Year: 2001

  • Campus & Community

    Six named Harvard College Professors

    Six professors have been named this year’s Harvard College Professors in recognition of their outstanding performance as undergraduate teachers and their exceptional work in graduate education and research. This year’s…

    3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Students tackle parking problems

    Tough time parking in Harvard Square? Let the robot do it. That was the recommendation of a group of Harvard engineering students after a semester-long look at the difficulty of…

    6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    NewsMakers

    Gellert elected captain, Clemente selected MVP Junior Andrew Gellert, a two-year starter at guard, has been elected captain of the 2001-02 Harvard men’s basketball team. Head coach Frank Sullivan made…

    2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Cycling club climbs to Colorado finals

    The air may be thin in Colorado, but it will be fresh and sweet this weekend to members of the Harvard Cycling Team, which will be making its first-ever trip to the National Collegiate Road Cycling Championships in Colorado Springs.

    4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    The Big Picture: Barbara Baig

    Her hands touch the keys and her voice lifts, at first tentative and quavering, then firm and full. Her diction is clean and precise, nothing garbled or distorted. The words are the thing here – words that tell a story.

    2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Police Reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, May 12. The official log is located at HUPD Headquarters, 29…

    1 minute
  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    May 23, 1910 – The Harvard Corporation formally adopts crimson as Harvard’s official color, based on the tint of several silk scarves used by Harvard rowers in the 1858 Boston…

    1 minute
  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council notice for May 16

    At its 15th and final meeting of the year, the Council discussed proposed changes in the General Regulations and Standards of Conduct section of the undergraduate “Handbook for Students” with…

    1 minute
  • Campus & Community

    Harvard purchases Arsenal on the Charles property in Watertown

    Harvard has acquired The Arsenal on the Charles property from Charles River Business Center Associates LLC, which conveyed the property to the University on May 15, for approximately $162,641,000. The property is located between North Beacon Street and Arsenal Street in Watertown. As a part of the sale, more than $2,451,000 was paid directly to…

    2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Chandra reveals nest of tight binaries in dense cluster

    Observations from a scientific team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have revealed that an incredibly dense star cluster known as 47 Tucanae includes many binary stars. Most of the…

    1 minute
  • Science & Tech

    Doctoral student developing Internet search tool

    Harvard Graduate School of Education doctoral student Kathleen Guinee is developing a computer-based tool to make searching the Internet easier for all students. Her research so far has focused on…

    1 minute
  • Science & Tech

    What determines who goes to college and who does not?

    More than ever, policymakers are adopting merit-based, rather than need-based, financial aid programs, a trend that disquiets Harvard Graduate School of Education Assistant Professor Bridget Terry Long. In Georgia, for…

    1 minute
  • Science & Tech

    Bringing back the ancient muses

    The epic verse of Homer, the love poems of Sappho, the tragedies of Sophocles, and the comedies of Aristophanes – all were accompanied by music. Yet that music – its…

    1 minute
  • Science & Tech

    Students tackle Harvard Square parking problems

    A group of students who studied parking problems in Harvard Square issued wide-ranging recommendations, including installing wireless access-control gates at the more than 50 lots across the University, increasing parking…

    1 minute
  • Science & Tech

    Young star may be belching spheres of gas, astronomers say

    Observations by astronomers of a young star in the constellation Cepheus, more than 2000 lights-years away, suggest that it is repeatedly belching spheres of gas. Current theories about how young…

    1 minute
  • Health

    New drug dissolves stomach tumors

    Since July 2000, Harvard and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher George Demetri and his colleagues have treated 148 patients with a rare, lethal stomach cancer known as GIST (Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor).…

    1 minute
  • Campus & Community

    Landscapers turn ‘tent city’ back into Yard

    Less than 24 hours after student protesters vacated Massachusetts Hall, Landscape Services supervisor Paul Smith and his team were spraying a thick carpet of grass seed and mulch where the protesters tent city had been.

    1 minute
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    Murray Turnbull, chess master

    Play the Chessmaster, $2 the sign reads. The chess master, as he calls himself, has been a fixture in front of Holyoke Center in Harvard Square ever since 1982, a year before Au Bon Pain arrived. For $2 he takes on all comers, giving them a good advantage in his game of street chess: six…

    2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Newsmakers

    IEEE to honor Frosch Senior Research Associate Robert A. Frosch will be awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) Founders Medal on June 23. The medal recognizes…

    1 minute
  • Campus & Community

    Weissman names 24 internship recipients

    Since 1994, the Weissman International Internship Program has provided Harvard sophomores and juniors the opportunity to participate on an international internship in a field of work related to their academic…

    1 minute
  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    May 1, 1775 – By order of the Committee of Safety, the College closes early. The Provincial Congress soon commandeers Harvard’s buildings and orders the library and scientific instruments to…

    1 minute
  • Campus & Community

    New drug Gleevec dissolves stomach tumors

    Gleevec, first known as STI571, was not developed for GIST, but to treat an often-fatal type of leukemia known as chronic myelogenous leukemia or CML. In one study 53 out of 54 patients in the early stage of CML saw their cancer go into remission. Cancerous cells in seven of the patients disappeared completely. The…

    7 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    The art of surprise

    It took a little artifice, but it came off. In honor of President Neil L. Rudenstine and his wife, Angelica Zander Rudenstine, an art historian and curator, the Harvard University Art Museums made a surprise announcement on May 4: The museums have acquired 29 drawings and one painting by leading contemporary American artists to celebrate…

    2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Swinging into Spring

    This years Harvard Arts Medal honoree, the multi-talented Peter Sellars 80 – director of theater, opera, and film – was a snug fit for the ninth annual Arts First festival. Much like Sellars, who received the award from President Neil L. Rudenstine, the four-day festival runs the gamut of artistic expression and style.

    1 minute
  • Campus & Community

    HBS contest features social enterprise

    The bubble may have burst on dot-coms, but entrepreneurship is alive and flourishing at Harvard Business School (HBS). A total of eight teams of students – half of them representing social enterprise ventures – competed in the final round of the fifth annual HBS Business Plan Contest on Monday, April 30.

    2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Artists needed for next year’s directories

    The Harvard Directory Project seeks artwork of all types for next years student and faculty/staff telephone directories. Current students, faculty, and staff are invited to submit works that represent the Harvard experience.

    1 minute
  • Campus & Community

    Caffeine reduces risk of Parkinson’s

    In the first comprehensive examination of caffeine consumption from a variety of sources and the risk of developing Parkinsons disease, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) have determined that moderate consumption of caffeine reduces the risk of Parkinsons disease in men and women. The findings are published on the Web site for…

    2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Shaking up our love of salt

    Put down your saltshakers, America!

    5 minutes
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    Radcliffe panel addresses gender and technology issues

    Radcliffe panel addresses gender and technology issues

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