Campus & Community

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 22. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Harvards Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) is the final resting place for some 330,000 preserved birds, the silent inhabitants of a collection dating to 1846. For the collections new curator, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Scott V. Edwards 86, part of the excitement of returning to Harvard is the challenge of breathing new life into this collection, the fifth largest of its type in the world.

Paul Barreira, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and chair of the Student Mental Health Task Force, is the new director of University Counseling, Academic Support, and Mental Health Services at Harvard University, announced David Rosenthal, director of Harvard University Health Services (UHS). In this position, created on the recommendation of the Student Mental Health Task Force to facilitate a seamless administrative structure for mental health care at the University, Barreira will oversee services delivered by the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) and all clinical sites at UHS.

Harvard University and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers have reached agreement on the terms of a new three-year contract, to go into effect on July 1, 2004. The Agreement, which must be ratified by the unions members before it becomes official, provides for wage increases, a strengthened commitment to work security, substantial increases in subsidies for child care and education, and new programs in the areas of housing and transportation.

Tragedy awaited them within, but out in the garden of the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) ticket holders were basking happily in the warm afternoon sun and enjoying a selection of scrumptious hors doeuvres.

Crimson fall fighting in Tulsa The Harvard men’s tennis team nearly knocked off reigning national champion Illinois in NCAA Sweet 16 action this past Saturday (May 22), before losing a…

Harvards Kennedy School of Government has named Edward L. Glaeser co-director of the Schools Taubman Center for State and Local Government and co-faculty director of the Schools Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. A longtime faculty affiliate of both the Taubman Center and the Rappaport Institute, Glaeser will assume his new posts July 1. Alan Altshuler, who has served as director of the Taubman Center since its founding in 1988 and faculty director of the Rappaport Institute since its founding in 2000, will partner with Glaeser in co-directing both entities.

The amount of potential nuclear weapons material secured in the two years immediately following Sept. 11, 2001, was less than the amount secured in the two years immediately prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to official data described in a new report from Harvard University on steps needed to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists and hostile states. To accelerate the pace, sustained Presidential leadership, particularly in the United States and Russia, is urgently needed to sweep aside disputes over access to sensitive sites and other bureaucratic obstacles to progress, according to the report.

The Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics at Harvard University has announced its graduate student dissertation fellowship and research grant recipients for 2004-05. This interdisciplinary initiative, which supports faculty and student research across the University, promotes research and knowledge connecting the study of freedom, justice, and economics to human welfare and development.

On May 12 the Harvard Foundation and the Harvard Alumni Association sponsored an evening in honor of Senior U.S. Federal District Court Judge A. David Mazzone 50 at his undergraduate residence, Kirkland House. The evenings program, hosted by Harvard Foundation Director S. Allen Counter and Kirkland House Masters Tom and Verena Conley, began with a reception in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room where family, friends, classmates, and fellow judges greeted Mazzone.

To Marcia Morgan, receiving the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Administrative/Professional Prize was a huge surprise.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University will honor a molecular biologist, a neuroscientist, and an award-winning director, writer, and producer, among others, at its annual Radcliffe Day celebration on June 11.

Its that time of year again! Against the imposing pillars of the Memorial Church, Alan Young works on a giant supporting beam for the Commencement tent as it is hoisted up by a crane. See Commencement Exercises guidelines.

A professor of government and a professor of English and American literature and language have won this years Roslyn Abramson Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching.

Who among us hasnt appreciated the convenience of filling a prescription at 10 p.m., pleading with tech support when our computers freeze the night before a big deadline, or enjoying a midnight burger at a highway rest stop? As our lives fill to overflowing and families increasingly send two parents into the workplace, weve grown accustomed to taking care of business around the clock. Even bankers hours are no longer sacrosanct some branches now write mortgage applications following Sunday afternoon open houses.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 20, 2004, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

The Chayes International Public Service Fellowship program provides Harvard Law School (HLS) students with an opportunity to work in international public service for the summer. Students work within governments of developing nations making difficult transitions to peace and democracy, as well as with the intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that support them.

