Campus & Community

Spanning four centuries, the exhibition Civitates Londinium: Maps of London from 1572, documents how London grew from town to city to megametropolis. The exhibition, open through June 30 at the Harvard Map Collection in Pusey Library, is organized chronologically. Moving forward from map to map is like gazing on still frames from a highly sophisticated flip book – the boundaries of the city move out, bridges are built, buildings are burnt and reconstructed.

Anthropologist Brian Hare’s research involved New Guinea singing dogs, a subspecies that shows strong indications of domestication at some time in the past but now exists as feral, reclusive individuals…

It turned out nicely. The Hasty Pudding Woman of the Years day in the sun (Feb. 12) was sunny and relatively mild.

On Feb. 12, a female undergraduate student reported to the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) that she was the victim of an indecent assault and battery at approximately 5:35 p.m. while walking near 125 Mt. Auburn St. The victim stated that a male approached her from behind on a bicycle, and then groped her as he rode by.

– Feb. 19, 1944 – In an editorial headed “Dodoölogy 1,” the “Harvard Alumni Bulletin” publishes a selection of extinct Harvard organizations (courtesy of University Archives), hoping that readers can…

Dearden memorial Feb. 27 A memorial service for John Dearden, Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, will be held on Feb. 27 at 10:30 a.m. in the Class…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 14. 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:

Reporters covering tragedies in the worlds forgotten places face a host of hurdles on the ground, from language gaps to difficulties with travel, but once they have the story, their toughest challenge may be selling it to editors, according to Samantha Power, lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

In her autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, former slave Harriet Jacobs left an extraordinary legacy. The 1861 book chronicles Jacobs life in slavery, her masters persistent unwanted sexual advances, the seven years she spent hiding in a crawl space above her grandmothers porch, and her eventual flight to the North.

Nearly 20,000 students have applied for entrance next September to the Class of 2008, the second largest pool in Harvards history. While not reaching last years record total of 20,987 which was swelled by different Early Action rules, both the number (19,712) and the quality of the applicants bode well for an outstanding freshman class next year, said William R. Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid.

George Starbuck (1931-1996) is a poet known for his wit, intelligence, and precision he was the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize for his first book of poems and director of writing programs at the University of Iowa and Boston University. A new collection of Starbucks poetry, The Works: Poems Selected From Five Decades (University of Alabama Press, 2003) edited by Kathryn Starbuck and Elizabeth Meese, was recently published. In recognition of Starbucks return to print, as well as his influence on poets locally and around the world, The George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room will host A Tribute to George Starbuck: The Works, Thursday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m. in the Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library. The tribute will include readings and remembrances by the poets former students and colleagues including Kathy Starbuck, Maxine Kumin, Peter Davison, Emily Hiestand, Mary Baine Campbell, and Askold Melnyczuk.

Golub awarded Freedom to Discover Grant Associate Professor of Pediatrics Todd Golub recently received a $500,000 grant from the Freedom to Discover Program of Bristol-Myers Squibb. The award recognizes leading…

Conference to explore belonging, exclusion Philosophers, artists, historians, and scholars will convene today (Feb. 19) and Friday (Feb. 20) at Agassiz Theatre for “Cultural Citizenship: Varieties of Belonging.” Organized by…

The Harvard mens fencing team bounced back from a tough weekend at Penn earlier this month, where they dropped three consecutive matches against the Quakers, Drew, and Rutgers, to sweep visiting M.I.T., 19-8, and Brandeis, 15-12, on Feb. 11 at the MAC.

Men’s v-ball sweeps Queens, 3-0 Senior middle blocker Juan Cardet earned a team-high 11 kills to lift the Harvard men’s volleyball team past Queens College, 3-0 (30-19, 38-36, 30-26), this…

It was like a typical Kennedy School of Government case-study session as students vigorously debated the wisdom of a particular policy decision. It was the setting and the subject that were unique. The subject: Should Mao Tse-tung have accepted Chiang Kai-sheks invitation to a peace conference shortly after World War II? The setting: Though led by Kennedy School academics, the class was being conducted in Tsinghua University in mainland China.

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 the new civic instruments of relationship between faiths, such as interfaith councils and networks, especially in the wake of Sept. 11 and the emerging participation of Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim, or Jain communities in civil and political life, is encouraged.

The quilting group of Harvard Neighbors is celebrating 10 years of making baby quilts for the Cambridge Health Alliance (formerly Cambridge City Hospital) and the New Day Clinic in Somerville. The group started with six quilts in 1994 and this year will donate more than 20 baby-size quilts, which means that over 150 infants and their families have been the happy recipients of a little love from Harvard Neighbors. Twins Alina (top) and Rubin wait patiently while mom, Ina Luch, quilts. Her husband Andreas is a medical student.

The ivory tower has a tenuous hold on Radcliffe Fellow Jennifer Harbury and Harvard Medical School Professor of Medical Anthropology Paul Farmer, who have traded lofty academic seclusion for messy, complicated, and dangerous work in the jungles and judicial systems of Guatemala and Haiti. At the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) Tuesday (Feb. 17), they bore witness to human rights abuses that grip those two nations in a lecture called Impunity in Latin America: Human Rights Abuses and Reconciliation in Guatemala. James Cavallaro, associate director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, led a discussion after their remarks.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson called for a Freedom Summer type of effort in the coming months to register voters, heal interracial wounds, and get out the vote for what he said will be a presidential campaign of historic proportions.

Gro Harlem Brundtland, former director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), has been named Health Policy Forum Fellow at the Kennedy Schools Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy for the spring 2004 semester.

Forty years after the birth of the womens movement, women need to look at themselves, rather than at men or at society, for reasons why there arent more women heading companies, earning top dollars, or running governments.

Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge shared sometimes deeply personal insights about leadership with a Harvard Business School audience of students and faculty on Wednesday (Feb.11), saying that he has largely been driven by lessons from his father about integrity, responsibility, hard work, and the value of education.

For some time, researchers have known that people with diabetes have a greater risk of developing Alzheimers disease and other forms of dementia than those without diabetes, but the exact cause of this link has not been known. Now, a new study by researchers in Cologne, Germany, and at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, to be published this week online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that insulin resistance in brain cells can affect how they function, causing some of the biochemical changes typically seen in Alzheimers disease.

Before feting Woman of the Year Sandra Bullock, Hasty Pudding members previewed their new show As the Word Turns, a story of love, villainy, and proper spelling. See the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Web site for details.

Severely blind people have been able to temporarily see patterns of light with the help of an electric device developed by a Harvard-M.I.T. research team.

In the first large study to assess iron stores and risk of type 2 diabetes in an apparently healthy population, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) found that higher iron stores were associated with significantly elevated risk of type 2 diabetes, independent of other known diabetes risk factors. Higher iron stores were assessed by measuring blood concentrations of ferritin (a protein that stores iron in the body). The findings appear in the Feb. 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Director and choreographer Martha Clarke shared her insights on flight, physicality, and intuition Monday (Feb. 9) in a conversation with New York Times senior cultural correspondent John Rockwell 62, billed as one of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studys lectures in the humanities. Clarkes production of Shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream is currently playing at the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.), which hosted and co-sponsored the event.

Findings by Harvard researchers and colleagues narrow the range of possible dates for a critical change in the Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists had previously believed oxygen first appeared sometime between 2.45…