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The Harvard Corporation has announced the start of the search for a successor to President Neil L. Rudenstine, who recently announced his intention to conclude his service at the close of the 2000-01 academic year, after a decade in office. Under the University charter, a new President is elected by the Corporation, with the counsel…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks ending June 17, June 24, July 1, and July 8. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. June 11: Several items were reported missing from a room in Mather House. June 12: A bicycle…

Pollution study captures Fisher Prize Diane Hart Barnes, a doctoral candidate in the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, is the recipient of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science (GIS), Harvard University, for the academic year 1999-00. Barnes received the award for her work titled “Urban/Industrial Pollution for the New York City-Washington,…

Masatoshi Nagatomi, professor of Buddhist Studies emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, died on June 3, 2000. A private funeral service was held on June 17. A fall memorial is being planned. In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that contributions be made to the Buddhist Studies Forum c/o the…

In a move that taps its faculty’s depth and breadth of expertise to expand academic inquiry into complementary medicine, Harvard Medical School (HMS) has established the Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies. David M. Eisenberg, director of the Center for Alternative Medicine Research and Education at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical…

Edward Grazda has been taking pictures in Afghanistan since 1980, shortly after the Soviets invaded the country. He had been in India, but news of the conflict drew him northward until he found himself in Peshawar, the border town on the Pakistan side of the Khyber pass. It was there that he got to know…

A 15-minute mental test shows promise for identifying people 65 years and older who are most likely to die in the next two years, according to a study at the Harvard School of Public Health. Given on a regular basis, the test reveals deterioration of such cognitive functions as memory and orientation. “Our study shows…

The growing season is upon us, and like everything around it, Harvard is going to be getting a bit bigger during the summer months. A variety of projects are on the construction calendar, from new Life Sciences and Business School buildings to a major renovation of University Hall. Many projects were begun immediately after Commencement…

Cambridge School Volunteers, Inc., recently presented the 1999-00 Mack Davis Award to eight volunteers for their outstanding service to Cambridge public schools. The award is named for the late Mack I. Davis II, a Harvard administrator with an “extraordinary record of public service.” The winners and their volunteer placements are (left to right): Jacqueline Cressey,…

Presiding over the classroom, Kevin Fuller, Ed.M. ’00, looks like a missionary – a free-spirited, high-stye preacher, dressed in a long, raspberry, collarless jacket, pressed black dress shirt and pants, and polished black shoes. High noon’s sun nudges the window shades at Brighton High School as Fuller rises from behind the teacher’s desk, where he…

Summer School musical opportunities The Harvard Summer School Orchestra will hold auditions for full brass, including both cornets and trumpets, harp, English horn, and piccolo on Tuesday, June 27, through Thursday, June 29, from 6 to 10 p.m. in Lowell Hall, Rooms B13 and B14. Rehearsals will be held on Mondays from July 3 through…

Hazen Leroy Vail was born in Boston, August 5, 1940. His father, Hazen Claude Vail, who had left a Depression-broken small farm in Belleisle, New Brunswick, to seek his fortune here, was a Metropolitan Life Insurance Company salesman. Leroy’s mother, Mary Teresa MacLean Vail, come as a girl with her family from Cape Breton Island…

The more physically active women are, the greater they reduce their risk of stroke, according to a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health. The study followed 72,488 nurses for eight years and concluded that the more a woman exercises, the lower the odds she will suffer a stroke. “Previous research demonstrated that…

Male college students in the United States and Europe want to add more muscle to their bodies because they think that will make them more attractive to females. They are wrong. Asked by researchers to choose bodies they would most like to have, the students picked computer images with 30 pounds more muscle than they…

Add bone fractures to obesity and tooth decay as another reason that teenage girls should drink less soda pop, particularly colas. Ninth- and 10-grade girls who drink soda pop have three times the risk of bone fractures compared with those who don’t drink carbonated beverages, according to a new Harvard study. Worse, the most physically…

Give Daniel Schrag some old seawater, bits of sediment from the ocean floor, and chunks of coral rock, and he’ll tell you about Earth’s climate tens of thousands, even millions of years ago. He’s done this so well that the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced this week it will give him $500,000…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending June 10. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. June 5: A caller reported vandalism to a car at 111 Western Ave. A laptop computer was stolen from an office on Massachusetts Ave. June…

The President of the Harvard Alumni Association announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers last week at the annual meeting of the Association following the University’s 349th Commencement. The six newly elected Overseers, in order of their finish, are Steven A. Schroeder, 20,679 votes; M. Lee…

Dana Reed Prize Winners for 2000 Rachel Kovner ’01 has won the 2000 Dana Reed Prize for distinguished undergraduate writing. The Quincy House junior captured the $500 award for “This Man Is Running for President: What Alan Keyes Learned at Harvard,” a feature appearing in The Harvard Crimson of Feb. 3, 2000. The Honorable Mention…

Art docents sought The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) are seeking volunteers interested in public art education for the HUAM Docent Program. The Museum Docents are a group of approximately 34 volunteer guides who give tours of Harvard’s three art museums: the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Approximately…

The Gazette will next publish July 13 and Aug. 17. The Calendars in the July 13 and Aug. 17 issues will each cover events for the following four weeks. Calendar submissions for the July 13 issue must be received by July 6; submissions for the Aug. 17 issue must be received by Aug. 10.

Lippizzan ladies Christine lifted her hoof and pulled it several times across the ground. “Christine, stop it now. Behave yourself,” Kelly Flynn gave the horse a meaningful look that stopped her momentarily, but a few seconds later she was at it again. “She wants to eat the grass,” Flynn explained. “It’s sort of like waving…

 Megan Henry and Kiemanh Pham sport matching millennial shades before attending morning Commencement Exercises.  In high style, Class Marshal Michael Roberts ’80 helps direct alumni during the Afternoon Exercises.  Angela Banks waits to receive her J.D. from Harvard Law School.  Seamus Heaney, LLD ’98, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet-in-Residence, makes his way through Harvard Yard…

As a child growing up in Lexington, Mass., Allen Barton ’’90 could read the writing on the wall. It was crimson in color, and it said “Harvard.” Both of Barton’s parents, and five of his seven older siblings graduated from the College, and all of them had spent countless Saturday afternoons together rooting for the…

Her memories are faded by the years, but also sweetened, perhaps, by the romanticism of times gone by. It was the fall of 1943, in the midst of World War II, when the trains were crowded and gasoline was rationed, that Ruth Brunner, fresh out of George Washington University, came to Radcliffe to pursue a…