Campus & Community

Writer, scholar, and critic George Steiner has been named the 2001-02 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. He will deliver the Norton Lectures at the University next fall and plans to examine the act of teaching, from the Platonic Socrates to Wittgenstein and Ionesco. Currently an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, Steiner is an internationally renowned scholar of Western culture, language, and intellectual history.

Rather than cut open a persons chest or abdomen, doctors can now insert a slender needle through the skin and destroy a tumor with heat, cold, or alcohol.

Actress Jane Fonda came to the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) Friday, March 2, to announce her donation of $12.5 million to launch the Harvard Center on Gender and Education. It is the largest gift from a single individual the GSE has ever received.

In 1986, Richard Light was asked a question that changed his life. He conducted more than 400 interviews and traveled to 90 college campuses seeking to answer it. Knowing that would not be enough, he enlisted dozens of colleagues and students to help gather data.

In 1986, Richard Light was asked a question that changed his life. He conducted more than 400 interviews and traveled to 90 college campuses seeking to answer it. Knowing that would not be enough, he enlisted dozens of colleagues and students to help gather data.

Richard Daggy, assistant dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) from 1964 through 1966 and associate dean for international programs from 1966 to 1973, died on Jan. 21,…

At its 11th meeting of the year, the Council discussed with Dean Peter Ellison (GSAS and anthropology) the experimental summer English Language Program. Dean Ellison also briefed the Council on…

March 23, 1912 — The Boston Elevated Railway Co. opens the Harvard Square subway station. BERC expends about $10 million for the entire Cambridge subway project, which includes a special…

Children’s Initiative announces research awards In honor of Jerome Kagan, the Daniel and Amy Starch Research Professor of Psychology, The Harvard Children’s Initiative and the Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative have announced research…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 3. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

During the Cultural Revolution – the decade of Maoist reform that, among other things, pilloried Chinese intellectuals and sent many to the countryside for re-education through hard labor – author Gao Xingjian was among those sent down to live the life of a peasant.

Kristen Ammon has played bass since she was 9 years old. She studied music at Yale University and plays today for the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, which is practicing for its March 10 presentation of Tchaikovsky, Ellington, and Ives.

In the wake of six long weeks this fall filled with hanging chads, ballot recounts, and court challenges, it appears the American people may finally be willing to embrace major changes in the way we elect our government leaders. The question is, Is Washington ready? David King, associate professor in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), is anxious to find out.

The University Student Health Coordinating Board has established a $1,500 prize for students who come up with the most innovative and practical ideas about how to encourage people suffering from depression to seek treatment.

Carlos Paz spent his childhood laboring in Californias grape fields. Today, the Harvard Medical student is conducting research on circadian rhythms.

Citing a host of studies, surveys, and statistics, a British health expert made a compelling case last week that the link between low social status and poor health is not just a problem for the poor, but for people at all levels of society.

In a rare respite from the March madness of classes and assignments, the campus fell into a quiet white reverie for two sweet days.

Eyes sparkling and imaginations aflame, area children – and their elders – glowed in a wealth of glitter and color at the Mineral Madness Family Festival at the Museum of Natural History last Saturday. Weird minerals, a scavenger hunt, mineral identification, and a (relatively inexpensive) Big Dig were some of the bright facets of the lively day.

Knoll receives Chang Ying-Chien Prize Fisher Professor of Natural History Andrew H. Knoll, an expert on the early evolution of life, has been named the first recipient of the Chang…

If the lizardy newt loses a leg in a battle with a stronger, faster rival, it simply grows a new limb.

A $500,000 donation to Harvard Divinity School has led to the creation of a loan reduction program, an addition eagerly anticipated by students seeking ways to balance the financial conflicts of repaying heavy student loan debt and pursuing careers in typically low-paying public service jobs.

On Friday, Feb. 23, at approximately 3:15 p.m., the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to a report of an indecent assault at the Lamont Library. The victim, not affiliated…

A University graduate student was the victim of an attempted unarmed robbery while talking on his cellular phone on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at approximately 7:59 p.m., on the pathway behind…

Author Michael Ignatieff, a professor of human rights policy, has been named director of the Carr Center of Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S.…

On Thursday, Feb. 22, a member of the Harvard community purchased a 20-ounce bottle of Diet Coke that contained a foreign substance that made the person briefly ill. The bottle…

this month in harvard history

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 24. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

Alice Kimball Smith, a retired author, historian, and former dean emerita at the Radcliffe Institute, died Feb. 6, in Ellensburg, Wash. She was 94. After a move to Cambridge in…

Charles V. Willie, the Charles William Elliot Professor of Education Emeritus at the Graduate School of Education, has been elected chairman of the board of trustees of the Judge Baker…

In the 1950s, says Dorothy Zinberg, the faculty wives in Harvards government department met regularly for lunch in the Faculty Club.