Confessions” was a long, hard slog, but the hours spent reading “Restless Genius” simply disappeared like a box of Lindt chocolate truffles. Here we have a good biography—a National Book Award finalist, no less—on a fascinating subject. Those who have a passing acquaintance with his life story should refresh their memory, and those who do not should get acquainted. —Staff writer Joseph T. Scarry can be reached at scarry@fas.harvard.edu...