Campus & Community

Fitting in and looking as if it belonged was never the point. Otherwise, it would have been made of red brick, not slabs of barefaced concrete. It would have shuffled its interior spaces into neat stacks so people would know where they were and where they were going instead of feeling a sense of perpetual disorientation. It would have faced Quincy Street with an honest, straightforward facade instead of peering down over its barrel shoulder and uncoiling its ramp to the sidewalk like an animal sipping water at a stream.

Fakes. Phonies. Forgeries. Institutions are careful not to acquire them – as a rule. But this month, as it has done for five years, the Fogg Art Museum makes an exception to show some Fabulous Fakes and Poignant Poetry, the work of art teacher Deb Whitmores fifth-grade students at Captain Samuel Brown School in Peabody. Copies of dozens of works by Picasso, van Gogh, Degas, Renoir, and many other important painters are sharing the walls with the real McCoys, but theres no art fraud here.

This sweet row of Dutch spring tulips seems to have sprung spontaneously out of the cold New England stone fronting the Holyoke Center Arcade. (Staff photo Jon Chase/Harvard News Office)

Whats smaller than a microbrewery but bigger than a cauldron of homebrew stinking up the kitchen?

Now that the franc, the mark, and the lira have followed the ducat, the doubloon, and the Louis dOr into numismatic superannuation, economists have been watching with great interest to see how well the successor to these national currencies – the euro – has been doing at replacing the monetary systems of a dozen linguistically and culturally diverse countries.

From physicians and therapists to Reiki practitioners and spirit singers, a wide range of religious and medical professionals shared their projects and findings from the 18-month Women Healing Women project at Harvard Divinity School in March. Sponsored by the Religion, Health and Healing Initiative of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Women Healing Women convened 20 female religious leaders and health care professionals across disciplines to share information and create specific projects that enhance womens health.

Tuesdays mean a full house in Pat Goffredos second-grade classroom at the Amigos School in Cambridge. I rarely have any absences on Tuesday, says Goffredo. Even if they have dentists appointments, they make it in.

Funds and fellows will be made available to Harvard faculty in an effort to spark wide-ranging implementation of the powerful array of educational technology pioneered at the University in recent years, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven E. Hyman announced.

The Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at Western Kentucky University (WKU) has named Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, the recipient of the 2003 Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism. Buell will receive the award for Emerson (2003, Belknap Press), an assessment of Ralph Waldo Emersons works, at the Robert Penn Warren Symposium at WKU on April 25.

Vicki Norberg-Bohm, a pioneer in the study of technology innovation, died March 21 at the age of 48 after a courageous fight with cancer.

In the freshman seminar Painting Natural History, Faith Imafidon 07 sketches a plant called Magic Bells. The seminar is held in the Carpenter Center.

Harvard has long been recognized for its strength in neuroscience: Researchers in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) are leaders in studies of behavior, perception, and brain development, while Harvard Medical School (HMS) was the first in the nation to establish a department of neurobiology.

A common antibiotic used to treat arthritis and acne shows promise for limiting the severity of spinal cord and brain injuries.

Kirkland House is reflected in Belfer Hall at the Kennedy School of Government. Undaunted by the illusion of a leaning tower of Belfer, a student opens the front door.

At its 10th meeting of the year (March 24) the Faculty Council discussed the Report of the Harvard University Committee on Calendar Reform with the chair of the committee, Professor Sidney Verba (government).

March 6, 1945 – The last spring term under the wartime trimester schedule begins. Final figures University-wide show an enrollment of 1,817 civilians, and 4,100 Army and Navy officer specialists.…

Shearman memorial April 4 A memorial service for John K. G. Shearman will be held Sunday, April 4, at 2:30 p.m. in the Faculty Room in University Hall. A reception…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 20. 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:

The Harvard Divinity School (HDS) faculty members and guests who gathered Thursday (March 18) to discuss the much-talked-about new film The Passion of the Christ dissented only in their choice of adjectives.

International complicity and the lessons learned 10 years after the Rwandan genocide, in which almost a million people were slaughtered in eight weeks, was the topic of a compelling session at the Kennedy Schools John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Tuesday night (March 23).

Eliot A. Cohen was awarded the first Huntington Prize on Monday (March 22) for his book Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (New York: Free Press, 2002).

Harvards Modern Greek Studies Program invites graduate students in modern Greek studies or in related fields to participate in a grad student conference taking place in April 2005. The goal of the conference, titled The Cankered Muse: In Search of Modern Greek Satire, is to account for the prolific and uninterrupted presence of satire in modern Greek literature.

In its report released Monday (March 22), the Harvard University Committee on Calendar Reform, appointed last fall by the president, provost, and deans, recommends that the University move to a limited framework of shared dates among all Schools to promote closer connections among faculty and students from across the University. The committee adopted its report by a vote of 18 to 1. Chaired by Sidney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library, the committee included faculty members drawn from each of the Universitys Schools, including five from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), two undergraduates appointed by the Undergraduate Council, and three graduate students appointed by the FAS and University-wide Graduate Student Councils. The report recommends that the University adopt the following University-wide shared dates:

Gerald Holton to deliver Tillich Lecture This year’s Paul Tillich lecture will be given by Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of the History of Science Gerald Holton.…

OfA presents ‘An Evening with Suzanne Farrell’ As part of its Learning From Performers series, the Office for the Arts will welcome acclaimed ballerina Suzanne Farrell on April 15 at…

Harvard College has announced its fees for undergraduate tuition, room, and board for the 2004-2005 academic year. Tuition is set at $27,448. Overall charges will total $39,880, an increase of 5.15 percent, including room rate, $4,974 board, $4,286 health services fee, $1,264 and student services fee, $1,908.

In another do-or-die weekend, the streaking mens and womens Harvard hockey teams both earned an extension to their suddenly sensational postseason runs. And a pair of ECAC titles to boot.

Harvard junior midfielder Rory Edwards attempts to cut off a streaking Kariane Lauri of the University of Connecticut this past Saturday (March 20) at Jordan Field. In their first visit to Harvard in program history, the Huskies (1-4) overwhelmed the Crimson, 10-4, to earn their first win of the season.

A report by The Blade of Toledo, Ohio, that uncovered Vietnam-era war crimes kept secret for three and a half decades, has received the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. Given for work published in daily newspapers in 2003, the award carries a $10,000 prize. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard administers the program.