Campus & Community

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.

The Center for Business and Government (CBG) at Harvards Kennedy School announced a full roster of fellows for 2000-01. The largest complement of fellows in the history of the Center, this global gathering of business leaders, scholars, industry representatives, and policy-makers from around the world will study subjects ranging from business reform to resource regulation and from energy policy to the evolution of world trade.

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

A number of questions have been asked in recent days about the University’s position and my own views on diversity. I thought a brief statement might be helpful in this regard.

Gennadii Boriak of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences presented a guide to the Central State Archive of Public Organizations of Ukraine to Harvard University in December. Sidney Verba (above), director…

Successes so far with the much-ballyhooed, tumor-choking drug Endostatin are leading researchers to believe they can keep cancer patients alive for many more years with the help of nontoxic drugs that dont have the debilitating effects of large doses of chemotherapy and radiation. The hope is that such drugs will play a key part in holding cancer under long-term control just as medications keep diabetes, asthma, and other chronic diseases in check.

Having spent months traversing the campaign trail explaining to voters why they should go to Washington, 18 newly elected members of Congress visited the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) in mid-December to bone up on the challenges they’ll face once they get there.

Fiscal 2000 was a year of milestones for Harvard University, including its merger with Radcliffe College, the end of the six-year Capital Campaign, and the Endowments remarkable 32.2 percent return, which boosted its value to $19.2 billion.

An informal talk featuring speaker Gail C. Christopher (near right), executive director for Innovations in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, was hosted by the Harvard Office of Community Affairs on Dec. 12 at the Faculty Club. Leaders from Cambridge community-based organizations were on hand. After the talk, Macy DeLong (far right), executive director of Solutions at Work, listens as Christopher makes a point. The event was done in collaboration with Cambridge Community Services.

Next set of Community Gift winners are announced The winners of the Dec. 7 drawing for solicitors of the Community Gift Through Harvard Campaign are: 1. $50 gift certificate to…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) through Dec. 9.

Tamara Elliott Rogers 74, who has been Harvards Associate Director of University Development and Director of University Capital Projects, has been named Associate Dean for Advancement and Planning at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Rogers will assume her newly created position at Radcliffe on Jan. 8.

While the University will not be officially closed during the holidays, administrative, professional, non-bargaining unit support staff, and Harvard Union of Clerical Technical Workers staff will have an extended holiday period in 2000. Normally, staff receives 1.5 days of holiday time off for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and one day of holiday time off for New Years Day. This year, those employees listed above will receive a combination of holiday and paid personal time off resulting in six days off, Monday, Dec. 25 through Friday, Dec. 29, and Monday, Jan. 1, 2001.

The theory, with its mathematical description of knots and their permutations, is an unlikely tool for todays advanced geneticists. It was actually invented a century ago to help describe what was then thought of as the cosmic ether that surrounded all things.

Dunlop receives Gold Medal Award The National Policy Association (NPA), a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that focuses on major economic and social problems facing the United States, presented John T. Dunlop,…

Chance played a hand in getting Gisela Striker where she is today – a professor of philosophy and of the classics at Harvard.

With talk of research budgets doubling, and the country in the midst of a revolution in technology, science, and health care, the future seems bright for scientific research.

With much of the nations attention still focused on the mysteries of the dimpled chad and the passionate dispute over butterfly ballots in Florida, five players in the U.S. election process presented their ideas for fixing the troubled system during a panel discussion Tuesday night at the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG).

Roll call at the Harvard University Police Department will be a little different today (Dec. 14). At the beginning of each shift – there are three of them – after the shift supervisors call the roll, they will address the problem of hate crimes, a growing threat to every community in the country. The department is participating in a massive statewide effort being launched to fight these offenses, which are defined as a criminal act against a person or property in which the perpetrator chooses the victim because of the victims real or perceived race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, or gender.

Even as federal spending rises for basic university research, the hospitals where Americas future doctors are trained are hoping to see federal reimbursements frozen for the second year in a row.

Derek Bok, president of the University from 1971 through 1991, and William G. Bowen, president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, have won the 2001 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education for their book The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions.

University-based research – responsible for the Internet, organ transplants, and the vaccine that changed polio from a scourge into an afterthought – is regaining favor in Washington, D.C., and winning federal budget increases after a decade of slow- or no-growth funding.

Two new postdoctoral fellowships have been created at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. The Cabot postdoctoral fellowships, made possible by the Cabot family, are designed to support strong scholars with a distinguished record of teaching, and to promote innovations in undergraduate teaching at Harvard. The Cabot fellows for 2000-01 are No&eumll Bisson 98 and Alessandro Massorotti from the University of Chicago. The two have joined the Bok Center staff in its mission for the year and are undertaking special projects.

The Harvard University Choir will perform the 91st annual Carol Services on Sunday, Dec. 17, at 5 p.m. and Monday, Dec. 18, at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Church, Harvard Yard.

Theo Panayotou, an environmental adviser to the Smithsonian, World Bank, and the United Nations Development Program, has been named the first John Sawhill Lecturer in Environmental Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced earlier this month.

Although early foul trouble continues to be something of a problem for the Crimson mens basketball team – it can also prove troublesome for opponents.

Listen to this physics concentrator at Harvard. In high school it never occurred to me that it was an issue to be a woman. Since I came here, its been a major issue in my experience. I really feel the fact that Im one of two women in a class of 30 students. And I really hate that the fact that Im a woman is on my mind all the time.

The Provosts Office has awarded the first round of 16 grants to Harvard professors and instructors for projects that will enhance the use of technology in education.

A massive project that is transforming Rio de Janeiro’s squalid shantytowns into functioning, integrated neighborhoods has won the Graduate School of Design’s Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design. Argentinian-born…

A message from Provost Harvey V. Fineberg: This statement was prepared jointly by HUCTW and representatives of the University on casual employees. The statement summarizes the very productive work done by the joint committee working on this issue. I am confident that you will join me in supporting the sentiments in the statement, and that we can all work toward future compliance in both the letter and the spirit of the rules on casual workers.