All articles

Recording Secretary John Hanselman, who has shepherded alumni gifts to the University for nearly a quarter of a century, is leaving Harvard. Hanselman steps down today to take a new position as executive director of Cambridge in America, the U.S. branch of Cambridge Universitys alumni and development organization. He will direct the American fundraising for…

More than anything, perhaps, it is an act of defiance – of light defying the encroaching darkness, of silence insisting on peace amid the crashing noise of a world chasing madly after temporal rewards.

Think seamless. Think easy. Think reliable.

A young psychology concentrator is leading a class discussion on decision-making and emotion, and Christine Soutter, graduate student and teaching fellow for this sophomore tutorial, cant believe what shes hearing. Although its just a few months into the students serious engagement with the subject, their discussion of emotion is at the level of polished graduate…

Asked to choose three words to describe his work, J Mays listed the following: lust, longing, desire.

Former Dean of the School of Public Health John C. Snyder died Tuesday, Feb. 19, in Peterborough, N.H. He was 91.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, and spiritual leader to millions of Buddhists worldwide, will make a rare Cambridge appearance at the Memorial Church on Friday, March 8, at 7 p.m., in addition to a retreat on Saturday, March 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The events are free and open to the…

President Lawrence H. Summers (left) moderates the forum Healthier or wealthier … which comes first in the new global era? at the Kennedy School on Monday, Feb. 25. Panelists included Roberta Baskin (center), senior producer, ABC News 20/20 and Tim Evans, director, Health Equity, The Rockefeller Foundation.

Six entries have been chosen as finalists for the 2002 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, which will be awarded at a ceremony on Tuesday, March 12, at 8 p.m., at the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs, Kennedy School of Government.

The Princeton womens swimming and diving team soaked the competition this past Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (Feb. 21-23) at the 25th annual Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships at Blodgett Pool. In capturing their third straight Ivy championship, the Tigers extended their dominance to a league-leading 13 titles. Princeton commanded many of the team events,…

With five Harvardians divided between Team Canada and Team USA (six including U.S. coach Ben Smith 68), last Thursdays Olympic championship game in womens hockey was guaranteed gold for the Crimson hockey program. For Canadian Jennifer Botterill 03, it was also a bit of redemption. As the youngest member of the 1998 silver-medal team in…

Was that puff of air a collective sigh of relief? Around campus, are shoulders lower, arms swinging more freely, steps springier?

A haunting fragility pervades Reason, the current production at the Market Theater. Throughout the evening, which is as whimsical as it is cerebral, a series of interwoven stories unfold and layers of understanding are stripped away to reveal others beneath. One perception encases the next like the peels of an onion.

Like many other jazz lovers, Ingrid Monson welcomed the recent Ken Burns documentary on the history of the music. But she found that Burns gave insufficient attention to one vital aspect of this unique art form, its collaborative and socially expressive qualities.

Harvard University

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, Feb. 23. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

With negotiations between the University and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) ongoing, students and union members demonstrated Tuesday for custodial wages higher than those offered so far by Harvard. The

Feb 5., 1954 – At the winter meeting of the Massachusetts Bar Association in Springfield, Law School Dean Erwin Griswold discusses the soundness and landmark significance of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which has lately gained much attention during congressional investigations of domestic Communist activity. The talk is broadcast over New England commercial…

Its one of the smallest things ever made but it promises to revolutionize some of the most important technologies in our lives. Its a wire as thin as 15 atoms that can make light by itself and behave as a complete electronic device. Such capabilities could lead to new ways to compute, communicate, encode, detect,…

In view of campus events last spring and since, the President of the University and the Deans of the Faculties have had a series of discussions in recent months regarding the rights and responsibilities of members of the Harvard community. These discussions have resulted in a statement by the President and Deans, which follows.

The central functions of an academic community are learning, teaching, research and scholarship. By accepting membership in the University, an individual joins a community ideally characterized by free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others, and openness to constructive change. The rights and responsibilities exercised within the community must be compatible…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Medicine on December 19, 2001, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Bruce Willis didnt save the world on his Valentines Day visit to Harvard, but he did manage to salvage his dignity, fielding every curve his hosts threw him with good-natured grace and humor.

WorldTeach, a nonprofit organization that places teachers in developing countries to teach English as a foreign language, has full-year programs in China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Namibia, departing in January, April, June, and September. Six-month programs in China and Honduras, or eight-week summer programs in China, Costa Rica, and Ecuador are also available. In August,…

Proposed 2002-2003 Rents for Current Affiliated Residents Living in Affiliated Housing:

Andrea Quintana 02 was one of the first to donate blood at Harvards Red Cross Blood Drive, which continues at Memorial Hall today (Thursday, Feb. 21) and tomorrow. It costs me nothing and it can help someone else, said Quintana, who has participated in nearly all of Harvards quarterly blood drives since her freshman year.

One day, it’s an ancient jade carving knife, so subtle in its contours that it appears flat until careful lighting restores its shadows and curves.

A new study from the School of Public Health (SPH) has found that in states and regions with higher levels of household firearm ownership, many more children are dying from homicide, suicide, and gun accidents. The differences in rates of violent death to children across states are large. The higher death rates in high-gun states…

Noted actor, producer, and director Blair Underwood has been named the 2002 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation of Harvard University. Underwood will accept the Harvard Foundation award for his outstanding contributions to American performing arts in Sanders Theatre during Harvards annual Cultural Rhythms festival on Saturday, Feb. 23. The award bears the…

Margaret Bentley Sevcenko, editor of publications for the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, died of respiratory failure on Feb. 9 at the age of 71. In the words of Oleg Grabar, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art Emeritus, Sevcenko joined the program at Harvard and M.I.T. in 1979, guided its first steps, and set…