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On the long road to the 2004 NCAA tennis championships, the Harvard mens and womens teams encountered a fair share of potholes and roadblocks. And success. Ultimately, the women got lost somewhere against visiting Ohio State, while the Crimson men cruised past Tulane to advance to Tulsa – the site of this years Sweet 16.

Directory artwork sought The Harvard Directory Project seeks artwork to be considered for the front cover of the 2004-05 Faculty & Staff Telephone Directory. Entrants must be faculty or staff…

Green Campus Initiative named GoGreen awardee The Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) was recently selected as a co-recipient of the GoGreen Award in the large business/institution category for energy (a…

Instead of buying a boat or a vacation house on Cape Cod, we decided to invest in a racehorse.

For the past 11 years, the Weissman International Internship Program, established by Paul (52) and Harriet Weissman in 1994, has provided nearly 200 sophomores and juniors with the opportunity to participate in an international internship in a field of work related to their academic and career goals. The Weissman program enables students to develop a…

Harvards new financial aid initiative aimed at students from low and moderate economic backgrounds helped support close to an 80 percent yield on students admitted to the College Class of 2008 entering in September. Announced in February by President Lawrence H. Summers in an address to the American Council on Education, the new financial aid…

In recognition of their dedication to teaching, advising, and mentoring undergraduate students, four distinguished members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Harvard College Professors.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 15. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A memorial service for Elizabeth (Betty) M. Furdon, assistant cataloger in the Property Information Resource Center of Harvard Real Estate Services, will be held on Sunday (May 23) at 2:30 p.m. at the Cambridge Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Place. Furdon died April 20 of breast cancer.

May 13, 1941 – At the Harvard Forest (Petersham, Mass.), the University dedicates Shaler Hall and the Fisher Museum as working and living quarters for Forest staff and students.  May…

Sun shining through a window of the Weld Boat House paints a row of boats a watery blue. (Staff photo Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office)

Preterm babies are born with preterm brains. They need to learn in the harsh world outside the womb what normal babies learn inside the comfort of their mothers bodies.

Alcock comes to the CfA from the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Reese W. Flower Professor of Astronomy.

Four Harvard-affiliated artists and scholars have recently been named among this years field of Rome Prize recipients by the American Academy in Rome. Now in its 108th year, the prize is a residential fellowship lasting from six months to two years. It includes room and board, a stipend, and studio at the academy facilities in…

The Harvard Alumni Association and the Board of Overseers have announced the recipients of the 2004 Harvard Medal: William J. Cleary Jr. A.B. ’56, Joan Morthland Hutchins A.B. ’61, Minoru Makihara A.B. ’54, A.M.P. ’77.

Nearly 30 years ago, John Womack and a team of research assistants began interviewing retired industrial workers in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. The interviewees, who had worked in textile mills, breweries, cigar factories, and other manufacturing operations from the 1920s to the 1940s, were eyewitnesses to the industrialization of Mexico in the early 20th…

John Singleton Copleys portraits of 18th century Bostons grim-visaged elite are as integral a part of the image of the Colonial city as the Old North Church, Faneuil Hall, or Paul Reveres house.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 16, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Harvard environmentalists made sure Arts First was clean behind the scenes Saturday (May 8) by powering the Arts First stage for the events kickoff performances entirely with solar power.

Introducing this years Arts First Medalist Yo-Yo Ma 76 at Sanders Theatre Sunday night (May 9), host and actor John Lithgow 67 described the ensuing interview as a private moment with about 1,100 eavesdroppers. Ma, ever the generous performer, delivered on Lithgows promise, sharing secrets that revealed his easygoing humanity and privileged the sold-out audience…

The following minute was read at the annual Harvard Medical School Emeritus Faculty Event on May 7, 2004.

Caffeine is the worlds most widely used stimulant, yet scientists still do not know exactly how it staves off sleep. Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and other institutions have now discovered that caffeine works by thwarting one of two interacting physiological systems that govern the human sleep-wake cycle. The researchers, who…

Harvard Medical School (HMS) is taking steps to dramatically advance the field of sleep medicine through the simultaneous establishment of three endowed chairs all devoted to this emerging field of medicine.

Shirley Ann Jackson is alarmed by what she calls a confluence of negative factors – or a perfect storm – that is progressively making the United States lose ground in scientific development.

Cambridge School Volunteers Inc. (CSV) honored approximately 1,000 of its volunteers who served in kindergarten through grade 12 of the Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) during the 2003-04 school year at a reception hosted by Harvard University at the Faculty Club on May 5. Together, these volunteers provided more than 60,000 hours of individualized academic services…

Thirty high school freshmen from 14 Boston and Cambridge high schools – the inaugural class of Crimson Summer Academy – were welcomed into the Harvard family at a May 9 reception celebrating the new academic enrichment program for talented, low-income students from Boston and Cambridge.

Kyle Clark 04, an engineering sciences concentrator at the Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS), received praise and awe from faculty and students alike when he presented his senior design project, Design and Construction of a Dynamic Flight Simulator, at the Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Lightweight crew captures Eastern Sprints Radcliffe lightweight crew captured its first Eastern Sprints crown since 1997 with a time of 6:38.6 in the grand finals Sunday afternoon (May 9) in…

Sophomore slugger Zak Farkes connects for a deep drive during Harvards 12-6 season-finale loss against visiting Northeastern on May 5. Despite the teams setback, Farkes closed out the season with gusto, blasting four homers in two outings against Dartmouth May 1-2 to earn Ivy League Player of the Week honors and break Harvards single-season and…

The Harvard Club of Australia (HCA) has announced a new award for senior Harvard researchers who may be planning collaborative work with Australian research organizations. Known as the Australia-Harvard Fellowship, this award aims to support learned exchange between the University and Australia.