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  • Initiative reduces ‘overreliance’ on punishment

    The Open Society Institutes Criminal Justice Initiative (CJI) supports individuals to further its mission of reducing the nations overreliance on policies of punishment and incarceration. Through three fellowships – the Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship, the Soros Justice Senior Fellowship, and the Soros Justice Media Fellowship – CJI funds dynamic individuals from various fields to design and implement projects that reflect and support the work of CJIs programs.

  • Civil Rights Project seeks to invigorate integration debate

    One hundred years ago, a young African-American scholar and activist named William Edward Burghardt Du Bois published a volume of essays titled The Souls of Black Folk, in which he made the assertion, The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, – the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.

  • FAS divisional deans are named

    William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), announced on July 31 the appointment of three new divisional deans, effective Sept. 1. David Cutler, professor of economics, will serve as the FAS’s first dean for the Social Sciences. Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Harvard College Professor, has been named as the faculty’s first dean for the Humanities. Venkatesh Naryanamurti, John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences, professor of physics, and dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, will now also serve as the FAS’s first dean of the Physical Sciences. The search for a dean for the Life Sciences is in progress.

  • Du Bois helps Houghton Library

    A Working Partnership: Acquisitions Made With the Assistance of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute will open Sept. 3 in the Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library. Over the past 10 years, Houghton Library has worked closely with the Du Bois Institute to acquire materials to support research in African and African-American history and literature. The exhibition includes a sampling of materials acquired, including letters by W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois material from the papers of Chinua Achebe, Albert Murray, and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and rare printed materials.

  • KSG erases $5.9 million deficit, ends with surplus:

    A year after posting a $5.9 million budget deficit, the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) finished the 2003 fiscal year in the black, with a modest $84,495 surplus after a year of belt-tightening, personnel reductions, and space consolidation.

  • Lehane speaks at Summer School:

    With his sixth novel, Mystic River, landing on bestseller lists and soon to be released as a Clint Eastwood-directed film, Dennis Lehane is, without a doubt, a successful writer.

  • Mars’ approach spurs CfA ‘Fever’:

    Mars has always fascinated humankind.

  • Former N.H. Gov. Sununu to join KSG as visiting professor:

    Former White House chief of staff and New Hampshire Gov. John H. Sununu will join the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government this fall. Sununu will serve as Roy M. and Barbara Goodman Family Visiting Professor of Practice in Public Service, announced Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr.

  • Widener ILL is No. 1 lender in N.E. area

    The Interlibrary Loan Division (ILL) at Widener Library is the No. 1 lender in the New England area according to statistics recently published by the New England Library Network (NELINET). ILL received, processed, and shipped 18,075 loans or copies through the national Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) in the year 2002.

  • New busing controversy flares up:

    Youve seen the billboards: Natural gas: The clean alternative. But is it?

  • ‘Training the trainers’ to fight AIDS battle:

    Taped on the side of a gray filing cabinet in Eric Krakauers Harvard Medical School office is a black-and-white photograph of a 4-year-old Vietnamese girl holding a bowl of food and wearing a sour expression.

  • Chefs shake up college dining conventions:

    Somewhere between seared tilapia and popcorn chicken, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) Council of Chefs is cooking up a revolution. Assembled just over a year ago, the council – a critical mass of culinary talent, according to Alexandra McNitt, director for marketing and communications at HUDS – is in charge of creating and executing menus for Harvards 13 undergraduate dining halls, 10 campus restaurants, and Crimson Catering. At a clip of nearly 100,000 meals a week, the talented quartet – Andy Allen, Martin Breslin, Brendan Ryan, and Ludger Wessels – aims to transform the Universitys culinary system from an institutionally driven operation to a chef-based one.

  • Faculty, staff tell us what to read at the beach

    What makes a great summer? Warm weather, cloudless skies, a blanket on the sand or an Adirondack chair by the lake, and, above all, a stack of reading matter that includes all the books you meant to read all year but didnt have the time.

