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George Whitesides walks to the front of a full lecture hall in the Science Center. It is April 16, and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry is about to present Nanoscience and Nanotechnolgy: What Is It? Members of the audience have been murmuring about Whitesides dry sense of humor, their pads on their laps, pens poised.…

The Harvard University Bridge to Learning and Literacy Program – an education program for the Universitys service workers – is seeking volunteers who can commit two hours per week to tutor adult learners.

For a bunch of smart kids, the Harvard softball teams latest strategy is a no-brainer. Over the past week and a half, the Crimson have outscored their opponents 46 to 11 to capture six of their last seven games. The new formula (i.e., score a lot of runs) has improved Harvard to 11-20 overall, while…

Goodall to receive 2003 Global Citizen Award World-renowned primatologist and environmentalist Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, will receive the 2003 Global Environmental Citizen Award on April 28.…

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates:

SARS updates can be found on the University¹s emergency Web site, http://www.emergency.harvard.edu. The University is monitoring the situation, and will provide updated information as needed. The University has issued a temporary moratorium on University-related travel to affected regions. For details, visit the Web site.

The heat and droughts of 2001 and 2002, and the unending winter of 2002-2003 in the Northeast have people wondering what on Earth is happening to the weather. Is there anything natural about such variability?

The Office for the Arts (OFA) has announced its support of 23 student art projects and performances that will take place during Arts First weekend (May 1-4). Sponsored by the OFA grants program and selected by the Council on the Arts, the projects range from music and the visual arts to theater and the cultural…

A house tutor whose enthusiasm enhances the social and academic lives of Pforzheimer House residents and a senior faculty member who goes beyond the boundaries of his office, his workday, and his department to advise students received the second annual John R. Marquand Prize for Exceptional Advising and Counseling.

Paul D. Bartlett, one of the great chemists of the twentieth century, passed away on October 11, 1997. His research and teaching were in the area of physical organic chemistry, a field he dominated for four decades. Bartlett created a school of physical organic chemistry that revolutionized the way organic chemistry is taught and practiced…

The Louis Sudler Prize for outstanding student achievement in the arts will be presented at the presidents reception during Arts First, Harvards annual celebration of the arts. Arts First activities begin May 1 and run through May 4, with the reception taking place on May 3 (from 5 to 7 p.m. under the Arts First…

A new student organization dedicated to inspiring and empowering Boston youth through the performing arts, Harvard STAGE (Student Theater Advancing Growth and Empowerment) will present its inaugural event – An Evening for Art – on May 5 from 7 to 10 p.m. in Agassiz Theatre.

Under new leadership and boasting contributions from such eminent figures as John Ashbery, Seamus Heaney, Helen Vendler, John Updike, and David Mamet – and now with national recognition from the Best American series – the literary journal Harvard Review is emerging as a significant voice on the national literary scene. The journal, which features short…

Calling them a distinguished group of individuals who bring a broad range of talents and scholarly pursuits to the houses, Harry R. Lewis, dean of Harvard College, announced the appointment of new masters for three Harvard houses: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and his wife Patricia OBrien in Currier, Jay M. Harris and Cheryl Harris in…

Celebrating its 11th year, Arts First, Harvards annual celebration of students and faculty in the arts, lights up Harvard Square with performances, exhibits, and arts activities. From May 1 through May 4, Harvard welcomes the public to more than 225 music, theater, dance, film, and visual arts events (most free of charge). The festival is…

Filmmaker James Toback 66 was at the Harvard Film Archive last Friday (April 18) for the screening of his 1978 film Fingers.

From inside the 10th floor of Holyoke Center, photographer Stephanie Mitchell used a piece of paper to ask window washer Paul Werra his name. He obliged by soaping the window and writing his name with his finger – backward.

Two Harvard energy-saving initiatives were honored last week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for their efforts to increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by using computers more efficiently.

Ten Harvard undergraduates will lend their hands to causes such as slavery abolition, Middle Eastern peace, and aboriginal rights in a new human rights internship that will take them across the country and around the world – as far as Australia and East Timor.

The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) recognized its new group of fellows for 2003 at an April 13 ceremony in Washington, D.C. Among the group of 10 fellows, three Harvard faculty were named. They include Mary Jo Bane, Christopher Jencks, and Orlando Patterson.

New research from the Graduate School of Education (GSE) reveals that many schools are not organized to hire and support new teachers in ways that help them enter the profession smoothly and attain early success:

Adolescence, that betwixt-and-between age that bridges childhood and early adulthood, can be more than just awkward years of peer pressure, raging hormones, and changing identities. Those early teen years can be downright dangerous, as risk-taking behavior meets poor judgment with disastrous or even deadly outcomes.

Few spaces at Harvard are more burdened by symbols of the Universitys glorious past than the Barker Centers Thompson Room.

Cait Storks voice wavered as she addressed the audience in a Harvard Hall classroom, speaking clearly but cautiously about her battle with bipolar disorder and her high school suicide attempts.

Hey, very cool, commented more than one undergraduate entering Loker Commons recently and seeing Jeff Kosokoff, head of reference services at Lamont Library, sitting just inside the door. Kosokoff may claim these greetings were provoked by his winsome smile, but it may have had more to do with the sign on the table in front…

Following an intensive six-month international search, Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, was unanimously elected the first chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) by the 89 members of the ICCs governing Assembly of States Parties this past Tuesday (April 22).

Springfest 2003 is set for this weekend Rain or shine, Springfest 2003 – Harvard’s springtime carnival for the entire University community – will be held April 27 from noon to…

Graham Burt Blaine Jr., chief of psychiatry at University Health Services (UHS) from 1964 to 1971, died April 7 from complications arising from a stroke. He was 84.

Love makes it hard for Janis Forde to do what she does. Its also what keeps her at it.

The twin solar images glared from the screen in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics auditorium, green tinged with yellow, swirls of fire erupting from the surface.