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Community after-school providers at a recent forum held at the Business School learned about current research on how to improve academic achievement and the positive development of children through after-school programs. The Dec. 6 forum was sponsored by Bostons After-School for All Partnership, the Program in Afterschool Education and Research at the Harvard Graduate School…

The Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) has announced the recipients of its 2002 Faculty Research Project Awards. As part of its mission to promote cross-disciplinary and cross-faculty research, the HUCE instituted this annual awards competition for teams of Harvard researchers who are looking to address environmental issues of global concern. The awards are…

The Nigerian riots sparked by the Miss World Pageant brought global attention to the deep divisions between the nations largely Muslim north and the Christian-dominated south, highlighting regional differences that have some wondering whether Africas most populous nation can survive.

The Office for the Arts (OFA) has announced its sponsorship of 44 creative projects to be held at Harvard University next spring by students in dance, music, theater, literature, and more. Projects include visual art exhibitions in the Science Center, new student publications, music projects and performances, and both classic and student-written theater pieces.

According to Sir Crispin Tickell, the longtime British diplomat and leader in the debate on global climate change, there is indeed something new under the sun. Human activity is changing the natural environment in unprecedented, profound, and dangerous ways. If our species and millions of others are to survive, Tickell says, we must drastically change…

Two Harvard seniors have accepted Marshall Scholarships that will take them to Britain next year to study computer science and social anthropology.

The Lowest Common Denominators lead guitarists office isnt what one imagines for a rock musician. Books are neatly arranged on shelves around his desk, theres tasteful art on the wall, and photos of his kids are lined up on the windowsill.

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 (HUPD) for the week ending Dec. 7. The official log is located at 1060 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

At the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts Thursday (Dec. 5), slides of the work of Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo conveyed their powerful, horrible beauty: Womens worn shoes roughly sutured behind a thin membrane of animal skin … armoires filled with concrete … a battered cabinet with a zipper between its gaping seams … wooden desk…

The Board of Directors of Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. (HSA), has elected Abhishek Gupta 04 as president for the upcoming fiscal year. He will begin his term Feb. 1, 2003, and he will lead the corporation for one year.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 12, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

In the upcoming months, getting into the administrative offices in the Holyoke Center will take a little extra effort. But once there, employees and visitors will be much safer.

Analysis of available data suggests that Chlamydia pneumoniae, which causes walking pneumonia, may contribute to atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and its complications, such as heart attack and stroke, according to a paper in the Dec. 4 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

The following students were selected as the Senior 48 by the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Harvard College:

Postmenopausal women who have taken hormone replacement therapy in the past were 50 percent less likely to develop the blinding disease related to advanced age called maculopathy (ARM), as compared with women who never used hormone therapy.

Just a few hours before showtime, Macbeth was undergoing some last-minute plastic surgery.

Build a better mobile home and the world probably wont beat a path to your door because chances are youll have pulled up stakes and moved on. But since your e-mail address will remain the same, theyre sure to find you that way.

Outside the Science Center, at Harvards very own version of Stonehenge, snow-capped boulders make for a surreal landscape.

Harvard has historically engaged alumni on a school-by-school basis. Those who graduate from one school have the opportunity to learn about its activities get to know its faculty, academic leaders, and fellow alumni and are encouraged to support its priorities. Alumni who graduated from the College, the Business School, and the Law School, in particular,…

Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) in Boston have determined that obesity is a measurable risk factor for stroke in men, and have calculated that risk in terms of the popular equation used to measure obesity, known as the Body Mass Index, or BMI.

HOLLIS unavailable on 27th The Harvard University Library (HUL) has announced that the HOLLIS Catalog will be unavailable from 4 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Friday (Dec. 27). HOLLIS will…

Harvard employees currently paid on a semimonthly basis will find something extra in their first paychecks when they switch to biweekly pay in January – an advance equal to nine days pay without taxes or deductions.

MVP Morris named top senior Harvard wide receiver Carl Morris ’03 – named the Ivy League’s most valuable player for the second consecutive season – received the Harry Agganis/Harold Zimman…

Thirty years ago, when Emily Mann 74 was an undergraduate directing plays at the Loeb Drama Center, someone told her that as a woman, she couldnt possibly have a career as a playwright and theater director. Had she considered childrens theater?

There are those who say America is losing its regional identity, that theres no more difference between Spokane and Spotsylvania, Klamath Falls and King of Prussia than there is between fast-food stops along the interstate. They say the mass media has homogenized our culture, making us all look the same, dress the same, act the…

There were just enough moments of dazzle and dominance in this past Saturdays (Dec. 7) womens hockey match-up at the Bright Hockey Center that host Harvard appeared to be playing against an ice version of the Washington Generals – that hapless squad of fall guys made infamous by the Harlem Globetrotters. Though for the No.…

Matthew Shair takes his inspiration from nature. The recently tenured professor of chemistry and chemical biology tries to solve natures mysteries and learn enough in the process to improve upon the mother of life. His work is called biomimetic synthesis, mimicking the way that life works by mixing chemicals in a laboratory.

At the Askwith Education Forum at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Friday (Dec. 6), Al Gore introduced himself as the former next president of the United States and closed with a cautious endorsement of the electoral college system that kept him from that post in 2000.

Dear Colleagues, I am writing to bring to your attention a Harvard initiative concerning scholars who face persecution…