Year: 2001

Howell Jackson has been named associate dean for research at the Law School (HLS). In this position, Jackson will oversee, coordinate, and promote the Law Schools extensive research activities, including research by members of the faculty and the work of HLSs 17 research centers, programs, and projects.

As policymakers scratch their heads over what to do about increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, Harvard atmospheric chemistry researchers are pioneering new ways to measure these levels. Were chasing air masses, says Christoph Gerbig, a research associate working with Steven Wofsy, Abbot Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science. Wofsy, Gerbig,…

It is the nations public health system, not the military, that is squarely in the path of terrorist attacks using biological weapons, and it is the public health system that should be strengthened to deal with future assaults, according to experts gathered at the School of Public Health last week (Oct. 25-26).

A group of summer interns are showing the way to a more environmentally friendly Harvard, featuring cars that run on soybeans, efficient buildings, and organically nurtured lawns.

Extending its unbeaten streak to six games in astonishing fashion this past Saturday at Harvard Stadium, the Crimson football team (6-0, 4-0 Ivy) rallied from a 21-point halftime deficit to defeat Dartmouth (1-5, 1-3 Ivy) 31-21. A season-record crowd of 12,000 witnessed what proved to be the largest come-from-behind victory in the programs 128-year history.

The Harvard field hockey team (8-6, 3-2 Ivy) dropped its second consecutive match against an Ivy opponent this past Friday (Oct. 26), falling 4-2 at home against Dartmouth, but bounced back in a 1-0 win over cross-town rival Boston University – the teams first against the Terriers in 10 years – on Sunday (Oct. 28).…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 27. The official log is located at HUPD headquarters, 29 Garden St.

HMS creates bio-threat Web site

In honor of the holiday, the Harvard Lampoon building is trying to look scary but only succeeds at looking a bit winsome. Neither Christopher Angelakis nor Helen Shapiro, lunching on the steps, seems the least bit intimidated.

Nov. 6, 1770 – Rumblings of Revolution: Joseph Avery, Class of 1771, orates on Oppression and Tyranny before the Speaking Club.

Helga Boedtker Doty, a molecular biologist at Harvard University, died on Oct. 23 following a stroke. She was 77.

Penetration is never easy for a sperm. Getting to an egg has been compared to a salmon swimming upstream to spawn. Both have to lash their tails vigorously to reach…

Steven E. Hyman, former professor of psychiatry at Harvard and current director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), has been named provost of the University, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday, Oct. 29.

Steven E. Hyman, former Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard and current Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), has been named Provost of the University, President Lawrence H. Summers announced today.

Hundreds of scholars descended on the Memorial Church this week for a three-day conference on the intersection of science and religion that looked for evidence of god in places ranging from chimpanzees to the cosmos.

Over many years, the art museums at Harvard have benefited from the friendship of Fred and Virginia Deknatel, said James Cuno, director of the Harvard University Art Museums. With the establishment of this fund in their names, we will be able to honor their friendship and legacy of support for modern art at Harvard in…

Call it a home field – or home river – advantage.

A battle over bilingual education raged Oct. 15 at the Graduate School of Educations (GSE) Askwith Education Forum. California businessman Ron Unz, a champion of abolishing bilingual education, squared off against the GSEs Catherine Snow, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education and an expert on language and literacy development, in a heated discussion that pitted…

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of Wisconsin Medical School have found the docking protein, or receptor, for anthrax toxin. The long-sought protein is thought to be the first point of contact between the toxin and the cell it will eventually destroy.

About 150 people turned out for the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies’ open forum at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum Monday (Oct. 22). The forum, which…

The Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School recently welcomed four fellows to its Freeman Foundation Chinese and Southeast Asian Fellowship and Cultural Exchange Program. The program, now in its fifth year (having resumed after a one-year sabbatical in 1999-00), aims to promote cross-cultural exchange and dialogue in the field of medical anthropology. Of…

It was arts and crafts night with a twist this past Sunday evening (Oct. 21) in the Carpenter Center pit, as glue, tape, twine, shattered pottery, and Yoko Ono all came together to commemorate her latest installation, Mend Piece to the World. The outdoor exercise of mending shattered pottery offered the large crowd an opportunity…

Robots made the surgical team last year, providing remarkably tremor-free and precise hands for surgeons. They also offer the benefit of smaller incisions and shorter recovery times. But these high-tech devices, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved for use in minimally invasive gallbladder and gastroesophageal reflux disease surgery, havent made a surgeons job…