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The Wolf Foundation, an Israel-based organization dedicated to the promotion of science and art, has named Raoul Bott, the William Caspar Graustein Research Professor of Mathematics, winner of the 2000 Wolf Foundation Prize in mathematics. He shares the prize with Jean-Pierre Serre of the College de France. According to the Wolf Foundation prize committee, Bott…

The life of Johann Sebastian Bach, from his music to his personal relationships with sons, students, and other contemporaries, is documented with selected original materials in an exhibition called “The Man from Whom All True Musical Wisdom Proceeded: Johann Sebastian Bach.” The exhibit at the Houghton Library and Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library runs through…

Courtney Egelhoff leaned in close, her face just inches from her coach’s blonde, shoulder-length hair. Intent with concentration, Egelhoff combed and snipped. Combed and snipped some more. The scene was a bit unusual and strangely intimate. Five players and coaches were gathered in the Women’s Basketball Office in Lavietes Pavilion. Head Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith sat…

President Neil L. Rudenstine hosted a lunch Tuesday, March 7, in honor of recently retired Cambridge mayors Frank Duehay (left) and Sheila Russell. The mayors and other guests were also celebrating the launching of Harvard’s 20/20/2000 affordable housing partnership, which includes a $10 million commitment to Cambridge. Photo by Rose Lincoln.

The moment I stepped into the Ben Shahn exhibition currently at the Sackler Museum, I had the feeling that I was in the presence of something uncannily familiar, a world I knew through legend rather than experience. These street scenes that Shahn had captured on film in New York City in the early 1930s were…

It’s not often opportunities like this one come knocking on a dormitory room door. So you can just imagine the reaction when 20 members of the Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships selection committee delivered the good news in person to the four Harvard seniors selected as this year’s recipients. Geoffrey Fowler, Joshua Goodman, Ilana Kurshan, and Elizabeth Nathan…

Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced a new round of grants under the Provost’s Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration. These grants are designed to promote intellectual interchange across Faculties of the University. The deadline for grant applications is Friday, April 14. “We have been very gratified at the wide faculty response to this program in the…

Vacation Houses For Rent Harvard’s vacation houses on Sutton Island and Kittery Point, Maine, are available for rent to salaried faculty and officers of the University. Applications for weekly rentals for the summer months are currently being accepted. For more information and an application, call Harvard Planning and Real Estate at (617) 495-9367. Social Reform…

Callbacks Win A Cappella Semifinals The Callbacks, one of Harvard’s coed undergraduate a cappella singing groups, placed first in the Northeast Regional Final of the National Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, held in Northampton last Friday. The Callbacks will be one of six a cappella groups in the country to compete in the final competition…

Erin Curran, 6, a 1st-grader from the Martha Jones School in Westwood, Mass., practices a wrathful roar while looking in a hand mirror after having her face painted inside the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Inside the MCZ’s Romer Hall, Jill Podel, 5, of the Waldorf School on Lexington, enjoys a mask from Gabon, Central West…

The woman’s left lung had collapsed because a tumor blocked the airway leading to it. She could only survive in a hospital with the help of a machine that forced air into her lungs. This unfortunate condition made her an ideal candidate for a new procedure known as photodynamic, or light, therapy. Raphael Bueno, a…

Bill Kovach will receive this year’s Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at an award ceremony tonight (March 9) at 8:00 p.m. at the Kennedy School of Government. Kovach, curator of the Nieman Foundation and ombudsman for Brill’s Content magazine, has been a journalist and reporter for 40 years, including 18 years as reporter…

A memorial service for Felicia Lamport Kaplan will be held on Monday, March 13, 2000 at 3 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, 1515 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. She died on Thursday, Dec. 23, 1999. Following the service, a reception will be held in the Ropes/John Chipman Gray Room, 2nd floor, Pound…

The Third International Harvard Conference on Internet & Society, to be held May 31-June 2, will explore the impact and implications of the Internet in transforming industry, government, and individual lives. Harvard University will make 100 registration spaces available through a lottery open to current Harvard faculty, students, and staff with a valid Harvard ID.…

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The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering a fellowship award for the academic year 2000-01 for doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic consistent with the Center’s research agenda. The award will provide a stipend of $10,000. Acceptance of the award comes with the understanding that the Joint…

President Neil L. Rudenstine (left) shakes hands with Alina Das ’01, student director of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter at the University Lutheran Church, on Tuesday while Joanne Engquist, a pastor at University Lutheran, and Professor Helmut Koester, a member of the Capital Campaign Committee, look on. Rudenstine presented Engquist with a $25,000 check for…

Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Harbison ’60 (AM ’68) will receive the 2000 Harvard Arts Medal on May 6 as part of ARTS FIRST 2000, the eighth annual celebration of the arts at Harvard. The Harvard Arts Medal was created to honor a distinguished Harvard alumnus/a or faculty member who has achieved excellence in the…

Once the province of astronomers, land planners, and geoscientists, in the past several years, geospatial data and the tools to analyze it have become increasingly available – and valuable – to scholars from many disciplines. Political scientists might use geographic information systems (GIS) to examine voting patterns across specific regions. Agricultural specialists could examine trends…

At its 10th meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed with Anne Taylor, Vice President and General Counsel, and University Attorneys Robert Iuliano and Allan Ryan, the present status of the ³sweatshop² and ³living wage² issues. The Council also considered a report on Project ADAPT prepared for the Faculty by an outside consultant. Finally,…

In this season of presidential primaries, education has at long last become a critical component of the stump speech, superceding even crime and foreign affairs. Every candidate is eager to visit schools and talk about improving student achievement. But what are some of the real steps–both national and local–that can be taken to improve education?…

In his book All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, Michael MacDonald chronicles his childhood in a predominantly poor, Irish-American neighborhood in Boston during the antibusing riots of the 1970s. This controversial moment in education continues to shape school desegregation efforts today and has had a profound impact on MacDonald himself, who initiated an annual…

Michael Connell’s fascination with “neural networks”–computer programs that simulate the activity of brain cells or neurons and actually learn over time–stems in no small part from a “crystallizing moment” he experienced in ninth-grade trigonometry. His teacher brought in a mathematics journal to show students a picture of a spiraling flower made up of numbers–the result…

Melding the tools of cognitive development, developmental psychology, art, brain-imaging technology, and education, Kim Sheridan is trying to unlock the mystery of artistic taste. It has taken years for Sheridan just to formulate this idea, which reflects the path of her own life’s work. After completing an undergraduate degree in painting, Sheridan received a Fulbright…

“Is the brain shaped and even changed by its experiences with language?” wonders Mary Helen Immordino-Yang. “Does language change the way people think?” A former seventh-grade science teacher, Immordino-Yang is particularly interested in the relationship between language and the brain’s functioning–in part because of what she witnessed in her classroom. “I found myself increasingly interested…

Newly appointed professor of education and incoming director of the Harvard Literacy Laboratory Connie Juel is moving some of the services of the renowned lab into public schools. This is part of her overall plan to broaden the experience of Harvard’s graduate students. “There’s no better way to train reading teachers and reading supervisors than…

Courtney Egelhoff leaned in close, her face just inches from her coach’s blonde, shoulder-length hair. Intent with concentration, Egelhoff combed and snipped. Combed and snipped some more. The scene was a bit unusual and strangely intimate. Five players and coaches were gathered in the Women’s Basketball Office in Lavietes Pavilion. Head Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith sat…