Year: 2001

Bureau of Study Counsel offers study course

The Harvard Cycling Team came back from Colorado trophy-less but energized by their first-ever trip to the National Collegiate Road Cycling Championships in Colorado Springs.

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded 58 research grants and 39 internship grants to Harvard undergraduate and graduate students. Research and internship grant recipients, which…

The Harvard Corporation has approved plans for the Human Resources (HR) Project, which by April 2002 will implement improved computer systems for human resources, payroll, benefits, and time collection. The project will use PeopleSoft applications hosted and maintained by an outside application service provider. This approval constitutes the final step in a series of reviews…

The University Center for the Environment (HUCE) hosted a reception for Gilbert Butler Jr. ’59 honoring his generous support of the China Project – Harvard’s multidisciplinary research program on energy…

Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree…

Discovery of the skull of a shrewlike animal the size of a paper clip pushes back the origin of mammals, including humans, to 195 million years ago. Found in China, the tiny skull shows evidence that the first mammals evolved from reptiles 45 million years earlier than widely believed.

Robert Moses was a young man when he traveled from New York to Mississippi in the early 1960s. The voter registration movement he helped organize changed the political landscape of…

Here is a computer, and here is an assignment: log on and find out something interesting about Australia. Do you search using the key word Australia? Or do you search using Australia+money+food+school+sports+cooking+climate?

When Pam Whitehouse, an HGSE doctoral student and adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, put her Womens Studies 101 course online four years ago, she got a lot of resistance from her colleagues. The Web didnt jibe with long-held ideologies that womens studies courses must focus on face-to-face discussion and community, said…

Many Harvard students look at Mohammed Rehman every day, but they dont really see him. They may exchange a couple of dollars with him as they buy their morning paper at the Out of Town News stand in Harvard Square. But to truly see Mohammed Rehman, one must understand the country he left, his long…

Art historian, religious scholar, and computer virtuoso, James Moore has always been interested in the lessons that things-inanimate objects, that is-can teach. Now in the fourth year of his doctoral studies at HGSE, he has focused on a quintessentially modern medium: the Internet.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 10, 2001, the following Minute was placed upon the records. Robert Harris Chapman, Professor of English Literature, playwright,…

Bolstered by a financial aid program that has been expanded twice in the past two years, the yield on students admitted to the College remains at high levels not seen since the early 1970s. The high yield means that only a small number will be admitted from the waiting list over the next few weeks,…

More months on breast milk as infants may mean fewer pounds on older children and teens later, according to a Harvard Medical School study in the May 16 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Imagine a time in the remote future when all that is known of our world is what archaeologists have been able to excavate from the rubble – a handful of tantalizing puzzles with most of the pieces missing.

Employment Office to host Career Forum The Employment Office will host Career Forum 2001 on Tuesday, June 12. This year’s event will be held from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.…

At the age of 14, Neil Rudenstine set out on an epic journey. Physically, the distance was only a few miles, but in personal terms it was like traveling to another world.

Education professor Bridget Terry Long, poised with an economists training, is zeroing in on an education question thats always intrigued her: What factors determine who goes to college and who does not?

The percentage of mothers working outside the home has almost doubled in the United States since 1975. As a consequence, more American families than ever depend on nonmaternal care for…

There was a kidnapping in Science Center B on Friday, May 11. But thanks to the speedy forensic work of some elementary school students, the crime was solved by days end.

The Harvard Theatre Collection is celebrating its 100th anniversary this month with an exhibition titled One Hundred Years, One Hundred Collections. The exhibition will showcase representative items from the collections holdings, which in their entirety touch upon every imaginable aspect of the performing arts. In addition to the mainstream genres of theater, dance, opera, and…

On Wednesday, May 9, the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) honored President Neil L. Rudenstine for his contributions to the field of environmental studies at Harvard. The event was hosted by Michael B. McElroy, director of HUCE and Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Timothy E. Wirth 61, Ed.M. 65, chair of the…

Forty-four women and men have been named Radcliffe Institute Fellows for the upcoming academic year. At Radcliffe, each of these scholars, scientists, and artists will work individually and across disciplines…

Richard E. Oldenburg, A.B. ’54, has been elected President of the University’s Board of Overseers for 2001-02. He will assume the post after Commencement, succeeding Sharon Elliott Gagnon, A.M. ’65,…

After he receives his diploma on June 7, Adam Bailey will head to Washington, D.C., to work as a legislative assistant with the National Congress of American Indians, which represents 560 different Native American tribes across the nation.

Christine Jolls, a pioneer in the emerging field of behavioral law and economics, and a scholar of employment law, has been named a professor of law at Harvard Law School…

Both the nations gun lobby and labor unions flexed their political muscles in a major way during the 2000 election, although which had a greater impact on the outcome remains in dispute. A panel of experts discussed the role of special interests during a Kennedy School Forum on Thursday night, May 10.