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Corn, butterflies, and the media were center stage at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Nov. 21 at a conference that examined the medias role in keeping the public informed – or frightened – about the growing presence of biotechnology in food production.

Members of the Harvard faculty and community, including President Lawrence H. Summers, joined the Harvard Islamic Society Nov. 22 at sunset at the groups Faculty Iftar, or communal breaking of the fast of Ramadan.

Lawrence H. Summers, president of Harvard University, and William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), announced today that W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Skip Gates Jr., will continue as chair of the Afro-American Studies Department and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research…

The number of applicants for Early Action admission to Harvard College has risen 24 percent above last years record 6,128 to a total of 7,615. The academic quality of the pool is impressive. For example, 64 percent of the applicants average 1,400 or more on the combined SAT verbal and math test.

An explosive third quarter lifted the Harvard football team past Yale on Nov. 23, to hand the Crimson a 20-13 Harvard Stadium victory in the 119th playing of The Game. Facing 35-mph winds, Harvard activated its ground attack in scoring a trio of touchdowns in the third quarter to overwhelm the Elies. Harvard finished its…

Shareholder Responsibility report is now available The 2002 Annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a subcommittee of the president and fellows, is now available upon request…

He has a room named after him. And a cajun-spiced burger in the cafeteria. But Ronnie Levesque isnt a movie star, a rock singer, or any other kind of celebrity. Hes the superintendent of Quincy House.

John Rawls, the James Bryant Conant University Professor Emeritus, whose 1971 book, A Theory of Justice argued persuasively for a society based on equality and individual rights, died Nov. 24 at the age of 81.

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 the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 30. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Dec. 6-7, 1941 – Harvard faculty, government officials, and labor delegates convene at the Business School for a conference on Labor and National Defense. It is believed to be the first meeting of its kind in the nation.

The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations will present a daylong conference on Saturday (Dec. 7) from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Harvard Hall, Room 202, titled Disparities in Minority Healthcare: Reaching Out to the Community. The student-directed conference will address a wide range of health-care issues facing impoverished American communities, including Native…

At its sixth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed recent free speech issues in the faculty. The dean of the Faculty, Professor William Kirby (history), and the dean of Undergraduate Education, Professor Benedict Gross (mathematics), also updated the council on the Curricular Review. Additionally the dean of the College, Professor Harry Lewis (DEAS),…

The Harvard University English Department resolved on Nov. 19 to renew its invitation to Tom Paulin to give a poetry reading, under the Morris Gray Lectureship. The faculty members present, constituting nearly the entire department, approved this decision with no opposing votes. There were two abstentions.

Stenciled graffiti on Mt. Auburn Street is clearly designed to ease the nagging doubts in this strollers mind.

Author of ‘A Theory of Justice’ was James Bryant Conant University Professor Emeritus

The ARCO Forum at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government will be renamed the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, it was announced on Monday, Nov. 25. The forum will be renovated during the summer of 2003 and dedicated in the fall of next year. On Monday, Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. (left)…

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

The number of applicants for Early Action admission to Harvard College has risen 24 percent above last year’s record 6,128 to a total of 7,615. The academic quality of the pool is impressive. For example, 64 percent of the applicants average 1,400 or more on the combined SAT verbal and math test.

Harvard is dishing up another helping of community service with its annual Pie in the Sky effort. On Sunday (Nov. 24), more than 50 staff members and their families from Dining Services and the Office of Human Resources (OHR) will bake and box 1,750 pies. The massive volunteer effort supports Community Servings, which sells the…

The coming expansion of the European Union to include 10 Eastern and Central European countries will fulfill an age-old dream of European unification and add vitality and energy to the organization, the ambassadors of four candidate nations said last week.

Thalidomide, DES (stilbsestrol), the Dalkon shield, hormone replacement therapy. The names of these high-profile medical blunders were enough to make the point. ABC News analyst Cokie Roberts in a few seconds captured a central factor in the erosion of trust in the health care system.

In a recent, lively discussion in the Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall, three professors from Yale, Brown, and Columbia universities described how their schools educate their undergraduates. Their philosophies of education ran the gamut, representing different worldviews on what a college education is all about.