Year: 2002

Showing visitors around the Fogg Art Museums current exhibit Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, curator Marjorie Cohn pauses at a brass sculpture by Eduardo Paolozzi. Lois kept this in her garden, explains Cohn, the Foggs Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, and a wasps nest was discovered in it while mounting the sculpture…

The environment was his passion, both professionally and privately. Scott Sandberg, 32, a building services coordinator for four years at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, was killed Friday (Nov. 29) in a surprise avalanche at Tuckerman Ravine on New Hampshires Mount Washington.

If the Harvard Gazette ever decides to send me to Amsterdam as a correspondent for Dutch affairs, I want to live in the Borneo Sporenburg residential development.

What is the hidden factor behind the gains women have made in the labor market since the 1970s? Claudia Goldin believes its the birth control pill.

Hitting the hardwood running, the Harvard womens basketball team – picked by the pundits as the official team to beat in the Ivies – took its first spill of the season on Dec. 1, dropping a 84-44 decision to No. 7 Vanderbilt. Playing in the title game of the First Tennessee Tournament in Nashville, the…

HBS professor named book prize recipient The Harriman Institute at Columbia University has named Rawi Abdelal, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, the recipient of the 2002…

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers met with Francisco Santos, vice president of Colombia, on Nov. 22. Santos (seated) signs the guest book in Massachusetts Hall as Summers looks on. (Staff photo by Kris Snibbe)

According to a report taken by the Massachusetts State Police, on Nov. 20, between approximately 6:40 and 6:50 p.m., a Harvard undergraduate was the victim of an armed robbery in JFK Park. The student reported that while he was walking through the park, three individuals asked him the time and then assaulted him. One of…

I underwent radiation treatment for prostate cancer in 1996, so I was startled to come across a recent report that predicts who among men like myself would still be alive after 10 years.

More than 300 children and their families filled the galleries of the Sackler Museum on a recent Saturday (Nov. 23) to learn about ancient fun and games and entertainment. They listened to the Japanese Tales of Genji told by Cambridge librarian Daryl Mark, knelt on the floor to play the Roman game of Knucklebones, watched…

The Kennedy School of Governments Forum of Public Affairs at Harvard University will be named in honor of John F. Kennedy Jr., announced Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. The Kennedy School Forum, which will be renovated during the summer of 2003 through a gift from the Institute of Politics (IOP), will be dedicated…

Harold Howe II, U.S. commissioner of education during the Johnson administration and senior lecturer emeritus at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), died Nov. 29 in Hanover, N.H. He was 84.

Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have found that children with a family history of asthma or allergies may face significantly higher risk of persistent wheezing and asthma later in childhood when bottle-fed in the bed or crib before sleep time. These findings are published in the Dec. 2 issue of the Journal of…

Standing in front of the row of homes on Hano Street in Allston where she has lived since 1966, Minnie Walcott paused for a moment as her voice thickened with tears. I raised three daughters here, and now my grandchildren come back to visit me, she told the crowd assembled to celebrate the recent renovation…

Emily Mann, artistic director of the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, N.J., will give a lecture titled Documentary Theater on Monday (Dec. 9) at 4 p.m. This event, the second in the Deans Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, is co-sponsored by the American Repertory Theatre.

A computer technology that already shows people what the world looks like has the power to help transform it into a better, more sustainable, and easier-to-manage place, speakers at a symposium on Geographical Information Systems said last month.

How does the sun shine? John Bahcall, visiting professor of astrophysics at Princeton University and Richard Black Professor of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., will explain on Wednesday (Dec. 11) at 4 p.m. His talk is the first in the Super Cluster Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for…

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced that Srivatsa Krishna, a masters of business administration degree candidate at Harvard Business School where he is currently on sabbatical, has been selected to the 2003 class of Global Leaders For Tomorrow (GLT). Each year, after an impartial and extensive global consultation and nomination process, WEF selects 100…

Noel Fahey, Irelands ambassador to the United States, visited Harvard Nov. 20 as a guest of the Celtic Department. Fahey, who served formerly as ambassador to Germany, presented his credentials to President Bush in Sept. of this year.

The Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus (HRC), with its 130-plus members drawn from Harvard students, faculty, staff, and the community at large, is not the Universitys most elite musical ensemble. Founded in 1979 as a training choir for students aiming for some of the more selective choral groups, it continues to serve that purpose while also catering to…

In anticipation of World AIDS Day (Dec. 1), AIDS researchers and policy-makers from around Harvard gathered Nov. 25 to present their work and discuss strategies to address the devastating AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Harvard Programs on AIDS in Africa: A University Responds, sponsored by the Harvard AIDS Institute and held at the School of…

Janet A. Viggiani, the beloved senior tutor of Adams House from 1989 to 1993, died Nov. 8 of breast cancer. She was 48.

An aging global population presents a demographic nightmare that will have fewer working young people supporting larger numbers of retirees, raising the specter of fiscal deficits, economic stagnation, and a decline in the global position of todays Western powers.

The Jewish Student Association and the Middle East and North Africa Club at the Business School sponsored a Dec. 3 debate called America, Israel, and the Arab World: Can There Be Reconciliation? The event was held at the Spangler Auditorium on the Business School campus. Speaking that evening were writer and talk show host Rabbi…

Corn, butterflies, and the media were center stage at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Nov. 21 at a conference that examined the medias role in keeping the public informed – or frightened – about the growing presence of biotechnology in food production.

Members of the Harvard faculty and community, including President Lawrence H. Summers, joined the Harvard Islamic Society Nov. 22 at sunset at the groups Faculty Iftar, or communal breaking of the fast of Ramadan.

Lawrence H. Summers, president of Harvard University, and William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), announced today that W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Skip Gates Jr., will continue as chair of the Afro-American Studies Department and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research…

The number of applicants for Early Action admission to Harvard College has risen 24 percent above last years record 6,128 to a total of 7,615. The academic quality of the pool is impressive. For example, 64 percent of the applicants average 1,400 or more on the combined SAT verbal and math test.

An explosive third quarter lifted the Harvard football team past Yale on Nov. 23, to hand the Crimson a 20-13 Harvard Stadium victory in the 119th playing of The Game. Facing 35-mph winds, Harvard activated its ground attack in scoring a trio of touchdowns in the third quarter to overwhelm the Elies. Harvard finished its…

Shareholder Responsibility report is now available The 2002 Annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a subcommittee of the president and fellows, is now available upon request…