Campus & Community

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

Democratic State Rep. Byron Rushing will speak at the Memorial Church on the subject Church & State: Civil Marriage, Civil Rights, and Religious Freedom on Sunday, March 21. Rushing is an original sponsor of the Massachusetts gay rights bill and the chief sponsor of the law to end discrimination in public schools on the basis of sexual orientation. The event, held in the Pusey Room of the Memorial Church, begins at 9 a.m. with a continental breakfast, and the discussion starts at 9:30. Sponsored by the Faith and Life Forum of the Memorial Church, this event is free and open to the public.

Students from the Institute of Politics led a voter registration and mobilization drive in front of the Science Center on March 16. More than 300 students registered or filled out Voter Contact Cards to receive information about voting absentee in their home states. The students were joined by IOP Fellow and former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura.

Scott A. Abell 72, a successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Harvard alumni leader, has accepted an invitation from William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and Donella M. Rapier, vice president for Alumni Affairs and Development, to become associate vice president and dean for Development for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

On a night Martin McGuinness may have been scheduled to die in Belfast, he was instead at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, answering a students question about what hell do when he reaches heavens pearly gates.

Suzanne J. Battit, M.B.A. 92, has been appointed executive director of the Harvard College Fund (HCF).

Nigerian AIDS activist Yinka Jegede-Ekpe said that the HIV/AIDS epidemic will never be solved until women are seen as equal partners. She spoke to an audience in Snyder Auditorium at the Harvard School of Public Health on March 9, one day after being named a recipient of a 2004 Reebok Human Rights Award. The award, provided by the Reebok Human Rights Foundation, will be presented at a ceremony on May 5 at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Greg Morrow buckles himself into the bellows and bag of his Scottish small pipes, furrows his brow, and begins to squeeze. As air fills the bladder and Morrow adjusts the lap-sized instruments three pipes, the sound is, frankly, offensive a cross between a goose in pain and a city intersection gridlocked with taxis.

GSEs Wendy Luttrell appointed to associate professorship

Secondary School Program to hold info session High school students and their parents are invited to attend an information session for Harvard Summer School’s Secondary School Program on April 3…

A new exhibit of 28 photographic prints and 20 stereographs from the Peabody Museums Marshall Collection opens today (March 18).

Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who reports on the U.S. Supreme Court for The New York Times, will receive this years Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Goldsmith Award is given annually to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of journalism by a journalist whose work has enriched American political discourse and society. The award is presented as part of the Goldsmith Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the Kennedy Schools Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

Helen Vendler, the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor and author of numerous books on poets and poetry, will deliver the 2004 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced. The annual NEH-sponsored Jefferson Lecture is the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.

Amid shifting scientific data on nutrition and obesity, experts from government, industry, and academia converged on Harvard Medical School last week to discuss obesitys causes and how to craft a coherent public nutritional message.

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. Drinks and cookies will be provided. To register online, visit http://hul.harvard.edu/rmo/presentations.html.

Harvard Law School, long a training ground for many of the nations sharpest legal minds, last week (March 9) coached some seasoned lawyers preparing a case thats on its way to the U.S. Supreme Court later this month. For the members of the legal defense team arguing the case, the moot court provided a realistic and informative platform for honing their arguments.

The Harvard Law School Library has announced the opening of a new exhibition titled The Legal Portrait Project Online. The exhibition is the culmination of an 18-month project to catalog, digitize, and make available the Law Schools 4,000-item portrait collection of lawyers, jurists, and legal thinkers dating from the Middle Ages to the late 20th century.

Would-be reformers of Americas urban schools are hamstrung by a rigid dogmatism that pits progressive against conservative, parent against teacher, and academic against politician, Duke Universitys Charles Payne told an audience at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) Monday night (March 15). In a lecture called A Curse on Both Their Houses: Liberal and Conservative Theories of Urban School Change, Payne toppled some sacred cows on both sides of the debate and called on schools of education to lead a new brand of urban school change.

Seven Harvard-related students are among the 30 recipients of this years Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship. Recipients receive up to a $20,000 stipend plus half-tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States.

The strained relationship between the United States and the United Nations has often dominated headlines. The U.S., as the worlds most powerful nation, is the international peacekeeping bodys biggest supporter and its largest detractor – a riddle that has long puzzled politicians, journalists, academics, and the general public.

March 3, 1906 – The “Harvard University Gazette” (not yet in tabloid format) registers for second-class mailings at the Boston Post Office. March 1952 – The Harvard Corporation votes to…

The Harvard mens and womens hockey teams both managed impressive series sweeps in ECAC quarterfinal action this past Saturday (March 13), albeit in dramatically different ways. It took the Crimson men a come-from-behind win in overtime to dismiss favored host Brown, 3-2, in the teams second match-up (Harvard took the first, 4-2, on March 12), while the women – ranked second in the nation – advanced to the semifinals with a 4-1 win over Cornell. A day earlier, Harvard delivered the visiting Big Red a 9-1 drubbing in game one.

Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have pinpointed a crucial gene on which the normal development of the bodys entire blood system depends. If the gene is absent, even the most basic blood stem cells cannot be generated. In a mutated form, this gene can cause a rare and devastating form of leukemia.

In an effort to prevent the confusion and mistakes that marked the 2000 election, a group of Harvard Law School students has launched a project to ensure that 2004 presidential election voters are given proper access to the ballot. The new group, Just Democracy, plans to recruit and place more than 1,000 law students with expertise in election law at what they believe could be high-risk polling places around the nation.

Soon after the Bush administration revealed its plan to overthrow Saddam Hussein and bring democracy to Iraq, commentators began comparing this initiative with Americas occupation of Germany and Japan following World War II. Depending on ones perspective, these comparisons could be positive (Weve done it before and we can do it again) or negative (The situation in 1945 was entirely different you dont know what youre getting into).

Thien Phan, Marcos Posada, and Columbia Nunez, computer whizzes with the Brighton High School PowerUP Computer Center after-school program, enjoy their new and improved computer lab. The new rebooted center, dedicated yesterday, was made possible through a partnership with the City of Boston, the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (ABCDC), with funding from the Harvard After School Initiative (HASI). The lab gives Brighton High students state- of-the-art computer classroom space, provides space for an after-school program that teaches high schoolers Web development and programming skills and after-hours computer courses for community residents, both taught by Allston-Brighton CDC staff. HASI also supports the after school program with technical support through Harvard faculty. Because of great partnerships in this city, this unique center gives an entire community access to state-of-the-art technology. When cities, communities and institutions work together, there is no limit to what we can do, said Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on March 16.

Young adults are substantially more involved in the 2004 presidential race than they were in the 2000 race. If the trend continues, higher turnout in November is nearly a certainty, according to the Shorenstein Centers Vanishing Voter Project.

Internationally acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma will receive the 10th annual Harvard Arts Medal on May 9.

Antanas Mockus had just resigned from the top job of Colombian National University. A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus looked around for another big challenge and found it: to be in…

Harvard and Radcliffe crew coaches perform an annual rite of spring, breaking up the ice on the Charles to allow their teams to practice.