Campus & Community

International efforts to combat tuberculosis may inadvertently be aiding the emergence of deadly, drug-resistant strains of the disease, Harvard School of Public Health researchers found.

At its first meeting of the year the Faculty Council heard a report on the Harvard College Curricular Review from Deans William Kirby (history and FAS) and Benedict Gross (mathematics and Harvard College). The Council also considered, with Dean Peter Ellison (anthropology and GSAS), a proposed Ph.D. program in Systems Biology. Professor Marc Kirschner, chair of Harvard Medical Schools Department of Systems Biology, was present for this discussion.

A new class of fellows whose work extends from Iraq to Rwanda will join the Kennedy School of Governments (KSG) Center for Human Rights Policy for the 2004-05 academic year. The class of fellows includes experts and activists from various disciplines including anthropology, law, and journalism, and will focus on topics ranging from democratization within Islamic tradition to postwar reconciliation.

On Sept. 30 at Sanders Theatre, good and bad science will take center stage at the 14th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Showered with applause and paper airplanes, this years class of winners will be honored for scientific achievements that first make people laugh, then think. Genuine Nobel laureates will be on-hand to present the prizes.

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) recently named a new endowed professorship in global leadership and public policy in memory of Anna Lindh, the late foreign minister of Sweden, who was murdered one year ago. The Anna Lindh Professorship will promote advanced scholarship, teaching, research, and outreach from a leading member of KSGs faculty.

It was quiet in Boylston Halls Ticknor Lounge one early August afternoon. But the silence masked the concentration of 30 academically talented, financially disadvantaged Boston and Cambridge youths as they imagined their futures – and plotted their paths to get there.

Theres an industry in the United States where costs are skyrocketing and quality is slipping dangerously. Despite astonishing technological advances, customers are generally dissatisfied and the workforce is grumbling louder than ever. The product is unavailable to a growing segment of Americans, and those who can access it must often wait up to six months for it.

Sept. 19, 1639 – Accused of neglecting and physically mistreating students, Nathaniel Eaton is fined and discharged as Master of the College by the Great and General Court of Massachusetts…

The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is committed to assisting all members of the Harvard community in providing for their own safety and security. Harvards annual security report, prepared in compliance with The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the Clery Act), is titled Playing It Safe, and can be found on the HUPDs Web site at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/prevention_handbook.php.

Evon Z. Vogt memorial service to be held at Memorial Church A memorial service for Evon Z. Vogt, professor of social anthropology, emeritus, will be held Friday (Sept. 17) at…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning Aug. 25 and ending Sept. 13. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Kathleen McCartney named academic dean Professor of Education Kathleen McCartney began serving as academic dean McCartney of the Graduate School of Education on July 1. An early-childhood education expert, McCartney…

CHA elects new chair, vice chair Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) recently announced that Francis H. Duehay, community leader, educator, and former elected official, has been elected to chair CHA’s board…

In addition to a number of other improvements, renovations currently being completed at the Malkin Athletic Center include enclosure of the north mezzanine to provide additional areas for cardiovascular equipment. Al LeBlanc (left) and Sal Fazio of Fazio Construction in Malden work on the ceiling of this area.

Karen L. Mapp, an expert on families and communities in education, will join the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) as a lecturer on education beginning Jan. 1, 2005, for a multiyear term.

When Julia Ashmun was a teenager, she told her mother she wanted to be proficient on the water, in the water, and under the water. Given Ashmuns coastal upbringing, which included stints in California, Florida, the Caribbean, and a year on a 27-foot sailboat, such a goal was not far-fetched. By age 15, Ashmun taught scuba diving and sailing and was an avid surfer. The familys move to New England added frozen water to Ashmuns repertoire, when Boston University recruited her to play ice hockey before she knew how to skate. I had never seen a hockey game before, but I was in really good shape, she says.

Former Harvard hockey captain, Olympian, and NHL player Ted Donato was named head coach of the Harvard mens ice hockey team on July 2. A 1991 graduate of Harvard who captured an NCAA championship as a sophomore, Donato becomes just the sixth person to serve as Harvards head coach since 1950. The appointment is Donatos first in coaching.

The third annual Its Movie Time at Harvard – a free outdoor film screening presented by President Lawrence H. Summers – will be held Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. in Tercentenary Theatre. The event is open to the entire University community and their families.

Rugby club seeks grad student players The Harvard M.B.A./Grad Rugby Club seeks graduate student players of all experience levels for training, matches, tours, or tournaments. Trainings are held Tuesday and…

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) recently announced the seventh funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, a KSG faculty committee will consider applications for small one-year grants (up to $30,000) to support advanced research by Harvard faculty members on issues of critical importance to Kuwait and the Gulf. Grants can be applied toward research assistance, travel, summer salary, and course buyout.

Fred Lawrence Whipple, whose work on comets revolutionized our understanding of these once enigmatic visitors, died Aug. 30 at the age of 97 following a prolonged illness. He was the Phillips Professor of Astronomy Emeritus at Harvard and a senior physicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO).

Paul A. Zizzo of Arlington, Mass., benefits manager for Harvard University, died on Aug. 15 of complications from back surgery. He was 58.

A group of Harvard students is teaming up with the United Nations and leading an effort to identify promising small entrepreneurs in developing countries to highlight the United Nations coming International Year of Microcredit.

Selling stuff for homes on campus and afar Cast-off sofas and retired wastebaskets not only found new life in frugal students’ dorm rooms and suites, they also help families in…

Leaders of American Indian nations from across the country came to Harvard University last week to share their best ideas of how to spur economic development, guard resources, and promote the well-being of their people.

The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics (formerly the Center for Ethics and the Professions) recently announced its Faculty Fellows in Ethics for the 2004-05 academic year. The fellows, who study ethical problems in business, government, law, medicine, and public policy, were selected from a pool of applicants from universities and professional institutions throughout the United States and 17 other countries.

The Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences (CBRSS) and the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School (HMS) have announced the arrival of four new visiting scholars, as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program. This two-year postdoctoral fellowship program is for new Ph.D.s in economics, political science, and sociology.

Harvards Program on U.S.-Japan Relations has recently selected 15 fellows for the 2004-05 academic year. Founded in 1980, the program enables outstanding scholars and practitioners to come together to conduct independent research and participate in an ongoing dialogue with other members of the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.

Four innovative leaders from Latin America will be welcomed into the Harvard University faculty this academic year as Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Visiting Professors by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS).

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 18, 2004, the following Minute was placed upon the records.