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Christine Smith points to a small limestone capital, a fragment of a French medieval abbey. It is mounted high on the wall of an exhibition room at the Fogg Museum. Below it, a white stripe connecting it with the floor suggests in a subtle, minimalist way that the pocked, weatherworn carving is resting on the…

David Fithian has been named Assistant Dean of Harvard College, effective immediately. Fithian, who was appointed by Dean of Harvard College Harry L. Lewis, will work on a variety of administrative and policy matters affecting the College and will serve as Secretary of the Administrative Board of Harvard College. He has served as Allston Burr…

Recent accounts of young school students shooting each other has sent a shiver through the nation; journalists call the killings an “epidemic” and legislators have begun debates on new gun control laws. As tragic as these homicides are, however, they represent only the tip of an iceberg of gun deaths in the United States. Every…

Harvard University’s endowment posted its highest return since 1983 in the year ending June 30, 2000, increasing to approximately $19.2 billion on a 32.2 percent return despite an unremarkable year in the broader markets that saw the S&P 500 increase only 7.3 percent. The return, largely driven by a 155.2 percent return in private equities,…

The Joint Center for Housing Studies will hold the second annual John T. Dunlop Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 12, at the Graduate School of Design. The lecture, titled “The US Home Building Industry: A Half-Century of Building the American Dream,” honors Lamont University Professor Emeritus John T. Dunlop for his distinguished career at the University,…

Last May, the Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies, appointed by President Neil L. Rudenstine and composed of faculty and senior administrators from across the University, released its final report. The result of a yearlong study of work force issues on campus, the report recommended that the University greatly expand benefits for entry-level and service…

September 28, 2000 Starting Sept. 29, the Museum of Natural History will give visitors a chance to bask in the beauty of a thousand butterflies. Specimens of every size, shape, and color from around the world will be on display. “Beauty on the Wing: The Double Lives of Butterflies” provides an overview of butterfly basics,…

College can be a difficult place. Students, especially at schools like Harvard, often have the pressure to succeed continually bearing down on them. Most are living away from home for the first time. Relationships with others may be hard to start and harder to maintain. Those in constant contact with students may see signs that…

According to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), a freshman student was assaulted while standing in Annenberg Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 26, at approximately 9:30 in the morning. The affiliate told police that the suspect approached her, grabbed her breasts, and walked away. The suspect’s direction out of the dining hall is unknown. The suspect…

Workers from the 2000 Summer Youth Employment Program were honored at an with a pizza party in August to recognize their efforts. In addition to lunch, the students were given tours of Harvard Yard. They also met with other students from Cambridge and Boston at the Events and Information Center.

Nine doctoral candidates of exceptional promise have joined the Society of Fellows as Junior Fellows. The Society gives scholars at early stages of their careers an opportunity to pursue their studies in any department of the University, free from formal requirements. They must demonstrate exceptional ability, originality, and resourcefulness. Junior Fellows are selected by the…

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Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Sept. 16. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Sept. 4: A caller reported three black males robbed him at knife point. The area was searched with negative results. Cambridge Police and State…

It was a modest armada. Last week, Peabody Museum staff removed 28 canoes, kayaks, outriggers, and dugouts from the sixth floor of the Herbarium and Botanical Museum where they had been stored for more than 20 years. The move was undertaken to enhance storage conditions and accessibility of the watercraft collection and to accommodate the…

Robert H. Giles has been selected as the next curator of the University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, President Neil L. Rudenstine announced last month. Before coming to Harvard, Giles, 67, was a senior vice president of The Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan, international foundation dedicated to freedom of speech and of the press. He served as…

Georgi wins Dirac Medal for contributions to physics Howard Georgi, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, has been awarded the Dirac Medal for his pioneering work in theoretical physics. Georgi shares the prize with Jogesh Pati and Helen Quinn; they were recognized for their contributions to the quest for a unified theory of quarks and leptons and…

According to Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), a woman affiliated with the University was assaulted while walking on the pathway behind Leverett Towers on Saturday, Sept. 16, between 10:45 and 10:50 in the morning. The affiliate told police she noticed a man on a bicycle, who then rode up beside her and grabbed her breast.…

Sixteen members of the Harvard Law School (HLS) Class of 2000 have received the inaugural HLS Student Community Service Awards in recognition of their service to the Harvard Law School community. The Harvard Law School Council student government created the award and faculty, students, and staff nominated students. Dean Robert Clark and Dean of Students…

In what they are calling a “hate crime,” Cambridge Police are looking for two men who assaulted a Harvard undergraduate on Tuesday, Sept. 19. The assault occurred at approximately 8:35 p.m. in the rear of St. Paul’s Church at 27 Mt. Auburn St. According to police, the student was leaving a prayer meeting when he…

Giving many cause to celebrate the first day back to school in Boston, on Sept. 5 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $3.6 million grant to the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) to fund the Change Leadership Group, a national educator leadership training program housed under the Programs in Professional Education. The…

More than 80 years after Harvard Law School (HLS) awarded a degree to the nation’s first black law school graduate, a group of defiant attorneys led by Harvard’s own Charles Hamilton Houston ’22 launched a lengthy and contentious court battle that would eventually topple the notorious “separate but equal” doctrine segregating blacks from whites in…

You might say Jonathan Zittrain was way ahead of his time. When the recently appointed assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School (HLS) was all of 12 years old and most of his friends were whiling away their summer days riding their bicycles or playing baseball, young Jonathan was hammering away on the keyboard…

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has named 21 international affairs practitioners from around the world as fellows for 2000-01. Established in 1958, with the founding of the Center, the Fellows Program welcomes mid- to senior-level diplomats, military officers, politicians, journalists, and others working in the realm of international affairs to pursue independent study and…

Criminal incidents involving motor vehicles in the area in and around the Business School campus and athletic facilities have increased in the last few months, according to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). The incidents include thefts of motor vehicles and license plates, and breaking into motor vehicles. The on-campus incidents have occurred in the…

All’s well at Stoughton Hall following a partial ceiling collapse last week. One freshman student suffered minor scratches when a portion of drywall and insulation came tumbling down from above just before noon on Tuesday, Sept. 12. Two others in the room were not hurt. A chair and a lamp were destroyed. All 128 residents…

The Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government has selected five distinguished journalists and scholars as the 2000 Fall Fellows. Among the fellows are a chief researcher for the Science Office of Sun Microsystems, and a correspondent from The New York Times. The fellows will spend the…

Workers repaired the building’s leaky roof in work that began this summer and is slated to be completed in October.

Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced a new round of grants under the Provost’s Fund for Student Collaboration. These grants are designed to promote intellectual interchange across faculties of the University. The deadline for grant applications is Oct. 6. “The idea for this program originated with the students themselves,” said Fineberg. “I am pleased that…