Year: 2000
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Campus & Community
Office for the Arts Announces Senior Winners of Annual Prizes
The Harvard Gazette
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Campus & Community
Rudenstine Celebrates Boston Latin, Harvard Ties
Good morning. I’m very glad to be with all of you this morning, to celebrate your school and its achievements, and to wish you good fortune as you begin your…
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Warfield Named Chair of Anesthesia and Critical Care at BIDMC Carol A. Warfield, associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, has been named chair of the anesthesia and critical…
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Campus & Community
Monkeys Distinguish Different Languages — Its Not All Greek to Them
Monkeys can tell the difference between Dutch and Japanese as easily as human infants, language researchers have found. This ability makes humans less special than previously believed, and ties our…
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Campus & Community
Wired Marathoner To Spotlight Science
Dayna Muller will be wired like an astronaut when she runs the grueling 26.2-mile Boston Marathon on April 17. A pillbox-sized sensor on one shoe will broadcast her running speed…
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Campus & Community
Nieman Foundation Announces Winners of Lukas Prize for Nonfiction
Two books and a work-in-progress have been named winners of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project, an awards program jointly administered by the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University…
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Campus & Community
Quincy Jones Professorship Is First in African-American Music
Declaring that music has been central to the African-American experience since slavery, Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. announced Friday the creation of the first endowed professorship in…
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Campus & Community
Student-Organized Conference To Focus on ‘Mixed-Race Experience’
For many of us, food can be a powerful reminder of who we are and where we come from. But the foods that Rebecca Weisinger 02 remembers from her family…
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Campus & Community
H’ard Corps Kindness
Nearly 300 students turned out for the first annual H’ARD CORPS (Harvard Community Outreach and Public Service) event on Saturday. Breaking into teams, they worked on 18 different projects in…
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Campus & Community
Study Reveals New Priorities for New Generation of Faculty
Quality-of-life factors are the most significant determinants for prospective faculty when theyre considering a job offer, according to a new study conducted by the Project on Faculty Appointments at the…
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council Notice – April 12
The following members of the Faculty have been elected to the Council for terms beginning on July 1, 2000: Professors John Y. Campbell (Economics), Jay M. Harris (NELC), Pamela K.…
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Campus & Community
Chemistry and Chemical Biology Fellowships Announced
Each year, the department of chemistry and chemical biology receives a number of corporate fellowships for organic chemistry research. These fellowships are sponsored by several corporations whose support has been…
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Campus & Community
Literacy Lab Named for Jeanne Chall
The Graduate School of Education’s literacy laboratory will be renamed the Jeanne S. Chall Reading Laboratory in honor of its founder and a leading expert in reading research and instruction…
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Campus & Community
American Red Cross Blood Drive
The American Red Cross will run a blood drive in Memorial Hall on Friday, April 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and at St. Pauls Church, 29 Mount Auburn…
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Campus & Community
Afro-Am Celebrates 30 Years
Founders and graduates of Harvards Afro-American Studies Department came together last weekend to reflect on the struggle that gave the department birth, to plot strategies for the future, and to…
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Campus & Community
NAGPRA Conference at Peabody To Discuss Repatriation Issues
The Peabody Museum will host a symposium on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). A Decade of NAGPRA: Reviewing the Law will take place Friday, April 14th,…
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Campus & Community
Harvard Tops Several Graduate School Rankings
Harvard University is scoring high in U.S. News and World Reports latest rankings of the nations top graduate schools. The rankings were released this week, and are contained in the…