Campus & Community

Flying high on a three-game win streak, an unbeaten Harvard womens hockey team took its first spill of the young season this past weekend at home, picking up a 4-3 loss to Clarkson and a 2-2 tie against St. Lawrence. To put the Crimsons mini-slide into perspective, however, consider that Sundays stalemate (Nov. 13) against the top-ranked Saints was very nearly another losing effort for the hosts.

The not-so-renowned Mount Trashmore was sculpted on the Science Center lawn on Nov. 15. It is composed of one days trash from around Harvard Yard – about 400 bags. The trash heap reaches 12 feet tall. It would be 15 feet tall if Harvardians didnt recycle at all, and could be as short as 6 feet tall if all recyclable materials were properly recycled.

Texas, Alaska, Russia, the Middle East – these are the regions one is likely to think of when asked to name the worlds top oil-producing areas.

James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, has announced the names of seven scholars currently working at the center who are participating in the 2005-06 workshop, American Intellectuals and the Cultures of the Atlantic World. Leading the workshop are James Kloppenberg, the David Woods Kemper 41 Professor of American History, and David Hall, Bartlett Professor of New England Church History, who selected the Warren Fellows from a rich and diverse pool of applicants. The fellows work ranges from the late 17th to the late 20th century and from the rise of statistics to the international sensibility of leading figures in the Civil Rights Movement.

Hearing that Harvard faced serious competition from other schools for the most talented graduate students spurred the Ashford family into action. I understood that something needed to be done right away or we would begin to fall behind, explains Theodore H. Ashford 58. As a family, Ashford and his wife, Jane (who died in 2003), with sons Theodore III 86 and Timothy 88 established two fellowship programs – the Ashford Graduate Fellowship in the Sciences and the Ashford Dissertation Fellowship. This fall, the second class of fellows received their awards, and on Monday (Nov. 14) all eight students joined together with the Ashfords for a celebratory luncheon.

Derek Lamb, one of the first teachers of film animation at Harvard and a prolific and admired animator in his own right, died Nov. 5 in Seattle after a long struggle with cancer. He was 69.

Visitor views a map, part of the exhibit on Harvard in Allston located in the Holyoke Center Arcade. The exhibit is open to all visitors. It features a model of existing conditions, a slide show, and boards depicting the work of Harvards master planning team, the Cooper/Robertson Gehry/Olin collaboration. The room serves as a visual display of the initial conceptual framework of Harvards future in Allston, with illustrations and text provided by the consultants. Members of the Harvard community and the wider community are invited to view the exhibit and comment on the ideas presented. For a guided tour, call (617) 495-3525 or e-mail allston@harvard.edu. Walk-in hours begin this week: Monday and Friday, noon to 2 p.m. Tuesday, 9 to 11 a.m. Wednesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to noon. For more information go to http://www.allston.harvard.edu/.

A new national poll by the Kennedy Schools Institute of Politics (IOP) finds that college students think that President George W. Bush is at the lowest point in his presidency, and believe in record numbers that the country is on the wrong track.

Marine bacteria may help in myeloma therapy An anti-cancer compound derived from bacteria dwelling in ocean-bottom sediments appears in laboratory tests to be a potent killer of drug-resistant multiple myeloma…

The man came through the Family Vans open door for a blood pressure screening, but Harvard Medical School (HMS) student Melissa Burroughs soon realized something else was wrong.

Indigenous rights group and nonprofit organization Cultural Survival will celebrate 26 years of bringing native art and crafts to the University community with an upcoming holiday bazaar this Dec. 3-4 at Pound Hall, 1563 Massachusetts Ave. The bazaar will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on both days.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has awarded Harvard doctoral candidates Margot Minardi ’07 and Daniel Wewers ’06 short-term research fellowships. The institute awards short-term fellowships in two categories:…

Better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness, but better still to dig deep into your pockets and make a real contribution to relieve human suffering – that was the theme that reverberated through an evening ceremony held Nov. 9 in the Memorial Church – An Offering of Remembrance and Dedication for the Victims and Survivors of the South Asian Earthquake.

It looks like the stuff any gardener might find while turning over a new tomato bed: rusty nails, chunks of glass, maybe a sprinkler head or two. But to these Harvard anthropology students, it is a potential gold mine of information.

Harvard researchers set out to test the idea that a lot of coffee isn’t good for your circulation. They followed 155,000 female nurses for 12 years, questioning them regularly about…

Alexander Schier’s transparent fish are helping him understand the basic secrets of human development: how early embryonic cells communicate so that some develop into heart tissue, some into brain cells, and others into tissues that form the rest of the body.

Doctors treating sore throats are overprescribing antibiotics to more than a million U.S. children annually, unnecessarily driving up health costs, promoting the rise of drug-resistant bugs, and exposing children to…

American Indians who use the hallucinogen peyote regularly in connection with religious ceremonies show no evidence of brain damage or psychological problems, report researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital. In fact,…

The Harvard Green Campus Initiative is giving Harvard students and staff the chance to turn their energy conservation habits – or their new resolutions to conserve – into clean wind…

November 7, 2005 Dear Members of the Harvard Community, I write to share with you some thoughts and hopes for the months ahead and to invite your engagement on the…

It looks like the stuff any gardener might find while turning over a new tomato bed: rusty nails, chunks of old brick, shards of glass, maybe a sprinkler head or two. But to the students of Anthropology 1130: The Archaeology of Harvard Yard, it is a potential gold mine of information. Stored in plastic bags, each representing a 1-meter-square grid coordinate, these dirt-caked fragments will together help tell the tale of what life at Harvard was like in the 1600s, and may uncover important information about the little-recalled Harvard Indian College, founded in 1655 to help the University fulfill its mission to educate the English and Indian youth of the country in knowledge and godliness.

The Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) has received another supply of flu vaccine and will resume scheduled flu vaccination clinics on Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 3 p.m. Tuesday…

Kelsey Wilcox 09 has a couple of pumpkins for company as she waits for her lunch date outside of Annenberg Hall.

Nov. 7, 1947 – The Fogg Museum hosts a conference on new methods of using soft X-rays in analyzing works of art. The event draws curators and museum directors from…

In the Memorial Room of the Memorial Church, Nancy Lloyd, objects conservator for the Straus Center for Conservation, works on The Sacrifice, a sculpture dedicated to the Harvard men who died in World War I.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Nov. 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

This is the first in a series of Gazette articles highlighting some of the many initiatives and charities that Harvard affiliates can support through this months Community Gifts through Harvard campaign.

Joel Spicer, currently on leave from the Canadian International Development Agency, has been named a 2005 Canada-U.S. Fulbright Student, a prestigious title reserved for a select few in Canada and the United States. As a Fulbrighter, Spicer will pursue a masters degree in public health/international health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

With a ceremony last Friday (Nov. 4) to mark the occasion and to honor generous contributors, Harvard University has formally completed its new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), a 249,000-square-foot complex that will provide a spacious and airy home for dozens of researchers affiliated with Harvards Department of Government and various centers devoted to international and regional studies.