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Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), joined Harvard Medical School (HMS) faculty members last Wednesday (Feb. 4) to share memories of the civil rights era with Boston youth, describing the times difficult work and telling the children that future struggles for justice will be theirs.

A group of Harvard administrators and students met Friday (Feb. 6) with the College Safety Committee to discuss new campus safety initiatives and update them on investigations surrounding recent indecent assaults in the area.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 7. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Two female graduate students were victims of indecent assaults within 15 minutes of each other last Friday (Feb. 6), in and near Harvard Yard, according to Harvard University Police.

Harvard University scientists have found a mechanism by which cells repair a key type of oxidative DNA damage that, left unchecked, can lead to a greatly elevated risk of colon cancer. The findings appear in the Feb. 12 issue of the journal Nature.

Since 1976, Timothy Springer has been trying to solve the mysteries of how white blood cells squeeze out of blood vessels and find their way to sites of infectious attacks. What he has learned has won him this years Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Crafoord Prize.

A tenacious Harvard womens hockey team tuckered out Boston College, 4-0, in the semifinal round of the 26th annual Beanpot Tournament this past Tuesday evening (Feb. 3) in Chestnut Hill. The Crimson, who endured a career-high 59 saves by B.C. netminder Lisa Davis, blasted the net 63 times (to the Eagles eight) en route to…

Its 5:30 on a windy January night, and around Harvard Square, pedestrians strain against the cold, counting each excruciating step to their destinations, their scarves and mittens and the bulkiest of coats providing scant protection from the free-falling temperatures. Suddenly, from the direction of Concord Ave., a bright orange figure slices through the chill -…

You cant be flexible without LOX, scientists have discovered.

On Friday (Jan. 30), more than 750 Boston public high school students ventured out to area legislative offices, newspapers, police stations, banks, hospitals, businesses, and even Harvard to get a glimpse of a typical workday in the real world. Now in its ninth year, the Boston Groundhog Shadow Job Day has tightened the ties between…

Proposed 2004-2005 rents for current affiliated residents living in Affiliated Housing: Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) has proposed a 0 percent rent increase for the majority of current Affiliated Housing…

The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is now accepting applications for its Carol K. Pforzheimer Student Fellowship grants. Intended to encourage Harvard College students to use the resources of the Schlesinger Library, the fellowship awards $100 to $2,500 to cover research expenses, or as…

It may have been just a college hockey rink, but for the 60 or so children who got to test their skills with the Harvard Mens Hockey team on that ice last Wednesday (Jan. 28) night, it was like being in the Boston Fleet Center…

Changes in the 2000 census that added a racial category and allowed multirace responses permitted a new flexibility in self-identification, but also diluted the data collection that underpins social justice efforts, according to a former U.S. Census director who spoke at Harvard Monday (Feb. 2).

The former mayor of Knoxville, Tenn., the vice president of programs at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, and the former governor of Minnesota, among others, have been selected for fellowships this spring at Harvards Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School of Government.

Kennedy School of Government Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. has announced the appointment of the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir as the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life. Hehir will take up his post in the fall 2004 semester.

Is there a docent in the house? The Semitic Museum at Harvard University is looking for volunteer docents to guide tours for the new exhibit “The Houses of Ancient Israel:…

The discovery that cystic fibrosis (CF) patients have an imbalance of fatty acids in their tissues could help pave the way for a new treatment for this genetic disease that affects approximately 30,000 people nationwide. These findings extend previous observations from mouse studies and show that the same fatty acid abnormality occurs in humans with…

If youve got a student loan, then youve probably got mail.

Jerold Kayden, a faculty member of the Graduate School of Design (GSD), has been appointed the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design.

A retrospective analysis by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) published in The New England Journal of Medicine found no causal relationship between testosterone replacement and prostate cancer or heart disease risk

Students and faculty logging onto the HOLLIS catalog after winter break found a decrease in the number of periodicals available from Elsevier, one of the worlds largest publishers of scientific journals. According to Sidney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library, the decision to eliminate these journals was the result…

HMS researcher wins Crafoord Prize Latham Family Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) Timothy Springer, a senior investigator at the Center for Blood Research (CBR) Institute for Biomedical…

In the marquee game of the 52nd annual Beanpot Tournament this past Monday night (Feb. 2) at the FleetCenter, the Harvard mens hockey team quickly found itself embroiled in a comedy of errors. Against the No. 2 Boston College Eagles, the Crimson – appearing a bit rusty after exam period – were outshot, outplayed, and…

An antibody plucked from a library of human antibodies has powerfully blocked infection by the SARS (seere acute respiratory syndrome) irus in laboratory tests, scientists at Harard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report. This discoery could expedite the deelopment of an antibody drug for the preention or early treatment of SARS, which killed nearly 800 people in…

CNNs Tokyo bureau chief, a United Nations information service director, and the editor of The Hindu are among the fellows this semester at the Kennedy Schools Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for an Istanbul process Friday (Jan. 30) that would band together the United States, Europe, and the Middle East in an effort to boost democratic government, promote economic growth, and ensure security to the troubled region.

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

Colorful tiles line the walls along a ramp to the second floor in Pound Hall at the Law School, brightening the stroll to class.