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DePinho selected AACR award recipient The American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) has named Professor of Medicine and Genetics Ronald A. DePinho as the recipient of its 43rd annual AACR-G.H.A.…

Due to an increase in homeland security alert status, which was recently raised to code orange, or high, because of the heightened probability of war in Iraq, Harvard has increased visible security on campus and urges faculty and students to check travel advisories, especially students who plan to travel over spring break and particularly those…

It was like finding a four-leaf clover. This year’s Daffodil Day bloomed on St. Patrick’s Day and was rewarded with the biggest yield ever.

Elegant facts await me. Small things in this world are mine, recited Elizabeth Alexander as she spoke her poem about the Venus Hottentot. If language is a currency that grants acquisition, then Alexander and her fellow reader, Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks, have joint ownership of small things and large insights.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Divinity on February 24, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

A cost-savings and efficiency initiative begun by President Lawrence H. Summers has begun to bear fruit in the first University-wide preferred provider program, which would save a projected $2 million to $3 million annually.

The Institute for Government Innovation at Harvards Kennedy School of Government has announced that 15 groundbreaking initiatives have been named finalists for the Innovations in American Government Award. Each of the 15 finalists, eligible to win $100,000, will receive a $10,000 grant to support replication activities.

Harvard&s Pluralism Project invites students in the comparative study of religion, anthropology, sociology, history, government, and other academic fields to participate in research on the changing contours of American religious life. Undergraduates and graduate students with academic backgrounds in the Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jain, or Sikh traditions and/or in other relevant academic fields are encouraged…

The Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government has announced the availability of one doctoral fellowship for the 2003-04 academic year. The fellowship, open to any student in good standing in a Harvard doctoral or advanced- degree program, is designed to provide the successful applicant the opportunity to complete and/or make significant…

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the fourth funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. The fund is made possible through the generous support of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. A KSG faculty committee will consider applications for small one-year grants (up to $30,000) to support advanced research by…

Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966) was perhaps the most influential theatrical designer in the first decades of the 20th century, and was known for using nonrealistic, symbolist design rather than sentimentality in his creations. A master at the art of woodcut engravings, a publisher, editor, book illustrator, and essayist, Craigs passions covered many art forms, but…

Calling himself a traitor to Frances peaceful position on Iraq, yet not on board for Americas looming war, Doctors Without Borders founder Bernard Kouchner said it is the Iraqi people – machine-gunned, gassed, and murdered by the hundreds of thousands – who are forgotten in the debate.

A new study, prepared by two Harvard University professors, indicates public support for racial profile screening of airline passengers to reduce the risks of terrorism if such screening reduces significant flight delays passengers would otherwise experience.

Revelations about Irans nuclear power program have added to the Bush administrations foreign policy headaches, but Harvard experts said Wednesday (March 12) that the solution lies in pragmatic, not ideological, dealings with Iran.

President Lawrence H. Summers and Peter G. Rowe, dean of the Faculty of Design, are pleased to announce that the President and Fellows of Harvard College have established the Gerald M. McCue Professorship of Architecture in the Faculty of Design. The chair has been endowed by a generous gift from Frank Stanton to advance design…

Adults over age 65 who consume between one and six alcoholic beverages each week have a lower risk of dementia than either nondrinkers or heavier drinkers, according to findings that appear in the March 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

This is Mary Dyers last day on Earth. Next morning, she will be hanged from the great elm on Boston Common for the crime of being a Quaker. She does not fear death. In fact, this is the third time she has returned to Boston from the more tolerant colony of Rhode Island for the…

For the 2003-2004 academic year, Harvards package of undergraduate tuition, room, board, and student fees will increase by 5.5 percent, to $37,928. Costs include: tuition, $26,066 room rate, $4,706 board, $4,162 health services fee, $1,142 and student services fee, $1,852.

A $1 million gift from Merck Research Laboratories to Harvard Universitys Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) will create three new opportunities for research, fellowships, and summer school genomics education. The gift will be distributed over five years to fund three separate departmental and interdepartmental programs.

Most people think of genes as molecules that make you more or less fit for survival. In healthy people, genomes are seen as well-functioning machines where all the parts work together for a common good.

Harvard graduate students Gilles Serra (left) and Yuuko Uchikoshi watch as Kevin Carr, a housing coordinator in the Cronkhite Center, runs on a treadmill as part of a relay marathon to benefit the family of the late Scott Sandberg. Sandberg, a building services coordinator at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, died Nov. 29, 2002,…

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

March 13, 1943 – Harvard’s undergraduate foreign-language requirement expands. Students could previously fulfill the requirement only by demonstrating a reading knowledge of French or German (with knowledge of both recommended).…

At its 12th meeting of the year, Dean William C. Kirby discussed with the Faculty Council the preparations that have been made, or are under consideration, in the Faculty in response to the situation in the Middle East. The assistant dean of the Faculty for Physical Resources, Michael Lichten, and the special assistant to the…

Harry R. Lewis, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, will conclude his service as dean of Harvard College on June 30. Lewis has served in this position since July 1995. He will remain as a member of the Faculty with the additional title of Harvard College Professor, an honor given to the most dedicated teachers…

Rebuilding Iraq after Saddam Hussein is defeated will be a job of enormous magnitude and one for which Americans have not been adequately prepared.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 11, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

On a fundraising trip to southern Florida last week, President Lawrence H. Summers dropped into Hialeah High School, an urban, mostly Latino public school in Miami-Dade County that, until recently, was sending just over half its graduates to college.

By the time the dignified gent in top hat and coattails strolled forward to greet the crowd, nearly 100 people had packed into the Gutman Conference Center. Good evening, senators, and welcome to the session of the Massachusetts State Legislature.

Frank Batten, a member of the Harvard Business School (HBS) Class of 1952 and a visionary entrepreneur and business leader who built Norfolk, Va.-based Landmark Communications, Inc., into a multimedia enterprise consisting of dozens of newspapers and specialty publications, several television stations, and The Weather Channel, has donated $32 million to the School.