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Halperin selected as Eisenhower Fellow

On Jan. 14, 2002, the Shelby County Medical Examiners Office issued a report indicating that an accidental fall from a bridge into the Mississippi River was the probable cause of death for Professor Don C. Wiley. Wiley was first reported missing by the Memphis, Tenn., police on Nov. 16. His body was recovered from the…

A memorial service for Charles Segal, Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics, will be held on Friday, March 1, at 3 p.m., at the Memorial Church. The service will be followed by a reception at the Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St., from 4 to 6 p.m.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: Feb. 1, 2002 March 5, 2002 April 10, 2002 May 8, 2002 In addition, office hours will be open to any employees of the University on the following dates: April 10,…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 12. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.

HDNet to carry Ivy basketball

Jan. 11, 1924 – Gale-force winds rip off the new copper roof of the library at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory (Milton, Mass.), depositing heavy sheets up to 30 feet away.

Former foster children whove aged out of the child welfare system are an all-but forgotten population with few services and fewer statistics to show researchers how theyre doing, according to speakers at an all-day Kennedy School forum on their plight Friday (Jan. 11).

The last link in the chain from food to fat has been found. Deep in human cells sits the master regulator of fat cells, a gene with the awkward name PPAR-gamma. When activated, this gene and the protein it produces drive the formation of fat cells that are part of the epidemic of obesity now…

William Clinton Burriss Young ’55, formerly associate dean of freshmen in Harvard College, died in Cambridge on Jan. 8 after a long illness. He was 68 years old. For more than 35 years, as a proctor in Massachusetts Hall, assistant dean, and associate dean, Young guided successive cohorts of incoming Harvard undergraduates, helping many of…

Elijah Wood, the young actor currently starring as Frodo in the blockbuster film “The Lord of the Rings,” journeyed from Middle Earth to Harvard Yard last Saturday and Sunday (Jan. 12 and 13) to be feted by the Harvard Lampoon. Wood partied with the Lampoon staff at a private dinner at the Lampoon Castle Saturday…

Red-tailed hawks, Harvard Yard residents for several years, are alert and watchful now. Recently, they treated the sharp-eyed to a view of natureÕs spectacle that might have been hidden by the leaves of summer or fall.

Eric Price ’05 and Emily Wilcox ’03, members of the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team, practice their choreography at the MAC.

January 2002 marks the launch of National Mentoring Month, a public service campaign created and spearheaded by the Harvard Mentoring Project (HMP) in collaboration with AOL Time Warner, the ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox television networks, the National Mentoring Partnership, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and other nonprofit groups.

After three hours of mathematics one recent Saturday morning, 25 Boston middle school teachers paused briefly for lunch, after which they began their fourth hour of class totally engaged with the question of how to show that the square root of 2 is an irrational number. What would make a group that works hard all…

The Institute for Government Innovation at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced that five initiatives have won 2001 Innovations in American Government Awards for their outstanding creative problem solving. All the winning programs received $100,000 to help communicate their efforts to citizens and other governments nationwide. The 15th annual Innovations in American Government…

Following twenty-seven years as a member of the Harvard Corporation, Robert G. Stone, Jr., will conclude his service as Fellow of Harvard College at the end of the 2001-02 academic year.

Don C. Wiley, Harvard’s John L. Loeb Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and one of the most distinguished structural biologists of his generation, died recently at the age of 57. Wiley was reported missing Nov. 16 by the Memphis, Tenn., police after his rental car was found on a bridge over the Mississippi River. He…

Charles Segal, Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics at Harvard University, died Jan. 1 after a long struggle with cancer. He was 65. Segal, whose scholarly career spanned almost four decades, specialized in the interpretation of Greek tragedy, Greek and Roman epic and lyric poetry, and the role of contemporary criticism in the study…

The present Ivy League Player of the Week, Harvard forward Hana Peljto ’04, made a strong case for Player of the Year candidacy last Saturday night (Jan. 5) at Lavietes Pavilion. The second-year forward (who happens to be last season’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year) poured in a career-high 36 points in an 88-77…

The Wallace-Reader’s Digest Funds have approved a $1.58 million grant to Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership to create a leadership program for school superintendents.