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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.

William Saturno was hot, frustrated, low on food, low on water, and low on patience when he sought shade in a trench dug by looters at the San Bartolo archaeological site deep inside the Guatemalan jungle.

Sixteen Harvard-related students are among the 30 recipients for the 2002 Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship. Fellows receive a $20,000 maintenance stipend plus half-tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States. Of the 16 recipients from Harvard, 11 are present or…

Business leaders in human resources and knowledge management gathered at the Faculty Club Wednesday, March 13 for the quarterly meeting of Learning Innovations Laboratories (LILA) of the Harvard Graduate School of Educations Project Zero. LILA participants discuss organizational change and share stories from the trenches, said David Perkins, professor of education and facilitator of LILA.…

William Christie 66, internationally acclaimed harpsichordist, conductor, musicologist, and teacher, will receive the eighth annual Harvard Arts Medal.

Talk about a turnaround. After dropping seven of their final 10 regular season games, the Harvard mens hockey teams postseason hopes werent exactly sky high. Yet with a most unusual three game win streak under their belt: all OT wins – against Brown, Clarkson, and Ivy Champion Cornell – the Crimson suddenly finds itself thrust…

To the tune of 85-58, the North Carolina Tar Heels tripped up the Harvard womens basketball team this past Saturday (March 16) at the Big Dance in Chapel Hill. Capitalizing on superior quickness and physical play – and the Crimsons cold shooting (33 percent) – the fourth-seeded Tar Heels, who led by 18 at the…

Talk of the Nation live from GSE

A first-year science teacher starts the school year knowing nothing about the course hes been hired to teach except its title: Physical Sciences.

The way the word model is used in academic discourse can seem a bit of a letdown for those who grew up gluing together miniature aircraft carriers from boxes full of tiny plastic parts or stretching tissue paper over the balsa frameworks of World War I biplanes. Too often in academe models turn out to…

Harvard fencing sends three to NCAA Championships Junior foiler Ben Schmidt has been selected to compete at the NCAA Fencing Championships slated for March 21-24 at Drew University in Madison,…

If you were to say, John is a red-headed physics student, any native speaker of English would instantly accept the sentence as normal and correct.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, March 16. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations presents Per Wästberg, a member of the Nobel Prize Committee of the Swedish Academy. Wästberg will discuss The Nobel Prize: Who Gets It and Who Does Not, on Thursday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m., at the Memorial Church. This is the inaugural Peter J. Gomes Lecture.

March 29, 1872 – The Arnold Arboretum (the nations oldest arboretum) formally comes into existence when, at the discretion of three Boston trustees (George B. Emerson, John James Dixwell, and Francis E. Parker), a residuary bequest of over $100,000 from New Bedford (Mass.) merchant James Arnold is legally transferred to the Harvard Corporation to develop…

At the Faculty Councils 11th meeting of the year, Professor William Fash (anthropology) and Professor William Kirby (history) presented the Report on Study Abroad prepared by the Facultys Standing Committee on Out-of-Residence Study.

The sixth annual Celebration of Faculty and Staff Authors at the Graduate School of Education was held at the Gutman Library on March 8. This gala event, sponsored by the Deans Office, honored 32 GSE authors who published books or created multimedia productions during the past year. The occasion also marked the 82nd anniversary of…

Crimson vs. Tar Heels

Despite the numbers – 13 straight wins and a No. 13 seed – its not luck thats taken the Harvard womens basketball team to its 4th appearance at the NCAA Tournament this Saturday (March 16) in Chapel Hill, N.C. That fact can be squarely blamed on forward Hana Peljto 04 and center Reka Cserny 05.…

Antin named president-elect of ASBMT

Robert Nozick, Pellegrino University Professor, will be remembered at a memorial service next Thursday, March 21, 2 p.m., in the Memorial Church. A reception will follow at the Faculty Club.

From National Public Radio to pierced teenagers in the yarn store, everyone knows that knitting is suddenly cool. Its the new yoga, says one magazine article its part of a post-Sept. 11 trend toward cocooning, say psychologists.

Terrorism can be located in the human heart. Soft-spoken Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh spoke these words to a hushed crowd at the Memorial Church March 8. We can remove terrorism from the human heart through the practice of deep listening. Deep listening can help remove wrong perceptions.

Since 1985, Harvard libraries increased spending on serial publications by 162 percent, while the total number of serials they purchased rose only 7 percent. Part of this disparity reflects the addition of electronic versions of journals, yet it also represents the expanding gap between the price of information and the ability of libraries to purchase…

When Gweneth Newman and Katherine Alberg Anderson decided to enter a design competition as a final project in their course on watershed management, they had no idea that they would end up $5,000 richer.

Martians battled humanity at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) Thursday night (March 7), and, to the delight of a partisan home crowd, the humans won.