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A memorial service for Susanah Bailie Trautman will be held on June 2 at 10 a.m. in the Memorial Church, Harvard University. She was the wife of the late Donald T. Trautman, Shattuck Professor of Law.

Harvard’s Extension School began experiments with distance learning as early as the 1950s, offering courses via educational television. In the 1960s, the experiments continued, with classes offered via kinescope to U.S. Navy personnel on nuclear submarines. Another experiment in the 1990s involved using distance education to teach calculus to high school students in areas where…

Electronic mail and the Internet have become integral parts of our daily lives. These and other digital tools already have profoundly affected scholarship and learning at Harvard. Thousands of courses now have Websites, many rich with images, audio clips, video-on-demand, electronic discussion groups, and timely Web links. A growing number of digital library materials are…

Tim Russert, NBC political analyst and Meet the Press moderator, will deliver Harvard Law School’s 2000 Class Day address on Wednesday, June 7, at 2:30 p.m. on the steps of Langdell Hall, 1545 Massachusetts Ave. “I am very excited that Tim Russert has accepted [our invitation] to be the Class Day Speaker,” said Class Marshal…

John C. Sawhill, a senior lecturer at the Business School (HBS) and, during his distinguished career, a government official and leader of several major nonprofit institutions, including New York University (NYU), died of complications from diabetes on May 18 at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. He was 63. At the time of his…

Kimberly Collins, a sophomore from California, speaks Spanish and–like many Californians–has ventured to places in Mexico like Tijuana and San Miguel de Allende. But, she admits, she never quite expected to teach management skills and English this summer to staff members of a grassroots environmental organization in Bolivia with a grant from the David Rockefeller…

Nancy Stuart hated her body. Scaly, red plaques of psoriasis disfigured her arms, legs, trunk, and scalp. Summer was the worst time. She had to cover her entire body. Otherwise people looked at her in disgust or pity. No one would sit next to her on a bus. Seven months ago, Nancy (not her real…

Just as use of Pap smears has led to a dramatic drop in cervical cancer, so screening for anal cancer among gay and bisexual men would save many lives at a reasonable cost, according to a study conducted at the School of Public Health and University of California at San Francisco (USCF). Anal squamous cell…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 27. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. May 22: Media equipment in the Goldenson Building was vandalized. An ID was stolen at Winthrop House. A bike was stolen at Greenough Hall. Cash…

Harvard Divinity School has announced that the Henry Luce Foundation has approved a three-year grant of $240,000 to continue support for the School’s program in urban ministry. “This splendid renewal grant from the Luce Foundation will greatly help the School to give better preparation to students who want to be effective ministers in inner-city communities,”…

The Law School has appointed six persons to the faculty, the largest addition of new faculty members during Robert C. Clark’s deanship, which began in 1989. Two received lateral appointments to professorships; the other four are new appointments to assistant professorships. The appointments will take effect on July 1, 2000, and will increase the size…

A small memorial gathering of friends of Mohammad Kheirallah, who died of a heart attack on May 19, will be held on Sunday, June 4, at 11:00 a.m. in his apartment, number 13, at 17 Bow Street, Union Square, Somerville. For further information, contact Hammam Akbik at (617) 957-1716.

Suppose you wanted to start a company. You would probably have little trouble finding advisers, consultants, workshops, and textbooks to guide you each step of the way and warn you of possible pitfalls. But what if you wanted to start a nation? National start-ups may be less common than corporate ones, yet they do exist,…

The U.S. political system rarely provides enough time for newly elected officials to plan for their new responsibilities – time to gather together the information and resources they need to make effective policy early in their tenure. And because many state departments are decentralized, senior public managers often can’t consider overall strategic planning to coordinate…

For centuries aspiring artists have learned their craft by painstakingly copying the great works of the masters. One of the latest examples of this reverent and practical activity took place over the past few months at the University Art Museums when 45 fifth-graders from the Samuel Brown School in Peabody, Mass., chose a work each…

The Harvard University Art Museums are seeking volunteers interested in public art education for its Museum 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 10 prospective docents will…

Deep in the heart of Texas, Joaquin and Julian Castro are plotting their political future together, and, like the searing midday sun in the Red River Valley, their plans could spell double-trouble for any cowboy who crosses their path. The Castro brothers are identical twins, born just one minute apart 25 years ago, and they…

W. Jackson Bate, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Emeritus, stands as one of the leading biographers and humanists of the twentieth century. His John Keats (1963) and Samuel Johnson (1977) remain authoritative and popular. Still in print in 2000, both attracted the highest accolades, a Pulitzer Prize for each, an award until then given exclusively…

Nobel Prize-winners Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, will share the Twelfth Annual Warren Alpert Foundation Prize with Akira Endo of Biopharm Research Laboratories, Inc., for work they did after their Nobel-earning discovery of the cholesterol receptor. Brown, Goldstein, and Endo were selected because…

A renowned Graduate School of Education (GSE) psychologist, whose landmark work in multiple intelligences theory has received international acclaim, has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize for 1999-2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Howard Gardner, the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at GSE, was cited by…

Radcliffe and Harvard crews advanced to the Grand Finals in all six of the major divisions at the 55th annual Eastern Sprints Championships, held May 21, on Worcester’s Lake Quinsigamond, an accomplishment matched only by Princeton. Yet the Crimson failed to come away with a championship trophy in these events, settling for fourth in the…

Scientists have gotten the closest look yet at the inner works of biological clocks that drive our natural sleep-wake cycle. They’re surprised at how complicated the mechanism is. Steven Reppert of Harvard Medical School and his colleagues have been involved in cloning and characterizing seven genes that operate the natural timepiece deep in the brains…

Next September, first-year students at Harvard College will be able to register for more than Molecular Biology, Expository Writing, and Introduction to Old Norse; they will also have the opportunity to register to vote. Although Harvard has complied with recent federal legislation requiring colleges and universities to help students register to vote in local elections,…

Spiro Pollalis, professor of design technology and management at the School of Design and co-chair of the Internet conference. Staff photo by Rose Lincoln. When Graduate School of Design (GSD) Professor of Design Technology and Managment Spiro Pollalis was selected co-chair of the Third Biennial International Conference on Internet & Society (iS2k), beginning next week…

Racial harmony doesn’t happen by accident on a college campus. It often takes hard work. Sixteen students who have dedicated themselves to improving intercultural understanding and race relations at Harvard have been named recipients of the annual Harvard Foundation Awards. Eleven other students won honorable mention. Sergio Castellon ’00 was given the Foundation’s highest honor,…

The Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School has named five visiting fellows for the 2000-01 academic year. They are Sidnie Crawford, Sue Houchins, Oyeronke Olajuba, Tracy Pintchman, and Traci West. Each fellow will teach one course during the academic year, and devote the rest of her time to scholarly projects of her…

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced that 16 Harvard juniors will become 2000-01 Undergraduate Associates of the Center. These students have received summer travel grants to support senior thesis research on topics related to international affairs. The new Weatherhead Undergraduate Associates are: Ryan Calder, Vivian Chan, Dimple Chaudhary, Peter Ciganik, Eduardo Domínguez, Jacqueline…

There’s a lot going on in Gotham City. Participants at the Third Biennial International Conference on Internet & Society (iS2k) at Harvard next week will get the opportunity to hear all about it. A mock Web site displaying key environmental data and crime statistics has been created for the fictional city, explicitly demonstrating one of…