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On Jan. 13 at approximately 5:40 p.m., a female undergraduate student was walking on Mt. Auburn Street in the area of Claverly Hall when a male approached her in the opposite direction and groped her. The suspect continued walking on Mt. Auburn Street. Officers from both the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and the Cambridge…

Young children receive an enormous volume of information – from the identity of their biological parents to names for animals to facts about the world around them – by testimony: Someone tells them that the family pooch is called a dog and that Mom and Dad are, indeed, Mom and Dad.

Describing Saddam Hussein as a ticking time bomb who had destabilized the Middle East and represented a serious threat to the United States, Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman reiterated his support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq at a Dec. 15 live broadcast of MSNBCs Hardball from the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

Marrying fiber optics with nanotechnology, scientists at Harvard University have created silica wires that are far narrower than the wavelength of light yet can still guide a light beam with great precision. The wires, about a thousandth the width of a human hair, function with minimal signal loss even when their walls accommodate well under…

It’s not every Harvard class that opens with a standing ovation. But then, most Harvard classes aren’t launched with the introduction, “The king of the blues, B.B. King!”

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 18, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Its not every Harvard class that opens with a standing ovation.

Upon the recommendation of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the President approved and announced the following Standing Committees at the F.A.S. Faculty Meeting of October 21, 2003. Standing Committees of the Faculty are constituted to perform a continuing function. Each committee has been established by a vote of the Faculty, and…

Abby Feldman has a Laurel and Hardy screen saver with photos that change every five seconds or so. There are the boys in Sons of the Desert. There they are in Another Fine Mess, Way Out West, Babes in Toyland.

Sun Gate, a bronze sculpture weighing half a ton, arrived one day in the back of a pickup truck driven by artist Murray Dewart 70. Dewart and his assistant, aided by a group of undergraduates, rolled the piece down the ramp and into place at the exact center of McKinlock Courtyard at Leverett House, where…

Faust to offer insight on PBS program Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Dean Drew Gilpin Faust, who is also professor of history, will share her scholarly insight as a historian…

Physicists at Harvard University have created a pulse of light that contains photons, is compressed to fit within several centimeters of space, and does not travel. The finding builds upon earlier demonstrations of stored light by halting actual photons, not just their signature.

Suchanan Tambunlertchai 04 concentrates intently in Lamont Library, where she has plenty of company as students prepare for exams.

Albert Szabo, a teacher of architecture and design with a flair for finding beauty in the fragmentary debris of civilization, died Dec. 10 at Mt. Auburn Hospital from complications following surgery. Szabo, who suffered from Parkinsons disease, was 78.

Attenborough named Peterson Medal recipient The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) has named world-renowned natural history filmmaker and conservationist Sir David Attenborough the 2004 Roger Tory Peterson Medal recipient.…

Warren A. Law (MBA 48, Ph.D. 53), the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking Emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS) and an eloquent critic of the corporate takeovers that convulsed the world of American business in the 1970s and 1980s, died of cancer on Dec. 11, at his home in Belmont. He was…

Harvard Law School students and recent graduates have won an unprecedented eight Skadden Fellowships to pursue public interest work. The awards represent the most given to applicants from any single law school in the 15-year history of the Skadden Fellowship Foundation.

A study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Womens Hospital has found that participants who regularly drank coffee significantly reduced the risk of onset of type 2 diabetes, compared to non-coffee-drinking participants. The findings appear in the Jan. 6 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

While many individuals complain of difficulty adjusting to bright light, scientists have had little success in identifying an abnormality in the retina that causes this symptom. A research team led by scientists at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary has identified genetic defects in five unrelated individuals that interfere with the ability of cells in…

Triangular nozzles provide the tiniest droplets, say researchers in Harvard Universitys Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences who used a mathematical algorithm to determine that a miniature three-sided tap could produce drips some 21 percent smaller than a conventional round nozzle.

As Sarah Kinsella 07 works out at the Malkin Athletic Center, she is framed by the arms and weight of her equally determined roommate and friend Rejoice Opara 07.

David G. Freiman, pathologist in chief at Beth Israel Hospital from 1956 to 1979 and the first person at Beth Israel to hold a chair endowed by Harvard Medical School, has died from complications resulting from a fall in his home. He was 92.

Memorial services are often somber affairs, but when the person being honored lived well beyond the biblical three score and ten, was productive, nay, indispensable, up until his final days, left behind a list of accomplishments that would have been impressive had they been parceled out among a dozen lesser mortals, and touched the lives…

Venerable Mallinckrodt Lab is reflected in the more modern building across the street.