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George Lopez, star of the hit ABC comedy that bears his name, has been named the 2004 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation. Lopez will be awarded the foundations medal at Harvards Annual Cultural Rhythms ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 28.

Nearly 60 projects in dance, music, theater, literature, and the visual arts will take place this spring at Harvard, sponsored in part through funding from the Office for the Arts (OFA). Selected by the Council on the Arts at Harvard, the projects include concerts, theater productions showcasing original student work, as well as classic musicals,…

After surviving teasing about his less memorable films, a therapy session with a neutered bulldog, and a red beaded bra and blue wig, actor Robert Downey Jr. received the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Pudding Pot Thursday night (Feb. 19) as its Man of the Year. The ceremony preceded the opening night performance of the Theatricals As…

Cultural historian Louis Menand lectured Feb. 12 on the three moments when pragmatism, a quintessentially American philosophy that he defined as an idea about ideas, gained ascendancy in American intellectual life. Unfortunately, according to Menand, the third and last moment has just passed.

Who is a citizen? Is citizenship guaranteed by a passport? Can we create citizenship with our own narratives? What is citizenship to a refugee, an immigrant, a slave, an exile, a president, a Jew in the Middle East or an Arab in Israel?

Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced this week the appointment of Christopher Stone as Professor of Practice in the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Chair of Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Stone, who currently directs the Vera Institute of Justice in New York, will take up the position in…

Bok Center offering postdoc fellowship The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning is offering a half-time postdoctoral fellowship for the 2004-05 academic year to support a strong scholar familiar…

‘Atlas of Emotion’ lands literary awards Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies Giuliana Bruno has received two literary awards for his book “Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and…

Many have compared the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 with Japans surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, drawing parallels between their unexpectedness, their devastating impact on the national consciousness, their inauguration of a new political reality.

Scientists have found that beliefs and expectations can reduce pain.

When it passed in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) enjoyed overwhelming support in Congress and widespread public favor. Everyone, it seemed, thought discriminating against people with physical or mental disabilities was a lousy idea.

Harvards Records Management Office (RMO) will offer a new presentation for office managers and other staff charged with file keeping. The new one-hour presentation, which will be offered on three Thursdays (April 15, July 8, and Oct 28), will provide practical guidance on filing systems, filing rules and procedures, and equipment and supplies. Each session…

The Third Millennium Foundation has recently launched the Human Rights Practice Fellowships. In both 2004 and 2005, the foundation will award up to six fellowships to outstanding graduating Harvard students contemplating a career in human rights. These fellowships are designed to enable students (from the College or any one of Harvards 10 graduate schools) to…

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the sixth funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, a KSG faculty committee will consider applications for small one-year grants (up to $30,000) to support advanced research by Harvard University faculty members on issues of…

Sidney R. Knafel A.B. 52, M.B.A. 54 (right), and his wife, Londa Weisman, confer with architect Henry Cobb A.B. 47, M.AR. 49 (center), as the final beam is hoisted into place at the Knafel Building, a major component of the new Center for Government and International Studies. The center, for which Knafel gave the initial…

After fighting off a host of collegiate and professional players from across the country, Harvard tennis teammates (and doubles partners) Jack Li 07 and Chris Chiou 05 eventually found themselves in the midst of a civil war. In semifinal singles action in the first annual USTA Mens February Open, which concluded on Feb. 22 at…

The Harvard womens hockey team (22-2-1, 12-2-0 ECAC) earned a pair of wins over St. Lawrence this past weekend to move into sole possession of first place in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC). The host Crimson, ranked second prior to meeting No. 3 St. Lawrence on Friday (Feb. 20), edged the Saints, 3-2, in…

Describing mezzo-soprano Carolann Buff as a singer hardly does justice to the many roles she juggles. In addition to the duties that fall to any professional musician – balancing budgets, managing publicity, coordinating recording sessions – she spends plenty of her free time doing research in Loeb Music Library, where she works part time as…

The Harvard School of Public Healths (HSPH) AIDS Treatment Care and Prevention Initiative in Africa will receive first-year funding of $17 million of a five-year $107 million grant as part of the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to help eradicate AIDS/HIV in the worlds hardest-hit regions.

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) is now offering research grants to support summer and academic year research, workshops, working groups, and lecture series by faculty of the University in all fields related to population, health, and development. The centers research committee, which gives priority to interdepartmental or cross-School collaborations that contribute…

Hundreds of college students from around the Northeast descended on Harvard last weekend for the Northeast Climate Conference, an event designed to educate students and inspire them to action.

A stroll through Harvard Yard immediately reveals the rich diversity of the University. Passersby – students, faculty, and staff – reflect a dizzying range of cultures, races, and ethnicities. Posters around campus reinforce this proud multiculturalism with events and services – from a South Indian dance performance to an informational meeting for black scientists to…

Winthrop House will hold a memorial service for Harvard junior Anthony Fonseca at St. Pauls Church, 29 Mount Auburn St., on Thursday, March 4, at 4 p.m. The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the masters house at 5:30.

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 Feb. 21. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

John Dearden memorial Feb. 27 A memorial service for John Dearden, Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, will be held on Friday (Feb. 27) at 10:30 a.m. in…

Feb. 29, 1672 – President Charles Chauncy dies in office. Feb. 11, 1941 – President James Bryant Conant testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of H.R. 1776,…

At its eighth meeting of the year (Feb. 25) the Faculty Council discussed three research policy issues with Professor Paul Martin (physics), dean for Research and Information Technology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Professor James Alt (government) participated in a discussion of co-principal-investigator privileges for research associates, and Professor Caroline Hoxby (economics) contributed…

The cancer drugs effectiveness surprised everyone. Called TNP-470, it stunted the growth of every malignancy it touched – animal tumors, human tumors, and spreading tumors. It suppressed tumors of the ovaries, colon, prostate, and breasts. In some cases the tumors shrank in others, they disappeared.