Campus & Community

A $1 million gift from Merck Research Laboratories to Harvard Universitys Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) will create three new opportunities for research, fellowships, and summer school genomics education. The gift will be distributed over five years to fund three separate departmental and interdepartmental programs.

For the 2003-2004 academic year, Harvards package of undergraduate tuition, room, board, and student fees will increase by 5.5 percent, to $37,928. Costs include: tuition, $26,066 room rate, $4,706 board, $4,162 health services fee, $1,142 and student services fee, $1,852.

This is Mary Dyers last day on Earth. Next morning, she will be hanged from the great elm on Boston Common for the crime of being a Quaker. She does not fear death. In fact, this is the third time she has returned to Boston from the more tolerant colony of Rhode Island for the express purpose of testing the Puritan authorities law against heresy. The first two times she was granted a reprieve. This time the authorities have been less lenient.

Adults over age 65 who consume between one and six alcoholic beverages each week have a lower risk of dementia than either nondrinkers or heavier drinkers, according to findings that appear in the March 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

President Lawrence H. Summers and Peter G. Rowe, dean of the Faculty of Design, are pleased to announce that the President and Fellows of Harvard College have established the Gerald M. McCue Professorship of Architecture in the Faculty of Design. The chair has been endowed by a generous gift from Frank Stanton to advance design education at Harvard and to honor Gerald McCue, the John D. Dunlop Professor Emeritus and former dean of the Faculty of Design for his distinguished contributions to education and professional practice.

Revelations about Irans nuclear power program have added to the Bush administrations foreign policy headaches, but Harvard experts said Wednesday (March 12) that the solution lies in pragmatic, not ideological, dealings with Iran.

A new study, prepared by two Harvard University professors, indicates public support for racial profile screening of airline passengers to reduce the risks of terrorism if such screening reduces significant flight delays passengers would otherwise experience.

Calling himself a traitor to Frances peaceful position on Iraq, yet not on board for Americas looming war, Doctors Without Borders founder Bernard Kouchner said it is the Iraqi people – machine-gunned, gassed, and murdered by the hundreds of thousands – who are forgotten in the debate.

Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966) was perhaps the most influential theatrical designer in the first decades of the 20th century, and was known for using nonrealistic, symbolist design rather than sentimentality in his creations. A master at the art of woodcut engravings, a publisher, editor, book illustrator, and essayist, Craigs passions covered many art forms, but all were driven by his devotion to the theater and his conviction that he alone envisioned the grand design that would renew the life of the theater. A new exhibition, Edward Gordon Craig and the Art of the Theatre, explores Craigs life and work and is on display at the Harvard Theatre Collection, Pusey Library, through May 30.

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the fourth funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. The fund is made possible through the generous support of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. A KSG faculty committee will consider applications for small one-year grants (up to $30,000) to support advanced research by University faculty members on issues of critical importance to Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. Grants can be applied toward research assistance, travel, summer salary, and course buyout.

The Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government has announced the availability of one doctoral fellowship for the 2003-04 academic year. The fellowship, open to any student in good standing in a Harvard doctoral or advanced- degree program, is designed to provide the successful applicant the opportunity to complete and/or make significant progress toward the completion of his or her dissertation. Generally, the recipient will have advanced to doctoral candidacy. Applicants who have not yet advanced to candidacy, however, may be considered. The application deadline is April 4.

Harvard&s Pluralism Project invites students in the comparative study of religion, anthropology, sociology, history, government, and other academic fields to participate in research on the changing contours of American religious life. Undergraduates and graduate students with academic backgrounds in the Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jain, or Sikh traditions and/or in other relevant academic fields are encouraged to consider research work on this project.

The Institute for Government Innovation at Harvards Kennedy School of Government has announced that 15 groundbreaking initiatives have been named finalists for the Innovations in American Government Award. Each of the 15 finalists, eligible to win $100,000, will receive a $10,000 grant to support replication activities.

