Campus & Community

At an address at the Kennedy School on Tuesday (June 1), Tassos Papadopoulos, the president of the Republic of Cyprus, defended his rejection of a United Nations plan led by Secretary-General Kofi Annan that would have united the divided country. He said the rejection did not mean that Greek Cypriots were against reunification.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) recently announced that William McKersie will become the Schools new associate dean for development and alumni relations on Sept. 1. McKersie brings more than 20 years of experience in education and philanthropy to this newly created position at GSE.

Twenty-four juniors from the Class of 2005 were recently elected to the Harvard College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Iota of Massachusetts. The students were formally inducted into the chapter at a May ceremony and dinner.

Hillary and Julie Goodridge, lead plaintiffs in the historic Massachusetts marriage case, have been named the recipients of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus (HGLCs) 2004 Trailblazer Award. The award will be presented to the Goodridges at the caucuss annual Commencement Day dinner, to be held in Lowell House on Thursday (June 10). The keynote speaker for the event will be Jarrett Barrios A.B. 90, Massachusetts state senator and a leader of the fight against a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox, former Watergate special prosecutor and solicitor general, died Saturday (May 29) in his home in Brooksville, Maine. He was 92.

Harvard University has been awarded a GoGreen business award by the city of Cambridge during the citys annual May celebration that promotes environmental action and awareness.

Harvard astronomers determined last month that a pair of celestial titanic twins are the heaviest stars ever measured by scientists, with each one tipping the scales at 80 times the mass of Earths sun.

By their nature, sheds are small and unpretentious structures, typically built for storing lawnmowers and shovels and such. The red shed that had been affixed to the side of Lyman Laboratory of the Department of Physics for almost 70 years appeared to be no different – a minor wood building that seemed uncomfortably out of place next to the far more substantial Lyman, which was built out of brick and mortar in 1931.

The Broad Institutes Brad Bernstein and Vamsi Mootha have each received a Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences.

Author and Extension School writing instructor Joan Leegant has been named the 2003 recipient of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for her book An Hour in Paradise (W.W. Norton, 2003) by the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford. Earlier this spring, Leegants book was the co-recipient of the 2004 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award.

Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have found new evidence that suggests that women and men with similar smoking histories have the same risk of developing lung cancer. The large-scale analysis of more than 85,000 men and women shows that the nations top cancer killer strikes male and female smokers at similar rates – a finding that contrasts with the popular belief that women are more susceptible to the disease. The research appears in the June 2 issue of The Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

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

Success in fencing requires balance, timing, preparation, and sacrifice. Achieving this elusive combination is as rare as it is impressive. Gregory Chang has done it.

Brown sinks competition at NCAA Rowing Championships Radcliffe’s heavyweight crew finished 10th out of 12 schools at the NCAA Rowing Championships this past weekend (May 28-30) in Rancho Cordova, Calif.…

A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on June 10. For the 16th consecutive year a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvards 353rd Commencement Exercises.

Stress has been thought to be a risk factor in the development of breast cancer, but little empirical evidence exists about the link between chronic stress and this disease. To examine a possible link, researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) evaluated the number of hours middle-aged women devoted to caregiving for a disabled and/or ill adult or a child and self-reported stress from this caregiving with breast cancer incidence and endogenous sex steroid hormone levels. They found that higher numbers of caregiving hours and high self-reported stress did not predict a higher incidence of breast cancer. In fact, researchers noted that sex steroid hormone levels were lower among caregivers, suggesting that chronic stress could ultimately lower breast cancer risk. These findings are published in the June 1 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Slavic Languages and Literatures names winners The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures recently awarded Seth Kleinerman ’04 and graduate student Alex Spektor the V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prize for their…

Chorus auditions to kick off June 27 The Harvard Summer School Chorus will hold open auditions for its 2004 season on June 27-28 (from 2 to 5 p.m. on both…

At a time when there is intense scrutiny of Harvards undergraduate curriculum, the College is fortunate to have received a gift that addresses one of the key goals that has emerged from the ongoing curricular review.

New England Conservatory (NEC) and Harvards Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have agreed to establish a new degree program allowing exceptional students to earn both a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard and a master of music degree from NEC, beginning in the 2005-06 school year. The initiative will benefit those students who are both musically and intellectually talented, and who might otherwise have to choose between Harvards rigorous education in the liberal arts and sciences and the professional music training offered by NEC.

Leading up to its 353rd Commencement, Harvard University will host the following events.

If, as many researchers contend, the future of academic science lies in breaking down the barriers between traditional disciplines, a stunning new building beginning to take shape along Oxford Street may become the most forward-looking to grace the Harvard campus – both in form and function.

Gamze Dinckok 04 and Ryan Brown 04 practice their ballroom dance routine at the MAC.

The light sustains me. The light and the view, smiles Betty Comden as she looks from her 26th-floor apartment across the rooftops of Lincoln Center toward the Hudson River. Up here in the pink apartment, traffic noise and the jumble of buildings that are the Upper West Side are muted. Comden – Tony- and Grammy Award-winning Broadway lyricist – is hosting Carol Ojas undergraduate seminar in musical theater for lunch. The students have come prepared with questions.

Three Harvard students are among the 13 winners of this years 2004 J.W. Saxe Memorial Prize for Public Service. The $1,500 prize is awarded annually to help enable college students to partake in public service internships or no-pay/low-paying jobs during the summer.

Laurie Cote loves pianos and loves being around them. He plays, but his passion is getting them to sing in their best voices.

Harvard Law School visiting researcher Michael McCann knows a few things about the upcoming National Basketball Association (NBA) draft June 24. He’s quite certain that several of the top picks will be high school seniors taking the fast lane to a professional career by avoiding the traditional detour to college.

Steven Pinker is looking into peoples’ brains to try to see what’s on their minds. The Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard disagrees with those who think that, at birth, it’s nothing.

Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree…

May 8, 1944 – Harvard receives a copy of the Gutenberg Bible (Mainz, Germany, ca. 1455), one of only 10 complete or near-complete copies known to be in the United…