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A new discovery could make it much easier to find each person’s genetic risk of getting cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and other common diseases.

President Lawrence H. Summers has announced that Harvard University is participating in the Scholars at Risk Network and has selected its first two visiting fellows, Mehrangiz Kar and Wolde Mesfin, for the academic year 2002-03.

Law School Dean Robert C. Clark has announced that William Alford, the Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, has been named director of Graduate and International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. Alfords appointment will be effective July 1.

From the front lines: Gazette reporters Ken Gewertz, Beth Potier, and Alvin Powell roamed through Commencement Day festivities, eyes, ears, and notebooks open. Some of their observations follow.

From the front lines: Gazette reporters Ken Gewertz, Beth Potier, and Alvin Powell roamed through Commencement Day festivities, eyes, ears, and notebooks open. Some of their observations follow.

From the front lines: Gazette reporters Ken Gewertz, Beth Potier, and Alvin Powell roamed through Commencement Day festivities, eyes, ears, and notebooks open. Some of their observations follow.

From the front lines: Gazette reporters Ken Gewertz, Beth Potier, and Alvin Powell roamed through Commencement Day festivities, eyes, ears, and notebooks open. Some of their observations follow.

Erik Erikson, the psychologist who re-envisioned the human life cycle as a series of developmental stages, described the identity crisis, and popularized the genre of psychobiography with his books on Martin Luther and Mohandas Gandhi, would have been 100 years old on June 15.

A decade of research into one of the worlds least-known diseases has resulted in the discovery of six genes linked to inherited breast cancer.

James Cuno, director of the Harvard University Art Museums, has been appointed director of the Courtauld Institute of Art to lead its transformation into an independent college of the University of London.

Harvards heavyweight crew completed the sweep against Yale this past Saturday (June 8) at the 150th anniversary of the Harvard-Yale Regatta, Americas oldest intercollegiate athletic event. The Crimson won the four-mile varsity race on the Thames River by 41.8 seconds, the largest margin in 27 years, with a time of 19:02.5. Yale finished at 19:43.8.

During a full-day colloquium on Teaching with the World Wide Web, Gina Siesing, senior specialist for instructional computing, Instructional Computing Group, discusses Designing Assignments for Curricular Change.

Teaching fellow receives Rome Prize

Cool.

Lewis A. Tyler, a force for the advancement of Latin America and the Caribbean through international education, died May 30 in Boston.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, June 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave. (sixth floor).

June 1894 – The newly incorporated Radcliffe College holds its first Commencement in the auditorium of Fay House. At the request of President Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, the graduates wear pretty, simple dresses instead of caps and gowns, which Agassiz deems excessively masculine and potentially provocative.

In the degree chart on page 24 of last weeks Gazette, the figures for the Law Schools doctor of juridical science and doctor of law degrees should have been 546 and 8, respectively.

U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige told a Kennedy School conference on education and accountability Monday (June 10) that the Bush administrations reform program of testing, accountability, and school choice is a solution for American schools that are failing to educate a sizeable number of children

Think about this the next time youre waiting for your burgers to cook on the grill: How was cooking invented? Today, all societies depend on cooked food, but when and how did cooking begin?

Bac break Soojin Yim and Abby Schlatter (foreground) rest before joining other members of the Class of 2002 at the Baccalaureate Service at the Memorial Church on June 4. (Staff…

When Lawrence H. Summers settled into Massachusetts Hall on July 1, he opened a year that saw achievement and glory, inquiry and debate, exhilaration and more sadness than any of us could imagine.

The Committee on African Studies has awarded eight student grants for travel to Sub-Saharan Africa this summer. The four juniors who received the grants will be conducting research for their senior honors theses, while the four graduate student recipients will be researching their doctoral dissertations. The graduate student grants are funded by an endowment established…

Martin Gonzalez refused to let colon cancer prevent him from making the most of his Harvard Business School (HBS) experience inside and outside the classroom. Mo-Yun Lei used her education background to enrich the learning process of her HBS classmates. In recognition of their service to the Business School community, these students received the sixth…

Almost 30 years after he dropped out of college, Bill Dodd sat in his office, looked at the pile in his in box, and decided to tackle the task that had been on his agenda the longest.

Every Wednesday night growing up in tiny Palmyra, N.J., Taii Bullock 02 would sit down to family dinner at her Aunt Jeanes house with at least 20 relatives.

Laura Clancy cant tell you how she fills her pre-summer days. The best way she has to describe it is a blur of so many random things. But what else can you expect from someone who is gearing up (as she does every spring) for a seven-week summer program for 700 urban children at 12…