Campus & Community

Diplomats, academics, and leaders of nongovernmental organizations gathered at the John F. Kennedy School of Government last week for a three-day conference examining the worlds rogue states and how best to handle them.

Young women who were treated for cancer as children have a greater chance of developing breast cancer if their treatment included chest radiation, if they initially had cancer of the bones, muscles, or connective tissue, or if they have a family history of breast cancer, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Childrens Hospital Boston.

The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Southeastern Europe Study Group at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies will hold the seventh annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop on Feb. 4, 2005.

Robin Chase has already changed the way we drive, but shes not satisfied. Now she wants to change the way we live as well.

Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang spends a solitary moment before the screening of his new film Goodbye Dragon Inn at the Harvard Film Archive on Tuesday (Oct. 19). Tsais recurring themes are the isolated nature of individual lives, the rituals that are essential for survival, and the restorative power of love. Goodbye Dragon Inn will be shown at the Brattle Theatre Friday through Sunday (Oct. 29-31).

A panel of human rights activists condemned Sudanese government-sanctioned genocide that has left 1.5 million black Africans in Sudans Darfur region homeless and 70,000 dead.

Does playing music promote longevity? Many claim that it does, although the evidence is probably more anecdotal than scientific. Well, here is one more piece of data to add to a bulging albeit inconclusive file: James Yannatos is beginning his 41st year conducting the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO).

Patterns of gene turn-ons and turn-offs have been tied to the presence of 22 different tumor types in studies at Harvard University. Such information could more accurately predict who gets what cancer and whether it will spread, as well as lead to new types of treatments.

This weekend (Oct. 15 – 17), Harvard Law Schools Human Rights Program (HRP) will mark its 20th anniversary with a gathering principally of alumni and a full slate of speeches and discussions. And in many ways, the celebration also honors the movement it embraces. The emergence of the international human rights movement, which dates back to the 1945 Nuremberg Trials and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has much in common with the growth of Harvards program over the past two decades.

A reflection of the Dunster House tower lands on a walkway puddle.

Oct. 5, 1740 – Fresh from haranguing 15,000 on Boston Common, the dynamic revivalist George Whitefield breezes in to preach at the Cambridge meetinghouse, inspiring division within families and churches,…

Thorn memorial service set A memorial service for Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine George W. Thorn will be held Oct. 18 at 4:30 p.m. in Bornstein…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 11. 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:

Professor of Geology Emeritus Raymond Siever passed away on Sept. 24 at the age of 81. Siever was first appointed to the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in 1957, serving as chair from 1968 to 1971 and again from 1976 to 1981.

Holly Sargent has been named to a new position in Alumni Affairs and Development as senior associate dean for advancement and senior director for University Womens Initiatives. In this new role, Sargent will be responsible for identifying and engaging new sources of principal gift support for new and ongoing projects related to University priorities, with a particular focus on the international community, non-Harvard individuals, and women. Dividing her time between the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and cross-University initiatives, Sargent will continue to work closely with the KSG Office of External Affairs and KSG Dean David Ellwood on major gifts and priority areas. The appointment was announced recently by Ellwood and Donella Rapier, vice president for Alumni Affairs and Development.

Dimitar Sasselov did what every high school astronomer dreams of doing he went from looking at stars with a backyard telescope to discovering a new class of planets and a new class of stars.

If Sholeh Regna had followed the path laid out for her, she would be an American-educated medical doctor practicing in Iran. But because she decided to follow her own vision, she is a sculptor, painter, and video artist practicing in Somerville.

Low-dose aspirin proven to offer inflammation protection Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital and colleagues have demonstrated for the first time in humans in a randomized clinical trial that…

A Harvard delegation recently traveled to Ghana to begin building a new partnership with the University of Ghana – the latest manifestation of the growing strength of African studies at Harvard.

When friends, colleagues, and family gathered in the Memorial Church Friday (Oct. 8) to celebrate the life of Archibald Cox 34, Harvard Law School professor emeritus, they honored the memory of a great teacher, courageous public servant, legendary Watergate figure, and devoted husband and father.

Safra accepting 2005-06 fellowship applications The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics invites graduate students who are writing dissertations, or who are engaged in major research on topics in…

Last week (Oct. 7 and 8), Harvards Graduate School of Education (GSE) convened an eclectic gathering of biologists, reading specialists, neuroscientists, learning disabilities researchers, geneticists, and child psychologists for a conference looking at the links between the mind, the brain, and education. Called Usable Knowledge: Mind, Brain, and Education, the conference of invited participants aimed to create collaborations between scientists and educational researchers to help bridge the gap between brain science research and classroom needs.

Harvard University has announced a set of principles designed to ensure sustainable growth and advance Harvard’s record as a responsible environmental steward.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study honored one of its most illustrious pioneers last week (Oct. 7) when the portrait of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz was unveiled in a ceremony inside the Faculty Room at University Hall. Agassiz was one of a group of women closely linked to Harvard who, in the 1870s, designed a new institution for the education of women. In 1879, the Harvard Annex for womens instruction by Harvard faculty began operations. In 1894, the Annex was chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Radcliffe College, with Elizabeth Cary Agassiz as its first president.

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and President Lawrence H. Summers joined forces last Thursday (Oct. 7) to celebrate the partnership that has put Boston after-school efforts in the national arena and to recognize two exemplary Boston-area school principals who have made after-school education a vital and successful part of their schools.

Graham Allison, the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, has published a new book titled Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. Allison, an expert on arms control and defense policy, served as assistant secretary of defense for policy and plans under President Clinton. In a recent conversation, he discussed his ideas for preventing the all-too-likely possibility of terrorists setting off a nuclear bomb in a major American city.

Asking Who am I? may launch a quest to understand ones own identity, but unless one happens to be Michel de Montaigne or Jean Jacques Rousseau, the effort is unlikely to be of much concern to anyone else.

Professor Bernard Bailyn receives Kennedy Medal The council of the Massachusetts Historical Society awarded the Kennedy Medal – given to persons who have “rendered distinguished service to the cause of…

After four full quarters of on-field surprises, the Harvard football team may have blown its single biggest secret against visiting Cornell this past Saturday (Oct. 9). Pass it on, this Crimson roster runs deeper than the stat sheets might suggest.