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The technological revolution has spurred an array of educational changes that are modifying how students and instructors interact in a traditional classroom setting and creating new stay-at-home students for whom education is an Internet connection and a mouse-click away. The creative use of technology in education has always been encouraged at Harvard, and University officials…

2000 Goldwater Scholars announced Four Harvard students are among 309 U.S. sophomores and juniors selected as Barry M. Goldwater Scholars for the 2000-01 academic year. The students, with their houses and concentrations, are: Michael Aaron Hermele ’01, Leverett, physics/mathematics; Davesh Maulik ’01, Quincy, mathematics; Lucas Gregorio Nivon ’01, Winthrop, biochemical sciences; and Travis Jeremy Schedler…

The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University has named Sameh Naguib Wahba as the John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellow for 2000-01. The fellowship carries a stipend of $10,000 in support of a dissertation on a housing-related topic. The Joint Center is a collaborative unit affiliated with the Graduate School of Design (GSD) and…

The Harvard Gazette

A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge on Thursday, June 8, 2000. For the twelfth consecutive year a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the City of Cambridge and of Harvard’s 349th Commencement Exercises. In a bow to earlier history, when bells of varying tones summoned people…

We’ve all learned the language of computers, with their bits and bytes and RAM and ROM, not to mention hard drives and software, printers and ports, and most importantly: tech support. Below is a primer to the latest talk of technology called distance learning: Distance learning: Learning that takes place when the student and instructor…

Do you have a passion for art? Do you enjoy working with young people? Do you want to make a contribution to your community? If you answered yes, and you are able to spare a few Saturday afternoons, then consider joining a corps of dedicated volunteers to help lead guided discussions and hands-on creative art…

In preparation for the upcoming renovations of University Hall, all departments in the building will be temporarily relocated. University Hall will close for business at the end of the day, Thursday, June 15. Offices will be relocated and will open for business on Monday, June 19, in the following temporary locations: 40 Oxford Street (Engineering…

A memorial service for Susanah Bailie Trautman will be held on June 2 at 10 a.m. in the Memorial Church, Harvard University. She was the wife of the late Donald T. Trautman, Shattuck Professor of Law.

Harvard’s Extension School began experiments with distance learning as early as the 1950s, offering courses via educational television. In the 1960s, the experiments continued, with classes offered via kinescope to U.S. Navy personnel on nuclear submarines. Another experiment in the 1990s involved using distance education to teach calculus to high school students in areas where…

Electronic mail and the Internet have become integral parts of our daily lives. These and other digital tools already have profoundly affected scholarship and learning at Harvard. Thousands of courses now have Websites, many rich with images, audio clips, video-on-demand, electronic discussion groups, and timely Web links. A growing number of digital library materials are…

Tim Russert, NBC political analyst and Meet the Press moderator, will deliver Harvard Law School’s 2000 Class Day address on Wednesday, June 7, at 2:30 p.m. on the steps of Langdell Hall, 1545 Massachusetts Ave. “I am very excited that Tim Russert has accepted [our invitation] to be the Class Day Speaker,” said Class Marshal…

John C. Sawhill, a senior lecturer at the Business School (HBS) and, during his distinguished career, a government official and leader of several major nonprofit institutions, including New York University (NYU), died of complications from diabetes on May 18 at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. He was 63. At the time of his…

Kimberly Collins, a sophomore from California, speaks Spanish and–like many Californians–has ventured to places in Mexico like Tijuana and San Miguel de Allende. But, she admits, she never quite expected to teach management skills and English this summer to staff members of a grassroots environmental organization in Bolivia with a grant from the David Rockefeller…

Nancy Stuart hated her body. Scaly, red plaques of psoriasis disfigured her arms, legs, trunk, and scalp. Summer was the worst time. She had to cover her entire body. Otherwise people looked at her in disgust or pity. No one would sit next to her on a bus. Seven months ago, Nancy (not her real…

Just as use of Pap smears has led to a dramatic drop in cervical cancer, so screening for anal cancer among gay and bisexual men would save many lives at a reasonable cost, according to a study conducted at the School of Public Health and University of California at San Francisco (USCF). Anal squamous cell…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 27. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. May 22: Media equipment in the Goldenson Building was vandalized. An ID was stolen at Winthrop House. A bike was stolen at Greenough Hall. Cash…

Harvard Divinity School has announced that the Henry Luce Foundation has approved a three-year grant of $240,000 to continue support for the School’s program in urban ministry. “This splendid renewal grant from the Luce Foundation will greatly help the School to give better preparation to students who want to be effective ministers in inner-city communities,”…

The Law School has appointed six persons to the faculty, the largest addition of new faculty members during Robert C. Clark’s deanship, which began in 1989. Two received lateral appointments to professorships; the other four are new appointments to assistant professorships. The appointments will take effect on July 1, 2000, and will increase the size…

A small memorial gathering of friends of Mohammad Kheirallah, who died of a heart attack on May 19, will be held on Sunday, June 4, at 11:00 a.m. in his apartment, number 13, at 17 Bow Street, Union Square, Somerville. For further information, contact Hammam Akbik at (617) 957-1716.

Suppose you wanted to start a company. You would probably have little trouble finding advisers, consultants, workshops, and textbooks to guide you each step of the way and warn you of possible pitfalls. But what if you wanted to start a nation? National start-ups may be less common than corporate ones, yet they do exist,…

The U.S. political system rarely provides enough time for newly elected officials to plan for their new responsibilities – time to gather together the information and resources they need to make effective policy early in their tenure. And because many state departments are decentralized, senior public managers often can’t consider overall strategic planning to coordinate…

For centuries aspiring artists have learned their craft by painstakingly copying the great works of the masters. One of the latest examples of this reverent and practical activity took place over the past few months at the University Art Museums when 45 fifth-graders from the Samuel Brown School in Peabody, Mass., chose a work each…

The Harvard University Art Museums are seeking volunteers interested in public art education for its Museum Docent Program. The Museum Docents are a group of approximately 34 volunteer guides who give tours of Harvard’s three art museums: the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Approximately 10 prospective docents will…

Deep in the heart of Texas, Joaquin and Julian Castro are plotting their political future together, and, like the searing midday sun in the Red River Valley, their plans could spell double-trouble for any cowboy who crosses their path. The Castro brothers are identical twins, born just one minute apart 25 years ago, and they…

W. Jackson Bate, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Emeritus, stands as one of the leading biographers and humanists of the twentieth century. His John Keats (1963) and Samuel Johnson (1977) remain authoritative and popular. Still in print in 2000, both attracted the highest accolades, a Pulitzer Prize for each, an award until then given exclusively…

Nobel Prize-winners Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, will share the Twelfth Annual Warren Alpert Foundation Prize with Akira Endo of Biopharm Research Laboratories, Inc., for work they did after their Nobel-earning discovery of the cholesterol receptor. Brown, Goldstein, and Endo were selected because…

A renowned Graduate School of Education (GSE) psychologist, whose landmark work in multiple intelligences theory has received international acclaim, has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize for 1999-2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Howard Gardner, the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at GSE, was cited by…