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Robert C. Clark will conclude his service as dean of Harvard Law School at the end of the 2002-03 academic year, he announced Nov. 25.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation of Menlo Park, Calif., has awarded $1.25 million to the Harvard University Library (HUL) to support the librarys Open Collections program. The new, Harvard-wide program reflects the Universitys long-term commitment to the creation of comprehensive, subject-based digital resources that link throughout the Harvard library system. Once created, these new…

Showing visitors around the Fogg Art Museums current exhibit Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, curator Marjorie Cohn pauses at a brass sculpture by Eduardo Paolozzi. Lois kept this in her garden, explains Cohn, the Foggs Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, and a wasps nest was discovered in it while mounting the sculpture…

The environment was his passion, both professionally and privately. Scott Sandberg, 32, a building services coordinator for four years at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, was killed Friday (Nov. 29) in a surprise avalanche at Tuckerman Ravine on New Hampshires Mount Washington.

If the Harvard Gazette ever decides to send me to Amsterdam as a correspondent for Dutch affairs, I want to live in the Borneo Sporenburg residential development.

What is the hidden factor behind the gains women have made in the labor market since the 1970s? Claudia Goldin believes its the birth control pill.

Hitting the hardwood running, the Harvard womens basketball team – picked by the pundits as the official team to beat in the Ivies – took its first spill of the season on Dec. 1, dropping a 84-44 decision to No. 7 Vanderbilt. Playing in the title game of the First Tennessee Tournament in Nashville, the…

HBS professor named book prize recipient The Harriman Institute at Columbia University has named Rawi Abdelal, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, the recipient of the 2002…

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers met with Francisco Santos, vice president of Colombia, on Nov. 22. Santos (seated) signs the guest book in Massachusetts Hall as Summers looks on. (Staff photo by Kris Snibbe)

According to a report taken by the Massachusetts State Police, on Nov. 20, between approximately 6:40 and 6:50 p.m., a Harvard undergraduate was the victim of an armed robbery in JFK Park. The student reported that while he was walking through the park, three individuals asked him the time and then assaulted him. One of…

I underwent radiation treatment for prostate cancer in 1996, so I was startled to come across a recent report that predicts who among men like myself would still be alive after 10 years.

More than 300 children and their families filled the galleries of the Sackler Museum on a recent Saturday (Nov. 23) to learn about ancient fun and games and entertainment. They listened to the Japanese Tales of Genji told by Cambridge librarian Daryl Mark, knelt on the floor to play the Roman game of Knucklebones, watched…

The Kennedy School of Governments Forum of Public Affairs at Harvard University will be named in honor of John F. Kennedy Jr., announced Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. The Kennedy School Forum, which will be renovated during the summer of 2003 through a gift from the Institute of Politics (IOP), will be dedicated…

Harold Howe II, U.S. commissioner of education during the Johnson administration and senior lecturer emeritus at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), died Nov. 29 in Hanover, N.H. He was 84.

Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have found that children with a family history of asthma or allergies may face significantly higher risk of persistent wheezing and asthma later in childhood when bottle-fed in the bed or crib before sleep time. These findings are published in the Dec. 2 issue of the Journal of…

Standing in front of the row of homes on Hano Street in Allston where she has lived since 1966, Minnie Walcott paused for a moment as her voice thickened with tears. I raised three daughters here, and now my grandchildren come back to visit me, she told the crowd assembled to celebrate the recent renovation…

Emily Mann, artistic director of the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, N.J., will give a lecture titled Documentary Theater on Monday (Dec. 9) at 4 p.m. This event, the second in the Deans Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, is co-sponsored by the American Repertory Theatre.

A computer technology that already shows people what the world looks like has the power to help transform it into a better, more sustainable, and easier-to-manage place, speakers at a symposium on Geographical Information Systems said last month.

How does the sun shine? John Bahcall, visiting professor of astrophysics at Princeton University and Richard Black Professor of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., will explain on Wednesday (Dec. 11) at 4 p.m. His talk is the first in the Super Cluster Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for…

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced that Srivatsa Krishna, a masters of business administration degree candidate at Harvard Business School where he is currently on sabbatical, has been selected to the 2003 class of Global Leaders For Tomorrow (GLT). Each year, after an impartial and extensive global consultation and nomination process, WEF selects 100…

Noel Fahey, Irelands ambassador to the United States, visited Harvard Nov. 20 as a guest of the Celtic Department. Fahey, who served formerly as ambassador to Germany, presented his credentials to President Bush in Sept. of this year.