Campus & Community

Feb. 28, 1942 – In the Yard, Houghton Library is formally opened and dedicated as the new home of Harvard’s rare books and manuscripts. It is the nation’s first academic…

Emily B. McCarthy, a 30-year employee at Harvard, passed away on June 20, 2000. She was 80. McCarthy worked at the Herbarium, the Department of Sociology, Harvard Business School, and…

Next Wave, a weekly electronic journal dedicated to the career development of graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty, is now accessible from any computer within the University. Produced by the nonprofit American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Science magazine, the site features scientific news, discussion forums, career profiles, and career advice.

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

Jeffrey Hamburger remembers the moment he fell in love. It happened in the rare book library of Yale University.

Harvards research mission will be featured on the Science Coalitions Web site (http://www.sciencecoalition.org) for the next week. The Science Coalition is a group of universities and other organizations – more than 400 in all – with the goal of expanding and strengthening the federal governments investment in university-based scientific, medical, engineering, and agricultural research.

George MacMasters: head lifeguard

Born on a Louisiana cotton plantation in 1867, orphaned at 7, married at 14, and widowed at 20, Madam C.J. Walker eventually became the nations first self-made female millionaire. A legendary figure in African-American economic history, the former laundress made her fortune by building a business empire based on hair products for black women.

Of the many publishing houses and little magazines that sprang into existence in the 1920s and 30s, none was as adventurous or influential as New Directions, founded by James Laughlin in 1936 while he was an undergraduate at Harvard. New Directions published, among others, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Dylan Thomas, Jack Kerouac, Tennessee Williams, and brought quality translations of the work of foreign writers to the American public (including Hermann Hesse, Jorge Luis Borges, and Yukio Mishima). The publication also revived the work of neglected authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Henry James.

Michael Levine, adjunct professor of law at Harvard Law School (HLS), has testified twice in the past week before key congressional committees examining possible mergers in the airline industry. On Thursday, Feb. 1, Levine testified as an expert witness before the Senate Commerce Committee – chaired by Sen. John McCain of Arizona – during a hearing on the proposed acquisition of Trans World Airlines (TWA) by American Airlines. Levine also testified before the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, a key panel investigating the general issue of airline mergers.

Colon cancer kills approximately 48,000 men and women every year in the United States. In addition, more than 97,000 people in this country will be diagnosed with the disease this…

With cold winter winds still blowing up and down the Charles River, it may seem far too early to begin thinking about summer. Not for Amy Meyer, Community Outreach manager in the Office of Human Resources and program manager for Harvards new Summer Teen Employment Program (STEP).

Rwandan President Paul Kagame says he wants an end to the conflict in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo, but not at any price.

Holdren wins 2000 Heinz Award for Public Policy John Holdren, professor of environmental science and public policy in the department of earth and planetary sciences, and the Teresa and John…

Upon the recommendation of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the President approved and announced the following Standing Committees at the F.A.S. Faculty Meeting of Oct. 17, 2000. Standing Committees of the Faculty are constituted to perform a continuing function. Each committee has been established by a vote of the Faculty, and can be dissolved only by a vote of the Faculty or, with the agreement of a particular Committee, by the Dean and Faculty Council. The Dean recommends the membership of each committee annually.

In their second encounter this season, the Harvard mens hockey team (10-10-1, 9-5-1 ECAC) was unable to avenge an early-season overtime loss against the Boston College Eagles (21-6-1, 13-3-1 Hockey East) – a game the Crimson let slip away – falling 4-1 this past Monday night in the first round of the 49th annual Beanpot Tournament at the FleetCenter.

Senior Tammy Shewchuk and sophmore Kalen Ingram each registered a hat trick as the Harvard womens hockey team defeated Boston College 8-1 in the first round of the 23rd annual Womens Beanpot Tournament held at Boston College this past Tuesday night.

Lifting the heavy wooden trap door and peering down into the dark, dusty secret room beneath the floorboards at the top of the stairs, Larry Hall appears entranced. Its as if he can feel the ghosts of his hidden past, shrouded beneath a veil of silence for generations and now exposed for all the world to see.

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.