Campus & Community

Historian Simon Schama returns to Harvard next week to speak on a subject in which he has established impressive credentials: bringing history to a popular audience.

Think of a space 33 percent larger than the Boston Common and the Public Garden combined. This is what New York Citys 503 privately owned public spaces would add up to if they were combined to form a single area.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 12, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

On Saturday, Jan. 27, between 4 and 4:10 a.m., two individuals unaffiliated with the University were the victims of an assault and battery while walking along Francis Avenue at Bryant Street when a vehicle approached them. Words were exchanged between the vehicles occupants and the two individuals after one of the individuals had fallen down. Soon after driving away, the vehicle returned when one of the occupants of the vehicle approached one of the two individuals, striking him with a black, club-type weapon. The victim suffered a minor laceration to the head. The vehicle and its occupants then fled the area in an unknown direction.

Women in Business project is now online The Baker Library at the Harvard Business School has recently completed the first year of its Women in Business project — a survey…

What’s old is new again.

In their return to action following the break, the Crimson mens basketball team (10-6, 3-1 Ivy) staved off a late-game surge by the Hartford Hawks (4-15), eking out an 80-78 win this past Monday at Lavietes Pavilion. Sophomore guard Patrick Harveys game-winning floater at the buzzer, his second game-winning shot for the Crimson this season, exemplified the drama-filled second half.

Two years ago we slowed it down to 38 miles an hour now weve been able to park it then bring it back up to full speed. Lene Hau isnt talking about a used motorbike, but about light &mdash that ethereal, life-sustaining stuff that normally travels 93 million miles from the sun in about eight minutes.

Scott Sandberg knew that folks at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study were finally on board for his recycling program last March when they threw him a surprise 30th birthday party. The cake had Happy Anniversary written on it.

Orientation teaches teachers The Derek Bok Center’s Winter Teaching Orientation for faculty and teaching fellows will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 30, from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. on the…

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino hosts a breakfast and ceremony at City Hall this morning (Jan. 25), conferring the 2000 Award for Excellence in Childrens Health. The award honors The Horizons Initiative for the range of comprehensive services it offers at its Community Childrens Centers.

Jan. 24, 1873 – The first issue of the weekly Magenta – predecessor of The Harvard Crimson – appears as a two-column booklet that contains reviews, essays, and poems. The…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Jan. 20. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

Harvard University Police officers escort Kenneth Leong from the Science Center following his arrest on Jan. 18. Leong is accused of bursting into an auditorium filled with more than 250 students as the students were beginning work on a final exam. Witnesses say Leong hurled a brick against a blackboard and threatened to detonate a bomb. The building was evacuated but no explosives were found and nobody was injured. Leong was arraigned on various charges in Cambridge District Court and ordered to undergo 20 days of psychiatric evaluation at an area mental health facility.

Stephanie Sandler wears a deep blue stone on one hand and a wide gold wedding band on the other. These are idiosyncratic pieces – large for her fingers, a little irregular in shape, strong statements for such a slight and self-contained woman. She has something of the ballerinas mien about her – erect, watchful – and indeed, she danced for 11 years, from the time she was 4 until she started reading Russian novels as a teenager. Then she stopped dancing but her mind has continued to sketch precise and unpredictable movements, always graceful in their arcs, a little dangerous in their turns, absorbing to behold.

The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships Administrative Board has announced the selection of five graduating seniors for its 2001-02 fellowship.

In sports, as in much of life, it is the small, imperceptible things that happen in the background, behind the scenes, that separate the good from the very good and make the best that much better.

Thanks to a generous contribution from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), the Kennedy School of Government has launched a new program to expand teaching and research on the critical issues facing Kuwait and the Gulf region, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced.

It requires only a cursory glance at the classified ads to determine just how exorbitant the cost of living has become in and around Boston.

The Ford Motor Co., through the Ford Motor Company Fund, plans to add $1 million to an existing five-year award of $1.5 million to Harvard. The new funds will support a University Committee on Environment study of the long-term environmental and economic consequences of transportation choices in developing countries, taking a multidisciplinary systems perspective. The Harvard team will collaborate with a local university on a new country case, India, expanding a study initiated in China that is led by Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering Peter P. Rogers Ph.D. 66 and seed-funded by the Thornton Foundation.

Energy Secretary to teach at Kennedy School U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson will teach a course at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) this semester, announced Dean Joseph S.…

As a successful midcareer professional, Janine Clifford last year confronted an intriguing dilemma – whether to return to her Honolulu architectural firm or continue her ascent toward a doctorate degree at the Graduate School of Design (GSD). After careful consideration she chose to do both.

Last month, William P. Alford, the Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law and director of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, was the guest of President and Mrs. Clinton at a White House dinner honoring the Special Olympics. Alford was invited in recognition of his work on behalf of the Special Olympics in China.

Ilene K. Gipson, senior scientist and ocular surface scholar at The Schepens Eye Research Institute, and professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, has received a $65,000 Senior Scientific Investigator Award from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB).

The world was watching as Pope John Paul II embarked on his historic journey to Cuba three years ago – the first visit by the Catholic Churchs spiritual leader since Fidel Castro and his band of revolutionaries toppled the Batista regime in the island-nation in 1959. Reporters from around the globe assembled in Havana to document the popes arrival, his message to the Cuban people, and their reaction to his words.

Dedication ceremonies for the new 121,000 square foot Spangler Center were held at the Harvard Business School (HBS) on Monday, Jan. 22.

James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, and Maxwell L. Anderson, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, announced their joint appointment of Carol Mancusi-Ungaro as director of the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art at Harvard University and director of Conservation of the Whitney Museum. The appointments become effective April 1. The Whitney appointment is accompanied by a $5 million grant from the Robert W. Wilson Foundation in support of conservation at the Whitney, given by Whitney trustee Robert Wilson.

Students from Edwards Middle School in Charlestown paid the Graduate School of Education a visit last Friday, Jan. 19, for a day of questions and answers, tours, and insight into college life. Sponsored by Project IF (Inventing the Future), a research and practice partnership centered at GSE, the annual visit is part of the initiatives mission of educational mentoring, future-oriented counseling, and optimum development for children of low-income backgrounds.

The following students were selected as the Senior 48 of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Harvard College. The students were elected to Alpha Iota in the fall of 2000.

The Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation in New York awarded 18 Runyon-Winchell postdoctoral fellowships to outstanding young scientists conducting theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of the causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention of cancer. Among the 18 recipients, who were selected at the November 2000 Scientific Advisory Committee review, are two young scientists who will conduct their research at the University – Kathryn M. Koeller, and Mohammad Movassaghi. The three-year fellowships are carried out in the laboratories of the fellows sponsors.