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Tim Garvin, vice president and executive director of the Central Branch of the YMCA of Greater Boston, describes a childs life as a triangle. The child is in the middle of the triangle, Garvin says, surrounded and supported by the childs school, family, and larger community.

To complement its museum exhibit Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study gathered scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the intellectual, political, and cultural context of Women, Money, and Power Oct. 24 and 25.

Susan B. Marine has been named Harvard Colleges first coordinator of Sexual Assault Prevention Services, a position jointly created by the College and the Office of the Provost. Marine, who brings impressive experience from the private and public sectors, will oversee all student education related to sexual assault, its prevention, and resources for victims of…

The Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard (CASAH) was created in May 2002, under the joint auspices of Harvard College and the Office of the Provost, to help ensure that students have access to the most effective range of educational programming, preventive measures, and support services related to sexual violence on campus. This 11-member…

Prior to the recent football game against Northeastern, President Lawrence H. Summers joined more than 500 Allston-Brighton residents for a pre-game lunch. Summers (center) is pictured with several local residents, including Barbara and Gus OBrien (far left), Barbara Pecci (next to Summers), John Bruno, Paul Berkeley, and Kevin McCluskey (far right), Harvards director of Community…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 26. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Dennis Thompson’s timely book on elections published Professor of Government and the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis F. Thompson’s new book “Just Elections: Creating a Fair Electoral…

Eva Laier 04 studied the roars of monkeys in Ugandas rainforest. Peter Hopkins 04 chatted up Serena Williams at Wimbledon. In Costa Rica, Jesse Rokicki 03 went for a week without a shower.

She is the reason my heart beats.

Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union, will speak on “Looking Back on Perestroika” at Harvard University at 4pm on Monday, November 11.

The head of the Ford Foundations South Asia operation, Gowher Rizvi, has been selected as director of the new Institute for Government Innovation at the Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced earlier this week. Rizvi is scheduled to begin his new duties this month.

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH), Trinity College, and the Dublin Institute of Technology in Dublin, Ireland, examined the effect of a 1990 ban on coal sales and coal burning in Dublin on death rates in the city for six years before and after the ban was implemented. The study found that…

In a classroom in Pound Hall at the Harvard Law School (HLS), HLS student Yael Bar-Ilan is making her case. The good faith doctrine, a fundamental maxim of American contract law, is a dynamic tool with no autonomous content, she says.

Those looking for the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) entered a nondescript stairwell and had to climb three flights to find what they were looking for.

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass, leading philanthropists of American secondary and higher education, recently gave Harvard $7 million to endow two professorships in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Government scholar Michael J. Sandel will serve as the first Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor. The second professorship will be named in…

Justin Pasquariello 01, who was raised in foster care, speaks at the groundbreaking for Bostons Hope. A foster care and adoption program, Bostons Hope will not only provide new, affordable housing in Dorchester, it will also provide a program aimed at building permanent support for kids whove had multiple foster care placements. Listening are (from…

One of the biggest mysteries of biology is how humans and other animals get their shapes. For example, why do most people have their heart on the left side? A few humans have it on the right side, and they apparently suffer no ill effects. In fact, some people have all their visceral organs reversed.…

Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union, will speak on ‘Looking Back on Perestroika’ at Harvard University at 4pm on Monday, November 11.

What comes to mind when you think of Halloween? Pumpkins? Witches? Black cats? Five-year-olds in Spiderman masks proffering open shopping bags while their mothers lurk anxiously in the shadows?

Back in the technological dark ages, before travelers could download turn-by-turn directions prior to setting out for an unfamiliar address or switch on their Global Positioning Systems to help them find their way in a foreign city, motorists relied on maps, those fluttering sheets of paper that unfolded to the size of a bedsheet, contained…

Thirty-two foreign scholars and professionals have been named Fulbright Scholar Program grant recipients for the 2002-03 academic year. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, participating governments, and host institutions in the United States and abroad, these grants allow scholars from across the globe to lecture or conduct research at the University. In addition, five…

In a study assessing the impact of specific type and intensity of exercise and the risk of coronary heart disease among men, researchers from the School of Public Health (SPH) have found that men who train with weights, run, jog, row, or walk briskly, show the most significantly reduced risk of coronary heart disease (CHD)…

Sophomore Dennis Chira (left) speaks with Mark Gaipa, preceptor and an editor of Exposé Magazine, which features the best work of students who participated in the Expository Writing Program. The two are at the annual celebratory lunch at the Harvard Faculty Club. Chiras essay, Breaking with Our British Brethren: The Declaration of Independence Revisited, was…