Campus & Community

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced that it is awarding 60 student grants and fellowships amounting to more than $100,000 for the 2003-04 academic year. Sixteen grants will support Harvard College undergraduates, 28 will support graduate students, and additional awards will be made to undergraduate and graduate student groups for their own projects. In recent years, the Weatherhead Center has increased support for Harvard students significantly, increasing both the financial resources available and the number of student awards, and establishing new programs and seminars for students.

Tests of a new vaccine against the virus that causes AIDS are being launched simultaneously in the United States and southern Africa. It is the first time that such a test will be conducted in the United State and Africa at the same time.

As June 30 approaches, offices throughout the University will be closing the books – and the files – on the 2002-03 academic year. To help staff in charge of keeping the Universitys files in order, the Records Management Office (RMO) is offering a new housecleaning presentation to provide guidance to office managers and other staff with the end-of-the year cleanup. The presentation will provide practical guidance on what to keep, what to store, what to shred, and what should go to the archives.

The Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) has announced its undergraduate summer research awards for 2003.

The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) and the Council of Women World Leaders (CWWL) have announced that five Kennedy School of Government students have been named the recipients of a jointly sponsored summer internship. The five students were selected to represent the School while pursuing unique leadership opportunities around the world in the offices of several council members and advisory board members. Lecturer in public policy Brian Mandell is the programs faculty adviser. Partial funding for the internships was provided by a gift from Richard J. Phelps.

A thick cable of nerve cells connecting the right and left sides of the brain (corpus callosum) is smaller than normal in abused children, says Martin Teicher, associate professor of…

In a story on the Harvard University Police Departments Rape Aggression Defense program that appeared in the May 15 issue of the Gazette, HUPD Sgt. Brian Lakin was incorrectly identified. The Gazette regrets the error.

Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers President Adrienne Landau (left) and Director Bill Jaeger balloon the campus on Monday (May 19), just as it was decorated 15 years ago, when the election that led to the unions formation was held.

Following are some of the incidents reported to Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 17. The official log is located at 1030 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

More than 600 charities and nonprofits, largely in Boston and Cambridge, will receive grants this year thanks to the voluntary donations of thousands of Harvard faculty, staff, and retirees.

Gary Urtons research has him in knots. Literally.

Christopher Lenney can tell you what Unitarianism has to do with candlepin bowling, how Maines Great-Big Line is neither great nor big, and why the Christ Church rectory on Garden Street and the Buckingham House in Radcliffe Yard have architectural offspring in Lexington and Bedford but not Nantucket or Plymouth.

Sophomore is named Lehrman Scholar Harvard sophomore Thomas Wolf has recently been named one of 12 Gilder Lehrman History Scholars selected from more than 400 candidates nationwide. Wolf will be…

Women’s heavies stun Brown, capture EAWRC title The Radcliffe heavyweight crew (10-1, 4-1 Ivy) upset five-time defending champion Brown this past Sunday (May 18) on the Cooper River in Camden,…

Ever since the landmark law became a talking point for the Bush administration, Title IX – some 30 years after its passage – is big news, all over again. In the current debate surrounding the 1972 piece of legislation that bans sexual discrimination in athletic programs receiving federal aid, both critics and proponents of Title IX share a surprising amount of common ground when it comes to the laws fundamental intent. After all, one would be hard pressed to defend the exclusion of anyone from athletic participation. Or to dismiss the explosion of womens participation in college sports – a 400 percent increase since President Nixon was in office – as anything less than revolutionary.

This beats the record, said Jon Lanham, associate librarian of Lamont Library, who collects late return due date cards. One from a book due in 1967 held the record until The American Revolution, Part I, 1766-1776 by Sir George Otto Trevelyan (Longman, Green, and Co., 1899) was returned this month after turning up in the collection of the Blue Hill Public Library in Maine. Due more than 50 years ago, it is Lamonts longest outstanding overdue book. Despite its late return, no fines will be enforced.

