Campus & Community

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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/.

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…

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.

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.

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

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).

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…

HMNH seeks Gallery Guides The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) seeks volunteers to share their enthusiasm for natural history with museum visitors in hopes of helping adults and children…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning June 8 and ending July 5. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

John Jay College awards Poussaint honorary degree Alvin Poussaint, professor of psychiatry and faculty associate dean for student affairs at Harvard Medical School, received an honorary doctorate of humane letters…

Drawing for Leedell Bean is a way out of a world that is sometimes cruel when caring is needed.

For years data on the relationship between dietary fat and breast cancer have left scientists and the public puzzled, but the latest study from Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) provides more compelling evidence for young women to replace their intake of animal fats with vegetable fats. In contrast to earlier work in this area, the researchers looked specifically at the diets of women during their premenopausal years. The study, published in the July 16 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, found that diets high in animal fats – not vegetable fats – may influence a womans risk of breast cancer.

Tom Lucey, president and chief executive officer of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, has been appointed Harvard Universitys director of community relations for the city of Cambridge. Lucey will join Harvards Office of Community Affairs staff on July 28.

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers joined city of Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino at the Carter Playground in Bostons South End July 9 to celebrate Harvards contribution of $475,000 to the citys summer programs and jobs for youth.

Robert W. Iuliano has been named the Universitys vice president and general counsel, President Lawrence H. Summers announced June 16.

I Bernard I.B. Cohen, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science Emeritus at Harvard University and a pioneer in the field of the history of science, died of a bone marrow disorder June 20 at his home in Waltham. He was 89. A renowned scholar of Sir Isaac Newton, Cohen produced Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, the first English translation of Newtons Principia since 1729.

Charles Lieber, a pioneer in the minute world of nanotechnology, has won a world-size award. The Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry was presented with the 2003 World Technology Award for Materials on June 25 in San Francisco.

Richard Newman, a scholar of black studies and a civil rights activist who was senior research officer at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, died July 7 of a brain tumor. He was 73.

The Earths ancient oceans were very different from todays, with oxygen-starved depths beneath oxygenated surface waters, Harvard researchers found in a study that provides clues about the Earths environment 1.5 billion years ago.

Twenty-one objects from the permanent collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum are now part of a unique online exhibition about Germanys Bauhaus school of art. The interactive exhibition – Extra Ordinary Every Day: The Bauhaus at the Busch-Reisinger – can be viewed at www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/sites/eoed through 2005.

Harvard announced in June that it will embark on a major new collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (WIBR), and several Harvard-affiliated hospitals, intended to bring the power of genomics to bear on the understanding of disease and to accelerate the search for cures.

George McClelland Whitesides, the Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, has been named a winner of the 2003 Kyoto Prize. Presented by the Inamori Foundation of Japan, the award is given to people who have contributed significantly to mankinds betterment in the categories of Advanced Technology, Basic Science, and Arts and Philosophy. Whitesides won in the first category. Eugene Newman Parker, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, won in basic science, and Bunraku Puppet Master Tamao Yoshida took the arts prize.

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers gave this years 50th annual Blackfan lecture at Harvard-affiliated Childrens Hospital in Boston. The talk, delivered to a packed Enders Auditorium at the hospital, focused primarily on the economics of health care.

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a pair of decisions on affirmative action programs at the University of Michigan that, despite different rulings, support the admissions policies of Harvard and other colleges and universities that use race as one of many factors in creating a diverse college class.

In an industry long associated with the old-fashioned corner store, the pharmacy at Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) only recently stepped into the 21st century. Actually, with HUHS’ latest modernization…