Campus & Community

With Krispy Kreme doughnuts, hot chocolate, and triple-axels, Harvard Law School (HLS) launched its most visible effort to boost student morale Wednesday (Jan. 22): an outdoor ice skating rink smack in the middle of its campus.

After establishing an early 15-point lead against visiting Lafayette on Jan. 15, the Harvard womens basketball team suddenly plunged into a deep freeze. Shooting 0-for-13 from behind the arc and 33 percent from the field, the Crimson stood by as the winless Leopards went on a 15-4 run to claw their way back within two buckets as the halftime buzzer buzzed.

Vacation program teachers sought The Harvard School Vacation Program is looking for experienced teachers or teacher assistants. The program, which enrolls 25 children of Harvard faculty and staff in grades…

A group of approximately 40 top and midlevel government officials from throughout Mexico listened intently Thursday (Jan. 15) when the discussion in a Kennedy School classroom turned to how to improve performance at City Hall. Jose Luis Diaz, a government lobbyist, reflected on the applicability of the analysis for many countries. Diaz noted that in Latin America, it is important to know that current conditions can be changed.

The dramatic floor-to-ceiling windows in the passageway in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) block a travel corridor for migratory birds – but it was only a few months ago that anyone noticed. The mute evidence showed up on the ground several mornings this fall, and Christie Riehl 05 realized that birds had been flying into the glass. And then, Riehl solved the problem.

Peabody Museum Director William Fash announced Friday (Jan. 16) that a rare American Indian bear claw necklace acquired by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during their epic exploration of the American West was discovered in a storage room at the Peabody Museum. Everyone at the Peabody feels a sense of awe at the power and beauty of this object, and great satisfaction that it will once again be available to enlighten us all about the world from whence it came.

The first update of the most comprehensive assessment ever developed on the state of the nations ecosystem has just been issued by the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. The State of the Nations Ecosystems: Annual Update 2003 features new data for 26 indicators of the condition of the countrys farmlands and forests, rangelands, fresh waters, coastal waters, and urban and suburban areas.

“When we try to predict what will make us happy we’re often wrong,” says Daniel Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard University. “Researchers all over the world find the…

Young children receive an enormous volume of information – from the identity of their biological parents to names for animals to facts about the world around them – by testimony: Someone tells them that the family pooch is called a dog and that Mom and Dad are, indeed, Mom and Dad.

On Jan. 13 at approximately 5:40 p.m., a female undergraduate student was walking on Mt. Auburn Street in the area of Claverly Hall when a male approached her in the opposite direction and groped her. The suspect continued walking on Mt. Auburn Street. Officers from both the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and the Cambridge Police Department extensively searched the area, but the subject was not found. Both departments will continue to investigate the incident.

January 1767 – In a major curriculum reform, the College abolishes the ancient one-tutor-for-all-subjects system and introduces instructional specialization. A different tutor now teaches in each of the following four…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Jan. 10. 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:

HUPD would like to remind students, faculty, and staff of the University to be aware of your surroundings, particularly when walking alone after dark. The College Safety Committee encourages members of the University community to walk in groups along designated, well-lit pathways. A map of designated safety pathways is located in the Student Telephone Directory.

The Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement and the social advocacy nonprofit Generations Policy Initiative have launched a new journal that aims to highlight problems related to the aging of Americas baby boom population.

President Lawrence H. Summers announced yesterday (Jan. 14) that longtime veteran of the Harvard administration Jackie ONeill has agreed to be the next University marshal.

Just in time for New Years resolutions, a new book, Free Expression, details more than 100 possibilities for writers seeking contests, competitions, and other opportunities. And unlike programs that charge reading fees or processing fees, this books listings are fee-free, according to author Erika Dreifus, who currently teaches in the Harvard Extension School Writing Program.

A celebration of the life and mission of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held Monday (Jan. 19) at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Gary Orfield, professor of education and social policy at the Graduate School of Education, will deliver the keynote address: Dont Just Activate – Celebrate!

Vacation program seeks experienced teachers The Harvard School Vacation Program is looking for experienced teachers or teacher assistants. The program, which enrolls 25 children of Harvard faculty and staff in…

Carolyn MacLeod might be the least likely person to head a championship curling team.

In the first prospective study to assess the relationship between vitamin D intake in women and the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found that women with the highest intake of vitamin D through supplement use had a 40 percent lower risk of developing MS as compared with women who did not use supplements. The findings appear in the Jan. 13 issue of the journal Neurology.

Rugby club seeks grad student-players The Harvard Business School (HBS) Rugby Football Club seeks players from across Harvard’s graduate schools for training, matches, tours, tournaments, and social events. Rugby players…

It was more for lack of hustlers than hustle that the Harvard mens track and field team fell to cross-town rival Northeastern this past Saturday (Jan. 10) at Gordon Track. Short-manned due to injuries, the mens team failed to enter a single sprinter in any race under 500 meters, eventually falling, 82-62, in their first return to action since winter break. Meanwhile, the womens team stayed competitive on the strength of their long- and mid-distance runners, but came up short as well, dropping the meet, 71-55.

Esteemed Kennedy School faculty member Susan C. Eaton died Dec. 30 of complications from leukemia. She was 46.

Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) in partnership with Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) has received a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help eliminate health disparities in rural and urban communities.

Albert Alcalay is a survivor. Born to Jewish parents in Serbia in 1917, he and his family were forced to flee when the Nazis took over in 1941. They ended up in a concentration camp in Calabria, Italy, populated primarily by Jewish artists and intellectuals, and it was in that unlikely setting that Alcalay began studying painting.

The need for a stable, dedicated funding source for the Universitys expansion into Allston has prompted Harvards Corporation to extend the life of the Strategic Infrastructure Fund through the 25-year first phase of development.

Inspired by the spirit of the 50th Anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC), the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC), and The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University are jointly commissioning research on Southeast Asian Educational Opportunity. The studies, funded by State Farm Insurance, will provide policy-relevant research on the challenges and opportunities that exist for the Southeast Asian community.

Karl Haglund (right), author of the recently released Inventing the Charles River, a pictorial history of the Charles River Basin – known as Bostons Central Park – was a guest last week at an event sponsored by Harvard Planning and the Allston Initiative. Along with Renata von Tscharner (second from left), president of the Charles River Conservancy, Haglund discussed the river, its history and development, and the state of park lands. The event drew more than 50 Harvard staff, faculty, and guests interested in the rivers history and its links to Harvard, which played an important role in the transformation of the basin from industrial land to park land. What is striking about the dialogue that has gone on between designers of parks and universities is that they have contributed an energy that is something that probably hardly any other city has, said Haglund. We took back our river banks long before any other city did, and for that everyone in Boston today benefits. Also pictured are longtime Harvard crew coach Harry Parker (left) and his grandchildren, Noah and Anna Parker, the youngest river lovers at the event.

It was weird, it was squirming around, said Baldwin School fourth-grader Taylor Vandick. It had three antennas or fangs or whatever and it was squirming around.