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Last year, fewer than 6,200 people in the United States donated organs though more than 80,000 waited for organ transplantations. Each day, an average of 17 people die while waiting for a transplant.

Lawrence D. Bobo, acting director of Harvards W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, has announced the appointment of 14 new fellows for the 2003-04 academic year.

For generations, literature has been pressed into the service of teaching values. Whether the overtly religious themes of the Bible, Dick and Janes two-parent suburban values, or the moral exhortations of William Bennetts The Book of Virtues, lessons often prove loftier than simply vocabulary and grammar.

The Office for the Arts (OFA) has announced that more than 700 students will participate in over 20 projects in dance, music, theater, and multidisciplinary genres at the University this fall. Sponsored in part through funding from OFA, the grants aim to foster creative and innovative artistic initiatives among Harvard undergraduates.

The Harvard Theatre Collections exhibition The Kings Theatre: Ballet and Italian Opera in London, 1706-1883, tells the stories behind the performances, and performers, of the Kings Theatre in London. Librettos, printed scores, manuscripts, playbills, and etchings illustrate how the theaters ballets and operas influenced the cultural life of the city and affected music publishing in…

This fall the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) will return with a third year of the successful Sackler Saturdays program. Families with children ages 6 to 11 are invited to explore artworks from ancient cultures and distant lands such as China, Japan, Korea, India, Greece, and Rome. The program, which is free and open to…

Larry Kramer, writer and AIDS activist, doesnt believe leadership can be taught. We really made it up every day as we went along, he said of his years with ACT UP, the international AIDS advocacy and protest organization he founded. If I were to teach anything here it would be how to confront the system,…

Quagmires come in all shapes and sizes. Russias version is a small, predominantly Muslim province in the northern Caucasus called Chechnya.

Louis DeFeo, manager of the scientific instrument shop at the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is reflected in a glass facade of the Maxwell Dworkin building on campus.

After turning Harvard green for three years, the Harvard Green Campus Initiative is sharing the lessons it learned, reaching out through an Extension School course to students as far away as Australia and Iraq.

On April 9, 2003, when U.S. Marines helped an Iraqi mob pull down a 40-foot bronze statue of Saddam Hussein outside the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Anne Garrels was there. But her reporting of the event differed from the TV coverage that most of the American networks carried.

Doctors are writing fewer prescriptions for antibiotics, heeding warnings that overuse of the drugs could lead to widespread resistance to these medications. This is particularly true for most infections of the ear, throat, and sinuses in children and adolescents.

This fall, several new campus eateries stand at the ready to satisfy appetites revved by the crisp autumn air and renewed intellectual fervor.

Following the Harvard football teams 52-14 thumping of Brown this past Saturday (Sept. 26), you couldnt help but feel bad for the Crimson cheerleaders. What with junior quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and his cohorts generally going ballistic, marching and catching for 546 total yards, it seemed as if Harvards spirit squad spent their entire afternoon doing…

Sackler Saturday volunteers needed Harvard University Art Museums needs volunteers to help out with this year’s Sackler Saturday installments. The program, which kicks off Oct. 18 with an archaeological dig…

For sculptor Weronika Zaluska, art is a collaborative process. She doesnt create work with other artists, but rather thinks of her large ceramic sculptures as her partners.

Seniors named CSWR fellowship recipients Harvard seniors Hendrik Jan Slettenhaar and Melissa Borja have been selected to participate in the undergraduate thesis fellowship at the Center for the Study of…

Harvard University Office of the President Massachusetts Hall October 1, 2003 Re: Search for Harvard’s Next Treasurer: Request for Advice Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Ron Daniel recently announced…

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

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Sept. 27. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Sept. 8, 1836 – Some 1,100 to 1,300 alumni flock to Harvard’s Bicentennial, at which a professional choir premieres “Fair Harvard.” The oldest living alumnus – 96-year-old Judge Paine Wingate,…

Ford service set A memorial service for Franklin Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Emeritus, will be held Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. at the Memorial Church. Mosher…

At the Faculty Councils second meeting of the year President Lawrence H. Summers discussed opportunities for the University presented by the recently acquired property in Allston. Sally Zeckhauser, vice president for administration, was also present for this discussion. Prior to this conversation the council heard a report from Nancy Maull, executive dean of the faculty,…

In the Ukrainian Film Collection article that appeared on page 20 of the Sept. 25 Gazette, an incorrect byline was attached to the story. The article should have been attributed to Yuri Shevchuk. The Gazette regrets the error.

The largest building ever built by Harvard was dedicated Sept. 24. University President Lawrence H. Summers and Joseph Martin, dean of the Medical School, cut a crimson ribbon at the entrance of the 525,000-square-foot New Research Building at 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur in Boston.