Campus & Community

After reviewing applications from around the world, the inaugural 2003 Roy Family Award will be presented to the Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project in Bolivia. The project partners are American Electric Power (AEP), the oil and gas company BP, the Government of Bolivia, Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN), PacifiCorp, and The Nature Conservancy.

Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) has announced the approval of the new rent schedule for approximately 2,500 Harvard-owned apartments rented by graduate students and other University affiliates. The new rents…

At the Graduate School of Educations seventh annual authors party in Gutman Library Monday (March 31), research associate Peter Gibbon (right) browses the 31 books published this year by GSE faculty and staff. Gibbons own A Call to Heroism: Renewing Americas Vision of Greatness joins books by senior lecturer on education Katherine K. Merseth, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education Catherine Snow, former GSE dean Patricia Graham, and former Harvard University President Derek Bok.

In a nondescript classroom above Somervilles Union Square, 10 teenagers are flipping through photographs they took.

At a time when the United States is in the midst of war with a country that has turned out to be more powerful than expected, foreign correspondent Chris Hedges has some words about the power of war itself. The New York Times journalist recently reflected on the destructive aspects of war that he has come to identify from his own very personal experiences.

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Hundreds of Harvard students walked out of their classes at 12:30 p.m. March 20 to demonstrate their opposition to the war on Iraq. The rally was part of a nationwide action on college campuses. Gathering at the historic John Harvard Statue and filling the Old Yard back to Massachusetts Hall, students, faculty, staff, and community members heard speeches and chanted, No war on Iraq! Bill of Rights, take it back!

Hendrik S. Houthakker, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics Emeritus, has been selected by Pope John Paul II to be a Knight Commander with Star in the Papal Equestrian Order of Saint Gregory the Great.

This past Saturday (March 29) was a perfect day for Project Outreachs give back to the cities of Boston and Cambridge. Organized by HBS Volunteers, a Business School group, the project reached out to eight different sites in the area where students painted, planted, washed, raked, and mulched through the warm, sprinkly, sunshiney New England day.

On March 20 at approximately 7:45 p.m., a graduate student was the victim of an unarmed robbery on Garden Street near the Cambridge Common. The victim was approached by six youths (five males, one female). He was pushed to the ground where he was punched and kicked by the group. One of the suspects took the victims wallet and removed one credit card. The suspects then fled in the direction of Harvard Square. The victim believes that the group had followed him from the Harvard Square MBTA stop.

At its 13th meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed with Professor Jennifer Leaning (Medical School and School of Public Health), and other members of the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard, a preliminary draft of the recommendations the committee expects to make.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 29. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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Top health care executives named fellows at Malcolm Weiner Center Harris A. Berman, CEO of Tufts Health Plan, and David M. Lawrence, who served as chairman of the board and…

U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, a high school dropout who grew up among New Yorks urban poor, used his own rags-to-riches story Monday (March 31) to illustrate that a troubled start to life need not limit ones ambitions.

The room held all the elements of a typical high school biology lab – students perched around lab tables in front of microscopes, teachers circulating, a presentation about what to look for, and chatter as the exercise proceeded. But after the students chopped up lily anthers, stained the slides, and observed, it was clear that they were seeing something special.

On the last day of March, this difficult winter made one of its last gasps, spritzing snow showers over the area. And its not over yet – cold and wet is the forecast for the first week of the so far aptly named cruelest month.

In her last extended visit to Harvard, filmmaker Laurie Kahn-Leavitt chronicled the research of Phillips Professor of Early American History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich by creating a documentary film that brought to life Ulrichs Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwifes Tale.

Nathan Heller, a Harvard College freshman, will investigate the effects of post-Sept. 11 legislation on Harvard University through a fellowship awarded by the Christopher J. Georges Fellowship Fund. Heller covers federal and state legislation as a member of The Harvard Crimson staff.

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research have linked elevated blood levels of antibodies that fight Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) antigens with the future development of multiple sclerosis (MS). The findings appear as a Brief Report in the March 26 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on March 11, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Ernest Dudley Chase enjoyed making pictorial maps it was his hobby. A hobby that spanned over three decades, became a small business, produced more than 50 unique, artlike maps, and is now on display at the Harvard Map Collection. The new exhibit, Greetings From Winchester: The Pictorial Maps of Ernest Dudley Chase, explores the creative, humorous, and intensely detailed works that Chase created in the last three decades of his life. Chases maps range from his allegorical rendition of Loveland to his whimsical United States as Viewed by California, from his battle maps of World War II to Peace Map of the World United.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a former Harvard professor of government and a lifelong public servant, died March 26 at age 76. News reports said he developed an infection after undergoing an appendectomy on March 11. Moynihan died in Washington, the city in which he served four terms as a U.S. senator.

Rebuilding Iraq after Saddam Hussein is defeated will be a job of enormous magnitude and one for which Americans have not been adequately prepared.

Harry R. Lewis, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, will conclude his service as dean of Harvard College on June 30. Lewis has served in this position since July 1995. He will remain as a member of the Faculty with the additional title of Harvard College Professor, an honor given to the most dedicated teachers on the Faculty.

At its 12th meeting of the year, Dean William C. Kirby discussed with the Faculty Council the preparations that have been made, or are under consideration, in the Faculty in response to the situation in the Middle East. The assistant dean of the Faculty for Physical Resources, Michael Lichten, and the special assistant to the dean of Undergraduate Education, Elizabeth Doherty, were present for this conversation.

March 13, 1943 – Harvard’s undergraduate foreign-language requirement expands. Students could previously fulfill the requirement only by demonstrating a reading knowledge of French or German (with knowledge of both recommended).…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 15. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Harvard graduate students Gilles Serra (left) and Yuuko Uchikoshi watch as Kevin Carr, a housing coordinator in the Cronkhite Center, runs on a treadmill as part of a relay marathon to benefit the family of the late Scott Sandberg. Sandberg, a building services coordinator at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, died Nov. 29, 2002, in an avalanche in Mount Washingtons Tuckerman Ravine. Members of the Cronkhite and Radcliffe community raised money during an all-night marathon on the treadmill March 13 and 14.

Most people think of genes as molecules that make you more or less fit for survival. In healthy people, genomes are seen as well-functioning machines where all the parts work together for a common good.