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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…

Professor of History Ann Blair 84 tells of a 17th century German scholar who created a portable cabinet in which to store his notes. Hed jot notes on cards and hang them on alphabetical hooks in the cabinet, then rearrange them as he accumulated additional information.

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 Feb. 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A memorial service for Donald OHara, lecturer on biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology in the Department of Medicine, will be held Feb. 21 at 2 p.m. in the Faculty Room of Gordon Hall, Harvard Medical School. University faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend.

Feb. 9, 1970 – About 100 individuals take part in an SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) demonstration protesting the presence of a U.S. Army recruiter at the Office of…

A herd of bicycles is covered by one of the innumerable snowshowers of recent weeks.

A good-natured Whitney – er, Anjelica – Huston took a ribbing as well as a faux beating Thursday (Feb. 6) to earn her pudding pot as this years Woman of the Year for the nations oldest collegiate drama troupe, Harvards Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

To true believers, the opening round of this past Monday’s (Feb. 3) Beanpot tournament at the FleetCenter started auspiciously for the Harvard men’s hockey team.

A largely unheralded meeting is under way in Europe that some say is akin to a constitutional convention for a slowly emerging supernation but that experts at a Harvard conference Friday (Jan. 31) said is unlikely to produce startling changes in the European Union.

Nima Arkani-Hamed is searching exotic places for clues to questions about our universes construction and the gravitational glue that holds it together.

For a long time, scientists have wondered why blacks seldom get skin cancer or macular degeneration, the major cause of blindness in elderly white people. Experiments at the Childrens Hospital in Boston have yielded one possible answer – the black pigment called melanin apparently protects them in a peculiar way.