Racial and ethnic diversity in the student population is a positive influence that helps medical students work more effectively with patients of different backgrounds, according to a study in the May issue of Academic Medicine, the journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. The findings were cited in a brief submitted to the Supreme Court in the University of Michigan affirmative action case.

Theres new news out of Africa, said veteran journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

Purposefully, and without fanfare, 11 prominent African leaders spent last weekend at the Kennedy School diagnosing the dilemma of elected political leadership in Africa. Why, asked two former presidents, two former prime ministers, a foreign minister, and a clutch of current and former ministers, did so many promising democrats become autocrats after their first terms in office? Why have so many initially honest leaders become corrupt? Why have so many elected officials preyed on their own peoples as kleptocrats?

The Kennedy School of Government has announced the naming of the Roy and Lila Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation. The Ash Institute will build upon the Institute for Government Innovation, established in 2001 by a $50 million endowment from the Ford Foundation. A gift from Roy and Lila Ash will expand the institutes mission to advancing the understanding and practice of democracy and the innovations necessary for its success.

Nieman Foundation Fellow Ann M. Simmons, bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times in Johannesburg, South Africa, receives her Nieman certificate from Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers at a ceremony at Massachusetts Hall on May 15. Summers told the fellows that Harvard derives great benefits from your presence, and expressed his belief that the program helps to promote both greater knowledge and higher ethical standards – qualities needed in todays rapidly changing profession of journalism.

Three Boston educators were named Conant Fellows at a ceremony hosted by Graduate School of Education (GSE) Dean Ellen Condliffe Lagemann and Boston Superintendent Thomas Payzant at the Harvard Faculty Club on Monday (May 19). The Conant Fellowships, named for Harvard President Emeritus James Bryant Conant, were established in 1986, at Harvards 350th anniversary, to recognize the contributions of educators in Boston and Cambridge public schools. The fellowships, which support study at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, are awarded for academic and professional achievement.

In January 2002, former Medical School Executive Dean for Administration Paul Levy took over as president and chief executive officer of ailing Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, which had been losing $50 to $60 million a year.

On April 22, the Harbus Foundation presented grants totaling $60,000 to five Boston-area nonprofit organizations. The Harbus Foundation is a student-run Harvard Business School organization whose mission is to support education, literacy, and journalism projects in Boston. This year, approximately 50 Harvard Business School students reviewed almost 100 grant applications submitted by Boston-area nonprofit organizations. Through a rigorous evaluation process that seeks to measure an organizations potential to positively impact the community, students selected five grant recipients.

Artemas Wards troubles began one April day in 1775 when he got out of bed, and they have continued now for more than 200 years. Wards two-century-old journey from pre-eminence to obscurity has provided lessons in historical research techniques for modern-day Harvard graduate students, lessons that they in turn have passed along to undergraduates.

Although the personal relationship between George Bush and Vicente Fox may have cooled since Mexicos refusal to support the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda told an audience at Harvards Yenching Lecture Hall last Wednesday (May 14) that he believed the future was bright for relations between the two countries. In a speech titled Mexico and America: Partners and Protagonists, Castañeda struck a conciliatory tone and called President Bush Mexicos best friend in the United States.

Juniors Shaka Bahadu of Dunster House (left) and Shira Sivan Simon of Leverett House have been chosen by the Harvard Alumni Association to receive the 2003 David Aloian Memorial Scholarships. The award recognizes special contributions to the quality of life in the Houses and thoughtful leadership that makes the College an exciting place in which to live and study. Each House nominates one House resident for the award.

A barrage of editorials and letters to the editor have appeared in the press in recent weeks charging that the U.S. military ignored the advice of experts on Middle Eastern art and archaeology about what needed to be done to protect Iraqs cultural heritage after the fall of Saddam Husseins government.

Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers President Adrienne Landau (left) and Director Bill Jaeger balloon the campus on Monday (May 19), just as it was decorated 15 years ago, when the election that led to the unions formation was held.

May 1638 – The College Yard expands as the Town of Cambridge grants the College a lot of land that today includes Harvard, Hollis, Stoughton, and Holworthy halls.