Campus & Community

Babies come into the world with musical preferences. They begin to respond to music while still in the womb. At the age of 4 months, dissonant notes at the end of a melody will cause them to squirm and turn away. If they like a tune, they may coo.

His first professional job took him into Bostons Combat Zone.

Elaine Kamarck, senior policy adviser to the Gore 2000 campaign, returned to Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG) as faculty-in-residence at the Center for Business and Government (CBG). As a White House insider, Kamarck will share her experience in the classroom and bring that insight to her research at the Center.

Darell Fields does not see in black and white, but in “blackness.” The term, according to the associate professor of architecture at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), refers not…

Mark J. Roe, a Columbia Law School professor and current visiting professor at Harvard Law School, has been named professor of law at Harvard – a tenured appointment. A 1975 Harvard Law graduate, Roe has written extensively on corporate law and new methods of corporate reorganization and bankruptcy. At Harvard, he has taught corporate finance and reorganization, as well as a seminar on advanced issues in corporate law.

While politicians argue, polar bears slowly starve.

Elaine Kamarck, senior policy adviser to the Gore 2000 campaign, returned to Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG) as faculty-in-residence at the Center for Business and Government (CBG). As a White House insider, Kamarck will share her experience in the classroom and bring that insight to her research at the Center.

Home style maven Martha Stewart touted the “power of a single idea” at Sanders Theatre last week and told students that anyone can head their own company if they set…

The mayor was vacillating. The police were posturing. The ACLU was pontificating. And hip-hop star Big X, having been stopped by police for a tilted license plate and detained for three hours, said his actual crime was DWB – driving while black. It was a press conference from the front lines of the urban American battlefield, and it was acted out on the stage of the Littauer Penthouse at the Kennedy School by Dorchester high school students.

His warm and enthusiastic teaching style endeared him to generations of undergraduates, and he firmly guided over twenty graduate students as they began their physics careers.

During some of the nastier months of a New England winter, junior Amy Chang – the director and instructor of Harvards recreational ice skating classes – leads a group metamorphosis in the quiet confines of the Bright Hockey Center. From early February through March, this veteran skater of nearly 10 years eases novice students into a comfortable and confident place on the ice, while fostering the balletlike precision and speed of the more seasoned skaters. Not only are the classes varied in their level of skill – they also include a diverse crowd ranging from freshmen to staff. I like that its not just undergraduates, Chang says.

Back in the mid-20th century, kids came streaming out of school at 3 p.m. into the gloriously unstructured portion of their day, the part between sitting upright at their desks and sitting upright at the dinner table. It was a time for stickball, tag, ringalevio, for riding a bike, strapping on roller skates, or earning pocket money at a part-time job. It was a time that kids everywhere looked forward to, and somehow instinctively knew how to use to their best advantage.

March 21, 1953 – Responding to the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, educational radio station WGBH-FM broadcasts two and a half hours of taped reflections from 12 Harvard professors…

Dear Colleagues and Friends, I am writing to let you know that I will be concluding my service as Provost as of June 30, 2001. Serving in this role these…

Helaine Daniels, formerly of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Oxfam, Mobil Oil Africa, and the Boston Globe, has been named director of international student programs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Associate Dean Joseph McCarthy announced.

It doesnt have a pull-out keyboard drawer, full-extension hanging files, or a built-in surge protector, but theres probably no other desk like it in all of Harvard.

Peter Sellars ’80 – director of theater, opera, and film, and professor of world arts and cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles – is returning to his alma…

William H. Sweet, professor of surgery emeritus, Harvard Medical School, and former chief of the neurosurgical service, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), died of complications of Parkinsons disease on Jan. 22 at his home in Brookline, Mass. He was 90.

Theres a movie star in our midst. Her day job happens at a small desk inside the Harvard University Employment Office, but Ashley Wolfe is also a bona fide movie star.

Until a few days ago, yellow caution tape, the kind that might delineate a crime scene in a John Grisham novel – or perhaps an unavoidable Cambridge road project – was strung throughout the lobby of Gund Hall at the Harvard Design School. Metal rods hung low from the ceilings, and students scuffled around the obstacles, their senses on high alert in order to avoid injury. Since this lobby is a space that is forever in flux, it was not so unusual to find a crew working diligently at an installation. On most occasions, however, the chaos comes to a climax during this stage of the work, and a certain calm is restored when the exhibit is in place. Not this time.

An Indian agricultural expert has called for an Evergreen Revolution in growing food crops that would combine science, economics, and sociology to boost production in a way that can be maintained for decades to come.

Theater, dance, music, and film will converge at the University this weekend for the Fourth Annual Harvard Black Arts Festival. The three-day event kicks off tomorrow (Friday, March 16), at 4 p.m., at the ARCO Forum, Kennedy School of Government, with a panel discussion featuring Tony-nominated actor Obba Babatunde and Urbanworld Entertainment CEO Stacey Spikes. A reception to celebrate the commencement of this years festival will take place at the Institute of Politics Penthouse. Interested parties may RSVP to duru@fas.harvard.edu.

What comes to mind when you hear the words Latin American art?

After waiting his turn to take part in a question-and-answer session during the Islam in America conference at Harvard last weekend, a young man approached the microphone, introduced himself, and said, Im a Muslim, and therefore, by definition, Im a feminist.

The Harvard mens hockey team unleashed some serious offensive might against rival Yale this past Friday and Saturday (March 10 and 11) – exploding for 12 goals in two victories – defeating the Bulldogs 5-4 and 7-4 in the best-of-three first-round ECAC Quarterfinals. With the wins, the Crimson advances to the 40th annual ECAC Semifinals in Lake Placid, N.Y., where they will take on Cornell tomorrow (March 16). It is Harvards first appearance in the semifinals since 1998.

One cant help but be overwhelmed by a sense of tradition when viewing the fencing facilities of Harvard University. Antique masks and weapons adorn the walls, the parquet floors speak of countless bouts, while students practice beneath the gaze of Harvard Fencings past generations casting their appreciative or critical gaze from portraits and pictures lining the walls. All-Americans, Olympians … this is the legacy of Harvard Fencing.

Through his years of graduate study and nearly a decade as a Harvard economics professor, Lawrence H. Summers never thought about someday taking the reins of the University.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and former Harvard economics professor Lawrence H. Summers was appointed Harvards 27th president on Sunday, setting the stage for him to succeed outgoing President Neil L. Rudenstine and usher in a new era for Americas oldest university.

Dame Edna Everage, the mauve-haired, gladiola-flinging megastar currently holding court at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, has become a celebrity of such magnitude that many assume her to be a sort of eternal presence, like the constellations.

Harvard Presidents Throughout History