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Thank you for that introduction. But I suppose I should say a few more words about who I am and what on earth I’m doing up here. My name is Bono. My name is Bono, and I’m a rock star. Now, I tell you this, not as a boast but as a kind of confession.…

A team of researchers, led by G&oumlkhan S. Hotamisligil, associate professor of nutrition at the School of Public Health, has successfully generated mice resistant to atherosclerosis and has discovered an important new pathway that could be manipulated to prevent and treat the disease. Atherosclerosis is a progressive disease in which fat and cholesterol are deposited…

Hello, our names are Benjamin Bath and Julia Berthet. We are seventh-grade students from the Graham &amp Parks School. Every year our school sends junior high students to different workplaces across Cambridge. The objective: to give students a taste of what a week of work is like. We were assigned to work at the Harvard…

What will it cost corporations to reduce the sulfur emissions that lead to acid rain? What incentives will spur consumers to conserve water?

Seven scholars from Ukraine, Poland, and the United States have been selected as the first recipients of the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellowships in Ukrainian Studies at Harvard University. The Shklar Fellows, who were selected through an international competition, will begin their residency at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in the 2001-02 academic year. These…

After a period of productive negotiation, we have reached agreement on the terms of a new three-year contract that includes wage and benefit improvements as well as a new emphasis on education and professional development for staff. The new contract, which was ratified by the unions members on May 1, will go into effect on…

Legal scholar Lani Guinier ’71, author Esmeralda Santiago ’76, and former Vermont Gov. Madeleine May Kunin B ’92 are among the distinguished women who will be honored by the Radcliffe Association (formerly the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association [RCAA]) during Commencement/Reunion Week. The award ceremonies, which will include the presentation of alumnae recognition and distinguished service…

Harvard College Library has received approval to proceed with Phase 2 of the Widener Library renovation. While the Widener stacks renovation project currently under way affects levels 1-10 in the stacks and the light court spaces, Phase 2 will affect all interior user and work spaces on floors 1-3, ground level, and D-level, and will…

Harvard is quietly greening. And though it’s spring, the greening in this case is not just getting the Yard ready for Commencement. It’s an effort to get Harvard to practice the environmental responsibility that so many on campus preach, and it’s headed by the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, a year-old program that aims to put…

Anthony K. Tjan, founder and former executive vice president of ZEFER, a leading Internet-focused consulting and services firm, is returning to Harvard June 7 as a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) and the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project (HIIP). Tjan is a Harvard College graduate who received his M.B.A. at…

Staff photos by Justin Ide It’s moving time again: cars on curbs, sore muscles, stuffed cars, sidewalk couches, a scarcity of boxes, and a profusion of parents

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 15, 2001, the following Minute was placed upon the records. Sterling Dow was born on 19 November 1903 in Portland, Maine. His Dow ancestors had earlier been in Massachusetts, but as Tory loyalists had moved temporarily to Canada. He doubtless relished the memory…

Osler Peterson’s deep analytical understanding and critique of the health care system of our own and many other countries earned him not only admiration but also a great deal of hostility, which he accepted with admirable magnanimity and good humor. A believer in the concept of health as not only the absence of disease but…

When Martin Sullivan became director of the New York Museum in the 1980s, he was surprised to learn that one of his official titles was Keeper of the Wampum.

The Boston Living Center is always a little hectic right before lunch when volunteers get things ready for the 75 to 100 members who will drop in for food and the fellowship of others who have HIV/AIDS. But on this sunny Saturday in April, its downright crazy.

The Department of Music has announced its fellowship and award recipients. More than $150,000 went toward fellowship and award programs for the department’s graduate and undergraduate students. The John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship is given to students who have demonstrated “distinguished talent and originality in musical composition and high musical scholarship.” The graduate recipients for…

Seven seniors and one graduate from the University have been selected as Gates Scholars. The new scholarship program, set up by a $210 million trust from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, grants gifted graduate students the opportunity to study at the University of Cambridge for up to four years. Scholarships are awarded on the…

Lawrence H. Summers will be officially installed as Harvards 27th president on Friday, Oct. 12, in an outdoor ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre.

Conjuring images of dancer Isadora Duncan on the beach and comedian Lucille Ball at the candy factory, the founder of the Society for Ladies Who Laugh Out Loud gave about 30 Harvard women some seriously silly advice during a noontime talk Thursday, May 24.

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced that it is awarding 55 student grants and fellowships amounting to nearly $200,000 for the 2001-02 academic year. Fifteen grants will support Harvard College undergraduates, 34 will support graduate students, and six awards are being made to undergraduate student groups for specific projects. In recent years, the…

In 1721, Cotton Mather listened to the slave Onesimus describe how Africans used fluid from a mild smallpox infection to inoculate the healthy against the disease.

Harvard Law School’s Program on International Financial Systems has received a grant to study worldwide capital adequacy regulation of financial institutions. The project, supported by Swiss Reinsurance Co., will involve experts from Harvard and Swiss Re in a cooperative 18-month-long process. The project will present its findings at a conference in late 2002 held at…

Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, has been named among the class of 2001 Carnegie Scholars by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The fellowship honors researchers for their work in areas of vital social concern, including education, terrorism, conflict resolution, and international development. Rodrik is…

Barry Mosers delicate pen-and-ink rendition of the restored Memorial Hall tower on the dust jacket of Neil L. Rudenstines new book Pointing Our Thoughts: Reflections on Harvard and Higher Education, 1991-2001 stands as an appropriate symbol of its authors achievement as Harvards 26th president.

Harvard Law School Dean Robert C. Clark has announced that students and alumni who take jobs in fields not traditionally considered “law-related” will be eligible for the school’s loan forgiveness program – the first law school program of its kind in the nation. This dramatic change will allow Harvard Law School graduates greater freedom in…

For 26 years, Cathy Craddock has taught some of the youngest scholars in the Harvard community: preschoolers who attend the Oxford Street Day Care Cooperative, one of six Harvard-affiliated day-care centers.

Shavell assumes presidency of law association Steven Shavell, the Samuel R. Rosenthal Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS), has assumed the presidency of the American Law and Economics Association. In his presidential address at the U.S. Supreme Court, Shavell, the director of the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business at…