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A multiyear physician survey on career fulfillment showed significant variation in satisfaction levels across local health-care markets, and it found that, nationally, 18 percent of physicians were somewhat or very dissatisfied, according to a study by researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) that appears in the Jan.…

Raymond P. Lavietes 36, a committed supporter of Harvard University Athletics, died on Jan. 12 at his winter home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 88.

The Iranian health-care system, which places a heavy emphasis on primary care, has dramatically increased life expectancy and lowered population growth since 1986, according to the vice chancellor of Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Associations (HAAs) candidates for the 2003 election to the Harvard Board of Overseers and the HAA Elected Directors. The election this spring will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA Elected Directors. Ballots will be mailed between April 1 and 15, and results of the election will be…

It has been said that history is written by the winners.

A memorial service for John Rawls, the James Bryant Conant University Professor Emeritus, will be held at Sanders Theatre on Feb. 27 at 3 p.m. A reception will follow in Loeb House, 17 Quincy St. Rawls died Nov. 24 at the age of 81.

President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Jan. 18. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Ca. January 1960 – Harvard announces plans to build a Center for the Study of World Religions near the Divinity School to replace a rented residence in Cambridge serving scholars…

At its eighth meeting of the year the Faculty Council reviewed with FAS Dean William C. Kirby a draft of his Annual Letter to the Faculty. The council also discussed with Associate Dean Jeffrey Wolcowitz (undergraduate education and economics) a proposed early course selection system. Finally, the council heard a report, from Wolcowitz, on the…

Reflected in one of the windows of Boylston Hall, Wigglesworth Hall appears to live up to its name.

Harvards 20/20/2000 program has helped generate about 1,700 units of affordable housing in its first three years, aiding in the creation of everything from homeless shelters to low-income rental housing to home ownership programs for middle-income residents.

In Woody Allens film, The Purple Rose of Cairo, a character from a 1930s movie walks off the screen and into the life of an audience member.

Archaeologist Ofer Bar-Yosef is an interpreter of ancient human history as told by barn owls, a sleuth in search of mankinds past, reading the ashes of campfires extinguished millennia ago and examining stone flakes for evidence of a human hand in their creation.

C. Douglas Dillon 31, LLD 59, the former U.S. treasury secretary and president of the Harvard Board of Overseers whose accomplishments spanned the realms of government, diplomacy, finance, economics, and art, died last Friday (Jan. 10) at age 93. Dillon had lengthy and distinguished careers in investment banking and public service, ultimately serving in the…

When Emily Famutimi 03 founded Keylatch Mentor for adolescents who had aged out of the South Ends Keylatch Afterschool Program that she directed, she took money from her own pocket, buying supplies as well as T tokens and movie tickets for the kids activities with their mentors.

Co-authors receive TIAA-CREF award The TIAA-CREF Institute, a research and education unit of TIAA-CREF, has announced that Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics John Y. Campbell and Assistant Professor of…

A team of astronomers led by Matthew Holman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and JJ Kavelaars (National Research Council of Canada) has discovered three previously unknown moons of Neptune. This finding boosts the number of known satellites of the gas giant to 11. These moons are the first to be discovered orbiting Neptune since the Voyager…

President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:

January may not be autumn, but its first two weeks envelop students in the fall reading period nonetheless. Its that almost-free-but-fretful time after the holiday break, when regular class sessions have ended but term papers are due and exams loom.

The Cambridge City Council unanimously approved an order last week to name a city square after the late Scott Sandberg – the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study building services coordinator who died in a November avalanche – in honor of his efforts to improve recycling.

Harvard set a recycling record in November, collecting 311 tons – the largest monthly volume ever and 34 percent of the Universitys total waste for that month, according to Rob Gogan, supervisor of recycling and waste management for Facilities Maintenance Operations.