Year: 2001

  • Campus & Community

    Anthony Hopkins hams it up for Hasty

    The stocky, shifty-eyed man wearing a tuxedo and a sly smile claimed it was a case of mistaken identity, but the audience knew better.

    4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Facing the challenges of tomorrow (page 5)

    Facing the challenges of tomorrow Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences prevPage 5 Financial Status The new chart of accounts allows me to report the…

    4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Facing the challenges of tomorrow (page 4)

    Facing the challenges of tomorrow Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences prevPage 4next The Library Two years ago, I invited the Standing Committee of the…

    9 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Gazette: Facing the challenges of tomorrow (page 3)

    Facing the challenges of tomorrow Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences prevPage 3next The Graduate School Admissions. The number of applicants rose again this year,…

    7 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Emily Vermeule, 72, was world-renowned classicist

    Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule, distinguished archaeologist, classicist, and art historian, died last Tuesday, Feb. 6 at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She was 72. Vermeule was professor emerita at Harvard University.

    4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Pregnancy forum delivers the goods

    Almost two years ago, senior Marta Szabo found out she was pregnant just weeks before her spring exams, and although Szabo is now successfully juggling classes and diapers, she said it hasnt been easy. So with the hope of making the experience of unexpected pregnancy easier for future students, Szabo joined a group of six…

    6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Stars come out for KSG auction

    Lunch with Sen. John McCain have a shot at stardom with a nonspeaking, walk-on role in the hit TV show Dharma &amp Greg tour the set of ER or The West Wing get into the action as a ballboy or ballgirl at a Celtics game shadow CNN correspondent William Schneider for a day.

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  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    February 1949 – As a gesture of sympathetic distress over a Jan. 26 fire that destroys 11 of 12 great murals in the Gondo (Golden Hall) of Horyu-ji Monastery at…

    1 minute
  • Campus & Community

    Grants and awards information session

    The Stride Rite Post-Graduate Public Service Grants support involvement in public service projects during the year following graduation. Graduating seniors are eligible to apply and receive grants between $10,000 and $25,000. Funded programs are to be full time and community-focused

    1 minute
  • Campus & Community

    Special notice regarding tickets to June 7 Commencement Exercises

    Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree…

    1 minute
  • Campus & Community

    Scholarships for Study or Research in China

    Scholarships for one academic year of study or research in China are made possible through an agreement between the Ministry of Education of the Peoples Republic of China and Harvard University. For academic year 2001-2002, five full scholarships (covering tuition, housing, health insurance and books) and ten partial scholarships (covering tuition only) will be offered…

    1 minute
  • Campus & Community

    Brain disease slowed:

    Cells from fetuses implanted in the brains of a dozen people with Huntingtons disease improved the ability of nine of them to control their movements and has, perhaps, postponed their deaths.

    6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Students speak out at hate crime forum

    When a gay tutor at Mather House opted to leave Harvard after becoming a target of harassment last year, his friend Serre-Yu Wong 01 was devastated. That was a sad moment for our community because we couldnt come together enough for him, in support of him.

    5 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Charles Rosenberg looks at changing perceptions of illness

    In Charles Rosenberg’s eyes, epidemics tell us a great deal about American society. Rosenberg, considered by many to be the nation’s pre-eminent medical historian, was recently named Professor of the…

    1 minute
  • Health

    Increased consumption of soda promotes childhood obesity

    Soft drinks are currently the leading source of added sugars in the daily diet of young Americans. Now, researchers have conducted the first long-term study to examine soda consumption and…

    1 minute
  • Health

    Increased fruit and vegetable consumption does not reduce risk of breast cancer

    A recent Harvard study examined the association between fruit and vegetable consumption and breast cancer. The researchers drew participants from eight separate studies that spanned four countries and involved more…

    1 minute
  • Health

    Fat cells tied to whole-body insulin resistance

    Research done by Barbara Kahn, professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and colleagues now shows that glucose uptake by fatty tissue is important for maintaining the body’s…

    1 minute
  • Health

    Studies show new players and patterns in vertebrate heart development

    Cell biologists have identified proteins capable of promoting heart development — at least in frogs and birds. They report that the proteins Dkk1 and Crescent, which inhibit regulatory proteins of…

    1 minute
  • Health

    Surprise route found for spread of breast cancer

    Cancer cells are thought to enter the lymph nodes through the lymphatic system — a multipurpose welter of vessels — but how the cells actually make their way out of…

    1 minute
  • Health

    Direct damage from radiation may be passed to neighboring cells

    Cells communicate, organize, share resources, and form direct connections with one another. They also are affected by damage to their neighbors. Research led by John Little of the Harvard School…

    1 minute
  • Health

    Cloak partly lifted on tiny Chlamydia

    The Boston Public Health Commission released 1999 statistics showing 2 percent of the city’s 15- to 19-year-olds have chlamydia. Boston’s minority girls were reported to have infection rates of almost…

    1 minute
  • Campus & Community

    Drew Barrymore at the Hasty Pudding

    Drew Barrymore accepts 2001 Woman of the Year award at the Hasty Pudding Theatre.

    2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Politics and paint make a great mix

    Brett Cook-Dizneys artwork stinks. The spray-paint fumes wafting through Gutman Library this week are proof of that, but whats really happening inside the glassed-in, makeshift studio demands appreciation far beyond a single sense – or category.

    4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Portal to the past

    Lifting the heavy wooden trap door and peering down into the dark, dusty secret room beneath the floorboards at the top of the stairs, Larry Hall appears entranced. Its as if he can feel the ghosts of his hidden past, shrouded beneath a veil of silence for generations and now exposed for all the world…

    6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    No. 5 ranked Crimson women crush B.C. in Beanpot

    Senior Tammy Shewchuk and sophmore Kalen Ingram each registered a hat trick as the Harvard womens hockey team defeated Boston College 8-1 in the first round of the 23rd annual Womens Beanpot Tournament held at Boston College this past Tuesday night.

    2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Beanpot: Men bow to B.C.:

    In their second encounter this season, the Harvard mens hockey team (10-10-1, 9-5-1 ECAC) was unable to avenge an early-season overtime loss against the Boston College Eagles (21-6-1, 13-3-1 Hockey East) – a game the Crimson let slip away – falling 4-1 this past Monday night in the first round of the 49th annual Beanpot…

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  • Campus & Community

    Standing Committees for 2000-01 – Faculty of Arts and Sciences

    Upon the recommendation of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the President approved and announced the following Standing Committees at the F.A.S. Faculty Meeting of Oct. 17, 2000. Standing Committees of the Faculty are constituted to perform a continuing function. Each committee has been established by a vote of the Faculty, and…

    19 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    NewsMakers

    Holdren wins 2000 Heinz Award for Public Policy John Holdren, professor of environmental science and public policy in the department of earth and planetary sciences, and the Teresa and John…

    2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Rwandan president speaks at KSG

    Rwandan President Paul Kagame says he wants an end to the conflict in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo, but not at any price.

    4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Harvard takes new STEP forward with summer teens

    With cold winter winds still blowing up and down the Charles River, it may seem far too early to begin thinking about summer. Not for Amy Meyer, Community Outreach manager in the Office of Human Resources and program manager for Harvards new Summer Teen Employment Program (STEP).

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