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While working on his masters thesis in history at the Sorbonne in Paris, Gaston Kaboré, a filmmaker from Burkina Faso in West Africa, made a decision that would change his life.

Harvard Law School Dean Robert Clark has announced the establishment of the Hale and Dorr Professorship of Intellectual Property Law. A reception in honor of this professorship was held yesterday (Oct. 23) at the Law School.

To U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Paul ONeill, theres no better way to demonstrate corporate values and leadership than by keeping your employees safe.

One day after President Bush signed a measure authorizing him to use military force against Iraq, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol and former CIA director John Deutch publicly debated the question: Should the United States attack Iraq now?

When a faculty committee at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) convened last year to choose four books that everyone in the Ed School community would read and discuss, there was one irrefutable rule: no books by current or recent faculty members could make the list.

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) is the hub of the Kennedy School of Governments (KSGs) research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, science and technology policy, and conflict studies.

Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) professors stood conventional dietary wisdom on its head Friday (Oct. 18) by singling out for praise that burger-slapping, french-fry-pushing, soda-sloshing American icon, McDonalds.

Senior forward Joey Yennes goal and assist erased a 2-0 deficit against Yale this past Saturday (Oct. 19) at Ohiri Field, but not before Yales Kate Ling sealed the game with just under two and a half minutes remaining in the match to give the Bulldogs a 3-2 win. The loss drops Harvard to 6-5-1,…

This year marked the 38th Head of the Charles Regatta, an event that draws school crews and rowing clubs from around the world. Some 6,000 rowers converged on the noble river on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 19 and 20. From the banks of the Charles and the bridges (seven in all) above it, a crowd…

Tennis pro Patrick McEnroe came to the Murr Center for an afternoon of tennis and tenacity with area inner city kids on Saturday (Oct. 19). Tenacity is an organization founded to bring tennis to urban kids in the Boston area. The organization is unique because it includes an academic component in its program. Tenacity reaches…

After marching 81 yards in the waning minutes of last Saturdays contest of regional supremacy at the stadium, the Harvard football team suddenly found itself hot on the heels of the Northeastern Huskies. That is, until they tripped.

Harvard Business School Press (HBS Press) and the Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) recently announced that they will develop a cobranded line of books focusing on leadership for the common good. David Gergen, public service professor and director of the Center for Public Leadership, and Barbara Kellerman, lecturer…

Tufts Universitys Global Development and Environment Institute (G-DAE) announced this month that it is awarding its third annual economics prize to Alice Amsden of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dani Rodrik of Harvard for their path-breaking work on globalization and the role of the state in development. They will receive their awards at a…

I just keep these for old times sake, says entomologist Louis Roth, pulling a box from the shelf above his desk in a small office in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ).

Author Plotkin to talk at Science Center Ethnobotanist and author Mark Plotkin, A.B.E. ’79, will discuss his new book, “The Killers Within: The Rise of Deadly, Drug-Resistant Bacteria” (co-authored with…

Wilson’s famed novel is re-released “The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit,” the novel by Sloan Wilson ’42 that seemed to capture the mood of a generation when it was…

A snippet from the childrens book Frog and Toad are Friends is posted on the bulletin board outside David Laibsons Littauer Center office.

A memorial service for David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, will be held at the Memorial Church on Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. Riesman, best known…

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 Oct. 19. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Oct. 19, 1869 – At the meetinghouse of First Church, Unitarian, Charles William Eliot is formally installed as Harvard’s 21st President. From the outset, Eliot’s 105-minute address delineates his broad…

At its fourth meeting of the year the Faculty Council heard updates on the Freshman Seminar Program (from program director Elizabeth Doherty), and on the implementation of the 2001-02 legislation on grading practices (from deans J. Wolcowitz and J. OKeefe [Undergraduate Education]). The council also considered minor textual changes in the facultys Procedures for the…

A Harvard student has died of a mysterious illness with flu-like symptoms, and three others are in the hospital with what appear to be similar symptoms.

Authors, economists, social scientists, and CEOs will discuss a range of historical and contemporary issues surrounding women in bankruptcy, poverty, and economic development around the world, as part of the Radcliffe Institutes Women, Money, and Power conference on Oct. 24-25.

Nineteen international affairs practitioners from around the world have been appointed as fellows at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs for the academic year 2002-03. Established in 1958, the fellows program welcomes mid- to senior-level diplomats, military officers, politicians, journalists, and others working in the realm of international affairs to pursue independent study and research…

The Judge Baker Childrens Center is sponsoring a weekend conference on Oct. 25-27 to address how academic and social failure of youth and adolescents can be prevented if the necessary steps are taken early in childrens lives. Risk and Resilience: Protective Mechanisms and School-Based Prevention Programs is being held in partnership with the Substance Abuse…

The Rwandan genocide memorial was a tiny one-room church, pervaded still by a penetrating stench. On a table in the church was a pile of human skulls and femurs, a startling reminder of the people who sought shelter there in 1994 when the killers came calling.

Welcoming National Public Radio (NPR) senior European correspondent Sylvia Poggioli to an overflow-capacity brown-bag lunch at the Kennedy School of Government on Oct. 11, Shorenstein Center Director Alex Jones issued two warnings to the audience.