Campus & Community

Jerold Kayden, a faculty member of the Graduate School of Design (GSD), has been appointed the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design.

If youve got a student loan, then youve probably got mail.

The discovery that cystic fibrosis (CF) patients have an imbalance of fatty acids in their tissues could help pave the way for a new treatment for this genetic disease that affects approximately 30,000 people nationwide. These findings extend previous observations from mouse studies and show that the same fatty acid abnormality occurs in humans with CF, is related to the degree of abnormality in the gene, and is not a consequence of inflammation.

Is there a docent in the house? The Semitic Museum at Harvard University is looking for volunteer docents to guide tours for the new exhibit “The Houses of Ancient Israel:…

Kennedy School of Government Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. has announced the appointment of the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir as the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life. Hehir will take up his post in the fall 2004 semester.

The former mayor of Knoxville, Tenn., the vice president of programs at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, and the former governor of Minnesota, among others, have been selected for fellowships this spring at Harvards Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School of Government.

Changes in the 2000 census that added a racial category and allowed multirace responses permitted a new flexibility in self-identification, but also diluted the data collection that underpins social justice efforts, according to a former U.S. Census director who spoke at Harvard Monday (Feb. 2).

It may have been just a college hockey rink, but for the 60 or so children who got to test their skills with the Harvard Mens Hockey team on that ice last Wednesday (Jan. 28) night, it was like being in the Boston Fleet Center…

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.

Proposed 2004-2005 rents for current affiliated residents living in Affiliated Housing: Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) has proposed a 0 percent rent increase for the majority of current Affiliated Housing…

On Friday (Jan. 30), more than 750 Boston public high school students ventured out to area legislative offices, newspapers, police stations, banks, hospitals, businesses, and even Harvard to get a glimpse of a typical workday in the real world. Now in its ninth year, the Boston Groundhog Shadow Job Day has tightened the ties between schools and workplaces, giving students the exposure they need to consider career options and see firsthand the real-world applications of the skills they learn in school.

You cant be flexible without LOX, scientists have discovered.

Its 5:30 on a windy January night, and around Harvard Square, pedestrians strain against the cold, counting each excruciating step to their destinations, their scarves and mittens and the bulkiest of coats providing scant protection from the free-falling temperatures. Suddenly, from the direction of Concord Ave., a bright orange figure slices through the chill – on a bicycle.

A tenacious Harvard womens hockey team tuckered out Boston College, 4-0, in the semifinal round of the 26th annual Beanpot Tournament this past Tuesday evening (Feb. 3) in Chestnut Hill. The Crimson, who endured a career-high 59 saves by B.C. netminder Lisa Davis, blasted the net 63 times (to the Eagles eight) en route to the win.

“It’s likely that writing and other creative work involve a push-pull interaction between the frontal and temporal lobes,” Harvard Medical School neurology instructor Alice Flaherty speculates. If the temporal lobe…

Two busloads of Harvard students joined the political scrum in New Hampshire last weekend, heading north for an intensive, daylong experience campaigning in the Granite States first-in-the-nation primary.

As part of its ongoing series, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) will host the decidedly offbeat Sci-Fi Camp-o-Rama on Feb. 7 at 6:30 p.m. in Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden St. Rescheduled from this past December following one of the months snowstorms, CfA will screen two of the worst sci-fi movies (or just movies?) ever made: Ed Woods masterpiece Plan 9 From Outer Space and director Phil Tuckers one and only film, The Robot Monster.

At the Carpenter Center, branches dance in the wind, perhaps inspiring the children passing by to break into a spontaneous dance of their own.

Jan. 9, 1950 – Freshman Dean Delmar Leighton issues the following notice to his charges: All occupants of non-fireproof dormitories living above the ground are expected to report at the Indoor Athletic Building (now the Malkin Athletic Center) for practice on the fire ropes. Instruction will be given by the University Safety Patrol. [. . .] (Quotation: Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Jan. 28, 1950)

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Jan. 24. 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 memorial service for John Shearman, Adams University Professor Emeritus, will be held in the Faculty Room, University Hall, on April 4 at 2:30 p.m.

Gioia to lead OFA discussion Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Dana Gioia will participate in “Perspectives from the National Endowment for the Arts: An Informal Discussion”…

Upcoming info session for Stride Rite grants Graduating seniors are eligible to apply and receive grants up to $25,000 through the Stride Rite Post-Graduate Public Service Grants. Funded programs should…

He was an Antarctic explorer who never got near the South Pole. A mariner whose ship sank miles from its destination in some of the worlds most hostile seas.

The Entrepreneurship Program at Harvard Business School (HBS), which has offered courses in entrepreneurship for more than a half century and counts some 65,000 graduates, won the top award for MBA programs nationwide from the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE). Devoted to entrepreneurship education and development, the association cited HBS as its National Model MBA Program winner at the organizations annual conference earlier this month in Dallas.

When George Dominguez was 13, a mysterious stranger moved into his Jamaica Plain neighborhood and opened a kung fu studio. The strangers name was Yang Jwing Ming, and the young Dominguez was intrigued.

With bragging rights on the line, the Harvard men and womens hockey teams will compete next week for Best in Boston in the famed Beanpot Tournament. Both Crimson squads will square off against the Boston College Eagles in the first round, with the winner advancing to the championship game a week later to take on the victor of the Boston University-Northeastern match-up.

The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering its John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellowship award for the academic year 2004-05 to Harvard doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic consistent with the centers research agenda.

The federal government has awarded Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) a $20.5 million biodefense grant to study the immune system response to pathogens. The grant, which will span a 4.5-year period, is the largest grant to date to the School for biodefense research. HSPH is also receiving federal funds for leadership training for public health preparedness in a bioterrorism crisis. The new grant is from the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the project is titled Arming the Immune System Against Pathogens.