Campus & Community

The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) recently named Ross L. Prentice of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Public Health Sciences, the 2005 recipient of its Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science. Prentice will deliver a lecture on June 3 at the School and be presented with a citation and an honorarium.

Harvard entomologist Edward O. Wilson believes hes solved twin centuries-old mysteries of Caribbean island ant plagues that devastated local agriculture.

Following the record snowfall that befell Boston last month, its hard to imagine (though not for a lack of trying) that spring will ever arrive. Thankfully, with Harvards annual Daffodil Days fundraiser now under way, the art of seasonal visualization becomes a whole lot easier.

Mellon Foundation honors Christine Korsgaard

If you want to become a great flutist, Sir James Galway has some advice for you: learn to sing and dance. At a master class on Jan. 5, he told Harvard students Music has a movement associated with it that is like the feeling of dance. When you play, you have to make peoples hearts dance.

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) recently announced that the 2005 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership will be given to the FedEx-Environmental Defense Future Vehicle Project.

Dramatic gains for American Indians Identified for decades as the poorest group in the United States, American Indians living on reservations made substantial gains, both economically and socially, during the…

Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Associate Dean of Public Health Practice Howard K. Koh has been named the inaugural recipient of the Harvey V. Fineberg Professorship of Public Health, established to honor the former dean of the School and former Harvard provost. The appointment became effective Jan. 1.

The snow was as high as an elephants eye. Every restaurant in the Square was closed. And Harvard students were getting a bit peckish. General manager of the dining hall at Leverett House Arthur Robins worried about his charges: Four hundred kids stuck here with nothing but Ramen noodles and peanut butter and jelly. Not an appetizing picture.

A spirit of teamwork from one of the nations oldest rivalries will take shape next week when the Harvard and Yale communities hold a blood drive challenge to see which University can raise the highest number of donations. The friendly contest is scheduled for Feb. 9 and Feb. 10 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and for Feb. 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Adams House (26 Plympton St.). All Harvard students, staff, alumni, neighbors, and friends are welcome to join the cause.

World-renowned conductor, pianist, and recording artist Daniel Barenboim has been appointed the 2006 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University, it was announced today (Feb. 3). He joins a list of distinguished arts scholars and professionals who have received the Norton honor since its establishment in 1925. Barenboim will deliver the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures beginning in spring 2006.

Following a vote of the Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty, Guhan Subramanian has been promoted from assistant professor to professor of law – a tenured faculty position. A corporate law expert who specializes in deal making and corporate governance, Subramanian joined the HLS faculty in 2002 as the Joseph Flom Assistant Professor of Law and Business. Prior to this appointment, he spent three years on the faculty of Harvard Business School, where he taught courses on negotiations and business law.

Under the leadership of Institute of Politics (IOP) Director Phil Sharp, the Directors Internship Program annually arranges summer internships for Harvard undergraduates interested in pursuing careers in politics or public service. The institute provides stipends for living expenses.

Blogging versus journalism is over, announced media critic and blogger Jay Rosen in the title of his introductory speech at the Jan. 21-22 conference on Blogging, Journalism and Credibility: Battleground and Common Ground. It was a bold premise, but, as the conference confirmed, a bit premature.

The Harvard community responded to the tsunami disaster with grand gestures – as well as very personal ones. Numerous faculty members lent their expertise to the media and to policy-makers. The effort has drawn an as yet unknown number of students and faculty members to the region, including Harvard Medical School Professor of Medical Anthropology Byron Good and Professor of Social Medicine Mary Jo DelVecchio Good, who traveled to Indonesia to help colleagues in a Javanese medical school. Students and student groups from around the University, including the Harvard South Asian Association, organized memorial services and mounted fund drives.

Upon the recommendation of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the President approved and announced the following Standing Committees at the FAS Faculty Meeting of Oct. 19, 2004. Standing Committees of the Faculty are constituted to perform a continuing function. Each committee has been established by a vote of the Faculty, and can be dissolved only by a vote of the Faculty or, with the agreement of a particular Committee, by the Dean and Faculty Council. The Dean recommends the membership of each committee annually.

For her Radcliffe Fellowship presentation last month (Jan. 12), novelist Julia Glass strayed from the expected reading of a work-in-progress followed by questions for a format she thought more appropriate to an audience of curious Radcliffe colleagues. With witty insights and foam-core illustrations – a sort of paupers PowerPoint – she invited the audience into her creative process as well as the novel shes been working on this year, Piece of Cake.

On Jan. 13, Steven Bloomfield moderated a symposium on the war in Iraq hosted by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. It featured two distinguished Harvard scholars whose views on the war differ in significant ways.

Snowflakes dusting the shoulders of his overcoat and filling the brim of his brown Homburg, Peter J. Gomes, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, joined the small group that had gathered in front of the John Harvard statue last Wednesday (Jan. 26).

A foreign correspondent, an opinion editor, and a political communications scholar are among those recently named fellows at the Kennedy School of Governments Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy for the spring 2005 semester.

Until 1995 when apartheid ended in South Africa, the government spent 12 times more on the education of white children than on black children. This blatantly discriminatory policy has left a troublesome legacy.

After getting facial surgery with no anesthesia, Wrestler X not only had scars, she had a grudge against Nurse Agony, who messed up the operation.

Male doctors take their own lives at a higher rate than the general population of white men in the United States. That’s been known for some time. Now, the largest,…

It’s a world hard to imagine. Some 650 million years ago, Earth’s land and oceans were almost completely covered by ice and snow. The planet’s population – primitive plants and…

Using the environment to help address the nation’s pollution problems. That’s the focus of a new report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and researchers at the Kennedy…

Assistant Professor of Astronomy Bryan Gaensler and colleagues have discovered the source of powerful magnetic objects in the universe called magnetars, finding that some of the biggest stars in the…

Feb. 17, 1879 – With approval from President Charles Eliot, the newly formed committee on women’s education (chaired by Elizabeth Cary Agassiz) writes to several Harvard professors to solicit their…

The wrought-iron cold of a New England winter is evoked gracefully and dramatically in this portion of a gate at the Science Center.

Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Associations (HAA) candidates for the 2005 election to the Harvard Board of Overseers and the HAA Elected Directors. The election this spring will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA Elected Directors.

Program on aging seeks research proposals With funding provided by the National Institute of Aging at the National Institutes of Health, the Program on the Global Demography of Aging, led…