Campus & Community

Brett Cook-Dizneys artwork stinks. The spray-paint fumes wafting through Gutman Library this week are proof of that, but whats really happening inside the glassed-in, makeshift studio demands appreciation far beyond a single sense – or category.

Drew Barrymore accepts 2001 Woman of the Year award at the Hasty Pudding Theatre.

The telephones of tomorrow are sitting on 100 desks across the University today in a pilot program that could give Harvard greater flexibility in deciding where and when to install a phone and simultaneously put the University at the leading edge of an eventual nationwide switch in telephone technology.

In response to a recent rise in teenage violence in and around Boston, the Harvard Injury Control Research Center at the School of Public Health (SPH) is helping launch a major new project aimed at pinpointing causes and potential solutions for this disturbing growing threat. The Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center (HYVPC) is funded through a five-year $5 million grant provided by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Feb. 24, 1789 — From the “Journal of Disorders” of Eliphalet Pearson, the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages: “Mr. James [. . .] found Mackey was drunk…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Jan. 27. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

The Tennis Camps at Harvard (TCH), offering adult and junior sessions, will be opening its 11th season on June 11 at the Robert M. Beren Tennis Center at Soldiers Field.

Jun Liu remembers being interested in mathematics as early as age 12. It was a hard interest to pursue in the waning years of the Cultural Revolution in China. Computers were not available to him. He didnt own a calculator. Mathematics books were difficult to find.

Harvard musicologist Reinhold Brinkmann has received the 2001 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, Germanys most prestigious award in music. The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts will present the award to Brinkmann at a ceremony in Munich on May 31.

Exhibiting striking humility for a man often referred to as a great American hero, former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn modestly poked fun at himself and his image during an appearance at the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) on Tuesday night.

Logan McCarty: Opera singer, chemist

With a nod to failed predictions of the past, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg Tuesday painted a picture of Harvard in the 21st century as a place in even greater demand, with more adult students, and with learning occurring in different times and places.

Harvard computer experts got a glimpse of an educational future filled with virtual experiences and real-time information-gathering last week, along with a warning that education, not technology, should drive the coming changes.

Former U.S. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander has been named the Roy M. and Barbara Goodman Family Visiting Professor of Practice in Public Service at the Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced.

The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, a research center based at the Kennedy School of Government, will introduce its 2001 spring fellows and visiting faculty on Monday, Feb. 5, at 4:30 p.m. in the Taubman Building, Kalb Seminar Room T-275, at the Kennedy School. The event is open to the public.

One is certainly among the most accomplished and well-respected actors of his generation, while the other is a former childhood star who burst upon the American scene when she was just a first-grader. Anthony Hopkins and Drew Barrymore this week have been named the 2001 Man and Woman of the Year by Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

Starting this month, the Harvard Divinity School&rsquos Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) will be hosting the directors of some of the world&rsquos leading museums at regular intervals.

The morning the selections were announced, the Gazette surveyed a dozen students at random to get their thoughts on the Hasty Pudding Man and Woman of the Year. Here is a sampling of their comments.

Proposed 2001-02 rents for current Affiliated residents living in Affiliated Housing

Deputy Secretary of Commerce Robert L. Mallett will teach at the Kennedy School of Government this semester, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced. Mallett will join the Kennedy School and serve as visiting professor of the practice of public management.

The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute offers graduate and undergraduate student fellowship support and summer research travel funding in the field of Japanese studies.

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.