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On Thursday, Feb. 22, a member of the Harvard community purchased a 20-ounce bottle of Diet Coke that contained a foreign substance that made the person briefly ill. The bottle was purchased from a vending machine in Loker Commons. At this time, no other instances of contaminated bottled beverages have been reported on campus. Initial…

Author Michael Ignatieff, a professor of human rights policy, has been named director of the Carr Center of Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced. “The Carr Center is here to promote, enhance, and inspire good teaching and research in human rights,” Ignatieff said. “I hope that…

A University graduate student was the victim of an attempted unarmed robbery while talking on his cellular phone on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at approximately 7:59 p.m., on the pathway behind Leverett Towers. Prior to the assault, the student had walked past three subjects at the corner of Grant and Athens streets. When the student walked…

On Friday, Feb. 23, at approximately 3:15 p.m., the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to a report of an indecent assault at the Lamont Library. The victim, not affiliated with the University, was awakened by something moving under her buttocks. When she stood up to see the suspect, he grabbed his belongings and fled…

A $500,000 donation to Harvard Divinity School has led to the creation of a loan reduction program, an addition eagerly anticipated by students seeking ways to balance the financial conflicts of repaying heavy student loan debt and pursuing careers in typically low-paying public service jobs.

If the lizardy newt loses a leg in a battle with a stronger, faster rival, it simply grows a new limb.

February 1952 – President James Bryant Conant and an alumni committee publicize plans for a $5 million campaign to revitalize the Divinity School. The drive seeks to increase endowment sixfold and thereby facilitate curricular reorganization, and enlargement of both faculty and student body.  Feb. 20, 1965 – The Harvard and Columbia University bands perform a…

The stocky, shifty-eyed man wearing a tuxedo and a sly smile claimed it was a case of mistaken identity, but the audience knew better.

Radcliffe Dean Drew Gilpin Faust has received a report from an Ad Hoc Committee appointed last summer to help her chart a course for Radcliffe during its critical, early years as an institute for advanced study. The report, representing the work of distinguished scholars and academic leaders from outside Harvard, recommends organizational structures and intellectual…

The Harvard University wrestling team (9-4) captured its first Ivy League Championship in school history, defeating Brown University (10-9) 30-7 this past Saturday, Feb. 17, at a dual meet held at Boston University. After a 25-11 loss against Penn earlier this month, the Crimson grapplers bounced back with a 37-6 win over Princeton.

The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America have acquired the papers of Shirley Graham Du Bois (1896-1977). An influential artist and activist, Graham Du Bois was the second wife of the renowned African-American intellectual leader W.E.B. Du Bois. The collection…

Author Kathleen Norris will give the 2000-01 William Belden Noble Lectures on Feb. 26, 27, and 28 at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Church. The lectures are free and open to the public. Norris will also preach on Sunday, Feb. 25 at 11a.m. Her sermon is titled It Is Good for Us To Be Here.

With the beginning of Spring term, the Harvard College Library, in collaboration with Harvard Arts and Sciences Computing Services (HASCS), launched wireless Ethernet services in Lamont Library. The introduction of these services at Lamont represents the first deployment that is primarily intended to serve the undergraduate student body.

Undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty who are U.S. citizens are eligible to apply for research and study scholarships in China for the 2001-02 academic year. Five full scholarships, which include tuition, housing, health insurance, and books, and 10 partial scholarships, covering only tuition, will be offered at one of approximately 80 Chinese universities. The…

Their faces showed the numbing blows of still-recent loss.

The sports world is an unusual arena where cultural heroes are born, where the bonds between teammates are strongly forged and, often, where gay athletes face their biggest challenge, according to panelists discussing the subject Sunday.

Four new area codes are being added in eastern Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy has mandated that they be added to existing calling areas. This change requires that all local calls in eastern Massachusetts must be dialed using 10 digits. This change does not apply to the Universitys Centrex numbers.

New Jerseys Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, Al Gores campaign manager, and the former governor of Puerto Rico are among the distinguished public servants who have been chosen for fellowships at the Institute of Politics (IOP) this spring.

United by their differences, a group of Bosnian women from the torn nations various ethnic groups spent last week at Harvard, talking about their pasts, sharing their visions of the future, and building coalitions to make that future happen.

John G. Ruggie, assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, will join Harvards John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) as the Evron and Jeanne Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced.

Thomas J. Healey, advisory director at Goldman, Sachs &amp Co., will move from the New York boardroom to a Cambridge classroom as he prepares to share what hes learned with students at the Center for Business and Government (CBG) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG).