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Tied 3-3 at the end of regulation in NCAA regional action last month against the University of Maine, the Harvard mens hockey team was very much in their element. After pulling out three straight overtime wins in playoff action against Brown, Clarkson, and Cornell, the Crimsons last few outings have appeared preordained. Yet Harvards postseason…

Each month Harvard adds up to 100 new phone numbers to its existing records. As a result of this ongoing expansion, the University Information Systems (UIS) Telecommunications group has acquired a new exchange in the 617 area code. The new exchange, 998, was implemented for use in the telephone-dialing plan across the University.

Elliot Forbes has been attending Morning Service in Appleton Chapel since 1958, the year he became a Harvard professor. It was an older colleague, Mason Hammond, who persuaded Forbes to join the group of celebrants who gather every morning from 8:45 to 9 for prayer, music, and a short talk by a volunteer speaker.

Rising carbon dioxide levels associated with global warming could lead to an increase in the incidence of allergies to ragweed and other plants by mid-century, according to a report by Harvard University researchers. The study, appearing in the March Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, found that ragweed grown in an atmosphere with double the…

Jerzy Soltan, the Nelson Robinson Jr. Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Emeritus, has received the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, awarded jointly by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

World leaders, scholars, journalists, and CEOs will join high-level U.S. and foreign officials for the 2002 Harvard Colloquium on International Affairs, April 12-13 at Harvard University. Panel discussions sponsored by over a dozen Harvard Schools, centers, and programs will focus on what has changed in world affairs since Sept. 11 – and what has not.

Thursday, June 6, 2002

On Tuesday, April 2, at 8:05 p.m., the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to Peabody Terrace on the report of an indecent assault. The graduate student victim reports the assailant alleged he was a tenant of the building but had forgotten his keys. The assailant entered the lobby and the elevator with the victim,…

Carolyn E. Andrews, honorary associate of Leverett House, and wife of Kenneth R. Andrews, Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, died in her sleep on March 20 during a visit to New York City. She was 85.

Fredric Schiffer has invented glasses that let him look into some peoples minds. Through using them, he has shown that some patients with depression and post-traumatic stress syndrome see the world differently, depending on whether they look at it through the outer half of their left or right eye. The Harvard Medical School psychiatrist has…

Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical International (a division of the Medical School), and Key3Media Group Inc. announced that they will jointly present the first global biosecurity conference, Nov. 18-22, in Las Vegas.

The University of Maine men’s hockey team clinched the opening round of the NCAA East Regionals, 4-3 in overtime, on Saturday afternoon (March 23) at the Worcester Centrum, ending Harvard’s…

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

It was the first weekend signaling the coming of spring and what better way to spend it than shooting a film. On a balmy Saturday (March 9) followed by a crisp Sunday, a crew of 13 and a cast of five principal actors and seven extras assembled at the Busa Farm in Lexington to shoot…

With a $50,000 planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Harvard University Librarys Weissman Preservation Center will embark on a one-year program to assess the preservation needs of photographic collections held in museums and libraries throughout the University. Harvards photographic holdings, which may number as many as 5 million objects, have been assessed on…

There are people in Los Angeles, accountants and writers and teachers, who have become so accustomed to feeling the ground shake that they make a sport of trying to determine every earthquakes point of origin, betting that they can call it within a certain number of miles or dinner is on them. More often than…

Aiming to foster a deeper understanding of the volunteer experience, the Harvard College Library (HCL) honored HCL employees who make lasting contributions to their communities, at a volunteer fair on Tuesday, March 12, in the Gutman Conference Center of Gutman Library. The daylong event, a collaborative effort between the HCL joint council and administration, showcased…

At the Harvard Islamic Societys (HISs) weekly prayer service in Lowell Lecture Hall Friday (March 15), nearly 50 members of the Universitys Muslim community gathered, as they do most weeks. As the Muslims bowed and prayed, sitting stocking-footed on carpets aligned toward Mecca, a dozen others watched from the seats of Lowell, one even filming…

Theres no cease-fire in the battle of the sexes, at least not at the genetic level, said pioneering genetics researcher and Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman in her Deans Lecture Series talk at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Monday afternoon (March 18).

The University Committee on Human Rights Studies is launching a new Harvard initiative to assist scholars who face the risk of persecution in their home countries because of their beliefs, scholarship, or identity. The yearlong fellowship is intended to provide a safe environment for academics, writers, or independent intellectuals (employment at an academic institution is…

Longtime benefactors Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood have donated Mrs. Calderwoods extensive collection of Islamic art to Harvards Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The gift continues the Harvard University Art Museums leadership role as a recipient of major acquisitions for the purpose of teaching and research.

The urge to help others may not be universal, but it is unquestionably widespread, and, just as surely, its an urge that has been strengthened by the unforgettable events of six months ago. On March 27, Harvard employees will have the opportunity to attend the first Harvard Volunteer Fair to explore specific ways they can…

Old-school feminism came to the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study last week (March 12), as author and activist Andrea Dworkin spoke and signed copies of her latest book, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, at the Cronkhite Living Room.

Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has announced this years Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. Honored for their eminence in history, literature, or art, as such terms may be liberally interpreted, the new fellows are Tom Conley, professor of romance languages and literatures Peter Ellison, professor of anthropology Michael McCormick, professor…

Lifting the U.S. ban on paid organ donations might help meet the desperate need of thousands of sick and dying recipients, but some fear it would also expand a thriving international market that already views the poor as little more than a source for spare parts.

To reach Hal Hartleys office, you must descend into the basement of Sever Hall and wend your way through a maze of low-ceilinged corridors, stopping in momentary perplexity at restroom doors and emergency exits until you find yourself in the warren of rooms that houses the filmmaking faculty of the Department of Visual and Environmental…

George Francis Carrier, one of the worlds pre-eminent applied mathematicians and T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics Emeritus, died of cancer in a Boston hospital on March 8. He was 83 and lived in Wayland.

Last month, when Professor Charles Lieber and his students made wires whose thinness is measured in atoms instead of fractions of an inch, he boasted excitedly that there are so many potential uses for this technology that we feel like kids in a candy shop.