Campus & Community

In honor of the centennial of the birth of poet Pablo Neruda, the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room will host The Poems of Pablo Neruda on March 17.

After six albums and years touring the country on the folk circuit, Russell Wolffs music means a lot to him. But a serious illness over a year ago gave Wolff new perspective.

Team player Nicole Corriero 05 entered the sports worlds exclusive last-second-hero club this past Saturday (March 6) at the Bright Hockey Center. Deadlocked at 0-0 against Yale in the final period, the junior left winger somehow found the back of the net with just seven seconds remaining to give the Harvard womens hockey team an almost unbelievable 1-0 win.

Jantzen pins third EIWA title, on to NCAA’s Senior wrestler Jesse Jantzen became the first Harvard wrestler in history to win three-straight EIWA titles by defeating Brown’s David Dies, 5-2,…

Responding to the devastating effects of war on Iraqi libraries, the Harvard University Library (HUL) system and Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) are launching a joint program to provide training for Iraqi librarians and archivists.

The Harvard Department of Athletics has announced plans to expand and improve fitness facilities at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC). The improvements will significantly increase the space available for both exercise and weight training.

Learn from your mistakes. Pass the lessons on to those who may face similar problems in the future. And dont be afraid to challenge authority.

To say that Janet Sung plays the violin well is like noting that Baryshnikov is graceful or that Ernest Hemingway knew English. Sung 95 has appeared as a soloist with the National Symphonic Orchestra of Bashkortostan in Russia and Pusan Philharmonic in South Korea, to name a few. Shes given recitals across the globe, from Lincoln Centers Alice Tully Hall to Beau-Rivage Palace in Switzerland. And last week, she gave three undergraduates a private lesson when she came to Harvards campus as this years Clifton Visiting Artist, which is sponsored by the Office for the Arts through its Learning From Performers series. Established in 1998 by Roger Clifton 57 and his wife, Sophie, the Clifton Visiting Artist program brings emerging alumna artists to Harvard.

During the early 1980s, artist Gary Schneider, at a creative impasse in his own work and faced with the necessity of earning a living, decided to capitalize on his darkroom skills and set himself up in business as a printer of the work of other photographers.

Harvard Foundation names Scientist of the Year The Harvard Foundation has honored noted mathematician Jonathan David Farley ’91 as its Distinguished Scientist of the Year. A visiting associate professor of…

Finding new signs of water on Mars was not unlike finding a needle in a haystack. Now scientific explorers and their robot helpers face a trickier task, looking for life, a needle they are not even sure is there.

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 charge of, as he describes it, a 6.5 million person classroom.

At its ninth meeting of the year (March 10), the Faculty Council discussed with Professor Thomas Kelly, chair of the Department of Music, a proposed agreement with the New England Conservatory of Music under which undergraduates would be able to complete an A.B. degree at Harvard and a Master of Music degree at the Conservatory in five years.

The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is now accepting applications for its Carol K. Pforzheimer Student Fellowship grants. Intended to encourage Harvard College students to use the resources of the Schlesinger Library, the fellowship awards $100 to $2,500 to cover research expenses, or as a stipend in lieu of summer employment, to enable the recipient to pursue research in the librarys collections.

Ca. March 1947 – Students organize a boycott against a local tavern that refuses to serve blacks. Mitchell Goodman ’45, “Undergraduate” columnist of the “Harvard Alumni Bulletin” (March 29, 1947),…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 6. 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:

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 in the Faculty Room will immediately follow the service. Shearman, who died Aug. 11, 2003, was the Adams University Professor, Emeritus.

The abnormal magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune – whose magnetic poles lie near their equators – may be a side effect of stable planetary cores that hinder convection. Harvard University scientists report in the March 11 issue of the journal Nature that theyve used a computer model, similar to those used in weather forecasting, to establish a possible link between the two planets strange magnetic fields and their internal composition.

Harvards Pluralism Project invites students in the comparative study of religion, anthropology, sociology, history, government, and other academic fields to participate in research on the changing contours of American religious life. Research concerning religious pluralism and American civil society, particularly the mapping of the multireligious dynamics of particular cities and towns new civic instruments of relationship between faiths, such as interfaith councils and networks, especially in the wake of Sept. 11 and emerging participation of Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim, or Jain communities in civil and political life is encouraged.

Tourism changes everything it touches, homogenizing and sanitizing even as it brings in bodies and dollars.

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the sixth funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, a KSG faculty committee will consider applications for small one-year grants (up to $30,000) to support advanced research by Harvard University faculty members on issues of critical importance to Kuwait and the Gulf. Grants can be applied toward research assistance, travel, summer salary, and course buyout.

Attending summer school and being held back substantially increases academic achievement among third-graders, according to a recent study by researchers Brian Jacob, an assistant professor of public policyof the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and Lars Lefgren of Brigham Young University.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Medicine on December 17, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

DeWolfe Howe Fund accepting proposals until April 16 The Mark DeWolfe Howe Fund for Study and Research in Civil Rights-Civil Liberties and Legal History is now accepting proposals for either…

U.S. and British officials must strike the proper balance between anti-terrorist security and human rights now, because a failure that leads to another devastating attack will prompt even more draconian measures, British Home Secretary David Blunkett said Monday (March 8).

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers flung Harvards doors open even wider last week, outlining a new financial aid initiative intended as a clarion call to talented students from poor families and disadvantaged communities across the country.

Driven by both personal and humane concerns, Doug Melton has produced 17 new lines of embryonic stem cells, which can, in theory, be coaxed into becoming any type of adult tissue from kidneys to spinal cords.

Through a trick of reflection, the 1901 Harvard football team, displayed in the window of the Leavitt and Peirce tobacco shop, look like they are posing in

March 20, 1934 – The Charles William Eliot Memorial Association observes the 100th birth anniversary of its namesake by donating a bronze bust of Eliot to Eliot House. Unveiling the sculpture is the late presidents four-year-old great-grandson, Charles William Eliot 3rd. In the evening, CWEMA also holds a memorial meeting in Sanders Theatre that includes an address by Massachusetts Governor Joseph B. Ely and music by the Harvard Glee Club.