Campus & Community

Under new leadership and boasting contributions from such eminent figures as John Ashbery, Seamus Heaney, Helen Vendler, John Updike, and David Mamet – and now with national recognition from the Best American series – the literary journal Harvard Review is emerging as a significant voice on the national literary scene. The journal, which features short fiction, poetry, essays, criticism, and reviews, publishes both well-known and new writers – the familiar and the far-reaching.

A new student organization dedicated to inspiring and empowering Boston youth through the performing arts, Harvard STAGE (Student Theater Advancing Growth and Empowerment) will present its inaugural event – An Evening for Art – on May 5 from 7 to 10 p.m. in Agassiz Theatre.

The Louis Sudler Prize for outstanding student achievement in the arts will be presented at the presidents reception during Arts First, Harvards annual celebration of the arts. Arts First activities begin May 1 and run through May 4, with the reception taking place on May 3 (from 5 to 7 p.m. under the Arts First tent).

Paul D. Bartlett, one of the great chemists of the twentieth century, passed away on October 11, 1997. His research and teaching were in the area of physical organic chemistry, a field he dominated for four decades. Bartlett created a school of physical organic chemistry that revolutionized the way organic chemistry is taught and practiced throughout the world.

A house tutor whose enthusiasm enhances the social and academic lives of Pforzheimer House residents and a senior faculty member who goes beyond the boundaries of his office, his workday, and his department to advise students received the second annual John R. Marquand Prize for Exceptional Advising and Counseling.

The Office for the Arts (OFA) has announced its support of 23 student art projects and performances that will take place during Arts First weekend (May 1-4). Sponsored by the OFA grants program and selected by the Council on the Arts, the projects range from music and the visual arts to theater and the cultural arts. The Council on the Arts, a committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, responded favorably to 83 percent of the grant requests. Council members include Robert J. Kiely (chair), Elizabeth Bergmann, S. Allen Counter, Deborah Foster, Jorie Graham, Christopher Killip, Annette Lemieux, Cathleen McCormick, Jack Megan, Robert J. Orchard, Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Marcus Stern, and John Stewart.

The heat and droughts of 2001 and 2002, and the unending winter of 2002-2003 in the Northeast have people wondering what on Earth is happening to the weather. Is there anything natural about such variability?

SARS updates can be found on the University¹s emergency Web site, http://www.emergency.harvard.edu. The University is monitoring the situation, and will provide updated information as needed. The University has issued a temporary moratorium on University-related travel to affected regions. For details, visit the Web site.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates:

Goodall to receive 2003 Global Citizen Award World-renowned primatologist and environmentalist Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, will receive the 2003 Global Environmental Citizen Award on April 28.…

For a bunch of smart kids, the Harvard softball teams latest strategy is a no-brainer. Over the past week and a half, the Crimson have outscored their opponents 46 to 11 to capture six of their last seven games. The new formula (i.e., score a lot of runs) has improved Harvard to 11-20 overall, while lifting the team to a .500 mark in the Ivy League (4-4), good for a fourth place tie with Yale.

The Harvard University Bridge to Learning and Literacy Program – an education program for the Universitys service workers – is seeking volunteers who can commit two hours per week to tutor adult learners.

George Whitesides walks to the front of a full lecture hall in the Science Center. It is April 16, and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry is about to present Nanoscience and Nanotechnolgy: What Is It? Members of the audience have been murmuring about Whitesides dry sense of humor, their pads on their laps, pens poised. Clearly, the assembled expect an interesting evening from this speaker.

Employment Services, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, is hosting Career Forum 2003 on June 17 at the Graduate School of Designs Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. The event will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. To allow colleagues who are layoff candidates an opportunity to meet directly with many hiring managers, the forum will open one hour early (10 a.m.) to internal candidates only.

Using the rocks in front of the Science Center as his soapbox, Josh Albrecht 05 describes Harvard and its environs to a crowd of potential students and their parents, who were visiting the campus during Pre-Frosh Week.

Betsy Mitchell 03 and Vasco Bilbao-Bastida 06 practice their hat dance for Presencia Latina, a show that will demonstrate the complexity and hybridity of LatinAmerican dance, as well as its far-reaching influence. The fun begins at 8 p.m., Friday

In a rare U.S. public appearance, North Koreas ambassador to the United Nations, Song Ryol Han, repeated his nations call for bilateral talks with the United States over North Koreas nuclear program and said that the Iraq war has heightened North Korean fears of American aggression.