  • Despite economy, PBHA camps thrive:

    Preparing for their positions as co-directors of a Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) summer day camp, Kristin Garcia 05 and Chris Vena 05 had a jam-packed semester this past spring. Into their Harvard studies they shoehorned the sorts of real-world duties that would make their camp – the Franklin I-O Summer Program in Dorchester – a success.

  • Common painkillers reduce risk of Parkinson’s

    Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, in the first study to investigate the potential benefit in humans of the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) in reducing the risk of Parkinsons disease, have found that regular users of these drugs had a lower risk for Parkinsons disease than nonusers. The findings appear in the August 2003 issue of The Archives of Neurology.

  • Should Pete Rose be in the Hall of Fame?:

    Let him in!

  • HLS Web site gives access to Nuremberg Trials documents:

    You wouldnt expect a collection of crumbling documents from a trial that occurred more than half a century ago to still have power to shock, but Harry S. Martin, director of the Law School Library, knows better.

  • Orr named director for research at Belfer Ctr.

    Robert C. Orr, a leading authority on nation building and peace operations, has been named executive director for Research of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

  • Zelen Award committee names winner, seeks nominations

    The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health named Wayne A. Fuller, professor in liberal arts and sciences at Iowa State University, the recipient of the 2003 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science. Fuller delivered a lecture at Harvard titled Analytic Studies with Complex Survey Data this past May.

  • You don’t say:

    A former boss of mine once called me a scissor-bill. I concluded that it was not a term of endearment, but I didnt know what it meant.

  • Writer Battles’ unusual muse is a library

    Roaming the stacks of Widener Library as a selector for the HD Push Project – which processed books for transfer to the Harvard Depository – Matthew Battles, mesmerized by rows and rows and rows of volumes, began to ponder his surroundings – the library. With Widener as an ever-present muse and a valuable resource, Battles undertook researching the history of libraries and now, four years later, has published Library: An Unquiet History (W.W. Norton & Co., 2003), which explores how libraries have accumulated, preserved, shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge.

  • Food, frolic, and no rain:

    Despite forecasts to the contrary, weather held a tentative truce with Harvards 28th annual Senior Picnic on Aug. 6, treating the 1,100 Cambridge senior citizens to a rain-free, albeit humid, celebration of friendship and community.

  • Students fly in NASA’s weightless environment

    Harvard Extension School students Mario Garcia, So-One Hwang, Lily Kang, and Manoj Ramachandran in July 2003 experienced the weightlessness of microgravity through NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program, which…

  • HBS rugby set to roll

    The Harvard Business School (HBS) rugby team will open its fall 2003 season with a pair of home matches against the Boston Irish Wolfhounds Rugby Club on Sept. 13. The teams pitch is located next to Harvard Stadium and the action kicks off at noon. For more information, visit the squads Web site at http://sa.hbs.edu/rugby/.

  • Newsmakers

    Head coach of W’s lax named Two-time All-American Sarah (Downing) Nelson ’94 has been named head coach of the Harvard women’s lacrosse team. After starring on three Ivy championship teams…

  • Gross assembles senior staff, completes integration of offices:

    Benedict H. Gross, dean of Harvard College, has assembled his senior staff for the Office of the Dean of Harvard College and completed the consolidation of this office with the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education, as begun this spring.

  • Drawing on all your resources to explore the nature of drawing:

    If your goal is to go home with a nice picture of an earthenware pitcher and a bowl of apples that you can frame and give to your Aunt Ida, better go somewhere else. Here its all about process, not product.

  • Earth’s birth date turned back:

    Our planet is 50 to 90 million years older than previously thought, according to new evidence found in meteorites.

  • Sundrenched

    The courtyard of the Bauer Center for Genomics Research is brilliant in the summer sun. The centers goal is to combine a variety of approaches to find general principles that help to explain the structure, behavior, and evolution of cells and organisms. For more scenes of summer, go to www.harvard.edu and check out H20 (Harvard Square Online).

  • This month in Harvard history

    July 12, 1684 – President John Rogers dies in office during a total eclipse of the sun. July 18, 1780 – “Revolutionary” education? A young man visits Cambridge for the…