Campus & Community

Beginning to plan his post-presidential pursuits, President Neil L. Rudenstine has agreed to serve as chairman of a major new nonprofit organization that will develop, maintain, and distribute digital resources for the study of art, architecture, design, and related fields in the humanities.

At its 12th meeting of the year, the Council met with Dean Bruce Donoff (Dental Medicine) and Professor Bjorn Olsen (Oral Biology) to discuss a proposed joint FAS/Dental School Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine. Deans Peter Ellison (Graduate School) and Margot Gill (Administrative Dean), and Professor David Pilbeam (Associate Dean of the Faculty) were present for this conversation.

The Harvard University Choir and the Mozart Society Orchestra join together in a performance of The Creation, composed by Franz Joseph Haydn, under the direction of conductor Robert Lehmann. The concert features soloists Jean Danton as Gabriel, Mark Risinger as Raphael, and Thomas Gregg as Uriel. The performance takes place at 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 8, in Sanders Theatre. Tickets are available at the door or through the Harvard Box Office at (617) 496-2222.

April 25, 1674 – The Harvard Corporation orders that “freshmen of the Colledg shall not at any time be compelled by any Senior students to goe on errands or doe…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 31. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

As an idealistic young student in Paris, Philippe Aghion dreamed of making the world a better place, of reducing inequality and environmental damage, and of taking better advantage of technological progress to reduce poverty and illiteracy and increase social well-being.

When he was 17 years old, Wolfgang Rueckner did not build a go-cart for the science fair. He decided to build an ion rocket engine instead – the ones that can propel a rocket in the vacuum of space. So, he wrote NASA and they sent him some research papers, and young Wolfgang obtained a huge sewer pipe from the city, sealed it with boilerplates, and somebody gave me a very crude pump, so I pumped it out. Then he boiled mercury in a flask to vaporize it and bombarded it with electrons until it got ionized, and voila! The experiment worked, and it looked memorable, too – that glowing trail of blue ionized mercury vapor processing eerily through the sewer pipe.

Botterill named 2001 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award winner Crimson women’s hockey forward, Jennifer Botterill, has been selected as this year’s Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award recipient. Presented by Texaco, the award…

Eric Lander was riding in a taxi during the week in February when government and private scientists published a nearly complete sequence of human genes. Not knowing that Lander, of the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, played a major role in that effort, the driver explained that the first map of all our genes – the blueprint of life – was now a reality. Lander remembers thinking, then, why am I going back to work?

University Health Services (UHS) has achieved its highest accreditation score ever from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Heathcare Organizations, earning 99 points out of 100 after a rigorous three-day inspection.

Making government work better, both at home and abroad, is the goal behind a $50 million endowment grant awarded today by the Ford Foundation to the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). It is the largest single donation KSG has ever received and the largest single endowment ever made by the Ford Foundation.

Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Paul Grogan will leave Harvard July 1 to take the helm of The Boston Foundation, a philanthropy dedicated to building community in Boston and helping the citys poor.

Associate Vice President for Human Resources Polly Price has announced the appointment of Henry Ryan as director of Workforce Initiatives for Harvard University. Ryan joined the University on Monday, April 2.

Harvard collected a record $34,101 for the American Cancer Societys annual Daffodil Days fundraiser this year, topping last years total by 2.2 percent and helping fund the Cancer Society programs, including research seeking a cure for the disease. This years results come just months after the University was recognized in February for being the top single-site seller in New England. This is the fourth consecutive year the University set an all-time high for contributions during Daffodil Days.

How are women faring in the information technology (IT) industry? Researchers from the Radcliffe Public Policy Center (RPPC) will address that question during a three-year study – funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) – of women working in IT. RPPC will partner with the Massachusetts Software and Internet Council (MSIC) to study employees in its member firms, using cutting-edge Internet-based survey technology in addition to field interviews. The project will establish the nations first systematic research database concerning workers in the IT industry.

The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering a fellowship award for the 2001-02 academic year for doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic consistent with the centers research agenda. The award will provide a stipend of $10,000. The Meyer Dissertation Fellowship is named in honor of John R. Meyer, professor of capital formation and economic growth emeritus, of the Kennedy School of Government.

Robert E. Rubin will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvards 350th Commencement on Thursday, June 7.

Relationships between black and white women in literature have provided a sometimes painful mirror of racial stereotypes in the real world, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison said Tuesday, concluding, however, that literature today has gotten beyond stereotypes, no longer mirroring reality but running ahead of it.

John E. Dowling, the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard University, was recently awarded the prestigious Llura Liggett Gund Award from The Foundation Fighting Blindness.

Veritas Forum returns to Harvard After a two-year hiatus, the Veritas Forum returned to Harvard yesterday (Wednesday, April 4), and will run through Monday, April 9. Through lectures, panels, and…

Each year, the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology receives a number of corporate fellowships instrumental in the training of graduate students in organic chemistry. The 2000-01 research fellowships are sponsored by Eli Lilly Research Laboratories, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., and Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research. Ten graduate students have been awarded the fellowships this year.

Eleven Harvard University students and graduates are among the 30 recipients for the 2001 Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship. Fellows receive up to a $20,000 stipend plus half tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the U.S.

There were cockroaches perched on little kids fingers, cockroaches cupped in kids hands, cockroaches crawling on the table – and 9-year-old faces screwed up in an odd mixture of excitement, disgust, and delight.

After last months 3-1 loss against Ivy rival Dartmouth in the ECAC Championship game, and a 6-3 upset in the first ever NCAA Womens Championship Semifinal in Minneapolis versus the eventual national champion Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs, this seasons brilliant Crimson squad found its post-season solace wherever it could, and not surprisingly, in a number of ways.

Harvey V. Fineberg has announced his intention to conclude his service as the Universitys provost, effective June 30.

President holds office hours President Neil L. Rudenstine will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on April 4. Provost Harvey V.…

Leverett A. Martel, who worked for 20 years in the purchasing department at the University, died on Friday, March 9, in Rockport, Mass. He was 82. Martel was employed at…

Botterill named Ivy player of the year Harvard University women’s hockey forward Jennifer Botterill ’02, was unanimously named the Ivy League Women’s Hockey Player of the Year. Botterill finished the…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 17. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

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