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Alzheimer’s vaccine looks promising
Medical researchers have successfully treated Alzheimer's disease in mice by putting drops of vaccine in their noses. They think it will ultimately be possible to do the same with people.
Physicist draws on left side of brain
A molecule streaks in from the right, smashing into a smaller molecule entering from the top. A third strikes the two as they briefly merge, sending all three on their separate ways, down and out of the frame.
HLS is key in developing new rules to protect women
With guidance from the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Clinic, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has recently issued a comprehensive set of new rules providing asylum to abused women if their home countries fail to protect them.
Stable relationship
For the 18 members of the Harvard Equestrian Club, riding instructor Alyce McNeil is part drill sergeant, part cheerleader, and part ringmaster. Lets pick up to a trot, McNeil instructed during a recent Wednesday outing for the club. Really make them trot. Hard! Hit her harder . . . yank her and say get-up!
ACS recognizes Rosenthal
David Rosenthal, director of University Health Services, accepted an American Cancer Society Sandra C. Labaree Volunteer Value Award for Mission last month at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. The award recognizes an outstanding contribution in leadership to the American Cancer Societys mission. Stephanie Harrison-Diggs, an American Cancer Society New England board member, presented Rosenthal with the award.
European College information session set at the Barker Center
The European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA), a recently founded Anglophone liberal arts college in Berlin, will host a wine and cheese party from 4 to 5 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 18, in the Thompson Room of the Barker Center.
Bridging racial gaps
In an attempt to find ways to bridge the potentially explosive gap between police and minority communities throughout the country, a diverse group of civil rights activists, law enforcement officials, legal experts, journalists, and victims of racial injustice visited Harvard Law School (HLS) last week to participate in a three-day conference examining race and the criminal justice system.
Joint statement on ‘casual’ employees released
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.
Innovations in tech teaching garner grants
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.
Seminar: Stereotypes persist about women in academia
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.
Men’s basketball tames Terriers
Although early foul trouble continues to be something of a problem for the Crimson mens basketball team - it can also prove troublesome for opponents.
Panayotou is first Sawhill Lecturer
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.
University Choir carries on 90-year-old tradition
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.
New Cabot fellowship is created at Bok Center
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 Noël 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.
Today’s support fuels tomorrow’s knowledge
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.
Bok earns Grawemeyer Award in Education
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.
Hospitals struggle for Medicare solution
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.
Police across state address hate crimes
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.
Dimpled chads, butterfly ballots take center stage
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).
Commitment, dollars spell a bright future
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.
A peripatetic returns:
Chance played a hand in getting Gisela Striker where she is today - a professor of philosophy and of the classics at Harvard.
NewsMakers
Dunlop receives Gold Medal Award The National Policy Association (NPA), a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that focuses on major economic and social ...
Rising research tide lifts math, physical sciences
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.
University’s holiday schedule
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.
Rogers named Radcliffe associate dean
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.
Police Log
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) through Dec. 9.
Notes
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. ...
Leaders listen
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.
Fiscal 2000 positions University well for future challenges
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.
A different kind of freshman orientation at KSG
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.
Better treatment for cancer
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.
Researchers find brain damage linked to child abuse and neglect
Abuse can damage the developing brain. Harvard researchers working at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., have identified four types of brain abnormalities ...
Researchers see better treatments for cancer
"Before the development of insulin, diabetes was as deadly as many cancers are today," says Harvard researcher Joseph Paul Eder, who is testing Endostatin ...
Picture perfect
It was, some said, miraculous. In 1839 a photographic process developed by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre was unveiled in Paris. Within weeks, the world was buzzing about the astonishing accomplishment. At Harvard, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. suggested that Daguerre had help from high places: It will be recognized that a new epoch in the history of human progress dates from the time when He . . . took a pencil of fire from the hand of the angel standing in the sun, and placed it in the hands of a mortal.
Cuomo’s ‘Speak Truth’ earns recognition
Kerry Kennedy Cuomo visited Harvard on Monday, Dec. 4, to receive the Harvard Foundation Award for her outstanding contributions to human rights and intercultural relations.
HBS and Stanford University explore e-Learning partnership
Stanford University and Harvard Business School (HBS) have announced their intention to jointly explore a project to develop and deliver online executive and management training.
Men’s basketball tames Terriers
Although early foul trouble continues to be something of a problem for the Crimson mens basketball team - it can also prove troublesome for opponents.
Kugel wins Grawemeyer Award in Religion for book
James L. Kugel, Harry Starr Professor of Classical, Modern Jewish, and Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and a member of the Faculty of Divinity, has won the 2001 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book The Bible as It Was. The award, a $200,000 prize presented by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville, recognizes outstanding and creative works that promote understanding of the relationship between human beings and the divine.
NewsMakers
Award given to KSG Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. received the "Eagle on the World" award from the Japanese Chamber of ...
Police Log
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) through Dec. 1.
Notes
Community Gift winners The winners of the Nov. 30 drawing for solicitors of the Community Gift Through Harvard Campaign are: 1. $50 gift certificate to ...
Uniform book loan, fines are set
Beginning Jan. 31, uniform policies regarding book loans and overdue book fines will go into effect in all the libraries within Harvard College Library (Cabot, Hilles, Fine Arts, Harvard-Yenching, Lamont, Houghton, Tozzer, Kummel, Loeb Music, Littauer and Widener) based on the recommendations of a task force of the University Library Council and with the support of the FAS Library Committee. This policy change is the result of efforts on part of the University to accommodate growth in the use of library collections by students, faculty, and staff, facilitated by the increasingly interdisciplinary conduct of teaching and research at Harvard.
Michael Porter named University Professor
His books adorn the shelves of CEOs, heads of state, academicians, and business school students alike. Countries and companies all over the world have embraced his theories on competition and strategy in the expanding global marketplace. His work has also been applied to a variety of important social issues, from the economic development of U.S. inner cities to environmental concerns.
It’s all in the name
In an age when marketing is everything, protecting the brand is crucial. Here at Harvard, increased time and attention is being invested in the close monitoring of the Universitys name and its use, both by those within the Harvard community and by those outside.
Stable relationship:
For the 18 members of the Harvard Equestrian Club, riding instructor Alyce McNeil is part drill sergeant, part cheerleader, and part ringmaster. Lets pick up to a trot, McNeil instructed during a recent Wednesday outing for the club. Really make them trot. Hard! Hit her harder . . . yank her and say get-up!
Integrity remains key to Ukraine stability, security
Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity are critical ingredients to the Soviet empire remaining a thing of the past.
Steering students into public service
There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
Mandela Fellows to join Du Bois Institute in fall
Eleven new fellows will join the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard this fall for one or two semesters of the 2000-01 academic year, according to Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the Institute and chair of the department of Afro-American studies. Founded in 1975, the institute is the oldest research center of its kind, and has supported the scholarly development of more than 250 alumni.
Harvard gets a southern exposure:
A telescope that allows Harvard astronomers to see heavenly sights invisible from the Northern Hemisphere will be dedicated on Saturday, Dec. 9.
