Campus & Community

Since 1976, Timothy Springer has been trying to solve the mysteries of how white blood cells squeeze out of blood vessels and find their way to sites of infectious attacks. What he has learned has won him this years Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Crafoord Prize.

Harvard University scientists have found a mechanism by which cells repair a key type of oxidative DNA damage that, left unchecked, can lead to a greatly elevated risk of colon cancer. The findings appear in the Feb. 12 issue of the journal Nature.

Two female graduate students were victims of indecent assaults within 15 minutes of each other last Friday (Feb. 6), in and near Harvard Yard, according to Harvard University Police.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 7. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A group of Harvard administrators and students met Friday (Feb. 6) with the College Safety Committee to discuss new campus safety initiatives and update them on investigations surrounding recent indecent assaults in the area.

Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), joined Harvard Medical School (HMS) faculty members last Wednesday (Feb. 4) to share memories of the civil rights era with Boston youth, describing the times difficult work and telling the children that future struggles for justice will be theirs.

Caring for the Harvard Community, Harvard Universitys regular series of events focusing on contemporary mental and emotional health issues for students, faculty, and staff, returns for two weeks of workshops and discussions Feb. 23-March 5. Coordinated by Sharon Thomas in the Provosts Office, all events in the student-driven series fall within the theme A World of Well-Being: Focus on Emotional and Behavioral Health in a Community of Many Cultures, chosen from student input and feedback from last years Caring events.

The Harvard Libraries Web site – accessible directly from the Libraries button on Harvards home page – serves as an online gateway to the rich library resources of the University. In a continuing effort to enhance the information available on this valuable Web site, the University Librarys Office for Information Systems has added a new category titled Conducting Research. Links in this category unite a variety of resources that librarians across the University have developed for specific disciplines and subject areas, including Finding Materials at Harvard, general research guides, research guides by subject, guides to individual resources, and a list of Harvard libraries by subject area.

Educators at all levels are struggling to implement the landmark No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, according to the findings of a four-part study released Monday (Feb. 9) by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard. The reports look at the impact of this complex, dramatic change in federal education policy on each level of government – federal, state, and district – during the first year of implementation of the NCLB Act (2002-2003).

Listen closely and youll hear Catherine Baker channeling the forgotten faithful.

Far from Beanpot business as usual, it took a three-goal, third-period outburst by the No. 3 Harvard womens hockey team to put away a feisty Northeastern team, 5-1, in the championship game this past Tuesday evening (Feb. 10) at B.C.s Kelley Rink. With the win, Harvard (18-2-1 2-2-0 Ivy) grabs its sixth-straight best-in-Boston title, and 10th overall, since the womens tourney began 26 years ago. Meanwhile, in the consolation round, B.C. downed BU, 7-1.

From the proper vantage and with just a little squint of the eyes, the double-legged columns lining up to support a Memorial Hall arcade look like ballet dancers at the barre.

Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have successfully engineered a singularly heart-healthy mouse, an advance that could lead to the development of meat, milk, and eggs that are as good for your heart as fish is. With the help of a gene from the C. elegans roundworm, the researchers developed a strain of mice that converts omega-6 fatty acids – which mammals produce abundantly but which do not have great health benefits – into omega-3 fatty acids, which reduce the incidence and effects of cardiovascular disease.

Anthony Shadid, Islamic affairs correspondent for The Washington Post, has been named the 23rd Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial lecturer at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Shadid, who is based in the Middle East, will deliver the lecture on March 11 in the Knight Center at the Walter Lippmann House.

Scholarships for study or research in China Scholarships for one academic year of study or research in China are made possible through an agreement between the Ministry of Education of…

Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge talked to a Harvard Business School audience of students and faculty Wednesday (Feb. 11) about the challenges he has faced as the first head of a new federal agency. The Department of Homeland Security was put together from 22 federal departments in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Ridge, former governor of Pennsylvania, was a 1967 Harvard College honors graduate.

The proverbial village it takes to raise a child assembled itself at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Friday (Feb. 6): Educators, social workers, policy-makers, health professionals, business leaders, parents, academics, and politicians, including the mayors of Boston and Providence, came from around the Northeast for a conference called Building Strong Community Schools.

Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of Massachusetts physicians favor single-payer national health insurance, far more than support managed care (10 percent) or fee-for-service care (26 percent), according to a Harvard Medical School study published Monday (Feb. 9) in the Archives of Internal Medicine. National health insurance (NHI) received majority support from physicians of virtually every age, gender, and medical specialty – even among surgeons a plurality supported NHI. The breadth of physician support for NHI was highlighted by the fact that most members of the American Medical Association (AMA) and the Massachusetts Medical Society favor the single-payer approach. Despite this high level of support, however, only about half (51.9 percent) of physicians studied were aware that a majority of their fellow physicians support NHI.

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a burden to the elderly population, and its consequences are increasing because treatment options are limited. Prevention remains the best approach for decreasing the impact of this leading cause of blindness.

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.

Beginning Feb. 18, HARVie – Harvards new intranet resource for employees – will be up and running. At harvie.harvard.edu, University employees will be able to report time and labor, find out about benefits and services, access PeopleSoft, and get the latest University announcements. Employees will also be able to purchase tickets via credit card from Outings & Innings, and access Harvard in the News, the daily clipping service.

This years choices for the Hasty Pudding Man and Woman of the Year awards join a distinguished, talented elite that includes Ella Fitzgerald, Katharine Hepburn, Jack Lemmon, and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Care to tell singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor anything about the art of performing? I wouldnt. After all, he wrote the book. His Stage Performance (2000) is both a bible for the stagestruck and a blueprint for why the 30-year music veteran was hailed the ultimate crowd pleaser by Performing Songwriter Magazine. On Feb. 24, when he gives a concert at the Memorial Church, he aims to do more than tantalize his audience. The proceeds from his performance will benefit the Grants Program of the Memorial Church, which every year supports underfunded charities in the local community.

Six entries have been chosen as finalists for the 2004 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, which is awarded each year by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The winner of the $25,000 prize will be named at an awards ceremony on March 17 at 8 p.m. in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

American Academy appoints Mikkelsen Lecturer on History and Literature Ann-Marie Mikkelsen has been named a member of this year’s group of visiting scholars at the American Academy of Arts and…

As a youngster attending school in the small Inuit community of Igloolik in Canadas Northwest Territories, Zacharias Kunuk made and sold carvings to earn money to go to the movies.

For Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the culture wars are a thing of the past.

The population density of Paris is about three times that of Boston. Does this mean Paris is three times as much fun as Boston, or that if Bostons population were compounded by three, it would become another Paris?

At Harvard, February brings the promise of early delivery on spring, with bright yellow daffodils.

At its seventh meeting of the year (Feb. 4) the Faculty Council reviewed with Dean Willliam C. Kirby a draft of his Annual Letter to the Faculty. Deans Vincent Tompkins (associate dean of the Faculty for Academic Affairs) and Cheryl A. Hoffman-Bray (associate dean for finance in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences) were present for this discussion.