Campus & Community

The size and mix of nurse staffing in U.S. hospitals has a direct impact on the outcome of patient health. The finding comes from the most comprehensive study to date on the topic and was led by Jack Needleman of the Harvard School of Public Health and Peter Buerhaus of Vanderbilt Universitys School of Nursing in Nashville, Tenn. The study, Nurse Staffing Levels and Patient Outcomes in Hospitals is available at http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/dn/staffstudy.htm.

A ceremony and reception to honor Harvard faculty and staff with 25 years of service to the University will be held on Thursday, May 17, in the Ropes-Gray Room at the Law Schools Pound Hall. One hundred forty-one faculty and staff will be honored at this years 25-Year Recognition Ceremony – the 47th annual event to recognize faculty and staff from across the University.

Five students from Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have been named winners of the newly established Vincent Prize for outstanding suggestions on how to encourage depressed people to seek treatment.

Head Athletic Trainer Dick Emerson is big on feelings. The 30-year Harvard veteran – affectionately known as Emmo by both staff and students – is entrusted with the treatment, care, and physical rehabilitation of the Universitys 41 varsity and 23 junior varsity sports teams. And this is in addition to his traveling gig with the Crimson football and hockey teams.

President Neil L. Rudenstine has stated his intention to form a new University-wide committee that will further examine issues relating to the economic welfare and opportunities of lower-paid workers at Harvard.

The Harvard mens and womens track teams hosted a non-scoring meet with Boston College this past Sunday, April 29. Senior John Kraay doubled as winner in the shot put and discus, while sophomores John Traugott and Chris Antunes finished one and two in the mens 800-meter run with a winning time of 1 minute, 52.55 seconds.

At its 13th meeting of the year, the Council discussed a proposed new “Certification and Disclosure Statement” for researchers applying for or receiving support from the National Science Foundation and…

A memorial service for Seymour S. Kety, Harvard Medical School professor of neuroscience emeritus, will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 10, at the Memorial Church. A reception…

The present and future presidents of the University were honored in the nations capital this week. President Neil L. Rudenstine and incoming president, Lawrence H. Summers, were honored at a luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, April 24. Hosting the event were Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), Congresswoman Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.) and Harvards own representative, Congressman Michael Capuano (D-Mass.). Kennedy paid tribute to Rudenstines efforts to ensure that the federal government not forget its obligation to provide financial aid to needy college students. He also lauded Rudenstines leadership in lobbying Congress to stop reductions in payments to Massachusetts teaching hospitals. In addition, Kennedy praised Rudenstines commitment to the notion that – in order to ensure a diverse student body – colleges use their own criteria in admitting students.

Ask yourself why paper currency is still engraved, and you will stumble into the exacting and elegant realm of the repeatable image. The query will take you back at least 150 years, to a time when engraving was an immensely popular printmaking technique. So much so, in fact, that in the 19th century the term engraving was used to describe any reproductive print. Of course the invention of photography nearly wiped it out, but there was a time when the technique was so highly regarded that a Civil War engraving of Abraham Lincoln done after a Matthew Brady photograph was far more valuable than the original. Today, engraving is still used to print money because it is hard to counterfeit, and because it carries intrinsic prestige.

With electronic privacy becoming more difficult to attain for everyone from governments to lovers, the need for an unbreakable code is rising rapidly toward the top of many most wanted lists. Michael Rabin, the Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, says he has come up with the solution: a code that cannot be deciphered even by those who have both the key and unlimited computer power.

Freshman Sara Williamson doubled in the bottom of the seventh to drive in the winning run of a 5-4 decision against Boston University this past Tuesday afternoon at Harvards Soldiers Field. The loss ended an 18-game win streak for the Terriers, while extending the Crimsons run to a season-high five games. With the win, the team improves to 18-15, 9-3 Ivy.

The NFLs Cleveland Browns have signed Harvard All-America offensive tackle Mike Clare 01 to a free agent contract. Clares signing gives Harvard six players who have signed professional football contracts in the last four years.

As chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Orrin Hatch yields significant influence over the future direction of the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Utah Republican told a packed audience at the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) on Monday night that hes determined to keep politics out of it.

Former U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt slammed President George Bushs global warming record Sunday, delivering a combination call to action and political stump speech to an enthusiastic Earth Day crowd of about 800 gathered in Sanders Theatre.

The Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Council on the Arts have announced the winners of the 2000-2001 prizes for outstanding accomplishments in the arts. The winners are as follows:

Harvard Law School announced today that its library – the largest law library in the world – has received its most significant gift in more than 150 years, a major collection of rare English law books spanning 400 years of legal writing from 1491 to 1891.

He was committed tirelessly to hard work, clearly an example to family, friends and colleagues. His contagious joy in life with that infectious, irrepressible chuckle, encompassed his work, his relationships to people, as well as his travels, and delight in being exposed to the new and challenging.

In the communal living room at Bostons South Cove Plaza Saturday, under the quiet swirl of twin paddle fans, words from two languages – rapid-fire Chinese and slow, careful English – mingled in the rooms slowly stirring air.

As the Massachusetts Hall sit-in over wages for the Universitys lowest-paid workers extended into its eighth day on Wednesday, protesters and members of the Harvard administration searched for a resolution to the standoff.

Harvard faculty, staff, and retirees pledged a record-breaking $966,400 to local charities through this years Community Gifts through Harvard Campaign, surpassing last years mark by more than $95,000.

As the Massachusetts Hall sit-in over wages for the Universitys lowest-paid workers extended into its eighth day on Wednesday, protesters and members of the Harvard administration searched for a resolution to the standoff.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, April 21. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

Kirschner wins Gairdner International Award The Gairdner Foundation of Toronto has named Marc Kirschner, the Carl W. Walter Professor of Cell Biology, as one of the four recipients of the…

Rosalynn Carter to speak at ARCO Forum Former first lady Rosalynn Carter will speak at the ARCO Forum, Kennedy School of Government, on Monday, April 30, at 6 p.m. Her…

“Young ladies . . . Sir, good day, sir . . . Hello, big guy . . .” We’ve heard them all. Loud and smiling, Gregory Daugherty belts them out.…

Last years report on United Nations Peace Operations began with a somber statement: Over the last decade, the United Nations has repeatedly failed to meet the challenge of protecting people from war. The report, compiled by a panel of experts from all six continents and chaired by Lakhdar Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign minister, proposes extensive reforms of UN peacekeeping operations.

As the Massachusetts Hall sit-in over wages for the Universitys lowest-paid workers extended into its eighth day on Wednesday, protesters and members of the Harvard administration searched for a resolution to the standoff.

As the Massachusetts Hall sit-in over wages for the Universitys lowest-paid workers extended into its eighth day on Wednesday, protesters and members of the Harvard administration searched for a resolution to the standoff.