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Hundreds of college students from around the Northeast descended on Harvard last weekend for the Northeast Climate Conference, an event designed to educate students and inspire them to action.

A stroll through Harvard Yard immediately reveals the rich diversity of the University. Passersby – students, faculty, and staff – reflect a dizzying range of cultures, races, and ethnicities. Posters around campus reinforce this proud multiculturalism with events and services – from a South Indian dance performance to an informational meeting for black scientists to…

Winthrop House will hold a memorial service for Harvard junior Anthony Fonseca at St. Pauls Church, 29 Mount Auburn St., on Thursday, March 4, at 4 p.m. The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the masters house at 5:30.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 21. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

John Dearden memorial Feb. 27 A memorial service for John Dearden, Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, will be held on Friday (Feb. 27) at 10:30 a.m. in…

Feb. 29, 1672 – President Charles Chauncy dies in office. Feb. 11, 1941 – President James Bryant Conant testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of H.R. 1776,…

At its eighth meeting of the year (Feb. 25) the Faculty Council discussed three research policy issues with Professor Paul Martin (physics), dean for Research and Information Technology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Professor James Alt (government) participated in a discussion of co-principal-investigator privileges for research associates, and Professor Caroline Hoxby (economics) contributed…

The cancer drugs effectiveness surprised everyone. Called TNP-470, it stunted the growth of every malignancy it touched – animal tumors, human tumors, and spreading tumors. It suppressed tumors of the ovaries, colon, prostate, and breasts. In some cases the tumors shrank in others, they disappeared.

Severely blind people have been able to temporarily see patterns of light with the help of an electric device developed by a Harvard-M.I.T. research team.

Before feting Woman of the Year Sandra Bullock, Hasty Pudding members previewed their new show As the Word Turns, a story of love, villainy, and proper spelling. See the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Web site for details.

For some time, researchers have known that people with diabetes have a greater risk of developing Alzheimers disease and other forms of dementia than those without diabetes, but the exact cause of this link has not been known. Now, a new study by researchers in Cologne, Germany, and at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, to…

Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge shared sometimes deeply personal insights about leadership with a Harvard Business School audience of students and faculty on Wednesday (Feb.11), saying that he has largely been driven by lessons from his father about integrity, responsibility, hard work, and the value of education.

Forty years after the birth of the womens movement, women need to look at themselves, rather than at men or at society, for reasons why there arent more women heading companies, earning top dollars, or running governments.

Gro Harlem Brundtland, former director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), has been named Health Policy Forum Fellow at the Kennedy Schools Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy for the spring 2004 semester.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson called for a Freedom Summer type of effort in the coming months to register voters, heal interracial wounds, and get out the vote for what he said will be a presidential campaign of historic proportions.

The ivory tower has a tenuous hold on Radcliffe Fellow Jennifer Harbury and Harvard Medical School Professor of Medical Anthropology Paul Farmer, who have traded lofty academic seclusion for messy, complicated, and dangerous work in the jungles and judicial systems of Guatemala and Haiti. At the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) Tuesday…

The quilting group of Harvard Neighbors is celebrating 10 years of making baby quilts for the Cambridge Health Alliance (formerly Cambridge City Hospital) and the New Day Clinic in Somerville. The group started with six quilts in 1994 and this year will donate more than 20 baby-size quilts, which means that over 150 infants and…

Harvards Pluralism Project invites students in the comparative study of religion, anthropology, sociology, history, government, and other academic fields to participate in research on the changing contours of American religious life. Research concerning religious pluralism and American civil society, particularly the mapping of the multireligious dynamics of particular cities and towns the new civic instruments…

It was like a typical Kennedy School of Government case-study session as students vigorously debated the wisdom of a particular policy decision. It was the setting and the subject that were unique. The subject: Should Mao Tse-tung have accepted Chiang Kai-sheks invitation to a peace conference shortly after World War II? The setting: Though led…

Men’s v-ball sweeps Queens, 3-0 Senior middle blocker Juan Cardet earned a team-high 11 kills to lift the Harvard men’s volleyball team past Queens College, 3-0 (30-19, 38-36, 30-26), this…

The Harvard mens fencing team bounced back from a tough weekend at Penn earlier this month, where they dropped three consecutive matches against the Quakers, Drew, and Rutgers, to sweep visiting M.I.T., 19-8, and Brandeis, 15-12, on Feb. 11 at the MAC.

Conference to explore belonging, exclusion Philosophers, artists, historians, and scholars will convene today (Feb. 19) and Friday (Feb. 20) at Agassiz Theatre for “Cultural Citizenship: Varieties of Belonging.” Organized by…

Golub awarded Freedom to Discover Grant Associate Professor of Pediatrics Todd Golub recently received a $500,000 grant from the Freedom to Discover Program of Bristol-Myers Squibb. The award recognizes leading…

George Starbuck (1931-1996) is a poet known for his wit, intelligence, and precision he was the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize for his first book of poems and director of writing programs at the University of Iowa and Boston University. A new collection of Starbucks poetry, The Works: Poems Selected From…

Nearly 20,000 students have applied for entrance next September to the Class of 2008, the second largest pool in Harvards history. While not reaching last years record total of 20,987 which was swelled by different Early Action rules, both the number (19,712) and the quality of the applicants bode well for an outstanding freshman class…

In her autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, former slave Harriet Jacobs left an extraordinary legacy. The 1861 book chronicles Jacobs life in slavery, her masters persistent unwanted sexual advances, the seven years she spent hiding in a crawl space above her grandmothers porch, and her eventual flight to…

Reporters covering tragedies in the worlds forgotten places face a host of hurdles on the ground, from language gaps to difficulties with travel, but once they have the story, their toughest challenge may be selling it to editors, according to Samantha Power, lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.