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April 13, 2000NewsmakersNAGPRA Conference at Peabody To Discuss Repatriation Issues The Peabody Museum will host a symposium on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Remembering Justice Marshall Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree (from left), Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Mrs. Cecelia Marshall (wife of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall), John Marshall (Justice Marshall's son), HLS Dean Robert Clark, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer attended the opening last weekend of an exhibit in Pound Hall that honors the life of Justice Thurgood Marshall. Faculty Council Notice - April 12 The following members of the Faculty have been elected to the Council for terms beginning on July 1, 2000: Professors John Y. Campbell (Economics), Jay M. Harris (NELC), Pamela K. Keel (Psychology), Robert P. Kirshner (Astronomy), Michael Mitzenmacher (DEAS), Paul Pierson (Government), and Gloria Pinney (Classics) H'ard Corps Kindness Nearly 300 students turned out for the first annual H'ARD CORPS (Harvard Community Outreach and Public Service) event on Saturday. Breaking into teams, they worked on 18 different projects in Boston and Cambridge, including site clean-up, gardening, visiting the elderly, and helping the Greater Boston Food Bank and AIDS Walk Boston . The event was held in conjunction with IVY CORPS, which consisted of 3,000 students from all the Ivies fanned out to help in their communities. David Pryor Named Director of the Institute of Politics Former U.S. Sen. David Pryor, who retired in 1996 after 30 years of public service on behalf of the state of Arkansas, has been named director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced on Tuesday, April 11. Center for the Study of Values in Public Life Names Fellows for 2000-01 The Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard Divinity School has named four fellows for the 2000-01 academic year. They are Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Mary Hunt, Bill McKibben, and Julie Nelson. Afro-Am Celebrates 30 Years Founders and graduates of Harvard’s Afro-American Studies Department came together last weekend to reflect on the struggle that gave the department birth, to plot strategies for the future, and to praise the dream become reality. American Red Cross Blood Drive The American Red Cross will run a blood drive in Memorial Hall on Friday, April 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and at St. Paul’s Church, 29 Mount Auburn Street, on Thursday, April 27, from noon to 6 p.m. and Friday, April 28, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call (800) 462-9400, ext. 2093. Rudenstine Celebrates Boston Latin, Harvard Ties Good morning. I’m very glad to be with all of you this morning, to celebrate your school and its achievements, and to wish you good fortune as you begin your ambitious fund-raising drive. Literacy Lab Named for Jeanne Chall The Graduate School of Education's literacy laboratory will be renamed the Jeanne S. Chall Reading Laboratory in honor of its founder and a leading expert in reading research and instruction for more than 50 years, announced School of Education Dean Jerome T. Murphy yesterday (April 12). Chall, a psychologist and a professor at the School from 1966 until her retirement in 1991, died in November 1999. She was best-known for her passionate advocacy of combining phonics instruction with exposure to challenging literature as the best method of teaching young children to read. Chemistry and Chemical Biology Fellowships Announced Each year, the department of chemistry and chemical biology receives a number of corporate fellowships for organic chemistry research. These fellowships are sponsored by several corporations whose support has been instrumental to the training of graduate students in the department. The fellowships for 1999-00 have been sponsored by Eli Lilly Research Laboratories, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, and Glaxo Wellcome Inc. EMPOWERing People with Awareness and Respect Traversing the wavy brick sidewalks, negotiating the narrow walkways, and climbing up sets of steep granite stairs can be a challenge for any Harvard student; one can only guess the difficulties facing a student with disabilities. Imagine darting from class to class, dodging the puddles and potholes, racing against the traffic, and carrying a handful of books, while maneuvering the terrain with a guide dog or in a wheelchair. Study Reveals New Priorities for New Generation of Faculty Quality-of-life factors are the most significant determinants for prospective faculty when they’re considering a job offer, according to a new study conducted by the Project on Faculty Appointments at the Graduate School of Education, and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Senior Researcher Cathy Trower admits these results may come as an "absolute shock" to many in academe, but appear to reflect general cultural trends in the United States. Seven Faculty Members Selected As Harvard College Professors Seven of Harvard’s most committed undergraduate teachers have been named this year’s Harvard College Professors. These appointments, established three years ago by a gift from John Loeb, SB ’24, LLD ’71 (hon.) and Frances Lehman Loeb, honor outstanding service to undergraduate education. Student-Organized Conference To Focus on 'Mixed-Race Experience' For many of us, food can be a powerful reminder of who we are and where we come from. Nieman Foundation Announces Winners of Lukas Prize for Nonfiction Two books and a work-in-progress have been named winners of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project, an awards program jointly administered by the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard to recognize superb works of nonfiction. Wired Marathoner To Spotlight Science Dayna Muller will be wired like an astronaut when she runs the grueling 26.2-mile Boston Marathon on April 17. A pillbox-sized sensor on one shoe will broadcast her running speed to a watch on her wrist. A heart monitor strapped to her chest will send her heart rate to the same watch. "They wanted me to swallow a pill like the one John Glenn took to keep track of his body temperature on his last space flight, but I didn’t want to do that," says the 30-year-old Harvard graduate student. Monkeys Distinguish Different Languages -- It’s Not All Greek to Them Monkeys can tell the difference between Dutch and Japanese as easily as human infants, language researchers have found. Notes Office for the Arts Announces Senior Winners of Annual Prizes The Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Council on the Arts announced the winners of the prizes for outstanding accomplishments in the arts at Harvard for the 1999-00 academic year. Police Log Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 8. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Quincy Jones Professorship Is First in African-American Music Declaring that music has been central to the African-American experience since slavery, Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. announced Friday the creation of the first endowed professorship in African-American music at Harvard and possibly in the nation. New Radcliffe Lecture Series To Be Broadcast by Public Radio A new lecture series run by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will be broadcast next month by at least 20 public radio affiliates across the country. Using satellite technology to transmit audio recordings, noncommercial stations from California to Mississippi will provide listeners an opportunity to hear six lectures sponsored by the Radcliffe Seminars and Radcliffe’s Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies. The Poet Unveiled Poet Seamus Heaney reacts to the unveiling of his portrait during a reception in his honor on April 6 in a packed Poetry Room in Lamont Library. Earlier, Heaney read from selected works, including his recent Beowulf, at the first Stratis Haviaris Lecture in Lowell Hall. Photo by Jon Chase Toland To Retire From Harvard Athletics Fran Toland, who has served Harvard athletics since 1959 and is currently a senior associate director of Athletics, has announced his retirement, effective June 30, 2000. Thinking The World -- Gould, Dershowitz, and Cox Cross Swords and Ideas in Class Three professors sit in a classroom talking. The idea is to highlight the ways that members of their respective disciplines think. And when those professors are Alan Dershowitz of the Law School, Harvey Cox of the Divinity School, and Stephen Jay Gould of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, this idea really works. As Tax Time Nears, Law Students Lend a Helping Hand They walk through the door with handfuls or even shoe boxes crammed with crinkled letters, receipts, and tax documents from their pension plans, banks, the Social Security Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service. They rattle off questions and grievances one after another, looking for answers and a compassionate ear. University Honors Staff for Commitment to Community Service Accolades abounded at Tuesday evening’s "Harvard University Volunteer Recognition Program 2000." Over 100 Harvard employees, who volunteer their time, were invited to the Law School’s Ropes and Gray Room for voluntarism’s answer to the Oscars.
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