Campus & Community

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.

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.

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.