Campus & Community

Violence, sex, and profanity increased significantly in movies between 1992 and 2003, according to a study by researchers from the Kids Risk Project at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Kimberly Thompson, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at HSPH and director of the Kids Risk Project, said, The findings demonstrate that ratings creep has occurred over the last decade and that todays movies contain significantly more violence, sex, and profanity on average than movies of the same rating a decade ago.

Cross honored for achievement in Jewish Studies In June, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture presented the 11th Annual Jewish Cultural Achievement Award in Scholarship to Frank Moore Cross, the…

Harvard graduate Chris Lambert 03 captured the U.K. Olympic Trials 200-meter dash in 20.94 seconds earlier this month in Manchester, England, to qualify for the big show in Athens. Lambert is one of six Ivy League athletes to advance to the Olympic games in track and field, including Harvard hurdler Brenda Taylor 01. At least 39 Ivy athletes in all sports have qualified for this summers games.

Seasoned Summers offers advice to new college presidents

The Rowland Institute for Science, an interdisciplinary research institute in Cambridge that merged with Harvard in 2002,

The lives of single mothers and their families improved in the post-welfare reform age, despite the negative impacts of the 2001-02 recession. Thats the finding in a new study authored by Wiener Center Research Fellow Scott Winship and Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy Christopher Jencks, both at the Kennedy School.

Harvard Extension School biochemistry instructor Cheryl Wojciechowski and faculty aid and A.L.M. candidate Luke McKneally are creating a kiosk display on obesity and diet for the Current Science and Technology Center at the Museum of Science, Boston. Supersized America claims that obesity may soon surpass tobacco as the leading cause of health problems facing America.

Incredibly tiny integrated circuits could have applications well beyond faster, smaller computers and cell phones with features only fantasized about today. For example, nanocircuits might make possible sensors that can…

The United States government through its Agency for International Development (USAID), Development Cooperation Ireland (DCI), and the Netherlands Minister for Development Cooperation have joined hands with the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (GFDRE) to support fiscal decentralization in Ethiopia. The donors and the GFDRE have collectively pledged $13.6 million to support roll-out of the highly successful Decentralization Support Activity (DSA), implemented by Harvard University, to all regions of Ethiopia, as well as the administrative zones of Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa.

The Kennedy School of Governments Institute of Politics (IOP) recently announced its selection of a diverse and experienced group of individuals for resident fellowships this fall. The fellows will join the IOP beginning in mid-September, and will lead weekly, not-for-credit study groups on a range of political topics. Fellows interact with students, participate in the intellectual life of the community, and pursue individual studies or projects.

George Francis Fabyan Lombard, a former senior associate dean and professor of human relations at Harvard Business School (HBS) for 41 years, died at his home in Weston on June 17. He was 93.

Sidney Verba, the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library, has appointed Megan Sniffin-Marinoff to the position of Harvard University archivist. Sniffin-Marinoff, who currently serves as librarian and deputy director of Radcliffes Schlesinger Library, succeeds former University archivist Harley P. Holden, who held the position from 1971 until his retirement late in 2003. Her appointment is effective Sept. 7.

Researchers from Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) found that women currently taking thyroid hormones need to increase their dose early in a pregnancy – on average, by eight weeks gestation – to prevent maternal hypothyroidism and possible harm to the fetus. These findings, which will be published in the July 15 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, provide physicians – including endocrinologists, obstetricians and gynecologists, and primary care physicians – with new evidence that the necessary dosage of thyroid medication increases shortly after conception, and often prior to a womans first obstetrical visit.

Howard A. Frank, co-developer of the heart pacemaker and clinical professor of surgery emeritus at Harvard Medical School, died from complications of a stroke at his Brookline, Mass., home on June 27. He was 89.

Multinationalism, collective decision-making, and the rule of law – these offer the best hope of achieving a stable and equitable world order, according to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

The president of the Harvard Alumni Association Thursday (June 10) announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers.

After 18 years of dedicated professional service to the College, GSAS, HGSE, and KSG and their students, Charles Ducey has announced his decision to resign from his position as director of the Bureau of Study Counsel as of the end of this academic year for personal and professional reasons. Duceys contributions to the Harvard community are too numerous to list, but include above all a commitment to the highest quality, increased productivity and diversity that has led to high levels of student satisfaction with the services provided by the bureau. He established many innovative programs at the bureau. Throughout his tenure as director, Ducey also served as a psychotherapist, a teacher and supervisor, and an active contributor to College policy, and member of several committees on issues of student health and related matters. Ducey plans to practice privately in the Cambridge area and to continue to teach at the Graduate School of Education and the Extension School.

More news and information about Harvard will be delivered digitally by the Central Administration to the community beginning in July, including two summer issues of the Harvard Gazette (http://www.news-harvard.go-vip.net/gazette/gazette). Paper publication of the Gazette will resume Sept. 16 and continue throughout the academic year. Regular Harvard news updates will continue to be available at http://www.harvard.edu. The deadline for items to be published in the July 22 issue of the online Gazette is July 16. The deadline for items to be published in the Aug. 26 issue of the online Gazette is Aug. 20.

A memorial service celebrating the life and work of former Harvard psychiatrist, James J. Gill, S.J., M.D., will be held at noon on June 23 in the Memorial Church.

June 2, 1954 – Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie visits Harvard. Selassie signs the University guest book, visits Houghton Library to inspect rare books and manuscripts with Ethiopian connections, and takes…

Janet King, mother of 2nd Lt. Samuel Knox King, is filled with emotion after pinning her son. Ten Harvard College seniors swore to support and defend the U.S. Constitution on June 9 as they were commissioned as officers in the U.S. armed forces.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending June 12. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Bruce Yankner, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, is investigating how human brains change between ages 26 and 106. If you are more than 40 years old, the news may not be good.

Financial aid to graduate students will increase by $3 million next year, thanks to significant cost savings achieved by collaborative efforts in the Universitys Central Administration to maintain level funding for fiscal year 05.

The several AIDS-related programs that exist at Harvard will be united under the new Harvard University Program on AIDS (HUPA), Provost Steven E. Hyman announced today (June 17). The program will better harness and leverage the Universitys research, education, and fundraising resources to prevent and treat this deadly global disease.

The Harvard mens heavyweight crew managed its fourth consecutive sweep of the freshman, JV, and varsity races in the 139th annual Harvard-Yale Regatta this past Saturday (June 12) in New London, Conn. The Crimson rowers now hold an 86-53 series advantage in the storied regatta – the nations oldest intercollegiate sporting event.

Distinctive spiral grooves carved on ornamental jade rings used in Chinese burial rites some 2,500 years ago appear to have been created with a highly precise machine, a Harvard University graduate student reports in the June 11 issue of the journal Science.

Faculty to receive HMS-HDS mentoring awards Seven faculty members of Harvard Medical School (HMS) will receive Excellence in Mentoring Awards, co-sponsored by HMS and the School of Dental Medicine (HDS),…

The first group of Presidential Instructional Technology Fellows got their marching orders this week during training designed to prepare them for a summers work of creating new online course content aimed at enhancing the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) educational experience.

The first Herchel Smith Harvard Undergraduate Research Fellowships have been granted to seven Harvard College students who will use the awards to support scientific research conducted around the world this summer.