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As with other musical offerings celebrating the beginning of a new administration, a peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge in joyous thanksgiving for the Installation of Lawrence H. Summers as 27th president of Harvard University. Long a Harvard tradition, bells rang for the 1849 inauguration of Jared Sparks and the 1909 inauguration of Abbott…

In a ceremony marked by emotion and remembrance, J. Dirk Iglehart, M.D., was installed as the first incumbent of the Anne E. Dyson Chair in Women’s Cancers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School (HMS). The ceremony was held at the Medical School’s Gordon Hall on Monday, Sept.…

A relaxed, bearded Al Gore called for national unity in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist hijackings Thursday, praising the public servants who responded to the crisis and passing up a chance to criticize President George Bush before a packed Kennedy School crowd. Gore delivered the 2001 Jerry Wurf Memorial Lecture Thursday evening (Oct.…

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The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA) is offering an open house for undergraduates to meet with fellows, faculty, visiting scholars, associates, graduate students, and staff of the center today (Thursday, Oct. 4) from 4 to 6 p.m. in the lobby of Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge St. The reception is an opportunity for students to…

At the Sackler Museum on Tuesday, Oct. 2, essayist and novelist Paul Auster introduced ‘I Thought My Father Was God,’ a collection of 180 personal, true-life accounts submitted to the National Story Project in coordination with National Public Radio’s Weekend ‘All Things Considered.’ When the National Story Project was first introduced, the response was overwhelming.…

Medical School (HMS) researchers have identified a mouse gene that, in certain forms, renders mice resistant to anthrax – an often fatal disease that is caused by a bacterium thought to be a prime biological weapon in the terrorist arsenal. The genetic variants appear to work by enhancing immune cells’ response to the lethal toxin…

The Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University has selected five leading scholars for its postdoctoral program in 2001-02. The postdoctoral residence in Cambridge will give the young scholars the opportunity to turn their dissertations into books, which may be published by the Harvard University Asia Center. The Postdoctoral Program Fellows for 2001-02 Stefania…

Eight doctoral candidates of exceptional promise have joined the Society of Fellows as Junior Fellows. The society gives scholars at early stages of their careers an opportunity to pursue their studies in any department of the University, free from formal requirements. They must demonstrate exceptional ability, originality, and resourcefulness. Junior Fellows are selected by the…

Mariana Tres, an artist from Portland, Ore., whose work has been inspired by an array of astronomical imagery and phenomena, has been invited to be the Center for Astrophysics’ (CfA’s) first artist in residence. For the past five years, Tres has been drawing images of meteorites, impactites, and other astronomical phenomena for her work. “This…

There’s gold in them thar hills, and Emilie Norris is the prospector. OK, not really gold. Norris is mining for art, sculpture, and historical artifacts buried in offices and houses and alleyways all over Harvard. She’s not looking to strike it rich; rather, as project manager of Harvard’s Cultural Properties Survey, Norris aims to help…

In the 19th century when education was dominated by the twin poles of Classical literature and Christianity, comparing Jesus and Socrates was a favorite essay topic for getting students to think in more profound terms about moral and religious values. In the first of six lectures titled “Lessons of the Masters on the Art of…

Today’s new teachers are as likely to be 40-year-old former lawyers or scientists with a five-week certification course behind them as they are to be 20-somethings fresh from teacher education programs. And unlike generations of their predecessors, they have their eyes on advancement. The face of teaching is changing, say researchers at the Harvard Graduate…

Harvard to receive HP, Intel grant In a joint effort by Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Intel Corp., 40 universities worldwide, including Harvard, will receive servers and workstations as part of a new grant program forged by the companies. The Itanium-Based Systems Grant Program is part of each company’s ongoing commitment to support education worldwide and…

Birthday party At the 25th anniversary celebration for the Henry A. Murray Research Center on Friday, Sept. 28, keynote speaker Jacquelynne Eccles (left), a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, with Murray Center Associate Director Jacquelyn James (center), and Murray Center Director Annemette Sørensen. Eccles spoke on ‘Identity: A Lifelong Project.’ (Photo by…

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the second grant cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, a KSG faculty committee will consider applications for small one-year grants (up to $30,000) to support advanced research by Harvard University faculty members on issues of…

When you hear the word “surgeon,” the next word you think of isn’t likely to be “humble.” Surgeons literally hold other people’s lives in their hands. That makes them the court of last resort for patients at death’s door, generals of the operating room, monarchs of the medical profession – and, according to the clichés…

Marshall Carter, a senior fellow and adjunct lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Center for Business and Government, has been asked to chair a state commission prompted by the Sept. 11 hijackings to examine operations at Logan Airport and the Massachusetts Port Authority. Logan’s management has come under heavy fire for security…

Harvard University has pledged $1 million and joined with the American Council on Education to raise scholarship funds, on behalf of higher education, for the children and spouses of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers had announced in a Sept. 19 letter to the Harvard community that the…

Cherrapunji, an otherwise unremarkable town in “the abode of the clouds” – the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya, nestled midway between the Bay of Bengal and the Himalayas – was once called the wettest place on Earth by the Guinness Book of World Records. In 1986 the English travel correspondent Alexander Frater set off on…

Students at Harvard drink more, smoke less, and have less sex than students at other colleges, according to the first nationwide survey of college lifestyles and health behaviors. Harvardians also are more depressed, get into fewer fights, and are slightly more likely to be homosexual or bisexual. The American College Health Association did the survey…

The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards were established in 1990 to recognize alumni who provide outstanding volunteer service to Harvard through alumni activities. This year’s recipients, listed below, will be honored on Thursday, Oct. 25, during the opening dinner of the HAA Board of Directors. Christopher T. Bayley ’60, J.D. ’66, of Seattle, served as…

Coming off a big 2-1 overtime win against 6th-ranked University of San Diego on Friday, Sept. 21, the Harvard men’s soccer team (5-2, 1-0 Ivy) dropped a 1-3 contest at Loyola Marymount (7-3), and a 2-3 encounter at Boston College (7-2-1) – a game beset with crippling red card suspensions for the Crimson team. On…

A limited number of tickets to the inauguration symposia will be made available to the Harvard community on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets can be picked up at the Harvard Ticket Office in the Holyoke Center arcade between noon and 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Oct. 9-11. Tickets can also be picked up…

Harvard’s modern-day president will meet time-honored tradition on stage at Tercentenary Theatre on Oct. 12 as Lawrence H. Summers takes part in the centuries-old ceremony installing him as president. Preparations for the ceremony continued this week, moving into the final stage. E-mail invitations went out to graduate students; follow-up calls confirmed reservations to ticketed events,…

Thursday, Oct. 11 7 p.m. “Segue!…” Student performance in Sanders Theatre (invitation only, but waiting line for potential available seats). Overflow room for video simulcast in Loker Commons and Science Center D. Friday, Oct. 12 9:45 – 11:30 a.m. Symposia, open to ticket holders only. A limited number of tickets will be available to the…

“We’ve been recycling since 1636, when students used to throw their garbage out the windows and the feral pigs of Cambridge would eat it,” is how Rob Gogan, waste manager for Harvard’s Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO), explains that, though he may be the University’s first employee officially charged with recycling efforts, he’s hardly Harvard’s first…

Bestor joins Anthropology Dept. Theodore C. Bestor, a specialist in contemporary Japanese society and culture, has been appointed professor in the Department of Anthropology. Bestor, who has written extensively on Tokyo’s markets, food, and popular culture, will also be affiliated with Harvard’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. He previously taught at Cornell University. Herzlinger wins…