Campus & Community

At a meeting of the Faculty of Medicine on December 20, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records. Manfred Leslie Karnovsky, Harold T. White Professor of Biological Chemistry,…

When School of Public Health (SPH) doctoral student Mark Hickman goes to medical school in September, he will not be commuting. He is flying off to the green farming terraces of the village of Dhulakiel in Nepal where, on a swath of land jutting from the side of a Himalayan mountain, engineers are laboring in the thin air to erect a building that may revolutionize medical education in Nepal. The building will be a medical school organized by Nepalese officials with the help of Harvard professors.

One of the questions Civil War historians have argued over is the extent to which ordinary enlisted men cared about the issues behind the conflict.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 17, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 14, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

It is a standard albumen print, labeled Palmyre, Sculpture dun chapiteau, Syrie, and signed in the lower right by the Bonfils studio. The caption refers to the capital of a fallen column that dominates the foreground, and locates it at a tourist site in Palmyra, Syria. Except for a child apparently sleeping on the capital, dwarfed by its deeply carved acanthus leaves, the scene is barren.

Leverett House residents take to the snow for a game of football that scores all the way around

At its eighth meeting of the year the Council heard a report from Paul Bergen, the Facultys Instructional Computing Group Manager, on the development of instructional computing in the Faculty. Dean Paul Martin, chair of the Standing Committee on Information Technology, and Frank Steen, director of Computer Services, were present for this discussion.

January 1659 – President Charles Chauncy describes a recent “great disorder at Cambridge” involving nighttime fighting “betweene the schollars and some of the toune.” Cambridge and Harvard thus chalk up…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 13. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

On Monday, Jan. 8, at approximately 2:19 p.m., the victim of an indecent assault and battery incident came to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) headquarters to report that she had just been attacked while walking along Berkeley Street near Phillips Street in Cambridge. The suspect approached the victim from behind and grabbed her in an indecent manner. The victim was knocked to the ground, whereupon her screams prompted a witness to approach. The suspect then fled down Berkeley Street toward Garden Street. An immediate search of the area by the HUPD and the Cambridge Police Department proved unsuccessful.

Cambridge School Volunteers Inc. (CSV), is a private, nonprofit organization that recruits, trains, places, and provides support services for volunteers in kindergarten through grade 12 in the Cambridge Public School system. CSV needs people of all ages and backgrounds to serve as tutors, classroom aides, and library assistants.

From an early age, Wai-yee Li has been a frequent visitor to the world of the imagination, at times preferring it to the world of the here and now.

Bebchuk named AAAS Fellow

Classical concert on Jan 28 is free for students

When curator Joe Hickey found the original 1909 architectural plans for the Harvard Lampoon building where he works he rolled up his sleeves and got down to business.

While a record 6,095 students applied for admission to the Class of 2005 under the Colleges Early Action program this year, applications rose only 1.2 percent compared with last years increase of more than 30 percent. The number of students admitted declined for the second year in a row to 1,105, down from 1,135 last year and the record 1,185 for the Class of 2003.

On Jan. 16, University Hall re-opened for business after extensive renovations that began last June. Its occupants, returning from temporary offices at 1033 Massachusetts Ave. and the Engineering Science Lab on Oxford Street, include Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Jeremy R. Knowles, College Dean Harry Lewis, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Peter Ellison, Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan Pedersen, and the offices of Academic Affairs, FAS Administration, FAS Communications, Faculty Development, the FAS Financial Office, the Secretary of the Faculty, and Undergraduate Education. Phone numbers for all offices remain the same university mail can be directed to the department name in University Hall.

Alexandra Adler, authority on schizophrenia, pioneer in the study of post-traumatic stress disorder, and one of the first women neurologists at Harvard, died in New York City on Jan. 4. She was 99.

Harvard students and officials joined representatives of the University Lutheran Church, the city of Cambridge, and a community development organization at a ceremony in the church basement on Wednesday, Jan. 10, to mark the end of renovations to the student-run homeless shelter there.

Thomas Kennedy, long a renowned professor and authority on labor relations at Harvard Business School (HBS) as well as a highly respected arbitrator in disputes between unions and management, died on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2000, at a retirement community in Kennett Square, Pa. He was 88 years old.

Willard Van Orman Quine, one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, died on Christmas Day at the age of 92.

Six finalists have been named for the Goldsmith Prize for investigative reporting. The winner will be announced at the Goldsmith Prize Awards Ceremony on March 15 at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The annual award of $25,000 recognizes superb investigative reporting that, according to the Prizes charter, discloses excessive secrecy, impropriety, mismanagement or other shortcomings in government or instances of particularly commendable government performance.

William Lambert Moran, esteemed Assyriologist and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities Emeritus, died on Dec. 19, 2000. He was 79.

The Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (HILR) has introduced two online courses as part of its spring 2001 curriculum. The announcement supports HILRs commitment to remain on the cutting edge in educational offerings for its members. With the increased popularity and accessibility of the Internet, distance learning has become a common feature of continuing education programs around the country. HILR joins other institutes for learning in retirement such as the New School University in New York and the Northwestern University ILR in Evanston, Ill.

The No. 6 womens hockey team (11-6-0, 5-1 Ivy) kicked off the new millennium – and the remaining half of the season – with a trio of consecutive victories. After dropping three straight, a spell that included two losses at Minnesota-Duluth and a home loss at the hands of the St. Lawrence Saints, the Crimson returned to the win column Jan. 7, beating Cornell 5-3. Four days later, host Harvard defeated over-the-river rivals Northeastern 6-3. And last Saturday, Jan. 13, they topped the Providence Friars 7-4 – a match marked by junior Jennifer Botterills second hat trick in as many games.

The Harvard mens and womens track teams defeated Northeastern at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center on Saturday, Jan. 6. The womens squad, led by Captain Brenda Taylor with wins in the 60- and 200-meter hurdles, beat the Huskies 95-30.

Kwang-chih Chang, the John E. Hudson Research Professor of Archaeology, died Jan. 3, 2001, in Boston from complications from Parkinsons disease. He was 69.

Smaller high schools, smaller class sizes, and programs targeting the difficult transition to ninth grade can help solve Americas high school dropout problem, according to experts who gathered at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Saturday.

Space is at a premium in research libraries as collections – and the technology and staff needed to support them – grow along with user demand for more room in which to study. Harvard College Library (HCL) is no exception and space issues in its 85-year-old Widener Library were under study by University planners when the Library administration was unexpectedly offered the opportunity to lease a site in nearby Central Square. The library administration accepted.