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A new exhibition organized by students in a Harvard seminar on the history of printmaking challenges viewers to approach printmaking as a language with its own vocabulary, grammar, syntax, poetry, and prose. On view at Harvards Fogg Art Museum through Jan. 30, Prints: System, Style, and Subject includes 53 works from the Harvard University Art…

Americans have more places to turn for news coverage than ever, but its the quality of the content that concerns ABC News President David Westin. Westin told an audience at the Kennedy School Forum Monday night (Oct. 25) that an explosion of opinions on the airwaves is beginning to drown out reporting of the facts.

Attention must be paid.

The Fogg Art Museum will host Bridging the Gaps: African American Art Conference 2004 – a two-day symposium sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research – on Nov. 5-7. Presenters are invited to explore the generational, methodological, and ideological gaps that exist within the field of African-American art, and…

Eight new fellows have been selected for the 2004-05 Administrative Fellowship Program. Of the eight fellows, five are visiting fellows and three are resident fellows. Visiting fellows are talented professionals drawn from business, education, and the professions outside the University, while resident fellows are professionals currently working at Harvard who are identified by their department…

A new national poll by Harvard Universitys Institute of Politics (IOP) finds exceptionally high interest in the presidential campaign on college campuses, and turnout among college students is expected to rise dramatically. Nearly 72 percent of college students report that they are certain they are registered to vote and definitely plan on voting this November.…

As Americans prepare to elect a president next month, most of them can be confident in one thing: Each vote, whether cast by pulling a lever or checking a box or touching a computer screen, will be veiled in complete anonymity. For the most part, no one but the individual voter will ever know whether…

Yaa Bruce 05 conducted biomedical research in Beijing Katherine Jarvis-Shean 05 learned the ins and outs of running an organic farm in Oliveto, Italy and Andréa Mayrose 06 worked in a pediatrics ward at a hospital in Ngaoundéé, Cameroon – just a sampling of the variety of internships that 31 Harvard students arranged, secured, and…

Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, is the recipient of this years Carl Sandburg Award. Given annually by the Chicago Public Library (CPL), the award honors a significant work or body of work that has enhanced the publics awareness of the written word and reflects…

Tailback Clifton Dawson ’07 tallied three touchdowns to lead 19th-ranked Crimson to a 39-14 win against host Princeton this past Saturday (Oct. 23). In the process, the sophomore set a…

Harvard midfielder Alisha Moran 05 (left) tries to tame a bouncing ball and simultaneously outrace her University of Connecticut opponent on Wednesday (Oct. 27). The Crimson squeaked past the visiting Huskies, 1-0, to improve to 7-5-2.

A crowd of 200,000 braved gusty conditions to take in the 40th annual Head of the Charles Regatta this past weekend (Oct. 23-24). Meanwhile, between the banks of the river, the choppy water on the famously windy course with six bridges tested boats from Harvard, Radcliffe, and across North America and Europe.

Inspired by the great impact wrestling has made on his family, David G. Bunning 88 has endowed Harvards wrestling coach position. The gift was announced at the Friends of Harvard Wrestling kickoff dinner, held on Saturday (Oct. 23).

After recently calling for a renewed national effort against a persistent smoking threat, the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) will take the occasion of its annual Julius B. Richmond Award (to be given today, Oct. 28) to confer its highest honor on three state attorneys general and on an advocate for children who successfully…

Postdoctoral fellow in the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Jinbao Qian died suddenly on Oct. 22. Qian was 38. When Qian left his native China in 1994 to pursue a doctorate at Harvard, he had already made his mark in the field of history. An archivist at the Historical Archives of China in Nanjing, he had…

Six years after leaving the New York City theater scene for Boston and a new job as a fundraiser, Karen Rives says her joy has returned and the Harvard community is the beneficiary.

HPT picks Wang for second straight year The Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) has selected Derrick L. Wang ’06 to compose the score for this year’s show: “Terms of Frontierment.” HPT…

You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends. Or can you?

No official polls have been conducted at the Holyoke Center, but there does seem to be a certain consensus on some of the more important issues of the day.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 25. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A memorial service in honor of John E. Mack, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School since 1972 and founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital, will be held at the Memorial Church on Nov. 13 at noon. Mack was struck by a car and killed on Sept. 27 in London. He…

Oct. 15, 1901 – The Harvard Union (now the largest part of Barker Center for the Humanities) is dedicated. Oct. 1, 1908 – With 59 students, the Graduate School of…

At its third meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed with General Counsel Robert Iuliano, University attorney Ellen Berkman, and Professor John Huchra (astronomy and chair of the Standing Committee on Research Policy) the relevance of national export control policy to university research. The council also considered revisions to the procedures for Memorial Minutes,…

Every day, in hospitals all over the country, biology clashes with medicine. Biology demands sleep medicine dictates long hours without it.

Until the early 1990s, the marshes of southern Iraq were a critical environmental lifeline, a source of water and nourishment in the desert, and home to Arab peoples who made their living from marsh fish, plants, and wildlife.

The kids at the Lampoon have given the usually inscrutable facade of their Mt. Auburn Street headquarters a frightful Halloween makeover.

Does playing music promote longevity? Many claim that it does, although the evidence is probably more anecdotal than scientific. Well, here is one more piece of data to add to a bulging albeit inconclusive file: James Yannatos is beginning his 41st year conducting the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO).

A panel of human rights activists condemned Sudanese government-sanctioned genocide that has left 1.5 million black Africans in Sudans Darfur region homeless and 70,000 dead.

Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang spends a solitary moment before the screening of his new film Goodbye Dragon Inn at the Harvard Film Archive on Tuesday (Oct. 19). Tsais recurring themes are the isolated nature of individual lives, the rituals that are essential for survival, and the restorative power of love. Goodbye Dragon Inn will be…