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The front-runner in this year’s presidential campaign is no one at all, says a new survey conducted by the Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. According to a weekly national survey by the Vanishing Voter Project at the Shorenstein Center’s Washington, D.C. office, a full two-thirds of Americans…

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is tackling the controversial issue of genetically engineered food by hosting a one-day conference titled, “Genetically Modified Foods: Should You Be Concerned?” Co-sponsored by the Radcliffe Seminars and Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust, the conference, scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 12, will convene international experts to present a range of…

While other funding sources balked, the American Cancer Society decades ago funded Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery Judah Folkman’s research into ways to cut off the blood supply to cancerous tumors. Today, Folkman’s research – and the anti-angiogenesis drugs it has spawned – is being hailed as a new hope in fighting cancer. And the…

Conrad K. Harper and Herbert S. Winokur Jr. were named on Monday to join the seven-member Harvard Corporation. Both will assume their positions as Fellows of Harvard College by the start of the 2000-01 academic year. “Harvard is very fortunate that two individuals of such extraordinary caliber have agreed to serve the University in these…

A nonspeaking, walk-on role in the season finale of the new hot TV show The West Wing, lunch with NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw, a hike on the East Boston Greenway with Boston Mayor Tom Menino, a day shadowing U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., and lunch with the Rev. Jesse Jackson. These items are up for…

On the occasion honoring the 100th Jacob Wendell Scholar, a member of the Wendell family, Andy Thomas, recorded some of the scholarship’s history as well as his own impressions of the event. A black-tie dinner was held in honor of the 100th Jacob Wendell Scholar, Sarah Moss ’02, at the Faculty Club on the evening…

” Big Three” rivals Harvard, Yale, and Princeton tangled poolside last weekend, as men’s and women’s swimming and diving meets yielded mixed results at Blodgett Pool. The Crimson men emerged victorious and moved a big step closer to their second straight Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) dual championship. The women outdistanced Yale, but came up…

The Harvard University Art Museums are bringing New York to Cambridge this month, with an exhibit at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of the artistic and social documentary photographs of Ben Shahn. The exhibit, “Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modern Times,” focuses on Shahn’s use of photographs as a research tool for his…

Although more African-Americans and Hispanics are buying homes in municipalities surrounding Boston, these buyers are concentrated in a small number of communities and are thus segregated from white homeowners, according to a new study released by the Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Civil Rights Project. Segregation in the Boston Metropolitan Area at the…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the HUPD for the week ending Feb. 5. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden Street. Jan. 31: A purse was stolen from Lamont Library. Feb. 2: A caller reported a car accident in the parking lot at the Harvard School of Dental…

A raspberry has only 8 percent as much genetic material as you or me. That’s expected; raspberries aren’t too smart or complex. But an onion isn’t very complex either, and it has more than 12 times as much DNA as a Harvard professor. What’s more, amoebas oozing along in shallow ponds boast a genome 200…

Portfolio Review Extended The Harvard Neighbors Art Committee has extended its annual review for Harvard-affiliated artists interested in applying to exhibit during the 2000-2001 academic year. Faculty and staff with regular or part-time positions and their spouses or partners are encouraged to apply. Portfolios will be accepted March 1—3 and March 6 from noon —…

Desan Receives Legal History Award The American Society for Legal History has awarded Professor of Law Christine Desan the Erwin C. Surrency Prize for the best article published in volume 16 of the Law and History Review. The Society honored Desan for her article titled, “Remaking Constitutional Tradition at the Margin of Empire: The Creation…

Rahim Oberholtzer remembers his shock when Maury Povich’s voice came over his headset telling him he had won more than a million dollars. It was $1.12 million, to be precise. Standing in the soundproof booth, able to see only his own reflection in the one-way glass, Oberholtzer felt completely isolated, cut off from what was…

The problem defied Einstein, but Harvard physicist Juan Maldacena is using black holes and tiny cosmic strings to help figure out the “Theory of Everything.” A newly minted Harvard physics professor and recent winner of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” Maldacena has devised a way to explain gravity using a theory that also explains the…

Claudia Huettner can switch off deadly leukemia in mice simply by putting an antibiotic in their drinking water. Her system even causes regression of advanced stages of the cancer. When the antibiotic-spiked water is withdrawn, the cancer returns. Unfortunately, Huettner cannot do the same thing in humans. Nonetheless, she and her colleagues at Harvard Medical…

At its ninth meeting of the year the Faculty Council received a report from Nancy Maull, Administrative Dean; David Zewinski, Associate Dean for Physical Resources and Planning; and Vincent Tompkins, Assistant Dean of the Faculty, on long-term space planning. The Council also considered a proposal by Professor Harry Lewis (Computer Science), Dean of Harvard College,…

A alleged campus thief and convicted trespasser was back in Cambridge District Court this week, after attempting to elude Harvard University Police by fleeing cross-country. Andre Stuckey was led off a plane in handcuffs early Wednesday morning by University and state authorities. He had been captured on another college campus thousands of miles away, the…

While spending a semester away from the daily grind, the Spring 2000 fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center will focus on, among other things, the relevance of character in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, advances in East Asian press freedom since the 1997 financial and political crisis, and media legislation in Central Europe. The Joan…

The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research will hold a memorial service in honor of Professor Benjamin Schwartz on Thursday, Feb. 3 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. A reception will follow at the Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street. A fund in Schwartz’s name has been established to encourage the…

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation’s oldest dramatic organization, announced the recipients of the 2000 “Woman and Man of the Year” awards: Jamie Lee Curtis and Billy Crystal. The 50th anniversary of the Woman of the Year celebration will be Thursday, Feb. 10. Curtis will lead a parade through the streets of Harvard Square at…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the HUPD for the week ending Jan. 29. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Jan. 23: A burnt-out part in a boiler caused a fire alarm at Peabody Terrace. One hour later, a fire was reported in an underground tunnel at the…

Newly found connections between pain and memory are leading to novel ways to control pain. Nerves carry pain signals to the spinal cord and brain where they excite cells involved with making memories of pain, according to Clifford Woolf, Kitz Professor of Anesthesia Research at Harvard Medical School. This excitation is a main contributor to…