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Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Jan. 27. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

Feb. 24, 1789 — From the “Journal of Disorders” of Eliphalet Pearson, the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages: “Mr. James [. . .] found Mackey was drunk…

In response to a recent rise in teenage violence in and around Boston, the Harvard Injury Control Research Center at the School of Public Health (SPH) is helping launch a major new project aimed at pinpointing causes and potential solutions for this disturbing growing threat. The Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center (HYVPC) is funded through…

The telephones of tomorrow are sitting on 100 desks across the University today in a pilot program that could give Harvard greater flexibility in deciding where and when to install a phone and simultaneously put the University at the leading edge of an eventual nationwide switch in telephone technology.

Leverett House residents take to the snow for a game of football that scores all the way around

It is a standard albumen print, labeled Palmyre, Sculpture dun chapiteau, Syrie, and signed in the lower right by the Bonfils studio. The caption refers to the capital of a fallen column that dominates the foreground, and locates it at a tourist site in Palmyra, Syria. Except for a child apparently sleeping on the capital,…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 14, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 17, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

One of the questions Civil War historians have argued over is the extent to which ordinary enlisted men cared about the issues behind the conflict.

When School of Public Health (SPH) doctoral student Mark Hickman goes to medical school in September, he will not be commuting. He is flying off to the green farming terraces of the village of Dhulakiel in Nepal where, on a swath of land jutting from the side of a Himalayan mountain, engineers are laboring in…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Medicine on December 20, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records. Manfred Leslie Karnovsky, Harold T. White Professor of Biological Chemistry,…

The Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation in New York awarded 18 Runyon-Winchell postdoctoral fellowships to outstanding young scientists conducting theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of the causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention of cancer. Among the 18 recipients, who were selected at the November 2000 Scientific Advisory Committee review,…

The following students were selected as the Senior 48 of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Harvard College. The students were elected to Alpha Iota in the fall of 2000.

Students from Edwards Middle School in Charlestown paid the Graduate School of Education a visit last Friday, Jan. 19, for a day of questions and answers, tours, and insight into college life. Sponsored by Project IF (Inventing the Future), a research and practice partnership centered at GSE, the annual visit is part of the initiatives…

James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, and Maxwell L. Anderson, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, announced their joint appointment of Carol Mancusi-Ungaro as director of the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art at Harvard University and director of Conservation of the…

Dedication ceremonies for the new 121,000 square foot Spangler Center were held at the Harvard Business School (HBS) on Monday, Jan. 22.

The world was watching as Pope John Paul II embarked on his historic journey to Cuba three years ago – the first visit by the Catholic Churchs spiritual leader since Fidel Castro and his band of revolutionaries toppled the Batista regime in the island-nation in 1959. Reporters from around the globe assembled in Havana to…

Ilene K. Gipson, senior scientist and ocular surface scholar at The Schepens Eye Research Institute, and professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, has received a $65,000 Senior Scientific Investigator Award from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB).

Last month, William P. Alford, the Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law and director of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, was the guest of President and Mrs. Clinton at a White House dinner honoring the Special Olympics. Alford was invited in recognition of his work on behalf of the Special Olympics in…

As a successful midcareer professional, Janine Clifford last year confronted an intriguing dilemma – whether to return to her Honolulu architectural firm or continue her ascent toward a doctorate degree at the Graduate School of Design (GSD). After careful consideration she chose to do both.

Energy Secretary to teach at Kennedy School U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson will teach a course at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) this semester, announced Dean Joseph S.…

The Ford Motor Co., through the Ford Motor Company Fund, plans to add $1 million to an existing five-year award of $1.5 million to Harvard. The new funds will support a University Committee on Environment study of the long-term environmental and economic consequences of transportation choices in developing countries, taking a multidisciplinary systems perspective. The…