Campus & Community

Author and naturalist Peter Matthiessen described a life seeking the mystery within nature Sunday (April 13). He told of traveling to the Icelandic coast where the last great auk died, chasing great white sharks in the southern ocean, and traversing todays environmental battleground in Alaskas oil fields.

Masturbation. Female orgasm. Viagra. Bestiality.

Twelve Harvard-related students are among the 30 recipients for the 2003 Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship. Fellows receive up to a $20,000 stipend plus half-tuition for up to two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States.

Jack was a thief and Little Red Riding Hood a seductress. Kids adore ogres and beheadings as much as princesses and obedient little children. The moral to the story might…

Since the fall of 2001, Pedro Noguera, who is the Judith K. Dimon Professor in Communities and Schools at the Graduate School of Education, and a team of research assistants…

Professor of Law Elena Kagan will be the next dean of Harvard Law School, President Lawrence H. Summers announced last week.

April 1910 – The Andover-Harvard Theological Library formally comes into existence. Owen S. Gates, former Librarian of the Andover Theological Seminary, becomes the first librarian of the combined collections. April…

The Harvard Medical School flag is at half-staff this morning in memory of Brian A. McGovern, assistant professor of medicine, who was killed in his Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) office on April 8.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 5. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), has appointed Benedict H. Gross, dean for Undergraduate Education at Harvard, as dean of Harvard College. Gross will head the consolidated offices of the dean of Harvard College and the dean for Undergraduate Education, effective July 1.

Co-authors claim Samuelson Award Assistant Professor of Business Administration Luis M. Viceira and Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics John Y. Campbell have been named co-winners of the seventh annual…

Samantha Power, lecturer in public policy at Harvards Kennedy School of Government, was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for her book A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, which examines U.S. foreign policy toward genocide in the 20th century.

Beginning next fall, Harvard College will return to its longstanding policy of requiring that early action applicants not apply early elsewhere. As always, early admission at Harvard will remain nonbinding, meaning that students admitted early to Harvard are free to apply to other institutions during the regular admissions cycle and need only reply to a Harvard offer of admission by May 1. The change applies to next years high school seniors and reverses a policy adopted last year that allowed students to apply simultaneously to an unlimited number of nonbinding, early action colleges (such as Harvard) even if they also had applied to another college with a binding early decision policy.

Inner Jerk vs. Mr. Sparkle Mr. Sparkle, CW, and Inner Jerk – three rock bands from Harvard’s graduate schools – will battle it out this evening (April 10) at the…

The Passion According to St. John by Johann Sebastian Bach will be performed on April 18 in the Memorial Church. The music, based on St. Johns Passion, will be conducted by Gund University Organist and Choirmaster Murray Forbes Somerville and performed by the Harvard University Choir, the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra (directed by Robert Mealy), guest soloists, and Thomas Gregg as the Evangelist.

Kevin Cullen, a member of the current Nieman class, was one of the team of reporters for the Boston Globe that won the Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service for its coverage of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests. Cullen had been an international correspondent for the Globe, based in England and Ireland, until he returned to the newsroom last year. The Pulitzer citation praised the Globe for courageous, comprehensive coverage of sexual abuse by priests, an effort that pierced secrecy, stirred local, national and international reaction and produced changes in the Roman Catholic Church.

After more than 12 years of service, Murray Forbes Somerville will depart from his office as Gund University Organist and Choirmaster, and Curator of the University Organs in the Memorial Church and take up a new appointment as director of music at St. Georges Episcopal Church in Nashville, Tenn.

On Monday (April 14), the main entrance and first floor of Widener Library will reopen – renovated and refurbished.

Coming off a bumpy 5-9 road trip and a rained out home opener against Rhode Island (a 3-0 five-inning loss), the Harvard baseball team opened the Ivy League portion of its season this past weekend with some promising spring in its step. The visiting Crimson split a pair of doubleheaders against Pennsylvania and Columbia to improve to 7-12 (2-2 Ivy) – good enough for a first place tie with Brown in the leagues Red Rolfe Division.

Two former White House economic advisers engaged in a spirited debate on the merits of President Bushs tax-cut plan Thursday night (April 3) at the Kennedy School Forum.

No one in her right mind would associate a lot of TV watching with a healthy lifestyle. Now a new study of more than 50,000 women over a period of six years backs common sense with scientific support.

Mira Nair 79, internationally acclaimed director of Monsoon Wedding and other feature films and documentaries, will receive the ninth annual Harvard Arts Medal.

Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, who after six years in office oversaw Mexicos first peaceful transfer of power after 71 years of single-party rule, will be Harvards 2003 Commencement speaker at the Afternoon Exercises.

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.

More than 200 Cambridge public school students have joined the ranks of Rembrandt, Rubens, Nicolas Poussin, and other artists whose work is on display at Harvards Fogg Museum.

The Boston Globe Spotlight Team, which covered the sexual-abuse scandal in the Catholic Church and made an outstanding effort to examine charges and accusations from all sides and sources, is the winner of the second annual Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. The award, endowed by the former publisher of the Boston Globe and the Taylor family, and administered by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, carries a $10,000 prize.

The best part of Cambridge seventh-grader Vassia Vaneus Friday last week (April 4) was seeing all the animals and birds during a tour of the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Vaneus, who wants to be a doctor or a scientist, said she learned a lot about college Friday.

Three Harvard Library staff members have been named recipients of this years Bryant Fellowship Award. Kathryn Jacob, Michael P. Olson, and Irene Tarsis will be presented with the fellowship at an awards luncheon in May.

Its Friday night, HMV Record Store in Harvard Square. The shock of electric guitar vibrates the CD shelf near a group of spectators who stand in front of a makeshift stage. In the center of that stage, Monique Ortiz is dressed in a black shirt and jeans. She takes the mike into a tight fist and belts out a tune.

Visitors to and employees in Harvards Holyoke Center cant help but notice that the way they access their offices has changed over the past few weeks. The issuing of neck ribbons for Harvard University IDs (HUIDs), the firm but friendly requests by security personnel to see those IDs, and even those mysterious gray boxes are all part of a soft start to security upgrades.