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Harvard and seven other Greater Boston research universities took center stage this week in their role as the areas special economic advantage: magnets for talent and investment that infuse more than $7 billion into the regional economy each year. At a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast, leaders from the universities, including President Lawrence H.…

Teacher Cynthia Abatt of Cambridge waits by the Morpho Magic exhibit for her students to arrive for their visit to the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Medicine on December 18, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

What America bills as a War on Drugs at home is executed as a war on peasants in the Bolivian Andes, the leader of a peasant coalition told a Kennedy School of Government audience on Friday (Feb. 28).

The Boston Cameratas 2002-03 season concludes on March 14 at 8 p.m. with a colorful musical anthology titled O Triumphale Diamante: Music for Ferrara 1400-1500. Music for this concert is drawn from the brilliant court of 15th and 16th century Ferrara, Italy, and includes works by Guillaume Dufay and Josquin des Près. Music director Joel…

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…

For the next several weeks, the entire Harvard community will be getting de-stressed, balanced, massaged, yogad, and, one hopes, a good nights sleep.

Sandy Seleskys idea of fun is spending hours on her hands and knees, inching toward a covey of terns or sandpipers in the hope of snapping a few shots with her Nikon before they scatter and regroup farther down the beach.

Rotberg to deliver Rhodes Lecture Robert I. Rotberg, director of the Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict, Conflict Prevention, and Conflict Resolution, will deliver the first of this year’s Rhodes…

March 27, 1828 – Corporation Fellow Nathaniel Bowditch lambastes President John Thornton Kirkland, who has in practice ignored many recent cost-saving measures that Bowditch had set in motion. To everyone’s…

In an article about Heinz Award winners that appeared on page 10 of the Feb. 27 issue of the Gazette, Professor of Medical Anthropology Paul Farmer was not included as an award recipient because complete information had not been provided to the Gazette by press time. Farmer received the Heinz Award for the Human Condition…

In the Feb. 6 issue of the Gazette, in a page 7 article on literacy programs around the University, the Gazette neglected to properly credit authorship of a section of the article. The section dealing with the Department of Social Medicine Writing Seminar for International Postdoctoral Fellows was written by Robynn Maines, who teaches the…

Bishop Charles E. Blake, minister of the 20,000-member West Angeles Church of God In Christ in Los Angeles, was awarded the Harvard Foundation Humanitarian Medal on Feb. 27. The ceremony took place before a crowd of students, faculty, and members of the greater Cambridge community at Harvards Memorial Church. The event, sponsored by the Harvard…

At the end of the largest study of its kind to date, researchers have concluded that rheumatoid arthritis in women may double their risk of heart attacks.

You might expect John Malkovich to feel a sense of triumph at having finally brought The Dancer Upstairs to the screen. After all, it took eight years to get the film made, much of that time occupied with finding financial backing.

In February, a group of Harvard staff and affiliates visited the Far East – that is, the Harvard Neighbors space at the far eastern edge of Harvard Yard – to learn the Japanese art of bookbinding. Yayoi Witzel-Yoshida, who started the Japanese Culture interest group of Harvard Neighbors 10 years ago, and Japanese Culture stalwart…

The executive committee of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs awarded $220,000 this past December to a research team comprising four University faculty members to commence a long-term research project on International Human Capital Flows and their Effects on Developing Countries. This decision marked the centers fourth annual award of a Weatherhead Initiative grant, a…

Harold Amos, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Emeritus at Harvard Medical School (HMS), died Feb. 26. He was 84.

At one end of Lowell Houses stately dining room, as servers clear away the last vestiges of the nights meal, students are still arriving, shedding coats and changing shoes and studying musical scores. Beneath a truss hung with theatrical lights that surrounds the rooms awe-inspiring chandelier, they assemble on a plywood platform stage.

Does jazz belong to Louis Armstrong or Benny Goodman? Does Dr. Dre have more of a claim on hip-hop than Eminem?

The Harvard Black Mens Forum (BMF) will present the 2003 Woman of the Year Award to actress Phylicia A. Rashad, best known for her portrayal of a loving mother of five and high-powered attorney Claire Huxtable on televisions The Cosby Show. The award to Rashad is the highlight of the BMFs Ninth Annual Celebration of…

A faulty protein that interferes with the heart muscles ability to relax is one cause of congestive heart failure, Harvard geneticists found in a discovery that promises more precise treatment of a disease that afflicts 4.7 million Americans.

After chasing the Columbia Lions for 40 minutes this past Saturday night (March 1) at Lavietes Pavilion, an exhausted – and victorious – Harvard womens basketball team calmly took to center court, and proceeded to party like animals. Considering the past 24 hours, who could blame them?

Building on preliminary data, researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have documented that high folate (vitamin B-9) and vitamin B-6 levels may improve a womans chances of preventing breast cancer. Additionally, researchers observed that adequate folate levels may be particularly important for women who are at higher risk of breast cancer due to…

Samantha Power has been a bit overwhelmed by the attention she has been getting lately. A typical day for her includes one or more speaking engagements, an interview or two, and an inbox crammed with hundreds of e-mail messages. And all this on top of her teaching and research commitments.

Bok Center offering postdoc fellowship The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning is offering a half-time postdoctoral fellowship for the 2003-04 academic year to support a strong scholar familiar…

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 for the week ending March 1. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

At its 11th meeting of the year, the Faculty Council heard a report from Professor Jennifer Leaning (medicine and public health) on the work of the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard that she chairs. Present for this discussion were three members of the committee: Professor Everett Mendelsohn (history of science and Master emeritus…