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President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: March 5 April 10 May 8…

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

At its 116th annual meeting in January, the American Historical Association (AHA) presented Kennedy School of Government Professor Ernest Richard May, the Charles Warren Professor of American History, the Award for Scholarly Distinction.

The human body shelters a zoo of microbes – thousands of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa. Some are helpful, some are harmful, many are unknown. Its a good bet that some of the unknowns provoke diseases whose causes remain a mystery.

Five Massachusetts Democrats running for governor squared off on environmental issues Tuesday evening (Feb. 19), trading compliments, jabs, and even the occasional joke amidst talk of preserving open space, cleaning up Bay State waters, and disposing of ever-larger heaps of trash.

Books may be accumulated and guarded, and the result is sometimes called a library but if the books are made to help and spur men and women on in their own daily work, the library becomes a vital influence, the prison is turned into a workshop, said Justin Winsor, librarian of Harvard College from 1877…

Houghton Library, the rare book and manuscript repository of the Harvard College Library, recently acquired the papers of author Gore Vidal. These papers together with the near-complete set of Vidal printed materials, collected over the years by Houghtons retired keeper of printed books James Walsh, make Houghton Library the center of Vidal studies.

May receives top AHA Award

Anyone who knows Brooke Ellison wont be surprised that since her news-making graduation from Harvard College in 2000, she has written a book, kept a busy schedule of speaking engagements, and made plans to attend graduate school.

Four Harvard College sophomores will investigate the status of women at the University through fellowships awarded by the Christopher J. Georges Fellowship Fund. The four recipients, all members of The Harvard Crimson staff, are Lauren Dorgan, Anne Kofol, Kathryn Rakoczy, and Catherine Shoichet.

One of Harvards and Bostons most popular summer activities, The Tennis Camps at Harvard (TCH), offering adult and junior sessions, will be opening its 11th season on June 11 at the Robert M. Beren Tennis Center at Soldiers Field.

For senior goalie Alison Kuusisto 02, Tuesday nights Beanpot victory over B.C. must have tasted extra sweet. The Crimson netminder, who made 20 saves in the 7-2 winning effort at Northeasterns Matthews Arena, is the only Harvard player to have been part of each of the teams last four consecutive Beanpot championship outings. Whats more,…

In a review of the nations public drinking water systems, researchers from the water and health program at the School of Public Health (SPH) say that reliable and safe water is available to nearly all 270 million U.S. residents. But, they also find that maintenance and repair of the public water infrastructure has been severely…

Performance artist Karen Finley has smeared herself with chocolate, painted with her own breast milk, put Winnie the Pooh in S&M gear, and locked horns with conservative Sen. Jesse Helms.

When little Dutch master Jan Vermeer painted The Astronomer in the 1660s, Johannes Kepler had already discovered the laws of planetary motion, Galileo had tangled with the church over his heliocentric convictions, and Isaac Newton was crashing at his parents house (to dodge the plague) and formulating the laws of gravitation and motion.

As the search begins for a successor to Robert G. Stone Jr., who earlier announced plans to step down as a Fellow of Harvard College on June 30, 2002, members of the University community are invited to offer nominations and advice regarding the selection of a new member of the Harvard Corporation.

Great blobs of dust may signal the presence of a planet orbiting Vega, the brightest star in the summer sky.

Harvard hockey stars assured of Olympic gold

Swapping New York cool for wide-eyed gushing, Sex and the City star and co-producer Sarah Jessica Parker arrived at Harvard Thursday (Feb. 7) to collect the Hasty Pudding Theatricals annual Woman of the Year award.

On his Feb. 11 visit to Harvard, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán (center) is greeted by President Lawrence H. Summers at Massachusetts Hall. Later, Orbán signed the guest book with University Marshal Rick Hunt (far left) at Wadsworth House and then dined at the Faculty Club.

The Environmental Information Center (EIC) embarks on its seventh year with a new librarian, plans for influential collection expansion, and an intense commitment to interdisciplinary research.

The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, better known as Harvards famed Glass Flowers, is back on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History after a two-month absence while the gallery housing the treasures was remodeled.

The Environmental Information Center, a unit of the Harvard College Library, is mounting a special exhibition in preparation for the upcoming 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development – a United Nations conference called to examine the first 30 years of environmental policy and to chart future strategies. People and the Planet: Forging International Environmental Policy,…

Progress has been made in the worldwide fight against hunger but action is still needed to help the 777 million people who still dont have enough to eat, Catherine Bertini, the executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, said Thursday (Feb. 7).

Third-year Suffolk University Law School student Peter Brown wants to help eradicate employment discrimination. Thanks in large measure to a Jerome Lyle Rappaport Charitable Foundation internship, which brought him this past summer to the Attorney Generals (AG) office in Boston, Brown is well on his way to his dream job with the Equal Employment Opportunity…

Poor Figaro! All he wants to do is marry his beloved Susanna and settle down, but look what he has to put up with – a lusty count with the hots for his wife-to-be, an older woman wholl forgive the money he owes her if hell marry her instead, a goofy young page whos infatuated…

Foster McCrum Palmer, associate University librarian from 1966 until 1974, died on Feb. 2 at his home in Watertown. He was 87 years old. Palmers career in the Harvard libraries began in 1938 under the late Keyes Metcalf. In 1941, Palmer began his long service as senior reference librarian in Widener Library. He is acknowledged…

An asylum full of lunatics and their brutal keepers take over the main stage of the Loeb Drama Center tomorrow night (Feb. 15). Its a theatrical experience that may give you nightmares, but youll also find yourself whistling the catchy tunes.

On Sept. 15, four days after terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh immigrant from India, was shot to death while he worked on landscaping outside his Chevron station in Mesa, Ariz.