Campus & Community

It seemed clear in the lecture hall at Harvard Medical Schools Medical Education Center Tuesday (March 1) that doctors should help their patients – even when those patients are prisoners – and never, ever become their torturers.

Alexander F. Schier, a developmental biologist whose work has illuminated key embryonic molecules that shape masses of undifferentiated cells into complex organisms, has been appointed professor of molecular and cellular biology in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

The Harvard Film Archive will welcome the father of Korean cinema, renowned director Im Kwon-Taek to the University on March 4 for a screening of Chunhyang at 7 p.m. The next evening (March 5), a reception in Ims honor will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Sert Gallery Café, and will be followed by a screening of Chihwaseon. A Q&A session with the director will be held after both films.

In February, the Harvard Archive of World Music at Loeb Music Library, a unit of Harvard College Library, and the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for Sound Directions: Digital Preservation and Access for Global Audio Heritage, a project to create best practices and test emerging standards in the digital preservation of endangered sound recordings.

Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree Jr. issued a call to arms for Americans, in particular African Americans, to reject the status quo in American politics and consider new options for moving forward. Speaking Feb. 23 at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Ogletree noted that in modern history African Americans have been largely loyal to the Democratic Party, but that loyalty is running thin and could prompt the creation of a third political party.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences February 15, 2005, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

How can scientific research better inform education policy? That question is at the core of the three-part Burton and Ingles Lecture Series at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, which…

Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) report a surprising finding about embryonic development: The blood system begins to form not only in the embryo itself,…

A survey of mothers in the March issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that obstetricians and genetic counselors are falling short when it comes to delivering…

McLean Hospital researchers have added yet another item to the cornucopia of evidence that “we are what we eat,” confirming that elements in our diet can affect not just our…

Detur Book Prize winners of the Class of 2007 were honored at a Feb.7 reception in the Faculty Room in University Hall. One of the oldest prizes at Harvard College, the prize is intended to honor and congratulate sophomores on the high GPAs earned their first year at the College.

Harvard senior Mike Blumberg (in rear) prepares to return a shot from Cornells Mike Delaney during first-round action of the mens College Squash Associations Championship at the Murr Center this past weekend. Blumberg won the contest, 3-0, as Harvard went on to blank the Big Red, 9-0. The Crimson later downed Yale, 8-1, before falling to Trinity, 7-2, in the title game on Sunday (Feb. 27) – to hand the Bantams its seventh straight national championship. Harvard, who captured the Ivy League title with a 6-0 record, wraps up its season at 11-2, with both losses coming from Trinity.

Under the baton of music director and conductor Jonathan McPhee, the Longwood Symphony Orchestra (LSO) will present the Weilerstein Trio on March 12 at 8 p.m. at the New England Conservatorys Jordan Hall. Featuring conservatory faculty members Donald Weilerstein (on violin) and Vivian Hornik Weilerstein (on piano), and their 21-year-old daughter Alisa Weilerstein (on cello), the trio will perform works by Beethoven, Panufnik, Prokofiev, and Sibelius.

Moira Whelan, who most recently served on the Homeland Security Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives as communications director for the minority, has joined Harvards Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs as the director of communications and outreach. Whelan will coordinate the centers outreach to the media and Capitol Hill.

An Institute of Politics student policy group got some expert advice about legislative redistricting Monday (Feb. 28) from a veteran on the front lines: an incumbent congressman voted out of his seat after a round of redistricting before the 2004 election.

An impressive snowpile on the athletic fields prevents a clear view of the Newell Boathouse.

Before receiving the coveted Pudding Pot from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals last week (Feb. 17), Man of the Year Tim Robbins proved his movie star mettle by demonstrating his hula hoop prowess, appeasing a gaggle of protesters in drag, and donning a lopsided wig and prison-striped bra.

Thanks to a profusion of coffee-table books, reproductions, greeting cards, and other museum gift shop items, Gustav Klimts paintings now rank among the worlds best-known images. The Kiss, in which a man and woman in the midst of an erotic embrace seem almost to disappear into a mountain of richly decorated fabric, has become an iconic expression of romantic love almost as universal as a box of chocolates or a bouquet of long-stemmed roses.

The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) received two reports of armed robbery on Feb. 17. In both incidents, two offenders approached a male graduate student, demanded money, displayed a knife, and then fled.

As the weather continues to have trouble making up its mind if its midwinter or early spring, time is running out to make up your mind about participating in the almost-two-decades tradition of giving that is called Daffodil Days at Harvard. Its a bargain in any season, and its for the best of causes.

At its eighth meeting of the year (Feb. 23), the Faculty Council discussed the February Faculty Meeting.

Feb. 20, 1965 – The Harvard and Columbia University bands perform a combined concert in New York’s Carnegie Hall. Feb. 7, 1967 – With a banquet and concert, refurbished Lehman…

A memorial service for Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus Ernst Mayr will be held April 29 at 2 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Widely considered the worlds most eminent evolutionary biologist, Mayr joined Harvards Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1953 and led Harvards Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1961 to 1970.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 21. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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

Philadelphias acclaimed Pig Iron Theatre Company will make its Boston-area debut with Hell Meets Henry Halfway at Loeb Drama Centers Experimental Theatre on March 18 and 19. Co-presented by Learning From Performers, a program of Harvards Office for the Arts, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC), performances of the show will be held on March 18 at 7 p.m., and on March 19 at 2 and 7 p.m.

Poet Maxine Kumin, a 1946 graduate of Radcliffe College, will receive the 11th annual Harvard Arts Medal on May 7.

Gill named Red Sox medical director Thomas J. Gill IV, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was recently named medical director of the Boston Red Sox.…

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Optic nerve regenerated for first time, brings hope to glaucoma sufferers For the first time, scientists have regenerated a damaged optic nerve – from the eye to the brain. This…