Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 24. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.
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: Nov. 29 Dec. 13 Feb. 1,…
On Nov. 16, the Widener Library Periodicals Reading Room opened in its new location on the first floor of the library. The room features comfortable seating, HOLLIS terminals, onsite staff, and a selection of the more heavily consulted periodicals and newspapers. Wideners current, unbound journal collection will be housed in the adjacent stacks for easy access. The refurbishment of the Periodicals Reading Room is a part of the Widener Stacks Renovation project.
Edmund Spevack, a former Harvard lecturer on history and literature, passed away in his native Muenster, Germany, on July 2, 2001, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 38.
Professor Don C. Wiley, John O. Loeb Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, has been reported missing by the Memphis, Tenn., police since Nov. 16. Wiley, in Memphis attending a board meeting of the St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital, was last seen the evening of Nov. 15. His car was discovered the morning of Nov. 16, parked on a bridge over the Mississippi River. Memphis law enforcement officials report no evidence of foul play. FBI officials are monitoring the investigation, and Harvard remains in daily contact with law enforcement members. Wiley, a pre-eminent structural biologist, has conducted key research on the structure of viruses and proteins in the human immune system. In 1999, Wiley and Jack Strominger, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, won the prestigious Japan Prize for their discoveries of how the immune system protects humans from infections. In 1995, Wiley and Strominger won Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards for their work on the immune system. A $10,000 reward for information related to Wileys disappearance has been made possible by contributions from Harvard and St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital.
Elizabeth Spelke was surprised to discover how much infants know about whats going on around them. The newly tenured professor of psychology was just as surprised by their limits. In some situations, counting, for example, babies act more like monkeys, rats, or pigeons than humans.
Phillips Brooks House (PBH) will launch its annual Holiday Gift Drive this week, with organizers expecting the drive to bring in more than 1,000 gifts for children and teenagers in Cambridge and Boston.
As any performer will tell you, getting out there in front of an audience never gets easier. There are always the butterflies in the stomach, the fear your voice will crack or that youll trip over your shoelaces and land on your keester.
A small amount of money can make a big difference for young children from poor families by increasing their social skills and readiness for school to levels seen in children from middle-class families, according to a new study by researchers at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) and Baylor University.
Faced with greater responsibilities in the aftermath of Sept. 11, four mayors from big cities around the country spoke in the ARCO Forum about local leadership during times of global crisis. The event was part of a three-day training program (beginning Nov. 14) for new mayors that has taken place every other year at the Kennedy School since 1973. It is co-sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the Institute of Politics.
Twelve members of the student-run Harvard Ballroom Dance Team made an impressive showing at the National Collegiate Dancesport Championships held over the weekend of Nov. 17-18 in Columbus, Ohio. With more than 40 U.S. colleges participating, the Harvard team placed second in both the American and International Style team match events.
Harvards game plan of clinching the Ivy League soccer title for the first time in 5 years went afoul as a result of a 3-0 shutout by Brown (7-7-2, 5-1-1 Ivy) on Saturday, Nov. 17, at Ohiri Field. Harvards lone goal of the game was negated following a hand ball penalty. With the win, the Bears secured a share of the Ivy Championship along with Princeton, while ending Harvards campaign at 10-4-1 overall, and 5-2 in the Ivies – a considerable leap, nevertheless, from last seasons last place Ivy showing.
Researchers at the School of Public Health (SPH) and the Department of Veterans Affairs have linked a more optimistic outlook in older men with a dramatically reduced risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). The study examined the effects of an optimistic versus pessimistic way of explaining events on the incidence of heart attack, angina, and fatal CHD among older men.
Astronomers have made the first direct detection of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a star outside our solar system and have obtained the first information about its chemical composition. Their unique observations demonstrate that it is possible to measure the chemical makeup of extrasolar planet atmospheres and potentially to search for chemical markers of life beyond Earth.
The fight against terrorism is a battle to determine the course of the next century, former U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton told a crowd of about 5,600 in Harvard Universitys Albert H. Gordon Track and Tennis Center Monday, Nov. 19.
The sound check went on, sounding like a monastic chant as it echoed off Gordon Track and Tennis Centers high metal ceiling. Ignoring the droned 1, 2, 3, 4s, 24 Harvard undergraduates rested on newly-erected risers Sunday (Nov. 18) as they gobbled pizza and prepared for the next phase of the operation.
The role of the United States on the world stage remained the top concern of students who met with former President William Jefferson Clinton at the ARCO Forum immediately following his address at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center Monday afternoon (Nov. 19). The question-and-answer session was open to approximately 400 students, faculty, and staff from the Kennedy School of Government and undergraduate students who are active in the Institute of Politics, which hosted Clintons visit to Harvard.
After several months of close study, Jeremy R. Knowles, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), has decided to provide an additional $4 million in graduate student scholarships and fellowships, beginning in the next academic year.
Nathan Jackson, a Tlingit carver from Ketchikan, Alaska, performs a ceremonial dance Nov. 19 during the installation of a totem pole he created especially for the Peabody Museum. Last May, as mandated by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the museum returned a Tlingit totem pole which had been acquired 100 years before. In appreciation, the poles owners, the Teikweidi clan, gave the museum a large red cedar, and the Peabody commissioned Jackson to carve a new pole from the tree.
Skeletons of conjoined twins and legs corkscrewed with rickets. Kidney stones the size of golf balls. The skull of a man who survived a crowbar shot through his head.
With the hoisting of the Ivy cup, the Harvard football teams dream season suddenly became very real on Saturday, Nov. 17. In beating rival Yale, 35-23, in the 118th playing of the Game, the Crimson won its 10th Ivy League Championship and fourth outright crown, while extending its perfect season to 9-0. Not since 1913 has Harvard waged an unbeaten, untied campaign.
Sept. 22 Harvard 27, Brown 20 In the season opener, the Crimson unveiled a new weapon in tailback convert Josh Staph ’02. Down 17-7, the former fullback scored two of…
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) is the hub of the Kennedy School of Governments (KSGs) research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, science and technology policy, and conflict studies.
The Harvard Cancer Society and the Asian American Brotherhood are working with the National Marrow Donor Program to recruit minorities for the National Marrow Donor Registry. Each year more than 30,000 children and adults in the United States are diagnosed with life-threatening blood diseases such as leukemia. For many of these patients, a marrow or stem cell transplant is their only chance for survival. Yet such procedures are only possible when patients find donors with matching tissue types.
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