Campus & Community

Alcock comes to the CfA from the University of Pennsylvania, where he is Reese W. Flower Professor of Astronomy.

Preterm babies are born with preterm brains. They need to learn in the harsh world outside the womb what normal babies learn inside the comfort of their mothers bodies.

Sun shining through a window of the Weld Boat House paints a row of boats a watery blue. (Staff photo Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office)

May 13, 1941 – At the Harvard Forest (Petersham, Mass.), the University dedicates Shaler Hall and the Fisher Museum as working and living quarters for Forest staff and students.  May…

A memorial service for Elizabeth (Betty) M. Furdon, assistant cataloger in the Property Information Resource Center of Harvard Real Estate Services, will be held on Sunday (May 23) at 2:30 p.m. at the Cambridge Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Place. Furdon died April 20 of breast cancer.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 15. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

In recognition of their dedication to teaching, advising, and mentoring undergraduate students, four distinguished members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been named Harvard College Professors.

Harvards new financial aid initiative aimed at students from low and moderate economic backgrounds helped support close to an 80 percent yield on students admitted to the College Class of 2008 entering in September. Announced in February by President Lawrence H. Summers in an address to the American Council on Education, the new financial aid initiative requires no contribution from parents with incomes below $40,000 and reduces expectations from families with incomes between $40,000 and $60,000. The yield on students from families with incomes below $60,000 is just under 84 percent.

For the past 11 years, the Weissman International Internship Program, established by Paul (52) and Harriet Weissman in 1994, has provided nearly 200 sophomores and juniors with the opportunity to participate in an international internship in a field of work related to their academic and career goals. The Weissman program enables students to develop a richer understanding of the global community in which they live and work, and provides an opportunity for them to share their experiences with the Harvard community when they return.

Instead of buying a boat or a vacation house on Cape Cod, we decided to invest in a racehorse.

Green Campus Initiative named GoGreen awardee The Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) was recently selected as a co-recipient of the GoGreen Award in the large business/institution category for energy (a…

Directory artwork sought The Harvard Directory Project seeks artwork to be considered for the front cover of the 2004-05 Faculty & Staff Telephone Directory. Entrants must be faculty or staff…

On the long road to the 2004 NCAA tennis championships, the Harvard mens and womens teams encountered a fair share of potholes and roadblocks. And success. Ultimately, the women got lost somewhere against visiting Ohio State, while the Crimson men cruised past Tulane to advance to Tulsa – the site of this years Sweet 16.

From pornography to privacy, domain names to Napster to iTunes, Harvard Law Schools Berkman Center for Internet and Society grappled with the complex legal issues of the cybercourtroom at its three-day Internet Law Program (iLaw) last week (May 13 – 15). Some of the leading thinkers in cyber law, including Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty members William Fisher, Charles Nesson, and Berkman Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies Jonathan Zittrain, presented cutting-edge, often controversial views on the ever-emerging field.

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is a monument to preservation. The librarys extensive collections of books and manuscripts, from Julia Childs recipe files to Amelia Earharts baby book to oral histories of black women, preserve and perpetuate an understanding of womens lives for future generations of scholars.

Six professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been honored for their achievements in history, literature, or art, as broadly defined by the Cabot Fund. This years Walter Channing Cabot Fellows are David Blackbourn, Coolidge Professor of History Giuliana Bruno, professor of visual and environmental studies Daniel Donoghue, John P. Marquand Professor of English Michael Herzfeld, professor of anthropology Jay Jasanoff, Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology and Mary Waters, Harvard College Professor and professor of sociology.

Last December, Plan B, the emergency contraceptive or morning after pill, which prevents pregnancy when taken within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse, was approved for over-the-counter sale by the Federal Drug Administrations (FDA) expert advisory panel. But the FDA, contrary to its usual practice, ruled against the panels decision and turned down Plan B for over-the-counter use. The reason given was that the drugs effect on young teenage girls had not been established.

Two laptops are in use in the audience as Howard Stevenson, the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, talks about participant-centered learning in the context of teaching the case method to a large audience. Stevenson was one of several presenters Tuesday (May 18) at the Workshop on the Use of Technology in Teaching and Learning, sponsored by the Harvard Academic Computing Committee, at the Business Schools Spangler Auditorium. The Harvard Academic Computing Committee is co-chaired by Harvard Provost Steven Hyman and by Assistant Provost for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Dan Moriarty.

Thomas OConnor was handing back some unclaimed blue books when the drumming began. He looked up quizzically for a moment, then returned to his task. A teacher with as much classroom experience as OConnor was not about to be distracted by a little noise.

While the faculty task forces have been considering the Universitys academic program, another working group of faculty and administrators has been working to identify a world-class planning firm to help translate the Universitys academic aspirations into physical reality.

The task force reports require additional analysis and discussion among stakeholders before the University can move forward with some of the many options suggested:

A vision of Harvard a half-century from now is beginning to emerge with preliminary ideas and options proposed by nearly 70 faculty members serving on four Allston task forces.

From its earliest years, Harvard has trained professionals for leadership roles. Identifying how Harvards professional Schools might foster greater collaboration to educate tomorrows leaders was a key goal of the Task Force on Professional Schools.

The Center for International Development (CID) has awarded 30 grants to Harvard undergraduate students to support international development internships and research projects this summer.

Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Lincoln Professor of History at Harvard University, has been elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society (APS). Election to the APS honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields. There are currently more than 700 APS members around the world.

Uneasy is the title of the Department of Visual Studies (VES) Thesis Exhibition and the feeling embodied in almost all the works displayed. First to greet the visitor is Grace Catenaccios glitter-loaded schoolgirl ballerina, who assumes a triumphant end-of-routine pose. Her expression is uncertain, braced for disapproval.

To many at Harvard, the Charles River was thought to be a potential impediment to creating an expanded campus in Allston. But according to members of the Allston Life Task Force, The main obstacle is not the physical distance, but the psychological experience of traveling between Cambridge and Allston. The river, in other words, is now seen as the likely heart of one larger campus.

Harvards acreage in Allston can provide the elbow room to construct new research laboratories nurturing a host of interdisciplinary, cutting-edge science functions that embrace emerging fields and enable powerful new scientific partnerships, according to a task force studying science and technology opportunities in Allston.

The Task Force on Undergraduate Life found that anchoring Harvards future in Allston to the undergraduate experience would be a very positive development, helping to enhance the undergraduate experience through academic, cultural, and artistic activities.

Mary C.’s baby was born with his intestines twisted the wrong way. She knew he would have to undergo surgery immediately. Mary, a 36-year-old Roman Catholic, e-mailed all those in her prayer circle. Within 24 hours, she had 5,000 people praying for her newborn son. The surgical team untwisted the boy’s intestine, and everything turned out fine.