A cost-savings and efficiency initiative begun by President Lawrence H. Summers has begun to bear fruit in the first University-wide preferred provider program, which would save a projected $2 million to $3 million annually.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Divinity on February 24, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Elegant facts await me. Small things in this world are mine, recited Elizabeth Alexander as she spoke her poem about the Venus Hottentot. If language is a currency that grants acquisition, then Alexander and her fellow reader, Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks, have joint ownership of small things and large insights.

It was like finding a four-leaf clover. This year’s Daffodil Day bloomed on St. Patrick’s Day and was rewarded with the biggest yield ever.

Due to an increase in homeland security alert status, which was recently raised to code orange, or high, because of the heightened probability of war in Iraq, Harvard has increased visible security on campus and urges faculty and students to check travel advisories, especially students who plan to travel over spring break and particularly those who plan to travel outside the United States.

DePinho selected AACR award recipient The American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) has named Professor of Medicine and Genetics Ronald A. DePinho as the recipient of its 43rd annual AACR-G.H.A.…

Online Du Bois series adds Dove, Wideman The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute’s Black Writers Reading series continues online with a new Webcast of Rita Dove and John Wideman. View the…

Nearly a century ago, bicycle racing was the most popular spectator sport in the nation. Velodromes were as common as shopping malls, early 20th century writers penned rabid reviews of bike races, and in 1903, “across the pond,” a handful of anxious race promoters waited to see if their race – named simply the “Tour de France” – would be a success.

Amidst a four-game non-losing streak (three wins and one tie since Feb. 21), the Harvard mens hockey team (21-8-2) picked up two of its biggest victories of the season this past weekend with a two-game sweep of Vermont in the best-of-three ECAC quarterfinals. With the wins, a 4-2 decision on Friday (March 14) and a 5-1 conquest on Saturday (March 15), the Crimson advances to the semifinals in Albany, N.Y. where theyll face Dartmouth on Friday (March 21). If all goes well against the Big Green, the icers will earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

A 10-kiloton nuclear bomb exploding at New Yorks Grand Central Station is a prospect that is all-too real today and one that would kill 500,000 people and cause an estimated $1 trillion in economic damage, according to a new report from Harvards Project on Managing the Atom.

To some, engaged Buddhism may seem like a contradiction in terms. Traditionally, Buddhists have sought to avoid suffering by disengaging from desire, training themselves through meditation to look past the world of illusion to the spiritual reality beneath.

Controversial Danish writer Bjorn Lomborg was challenged by a U.S. environmental leader in a spirited debate over the global environment held in the Kennedy Schools Forum Thursday night (March 13). Lomborg, whose book The Skeptical Environmentalist has been condemned by some in the scientific community, argued that the world is not faced with imminent deterioration [environmentally]. We can stop acting in desperation.

More intrepid than Sir Ernest Shackleton and his Endurance team … staring down icebergs with the swagger and bravado of the Titanic … its the Harvard crew coaches and their effort to free the Charles River from its icy winter stillness.

Teacher Cynthia Abatt of Cambridge waits by the Morpho Magic exhibit for her students to arrive for their visit to the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Harvard and seven other Greater Boston research universities took center stage this week in their role as the areas special economic advantage: magnets for talent and investment that infuse more than $7 billion into the regional economy each year. At a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast, leaders from the universities, including President Lawrence H. Summers, President Charles M. Vest of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and President Lawrence S. Bacow of Tufts, joined more than 250 leaders in business, community, and local government to mark the release of a new collective economic study and called for a renewed spirit of cooperation for the region and its world-class research institutions.

On Wednesday (March 12) at approximately 2:12 a.m., a male not affiliated with the University was walking down DeWolfe Street when two young males approached him. One of the suspects said empty your pockets while one of the suspects put a handgun to the victims head. The victim struggled with the suspects before he was struck with the gun and knocked to the ground. The suspects then took money and personal objects from the victim and fled.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.