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On Monday, Jan. 8, at approximately 2:19 p.m., the victim of an indecent assault and battery incident came to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) headquarters to report that she had just been attacked while walking along Berkeley Street near Phillips Street in Cambridge. The suspect approached the victim from behind and grabbed her in…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 13. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

January 1659 – President Charles Chauncy describes a recent “great disorder at Cambridge” involving nighttime fighting “betweene the schollars and some of the toune.” Cambridge and Harvard thus chalk up their first recorded town/gown riot. Jan. 24, 1764 – Amid the heavy wind and snow of a nor’easter, a fire left burning overnight ignites the…

At its eighth meeting of the year the Council heard a report from Paul Bergen, the Facultys Instructional Computing Group Manager, on the development of instructional computing in the Faculty. Dean Paul Martin, chair of the Standing Committee on Information Technology, and Frank Steen, director of Computer Services, were present for this discussion.

Gennadii Boriak of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences presented a guide to the Central State Archive of Public Organizations of Ukraine to Harvard University in December. Sidney Verba (above), director of the University Library, accepted the unique gift, which is the first guide to a Communist Party archive to be published in the Ukraine. The…

A number of questions have been asked in recent days about the University’s position and my own views on diversity. I thought a brief statement might be helpful in this regard.

Medical researchers have successfully treated Alzheimer’s disease in mice by putting drops of vaccine in their noses. They think it will ultimately be possible to do the same with people.

A molecule streaks in from the right, smashing into a smaller molecule entering from the top. A third strikes the two as they briefly merge, sending all three on their separate ways, down and out of the frame.

With guidance from the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Clinic, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has recently issued a comprehensive set of new rules providing asylum to abused women if their home countries fail to protect them.

For the 18 members of the Harvard Equestrian Club, riding instructor Alyce McNeil is part drill sergeant, part cheerleader, and part ringmaster. Lets pick up to a trot, McNeil instructed during a recent Wednesday outing for the club. Really make them trot. Hard! Hit her harder . . . yank her and say get-up!

David Rosenthal, director of University Health Services, accepted an American Cancer Society Sandra C. Labaree Volunteer Value Award for Mission last month at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. The award recognizes an outstanding contribution in leadership to the American Cancer Societys mission. Stephanie Harrison-Diggs, an American Cancer Society New England board member, presented…

The European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA), a recently founded Anglophone liberal arts college in Berlin, will host a wine and cheese party from 4 to 5 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 18, in the Thompson Room of the Barker Center.

In an attempt to find ways to bridge the potentially explosive gap between police and minority communities throughout the country, a diverse group of civil rights activists, law enforcement officials, legal experts, journalists, and victims of racial injustice visited Harvard Law School (HLS) last week to participate in a three-day conference examining race and the…

A message from Provost Harvey V. Fineberg: This statement was prepared jointly by HUCTW and representatives of the University on casual employees. The statement summarizes the very productive work done by the joint committee working on this issue. I am confident that you will join me in supporting the sentiments in the statement, and that…

A massive project that is transforming Rio de Janeiro’s squalid shantytowns into functioning, integrated neighborhoods has won the Graduate School of Design’s Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design. Argentinian-born architect Jorge Mario Jáuregui, whose firm has orchestrated this transformation – known as the Favela-Bairro Project – received the award in a special ceremony at…

The Provosts Office has awarded the first round of 16 grants to Harvard professors and instructors for projects that will enhance the use of technology in education.

Listen to this physics concentrator at Harvard. In high school it never occurred to me that it was an issue to be a woman. Since I came here, its been a major issue in my experience. I really feel the fact that Im one of two women in a class of 30 students. And I…

Although early foul trouble continues to be something of a problem for the Crimson mens basketball team – it can also prove troublesome for opponents.