The Gazette failed to identify Anthonia Umeh (left), Kenechukwu Abajue, 8, and Carolyn Turk, the interim superintendent of schools in Cambridge, in this photo that appeared on page 10 of the April 10 edition of the Gazette. The three were joined by 800 other visitors to the Fogg Art Museum on April 6 to view artwork by Cambridge Public School students. The artwork, inspired by the stories of author/illustrator Maurice Sendak, creator of Where the Wild Things Are, is part of a citywide celebration that has united the Cambridge Public Libraries, Childrens Literature New England Inc., the Harvard University Art Museums, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other city institutions in a monthlong celebration of the author and his work. Access to Harvards Art Museums is free to all city residents with a Cambridge Public Library card.

The University has created a Web site, www.emergency.harvard.edu, to provide information regarding the Universitys response to national security alerts, travel advisories, and similar news. The site is updated as situations warrant. This site is also where information will appear in the event of an emergency situation that affects the Harvard community.

April 5, 1931 – Easter Sunday. The Russian bells of Lowell House ring out for the first time in Cambridge. April 23, 1955 – The Harvard Glee Club and the…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 12. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

On April 12, at approximately 2:50 a.m., a graduate student was the victim of an attempted unarmed robbery. While walking along Kirkland Street near Francis Avenue, the student encountered two males standing on the sidewalk. One of the suspects demanded that the victim give him his wallet. After the victim stated that he did not have a wallet, he was struck in the face by one of the suspects. Both the suspects and the victim then fled the area.

As the first female governor of Massachusetts and the first governor in the United States to give birth while in office, Jane Swift received more than her share of media attention – both positive and negative – for her very public attempt to balance work and family.

Can education help repair the frayed ties between the United States and the Arab world? With a regime toppling in Iraq, a panel of distinguished academics gathered in Harvard Hall last Saturday (April 12) afternoon to speak to the question and offer practical solutions for drawing the United States and the nations of the Middle East closer together through education. The panel, Educations Role in Promoting Understanding, was part of a two-day symposium: Promoting Understanding between the Arab World and the United States. The event was organized and sponsored by the Harvard Arab Alumni Association and the Harvard Society of Arab Students. Each member of the panel gave a short address to the mostly Arab and Arab-American audience that filled the lecture hall, followed by a brief question-and-answer session.

Playing host to a pair of Ivy challengers this past weekend, the Harvard mens tennis team scored two wins with a 6-1 upset of Columbia on April 11, and a 5-2 victory over Cornell on April 12. With the wins, Harvard remains perfect in league play, having downed Dartmouth, 7-0, earlier in the month in the Crimsons league opener. The Harvard racketeers now stand at 7-3 overall (3-0 Ivy).

Harvards second annual Mental Health Awareness Week will run April 21-25. Organized by the undergraduate Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Group, the five-day event will feature talks, student displays, and activities designed to educate the Harvard community on various mental health topics. Following is a schedule of the four main events.

As the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study continues to focus its identity as a center dedicated to advancing knowledge at its outermost limits, it couldnt have picked a better poster girl than novelist Zadie Smith, a Radcliffe Fellow and the final speaker in the Institutes Deans Lecture Series Monday (April 14). Smith, the celebrated young British author of White Teeth and Autograph Man, has stretched her own literary boundaries this year, spending her time at Radcliffe working not on fiction but on a collection of essays about the morality of the novel.

Kevin C. Wang of Harvard Medical School was one of 16 graduate students from North America and Europe selected to receive the 2003 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which is sponsored by the Basic Sciences Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

When Lance Wyatt strayed from his career path as a surgeon to spend a year in the White House, many of his colleagues and mentors in the medical field looked at him with curiosity and skepticism.

In a conference room in Lamont Library, Dave Winer is evangelizing, doing his best to convert to his cause the Universitys far-flung Webmasters whove come to this monthly meeting of the Harvards ABCD committee. Earlier in the week, the Kennedy School of Governments Institute of Politics was his pulpit, and a few hours after his ABCD sermon, hell reel in a few more believers at the Law School. Hes a preacher with a projection screen, and, in his jeans and sneakers looking more like a software developer than a gospel-sayer.