The new wing on the Nieman Foundations home at Harvard University was dedicated Monday (May 24) in honor of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for its long-standing support of the Nieman mission to elevate the standards of journalism.

Each year, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) selects a number of distinguished scholars and professionals, many from Latin America, to spend a minimum of one semester at Harvard. While in residence, visiting scholars and fellows spend time working on their own research and writing projects, making use of the Universitys extensive library resources, participating in the centers conferences and seminars, and interacting with faculty and students. Many of the DRCLAS Visiting Scholars and Fellows are supported by endowed fellowships named in honor of the donor. In April 2004, the executive committee of the center selected visiting scholars for the 2004-05 academic year from a pool of 80 applicants.

Matthew S. Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, has received the Pauling Legacy Award and the Dart/New York University (NYU) Biotechnology Achievement Award. Each award honors his five decades of pioneering molecular genetics research and his 40 years of work to eliminate biological and chemical weapons.

Specially designed college savings plans that offer tax-free savings can actually cost low- and middle-income families more than they save by reducing their eligibility for financial aid, according to a researcher at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Memorial Hall and Memorial Church have long been luminous nocturnal landmarks of the Cambridge campus. Now, the Adolphus Busch Hall clock tower has joined the dignified beacons of their neighbors. Four years ago, the clock mechanism underwent a major restoration. Now the exterior clock faces have become illuminated. All four clock faces shine with the correct time throughout the night. The light fixtures run on photo cell batteries and go on automatically when it gets dark, turning off just as automatically when daylight creeps back.

Two receive Killam Fellowship Awards The Killam Fellowships Program, an undergraduate scholarship and exchange program between Canada and the United States, recently granted Nassira Nicola ’04 and Christopher Doucette ’06…

Sacha Baron Cohen, worldwide TV personality and comedy phenomenon who currently hosts HBOs Emmy Award-nominated late-night comedy series Da Ali G Show, is the 2004 Class Day speaker, announced the Harvard College Class of 2004 Senior Class Committee and the Harvard Alumni Association. Baron Cohen was selected after months of secret negotiations. Baron Cohen will address the senior class and guests on Class Day, June 9, at 2 p.m., in Tercentenary Theatre.

Over the past several years, corporate scandals have made the headlines. Last week (May 19 and 20), leaders from business, government, and law joined with University experts at the Kennedy School to discuss government responses to the current corporate crisis.

Young Women’s Conference seeks participants Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership encourages young women (18-24 years of age) to apply for consideration to the Young Women’s Leadership Conference – a nonpartisan…

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced that it has awarded 48 student grants and fellowships amounting to over $100,000 for the 2004-05 academic year. Twenty grants will support Harvard College undergraduates, and 28 will support graduate students. In recent years the Weatherhead Center has significantly expanded its support for Harvard students, both increasing financial resources and the number of student awards available, and establishing new programs and seminars for students.

Juniors Darren Morris (left) of Mather House and Gina Bruno of Adams House have been chosen by the Harvard Alumni Association to receive the 2004 David Aloian Memorial Scholarships. The award recognizes special contributions to the quality of life in the Houses and thoughtful leadership that makes the College an exciting place in which to live and study. Each House community nominates one House resident for the award.

For the third consecutive year a piece from Harvard Review has been selected for inclusion in The Best American Series (Houghton Mifflin), a showcase for the years finest fiction and nonfiction writing since 1915. Yarn, by Kyoko Mori, was chosen for the 2004 edition of The Best American Essays and was selected by guest editor Louis Menand, a critic, essayist, and Harvard professor of English and American literature and Language. It originally appeared in Harvard Review 24 (spring 2003). Contributors to Harvard Review have also been selected for The Best American Poetry 2002, The Best American Essays 2003, and The Best American Short Stories 2003.

Thirteen U.S. journalists and 12 international journalists were recently appointed to the 67th class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University. Established in 1938, the Nieman program is the oldest midcareer fellowship for journalists in the world. The fellowships are awarded to working journalists of accomplishment and promise for an academic year of study in any part of the University. More than 1,000 U.S. and international journalists have studied at Harvard as Nieman Fellows.