Campus & Community

Robert Mann, founder and first violinist of the Julliard String Quartet and a member of the Julliard School Music Division faculty since 1946, has been named the recipient of the 2004 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award.

The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) has announced its support of 22 art projects and performances that will take place during Arts First weekend (May 6-9). Sponsored by the OFA grants program and selected by the Council on the Arts, the projects range from music and the visual arts to theater and the cultural arts.

Red Sox VIP tickets, a flight with singer/songwriter and pilot Livingston Taylor, and a movie date with New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell are among the items on the auction block tonight (April 29) at Phillips Brooks House Associations Spring Auction and Raffle to benefit its Summer Urban Program, which runs 12 low-cost day camps for local children. Dean of the College Benedict Gross is master of ceremonies at the event, which includes drinks and hors doeuvres, a silent and live auction, and live music. From 5 to 8 p.m. at Phillips Brooks House in Harvard Yard, $20. For more information, go to http://www.evite.com/mannix@fas.harvard.edu/supauction.

Five Harvard students have been awarded grants by the National Security Education Program (NSEP), and another six have received grants from the Freeman-Asia Program. The Institute of International Education administers both grants.

Amid the fuss over Democratic front-runner John Kerrys latest 10-year plan to expand health-care coverage to the tune (according to some Republicans) of $900 billion, and renewed allegations that the Bush administration has suppressed Medicare costs predictions, Harvard Business Schools Regina E. Herzlinger shrugs her shoulders, and smiles. Shes not surprised by the continued political rigmarole and shes not intimidated by this stickiest of issues. In fact, her ideas, scores of health-care professionals contend, could solve the conundrum of pricing the priceless – care for the sick.

Just before 3 oclock on a recent Thursday, Kate Johnsen wrestles with the lock on the door to the Mary Ellen McCormack Youth Center. Moments after she gets the entry to the basement room open, children steadily trickle in. The center is strewn with evidence of spirited use: Checkers are scattered on the floor, homework charts and art projects hang on walls, and toy trucks occupy corners. But the kids, who are between 8 and 10 years old and all live in the Mary Ellen McCormack Housing Development, the oldest public housing project in New England, arent darting to the toys and games. After all, they have a show to rehearse, a pair of plays that theyre debuting for the public on Harvards campus less than two weeks from the day. Theyve been on April vacation all week, but theyre still faithfully at the center during the usual after-school program schedule to get ready for the big show.

A special reception commemorating the installation of the recently rediscovered grizzly bear claw necklace at the Peabody Museum will be held May 13 – the day the artifact goes on public display – from 5 to 7 p.m. at the museum. Provost Steven E. Hyman and William Fash, Howells Director of the Peabody Museum, will host the event.

Goroff named FDD Fellow Professor of the Practice of Mathematics Daniel Goroff has been accepted as a 2004-05 Academic Fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) in…

The joke is be back by sunset, Sarah Freeman said of her favorite long-distance race: the annual Nunavut Midnight Sun Marathon.

Freshman Morgan Potts hits the books in style at the improvised patio outside of Dudley House and the Gato Rojo Caf&eacute. (Staff photo Kris Snibbe/

Scientists have developed a new type of DNA sequence analysis that pinpoints rapidly evolving pathogenic genes and have used the technique to identify hundreds of quickly evolving tubercular and malarial genes believed to represent key points of contact with the human immune system. The work sheds new light on the interaction of lethal organisms with the immune system, and could greatly help researchers in identifying appropriate targets for new drugs or vaccines.

In a meeting of the United Ways of New England in Boston, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers noted to an audience of 200 Boston industry leaders and executives that at a time when the United States is at its most powerful and incomes are at a historic high, there is a growing gap between this prosperity and the way many children in the country live.

Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education officially opened the door to racial equality in the United States, education is still the best place to continue pushing for change, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige told a packed audience at the Kennedy School of Government Thursday (April 22).

David T. Ellwood, the Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, will become the next dean of the Kennedy School, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Wednesday (April 21).

Artist Laurie Palmer spoke April 15 about her installation, The Helium Stockpile: Under Shifting Conditions of Heat and Pressure. Palmer, a Radcliffe fellow, is a conceptual artist whose work focuses on industry, the environment, history, and economics. The Helium Stockpile is inspired by an actual federally owned helium stockpile near Amarillo, Texas, containing 3.7 billion cubic feet of the lighter-than-air gas, used during the Cold War in the manufacture of nuclear bombs. Palmers interactive piece, consisting of hundreds of hinged wooden blocks, explores the contraction of a flat field into a compact mass.

April 21 & May 12, 1939 – In the New Lecture Hall (now Lowell Hall), New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses delivers the 1938-39 Godkin Lectures: “Notes on Theory…

Susan Okin service May 2 Friends and family of Susan Moller Okin, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will host a memorial service on May 2 from…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 17. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

A physics professor who has devised ingenious methods for manufacturing and observing antimatter has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr., the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and vice dean for Clinical Programs at Harvard Law School, has been appointed director of the new Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.

With his trim beard and snappy straw hat, David Noard looks quite a lot like Vincent Van Gogh, the artist he portrays in his original one-man show, My Name Is Vincent.

After giving a presentation about climate change in Sever Hall, Al Gore continues the conversation with students Caitlin Watts-FitzGerald 06 (from left) and Michelle Sonia 06, and Raymond Lyman, who works in media and technology. Gore made his presentation on April 14 to students in Environmental Science and Public Policy 10.

Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies Giuliana Bruno received the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award in Culture and History at a March ceremony for Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film (Verso Books, 2002).

Harvard to back walk for hunger, AIDS For the 18th consecutive year, the Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs will contribute 50 cents per kilometer walked, or hour volunteered,…

Harvards Office for the Arts (OFA) and the Council on the Arts, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have recently announced the winners of the annual undergraduate art prizes. In recognition of outstanding accomplishments in the arts, five seniors and one junior were named recipients for the 2003-04 academic year.

Water polo felled by No. 20 Brown at Northeast Champs The Harvard women’s water polo team dropped a 9-2 decision against top-ranked Brown in the title game of the Collegiate…

Nathan J. Heller 06 and Amelia E. Lester 05 have been named Harvard Magazines Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2004-05 academic year. The students will join the magazines staff for the academic year and write a regular column, The Undergraduate, as well as news stories and alumni features. They also provide general editorial assistance, and become involved in all phases of the magazines production.

According to a recently published list of rankings for fiscal year 2003, the Forsyth Institute – a Harvard-affiliated nonprofit biomedical research organization – received more in federal grant funding from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) than any university or other research organization in its specialty. With 40 principal investigators, the Forsyth Institute, unique among the funding recipients for being an independent research organization, was granted a total of $12,161,236 for its research in a variety of fields funded by NIDCR.

In recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, five Harvard professors recently joined 67 other U.S. scientists and engineers to be elected members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The election, which was held April 20 during the 141st annual meeting of the academy, brings the total number of active members to 1,949.