Year: 2001

March 21, 1953 – Responding to the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, educational radio station WGBH-FM broadcasts two and a half hours of taped reflections from 12 Harvard professors…

Back in the mid-20th century, kids came streaming out of school at 3 p.m. into the gloriously unstructured portion of their day, the part between sitting upright at their desks and sitting upright at the dinner table. It was a time for stickball, tag, ringalevio, for riding a bike, strapping on roller skates, or earning…

During some of the nastier months of a New England winter, junior Amy Chang – the director and instructor of Harvards recreational ice skating classes – leads a group metamorphosis in the quiet confines of the Bright Hockey Center. From early February through March, this veteran skater of nearly 10 years eases novice students into…

His warm and enthusiastic teaching style endeared him to generations of undergraduates, and he firmly guided over twenty graduate students as they began their physics careers.

The mayor was vacillating. The police were posturing. The ACLU was pontificating. And hip-hop star Big X, having been stopped by police for a tilted license plate and detained for three hours, said his actual crime was DWB – driving while black. It was a press conference from the front lines of the urban American…

Home style maven Martha Stewart touted the “power of a single idea” at Sanders Theatre last week and told students that anyone can head their own company if they set…

Elaine Kamarck, senior policy adviser to the Gore 2000 campaign, returned to Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG) as faculty-in-residence at the Center for Business and Government (CBG). As a White House insider, Kamarck will share her experience in the classroom and bring that insight to her research at the Center.

While politicians argue, polar bears slowly starve.

Mark J. Roe, a Columbia Law School professor and current visiting professor at Harvard Law School, has been named professor of law at Harvard – a tenured appointment. A 1975 Harvard Law graduate, Roe has written extensively on corporate law and new methods of corporate reorganization and bankruptcy. At Harvard, he has taught corporate finance…

Darell Fields does not see in black and white, but in “blackness.” The term, according to the associate professor of architecture at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), refers not…

Elaine Kamarck, senior policy adviser to the Gore 2000 campaign, returned to Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG) as faculty-in-residence at the Center for Business and Government (CBG). As a White House insider, Kamarck will share her experience in the classroom and bring that insight to her research at the Center.

His first professional job took him into Bostons Combat Zone.

Babies come into the world with musical preferences. They begin to respond to music while still in the womb. At the age of 4 months, dissonant notes at the end of a melody will cause them to squirm and turn away. If they like a tune, they may coo.

Dan Schrag tells a good story.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 17. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

Botterill named Ivy player of the year Harvard University women’s hockey forward Jennifer Botterill ’02, was unanimously named the Ivy League Women’s Hockey Player of the Year. Botterill finished the…

Leverett A. Martel, who worked for 20 years in the purchasing department at the University, died on Friday, March 9, in Rockport, Mass. He was 82. Martel was employed at…

President holds office hours President Neil L. Rudenstine will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on April 4. Provost Harvey V.…

Harvey V. Fineberg has announced his intention to conclude his service as the Universitys provost, effective June 30.

Rather than cut open a persons chest or abdomen, doctors can now insert a slender needle through the skin and destroy a tumor with heat, cold, or alcohol.

Writer, scholar, and critic George Steiner has been named the 2001-02 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. He will deliver the Norton Lectures at the University next fall and plans to examine the act of teaching, from the Platonic Socrates to Wittgenstein and Ionesco. Currently an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College at the…

Hundreds of libraries in communities across Sub-Saharan Africa will receive donated copies of “Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience.” The comprehensive encyclopedia on black history and culture…

Giving kids something constructive to do between the time school lets out and the time their parents come home is the aim of a new $23 million partnership involving Harvard, the city of Boston, and nine other nonprofit and for-profit institutions.

An assistant professor was the victim of an armed robbery on Oxford Street near Garfield Street this past Thursday (March 8) at 10:30 p.m. The suspect, described below, approached the…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 10. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

March 1, 1944 – The Harvard Police begin wearing visored caps and dark blue uniforms like those of regular Cambridge and Boston policemen. Standard apparel had been plain clothes since…