Year: 2000

The Harvard Gazette

The Harvard Gazette

Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet Seamus Heaney will give the inaugural Stratis Haviaras Lecture, titled “Room to Rhyme,” in the Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland St., on Thursday, April 6,…

The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations is sponsoring the Seventh Annual Science Conference, titled “Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics” Friday and Saturday, March 17…

The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to journalists from Time Magazine by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy…

College students are drinking more and college administrators are enjoying it less, according to a nationwide study of binge drinking. Approximately one in four (23 percent) of more than 14,000…

According to Joel Schwartz, associate professor of environmental health at the School of Public Health, “Air pollution kills about 70,000 Americans each year. That’s more people than die from breast…

When David Weitz says his experiment is ready to fly, he means that literally. Like into space. Weitz has had four experiments aboard space flights, including three on the Mir…

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles has announced that for the 2000-01 academic year, Harvard’s package of undergraduate tuition, room and board, and student fees…

Harvard basketball senior captain Damian Long of Spokane, Wash., has been named Ivy League Player of the Week for the period ending March 5, while freshman guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman of…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 4. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden…

Juliana Paré-Blagoev believes that brain scan studies will not only yield scientific clues for furthering treatment of dyslexia, but also subtle, easily overlooked benefits–such as a sense of hope, that…

The Wolf Foundation, an Israel-based organization dedicated to the promotion of science and art, has named Raoul Bott, the William Caspar Graustein Research Professor of Mathematics, winner of the 2000…

The life of Johann Sebastian Bach, from his music to his personal relationships with sons, students, and other contemporaries, is documented with selected original materials in an exhibition called “The…

Courtney Egelhoff leaned in close, her face just inches from her coach’s blonde, shoulder-length hair. Intent with concentration, Egelhoff combed and snipped. Combed and snipped some more. The scene was…

President Neil L. Rudenstine hosted a lunch Tuesday, March 7, in honor of recently retired Cambridge mayors Frank Duehay (left) and Sheila Russell. The mayors and other guests were also…

The moment I stepped into the Ben Shahn exhibition currently at the Sackler Museum, I had the feeling that I was in the presence of something uncannily familiar, a world…

It’s not often opportunities like this one come knocking on a dormitory room door. So you can just imagine the reaction when 20 members of the Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships selection committee…

Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced a new round of grants under the Provost’s Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration. These grants are designed to promote intellectual interchange across Faculties of the…

Vacation Houses For Rent Harvard’s vacation houses on Sutton Island and Kittery Point, Maine, are available for rent to salaried faculty and officers of the University. Applications for weekly rentals…

Callbacks Win A Cappella Semifinals The Callbacks, one of Harvard’s coed undergraduate a cappella singing groups, placed first in the Northeast Regional Final of the National Championship of Collegiate A…

Erin Curran, 6, a 1st-grader from the Martha Jones School in Westwood, Mass., practices a wrathful roar while looking in a hand mirror after having her face painted inside the…

The woman’s left lung had collapsed because a tumor blocked the airway leading to it. She could only survive in a hospital with the help of a machine that forced…

Bill Kovach will receive this year’s Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at an award ceremony tonight (March 9) at 8:00 p.m. at the Kennedy School of Government. Kovach,…

A memorial service for Felicia Lamport Kaplan will be held on Monday, March 13, 2000 at 3 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, 1515 Massachusetts Ave.,…

The Third International Harvard Conference on Internet & Society, to be held May 31-June 2, will explore the impact and implications of the Internet in transforming industry, government, and individual…

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The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering a fellowship award for the academic year 2000-01 for doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic…

President Neil L. Rudenstine (left) shakes hands with Alina Das ’01, student director of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter at the University Lutheran Church, on Tuesday while Joanne Engquist, a…