Mozambique was once a world power in the cashew industry, but today it is a bit player, and there is apparently nothing the World Bank can do to change that.
At its 11th meeting of the year, the Faculty Council heard a report from Professor Jennifer Leaning (medicine and public health) on the work of the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard that she chairs. Present for this discussion were three members of the committee: Professor Everett Mendelsohn (history of science and Master emeritus of Dudley House) Dean Elizabeth Nathans (freshmen) and Professor Katharine Park (history of science and womens studies). Also present were two members of the staff for the committee: Julia Fox (Harvard College) and Susan Marine (Harvard College and Provosts Office).
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 1. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:
Bok Center offering postdoc fellowship The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning is offering a half-time postdoctoral fellowship for the 2003-04 academic year to support a strong scholar familiar…
Samantha Power has been a bit overwhelmed by the attention she has been getting lately. A typical day for her includes one or more speaking engagements, an interview or two, and an inbox crammed with hundreds of e-mail messages. And all this on top of her teaching and research commitments.
Building on preliminary data, researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have documented that high folate (vitamin B-9) and vitamin B-6 levels may improve a womans chances of preventing breast cancer. Additionally, researchers observed that adequate folate levels may be particularly important for women who are at higher risk of breast cancer due to higher alcohol consumption. The new findings are the latest results from the landmark BWH-based Nurses Health Study, and appear in the March 5 issue of The Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
After chasing the Columbia Lions for 40 minutes this past Saturday night (March 1) at Lavietes Pavilion, an exhausted – and victorious – Harvard womens basketball team calmly took to center court, and proceeded to party like animals. Considering the past 24 hours, who could blame them?
A faulty protein that interferes with the heart muscles ability to relax is one cause of congestive heart failure, Harvard geneticists found in a discovery that promises more precise treatment of a disease that afflicts 4.7 million Americans.
The Harvard Black Mens Forum (BMF) will present the 2003 Woman of the Year Award to actress Phylicia A. Rashad, best known for her portrayal of a loving mother of five and high-powered attorney Claire Huxtable on televisions The Cosby Show. The award to Rashad is the highlight of the BMFs Ninth Annual Celebration of Black Women: Redefining the Face of Excellence! to be held at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston on Friday (March 7) at 7 p.m.
At one end of Lowell Houses stately dining room, as servers clear away the last vestiges of the nights meal, students are still arriving, shedding coats and changing shoes and studying musical scores. Beneath a truss hung with theatrical lights that surrounds the rooms awe-inspiring chandelier, they assemble on a plywood platform stage.
Harold Amos, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Emeritus at Harvard Medical School (HMS), died Feb. 26. He was 84.
The executive committee of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs awarded $220,000 this past December to a research team comprising four University faculty members to commence a long-term research project on International Human Capital Flows and their Effects on Developing Countries. This decision marked the centers fourth annual award of a Weatherhead Initiative grant, a program established in 1998 by a generous gift from Albert and Celia Weatherhead and the Weatherhead Foundation.
In February, a group of Harvard staff and affiliates visited the Far East – that is, the Harvard Neighbors space at the far eastern edge of Harvard Yard – to learn the Japanese art of bookbinding. Yayoi Witzel-Yoshida, who started the Japanese Culture interest group of Harvard Neighbors 10 years ago, and Japanese Culture stalwart Marsha Knoll helped participants create a traditional stab binding blank book.
You might expect John Malkovich to feel a sense of triumph at having finally brought The Dancer Upstairs to the screen. After all, it took eight years to get the film made, much of that time occupied with finding financial backing.
At the end of the largest study of its kind to date, researchers have concluded that rheumatoid arthritis in women may double their risk of heart attacks.
Bishop Charles E. Blake, minister of the 20,000-member West Angeles Church of God In Christ in Los Angeles, was awarded the Harvard Foundation Humanitarian Medal on Feb. 27. The ceremony took place before a crowd of students, faculty, and members of the greater Cambridge community at Harvards Memorial Church. The event, sponsored by the Harvard Foundation, the Memorial Church, and the Harvard Divinity School honored Blakes work with Save Africas Children, an international church-based effort to build and sustain orphanages for millions of Africas AIDS-orphaned children and hospices for children with HIV/AIDS. During his Harvard visit, Blake met with Harvard Divinity School Dean William A. Graham, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Harvey Cox, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, Ben Wikler 03, founder of the Harvard AIDS Coalition, and Robert Franklin, visiting professor of African American Religious Studies.
In the Feb. 6 issue of the Gazette, in a page 7 article on literacy programs around the University, the Gazette neglected to properly credit authorship of a section of the article. The section dealing with the Department of Social Medicine Writing Seminar for International Postdoctoral Fellows was written by Robynn Maines, who teaches the seminar. The Gazette regrets the omission.
In an article about Heinz Award winners that appeared on page 10 of the Feb. 27 issue of the Gazette, Professor of Medical Anthropology Paul Farmer was not included as an award recipient because complete information had not been provided to the Gazette by press time. Farmer received the Heinz Award for the Human Condition for his work in treating deadly infectious diseases among the worlds poorest people.
March 27, 1828 – Corporation Fellow Nathaniel Bowditch lambastes President John Thornton Kirkland, who has in practice ignored many recent cost-saving measures that Bowditch had set in motion. To everyone’s…
Rotberg to deliver Rhodes Lecture Robert I. Rotberg, director of the Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict, Conflict Prevention, and Conflict Resolution, will deliver the first of this year’s Rhodes…
Sandy Seleskys idea of fun is spending hours on her hands and knees, inching toward a covey of terns or sandpipers in the hope of snapping a few shots with her Nikon before they scatter and regroup farther down the beach.
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 Boston Cameratas 2002-03 season concludes on March 14 at 8 p.m. with a colorful musical anthology titled O Triumphale Diamante: Music for Ferrara 1400-1500. Music for this concert is drawn from the brilliant court of 15th and 16th century Ferrara, Italy, and includes works by Guillaume Dufay and Josquin des Près. Music director Joel Cohen and the Camerata musicians are joined by the Harvard University Choral Fellows for this one-time performance to be held at Memorial Church. Assistant Professor of Music Sean Gallagher will deliver a lecture before the concert at 7 p.m.
What America bills as a War on Drugs at home is executed as a war on peasants in the Bolivian Andes, the leader of a peasant coalition told a Kennedy School of Government audience on Friday (Feb. 28).
A beautiful young actress and a teen magazine with articles like Get cute hair in minutes put a fresh, surprising face on the subject of eating disorders at a panel discussion Monday night (Feb. 24) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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