Campus & Community

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…

April 19, 1775 – Six Harvard students march off with the Minutemen. April 1861 – A student chronicler at the Divinity School describes responses to the start of the U.S.…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning March 21 and ending April 3. 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:

Harvards Records Management Office (RMO) will offer a new presentation for office managers and other staff charged with file keeping. The new one-hour presentation, which will be offered on three Thursdays (April 15, July 8, and Oct 28), will provide practical guidance on filing systems, filing rules and procedures, and equipment and supplies. Each session will be held at noon at the Harvard University Archives in Pusey Library. Participants are encouraged to bring brown-bag lunches. To register online, visit http://hul.harvard.edu/rmo/

Okin memorial set for 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…

For the first time in Harvards history, women comprise more than 50 percent of the students admitted to the freshman class.

President Lawrence H. Summers reaffirmed Harvards commitment to globalization and international education on a trip to Chile and Brazil last week (March 30-April 1), the first formal visit to Latin America by a Harvard president. Public lectures and meetings, including one with Chilean President Ricardo Lagos and one with former Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, packed Summers schedule. But his visits with Harvard undergraduates and faculty members affiliated with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) regional office in Santiago, as well as with Brazilian students who are part of a formal exchange program between Harvard and two of Brazils most distinguished universities, marked high points to his trip.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute officials recently announced the establishment of the Center for Applied Cancer Science, a far-reaching initiative designed to convert basic molecular discoveries into new therapies for cancer. The center is an integral part of Dana-Farbers strategic plan, which commits the institute to making major advances in the development of cancer cures by accelerating the translation of scientific advances into novel cancer prevention methods, diagnostic techniques, and therapies.

Memorial Hall is light enough to give the crescent moon and Venus, shining together in the western sky, a little competition. After the sun and Memorial Hall, the moon and Venus are the two brightest objects in the sky. (Staff photo Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office)

One is bound to feel some déjà vu in the wake of the Harvard womens hockey teams recent stumble in the Big Dance. Yet unlike last years showdown, when the University of Minnesota-Duluth pulled off a dramatic 4-3 win in the second overtime, the Crimsons 6-2 loss against the University of Minnesota this past March 28 played out more like a nightmare than a nail-biter.

League hands Hendricks player of the week Harvard hurler Trey Hendricks ’04 has been named Ivy League Pitcher of the Week for his efforts in steering the Crimson to a…

Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) has announced the approval of the new rent schedule for approximately 2,500 Harvard-owned apartments rented by graduate students and other University affiliates. The new rents will take effect July 1, when the 2004-2005 rental season begins.

With the identification of the gene responsible for a newly recognized type of mental retardation, researchers at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have also discovered what appears to be the key target in the evolution of the frontal lobes of the brains cerebral cortex. The findings, reported in the March 26 issue of the journal Science, offer a key insight into the complex puzzle of human brain development – and the evolution of human behavior.

For the group of public school educators and administrators who gathered at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Wednesday (March 31), pink slips and hiring freezes make teacher shortages difficult to imagine.

Two new exhibitions have opened at Houghton Library.

Harvards administrative and professional staff are invited to attend a lecture presented by Provost Steven E. Hyman as part of the Harvard Administrators Forum (HAF) 2004 lecture series – Managing Change and Seizing Opportunities. At the April 13 lecture, to be held in Emerson Hall, room 105, Hyman will share his perspectives on global changes across the University.

Harvard Divinity School (HDS) Dean William A. Graham has announced the appointment of Elizabeth (Betsy) Sloane as the new associate dean for development and alumni/ae relations at HDS, to start this month.

The search for a new Harvard Divinity School Librarian has ended with the appointment of Laura C. Wood, who will assume leadership of Andover-Harvard Theological Library on June 15.

Arthur Maass, a political scientist whose study of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers management of water resources earned him the respect of the agency he criticized, died on March 26 in his home in Boston. He was 86.

California adolescents are much more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use a gun in self-defense, according to an article in the April issue of The Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Kennedy School of Government (KSG) student Kate Kohler is so youthful and bubbly, its hard to imagine her as a veteran of the U.S. Army or a dedicated marathon runner.

Kiyo Morimoto, who helped tens of thousands of students adjust to college life in his 27 years at Harvards Bureau of Study Counsel, and who served for six years as the bureaus director, died Feb. 22 at the age of 86.

Harvard Medical School Professor of Genetics Frederick W. Alt, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Childrens Hospital Boston (Department of Molecular Medicine), has received the Clowes Memorial Award from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), acknowledging his three decades of seminal discoveries in genomic instability and cancer. The Clowes is the oldest award given by the AACR, and recognizes outstanding, recent accomplishments in basic cancer research.

A Kennedy School expert on democracy and leadership in the developing world is assisting a new African effort to improve leadership on the continent by training young leaders and drawing inspiration from current and former best practices and success stories.

A. Bernard Ackerman, a physician and professor who has devoted his career to finding inventive and engaging ways of teaching, is creating a new endowment at Harvard for the study of culture and medicine. The A. Bernard Ackerman Endowment for the Culture of Medicine will establish a professorship and support a wide range of activities that encourage collaboration among the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Harvard Medical School (HMS), and other departments throughout the University. The endowment will help Harvard educate students – both those who will become physicians and those who will someday be patients – about the interdisciplinary dimension of the physician-patient relationship.

You go to China, its dazzling, says Erik Eckholm, one of three contributors to an exhibit of photographs called The Reporters Eye: Images from Chinas Socioeconomic Frontiers. Tall buildings. Cars. Growing fast. But there are also all these casualties and cast-offs. I think its important not to forget them.

The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has named mathematical statistician Stuart Baker of the National Cancer Institute the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Alum Award. As the winner, Baker will deliver a lecture at the School this June about his career and life.

A recent, highly controversial series of papers published by two researchers at the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen, Peter Gotzsche and Ole Olsen, concluded that mammography does not save lives and instead exposes women to unnecessary diagnostic and surgical procedures.

Doing things solo was never a problem for Alesia Johnson. After all, the Charlestown High senior from Dorchester held down a part-time job at a local bank, paid her own living expenses, and kept up pretty good grades without parental involvement. But when it came to applying to college, the first-generation college-bound senior was stumped.