Campus & Community

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

Winthrop House will hold a memorial service for Harvard junior Anthony Fonseca at St. Pauls Church, 29 Mount Auburn St., on Thursday, March 4, at 4 p.m. The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the masters house at 5:30.

A stroll through Harvard Yard immediately reveals the rich diversity of the University. Passersby – students, faculty, and staff – reflect a dizzying range of cultures, races, and ethnicities. Posters around campus reinforce this proud multiculturalism with events and services – from a South Indian dance performance to an informational meeting for black scientists to a support group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students.

Hundreds of college students from around the Northeast descended on Harvard last weekend for the Northeast Climate Conference, an event designed to educate students and inspire them to action.

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) is now offering research grants to support summer and academic year research, workshops, working groups, and lecture series by faculty of the University in all fields related to population, health, and development. The centers research committee, which gives priority to interdepartmental or cross-School collaborations that contribute to the centers mission related to the well-being of the global poor, reviews applications for grants once a year.

The Harvard School of Public Healths (HSPH) AIDS Treatment Care and Prevention Initiative in Africa will receive first-year funding of $17 million of a five-year $107 million grant as part of the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to help eradicate AIDS/HIV in the worlds hardest-hit regions.

Describing mezzo-soprano Carolann Buff as a singer hardly does justice to the many roles she juggles. In addition to the duties that fall to any professional musician – balancing budgets, managing publicity, coordinating recording sessions – she spends plenty of her free time doing research in Loeb Music Library, where she works part time as a staff assistant. Thats because Buffs musical passion is whats called historically informed performance of the vocal music of the medieval and Renaissance periods. Since 1996, she and two former classmates from the nearby Longy School of Music have brought early music to audiences around the world as the vocal trio Liber unUsualis.

The Harvard womens hockey team (22-2-1, 12-2-0 ECAC) earned a pair of wins over St. Lawrence this past weekend to move into sole possession of first place in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC). The host Crimson, ranked second prior to meeting No. 3 St. Lawrence on Friday (Feb. 20), edged the Saints, 3-2, in overtime following senior Angela Ruggieros goal at 2:10 in the extra period. Harvard completed the sweep on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 21), beating the Saints in convincing fashion, 5-1, to advance to the No. 1 spot.

After fighting off a host of collegiate and professional players from across the country, Harvard tennis teammates (and doubles partners) Jack Li 07 and Chris Chiou 05 eventually found themselves in the midst of a civil war. In semifinal singles action in the first annual USTA Mens February Open, which concluded on Feb. 22 at the Murr Center, Li dismissed former Duke standout Alberto Brause, 6-3, 6-3, just as Chiou knocked off top-seeded pro Trevor Spracklin 7-6 (4), 6-4, setting up an All-Crimson final.

Sidney R. Knafel A.B. 52, M.B.A. 54 (right), and his wife, Londa Weisman, confer with architect Henry Cobb A.B. 47, M.AR. 49 (center), as the final beam is hoisted into place at the Knafel Building, a major component of the new Center for Government and International Studies. The center, for which Knafel gave the initial funding, will provide an environment in which students and faculty can take a multidisciplinary approach to studying government in a global context.

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.

The Third Millennium Foundation has recently launched the Human Rights Practice Fellowships. In both 2004 and 2005, the foundation will award up to six fellowships to outstanding graduating Harvard students contemplating a career in human rights. These fellowships are designed to enable students (from the College or any one of Harvards 10 graduate schools) to bring human rights theory and practice together, to make a valuable contribution to human rights, to gain important firsthand experience abroad in the human rights field, and to interact with a network of individuals sharing their commitment to and involvement in human rights work.

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.

When it passed in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) enjoyed overwhelming support in Congress and widespread public favor. Everyone, it seemed, thought discriminating against people with physical or mental disabilities was a lousy idea.

Scientists have found that beliefs and expectations can reduce pain.

Many have compared the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 with Japans surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, drawing parallels between their unexpectedness, their devastating impact on the national consciousness, their inauguration of a new political reality.

‘Atlas of Emotion’ lands literary awards Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies Giuliana Bruno has received two literary awards for his book “Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and…

Bok Center offering postdoc fellowship The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning is offering a half-time postdoctoral fellowship for the 2004-05 academic year to support a strong scholar familiar…

Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced this week the appointment of Christopher Stone as Professor of Practice in the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Chair of Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Stone, who currently directs the Vera Institute of Justice in New York, will take up the position in January 2005.

Who is a citizen? Is citizenship guaranteed by a passport? Can we create citizenship with our own narratives? What is citizenship to a refugee, an immigrant, a slave, an exile, a president, a Jew in the Middle East or an Arab in Israel?

Cultural historian Louis Menand lectured Feb. 12 on the three moments when pragmatism, a quintessentially American philosophy that he defined as an idea about ideas, gained ascendancy in American intellectual life. Unfortunately, according to Menand, the third and last moment has just passed.

After surviving teasing about his less memorable films, a therapy session with a neutered bulldog, and a red beaded bra and blue wig, actor Robert Downey Jr. received the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Pudding Pot Thursday night (Feb. 19) as its Man of the Year. The ceremony preceded the opening night performance of the Theatricals As the Word Turns.

Nearly 60 projects in dance, music, theater, literature, and the visual arts will take place this spring at Harvard, sponsored in part through funding from the Office for the Arts (OFA). Selected by the Council on the Arts at Harvard, the projects include concerts, theater productions showcasing original student work, as well as classic musicals, a photography exhibit, and dance performances featuring the newly formed Harvard College Intertribal Indian Dance Troupe, the Harvard Hellenic Society, Harvard Ballroom, and other student groups.

George Lopez, star of the hit ABC comedy that bears his name, has been named the 2004 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation. Lopez will be awarded the foundations medal at Harvards Annual Cultural Rhythms ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 28.

Harvard researchers are weighing in on the national ozone pollution debate, asserting that federal assumptions on natural background levels are wrong and may result in national standards that permit too much ozone pollution.

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified a protein in Old World monkeys that blocks infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). The finding could lead to improved animal models of AIDS for research and suggests that a similar molecule known to exist in humans might be exploited for prevention and therapy.

Harvard researchers have implicated a particular molecule in the destruction of Earth’s ozone layer. The molecule, made up of two chlorine atoms and two oxygen atoms, is called a chlorine…

Livingston Taylor (with special guests) performs a benefit concert at the Memorial Church on Tuesday (Feb. 24). A composer and performer with 14 albums to his name, Taylor has been described as an unrepentant romantic with a razor-sharp mind, a biting sense of humor, and a quirky view of the world.

According to Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, the solution to world poverty comes down to passports and apples.

Pierre Auguste Renoirs 1887 painting The Great Bathers, a depiction of voluptuous female nudes cavorting in an idealized woodland pool, has elicited much critical response from art historians, particularly during the past few decades as feminist theory entered the discourse of art criticism.