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Theres a well-worn refrain among Harvards most dedicated student volunteers and its legions of alumni who pursue careers as public service leaders: Phillips Brooks House Association was the best course I took at Harvard.

February 1, 2003

Harvard University, together with Yale University, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and Duke University, has filed an amicus brief in the Michigan cases pending before the United States Supreme Court. The brief supports the right of institutions of higher education to consider race as one factor…

It was a quiet, bright, snow-blanketed Saturday morning (Feb. 8), the kind that keeps most college students snug in warm beds until late. But inside Malkin Athletic Center, some of Harvards women athletes were already working up a sweat while awaiting the arrival of an important team – young girls from Allston-Brighton, East Boston, and…

The audience at the Feb. 7 concert by the Boys Choir of Harlem never would have guessed that the performers were all suffering from fatigue if they hadnt been told so by the choirs founder and director, Walter J. Turnbull.

Reviewing books can be a thankless task. To do the job conscientiously requires many hours of attentive reading, perhaps additional hours of collateral research if one is not an expert on the subject, followed by an often agonizing session of massaging an unruly cluster of reactions into a cogent, accessible, and impossibly brief piece of…

Jackie ONeill, who has spent nearly a decade as staff director in Massachusetts Hall, has been appointed director of communications and external relations for the Allston Initiative. She began her duties this week.

You always hear people say, If scientists can send men to the Moon, why cant they find a way for us to eat what we want and not get fat? And why cant they invent a pill that will extend our lives?

Nine new fellows, including two Kennedy School of Government (KSG) alumni and members of the faculty of Tsinghua University in China, will join 23 returning and senior fellows at the Schools Center for Business and Government (CBG) this spring.

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced that the Harvard Vocarium is included in the first annual selection of 50 recordings that will be placed in the National Recording Registry.

Behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the war in Afghanistan, the worldwide manhunt for al Qaeda, and the looming war in Iraq lies a history of terrorism both broader and deeper than one gets from reading the front pages and listening to the news headlines.

An anonymous donor has established a new fellowship fund in the Film Study Center memorializing an artist whom many regard as the worlds greatest practitioner of aerial photography.

The Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is acquiring the Elizabeth David papers. The foremost British food writer of her day and author of nine definitive books, David, who was born in 1913 and died in 1992, helped reawaken the postwar British palate while educating, through authentic recipes and compelling investigation, a…

The Harvard University Library (HUL) has announced that researchers using HOLLIS – the Harvard Online Library Information System – can now search for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean materials in their original scripts. This new search feature is readily available to users whose desktops have been adapted for CJK scripts. It supplements and does not replace…

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study launched its fifth annual Voices of Public Intellectuals lecture series Thursday night (Feb. 6) with the first of three explorations of women and the law. Linda Kerber, a professor at the University of Iowa and a current Radcliffe Fellow, spoke on the Asymmetry of Citizenship.

Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow, an exhibit of 26 paintings by the African-American artist, will be on view from Feb. 15 through May 4 at Harvards Sert Gallery in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. From the portraits and cityscapes he did in New Yorks Greenwich Village in the 1940s, to the abstract work…

On behalf of Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the School of Dental Medicine, the Joint Committee on the Status of Women seeks nominations for two distinguished awards that support women faculty and staff.

CSWR summer grants available The Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School has announced that it is now accepting applications for its 2003 summer grants, which…

Stauffer wins Lincoln Prize John Stauffer, associate professor of English and American civilization, was named a winner of Gettysburg College’s 13th annual Lincoln and E-Lincoln Prizes, given to the best…

Authors Jamaica Kincaid and Andrea Lee 81 kicked the W.E.B. Du Bois Institutes Black Writers Reading series off to a rousing start Wednesday evening (Feb. 5), bringing a standing-room-only crowd to the Barker Centers Thompson Room. The women, who were contemporaries on The New Yorker staff and who both have daughters entering Harvards class of…

Taking aim at a phenomenon he has termed patriotism lite, Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) told an audience at the Kennedy School Forum on Monday night (Feb. 10) that Americans must think seriously about who will be doing the fighting and who will be doing the dying if the United States goes to war in Iraq.…

Chilly commuters wait outside of Lamont Library for a bus to the medical area in Boston.

Like other employers across the country, Harvard is adjusting to the prospect that members of its faculty and staff who are reservists or members of the National Guard may be called to active duty. To provide Harvard employees with additional protection from financial loss if they are activated, President Lawrence H. Summers has announced that…

From a discussion on reinstituting the military draft at the Kennedy School of Government to public polls on smallpox safety at the School of Public Health, Harvard is taking the nations pulse on the looming war in Iraq.

With the Feb. 2 meet fresh on their minds – a 179-175 loss to Princeton – the Harvard menrs swimming and diving team left plenty of breathing room between themselves and visiting Cornell and Dartmouth this past Saturday (Feb. 8). So much, in fact, that the Crimson managed a pair of sweeps against their Ivy…

After 20 minutes of hockey in the Beanpot title game this past Tuesday (Feb. 11), it looked as if the visiting Boston College womens hockey team – down just two goals against the nations No.1 team – had recovered from its 17-2 spanking delivered by the Crimson just two weeks prior. That is, until freshman…

Geoff Nyarota, a journalist forced to flee Zimbabwe after he was removed as the editor of the nations only independent newspaper, has been appointed a Nieman Fellow.

Lisa Simpson designs and makes costumes for the Gold Dust Orphans, a theater company that puts on plays with titles such as Joan of Arkansas, Scarrie (with apologies to Stephen King), Joan Crawfords Christmas on the Pole, and the groups newest offering, The Ebonic Woman.

Anton wants into the act as his mother, first-time quilter Melanie Stoehr, puts the finishingtouches on a quilt, one of her Harvard Neighbors Quilting Bee group projects. The Valentine Quilt, along with more than a dozen others, will go to a local hospital.

Six entries have been chosen as finalists for the 2003 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, which is awarded each year by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The winner of the $25,000 prize will be named at an awards ceremony on…