Year: 2001

  • Campus & Community

    Students generally warm to Man/Woman of the Year selection

    The morning the selections were announced, the Gazette surveyed a dozen students at random to get their thoughts on the Hasty Pudding Man and Woman of the Year. Here is a sampling of their comments.

    2–3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Religion and the arts explored at Divinity School conference

    Starting this month, the Harvard Divinity School&rsquos Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) will be hosting the directors of some of the world&rsquos leading museums at regular intervals.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Hasty Pudding picks Hopkins, Barrymore

    One is certainly among the most accomplished and well-respected actors of his generation, while the other is a former childhood star who burst upon the American scene when she was just a first-grader. Anthony Hopkins and Drew Barrymore this week have been named the 2001 Man and Woman of the Year by Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

    2–3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Shorenstein Center announces spring fellows

    The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, a research center based at the Kennedy School of Government, will introduce its 2001 spring fellows and visiting faculty on Monday, Feb. 5, at 4:30 p.m. in the Taubman Building, Kalb Seminar Room T-275, at the Kennedy School. The event is open to the…

    6–9 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Lamar Alexander will teach ‘character’ at Kennedy School

    Former U.S. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander has been named the Roy M. and Barbara Goodman Family Visiting Professor of Practice in Public Service at the Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Multimedia Fair sends out clear message

    Harvard computer experts got a glimpse of an educational future filled with virtual experiences and real-time information-gathering last week, along with a warning that education, not technology, should drive the coming changes.

    4–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Fineberg sees tradition amid change

    With a nod to failed predictions of the past, Provost Harvey V. Fineberg Tuesday painted a picture of Harvard in the 21st century as a place in even greater demand, with more adult students, and with learning occurring in different times and places.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    The Big Picture

    Logan McCarty: Opera singer, chemist

    2–3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Glenn pushes math, science education

    Exhibiting striking humility for a man often referred to as a great American hero, former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn modestly poked fun at himself and his image during an appearance at the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) on Tuesday night.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Brinkmann receives 2001 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize

    Harvard musicologist Reinhold Brinkmann has received the 2001 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, Germanys most prestigious award in music. The Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts will present the award to Brinkmann at a ceremony in Munich on May 31.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Mathematics is a game of life

    Jun Liu remembers being interested in mathematics as early as age 12. It was a hard interest to pursue in the waning years of the Cultural Revolution in China. Computers were not available to him. He didnt own a calculator. Mathematics books were difficult to find.

    5–7 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Tennis Camps offer discounts to Harvard affiliates

    The Tennis Camps at Harvard (TCH), offering adult and junior sessions, will be opening its 11th season on June 11 at the Robert M. Beren Tennis Center at Soldiers Field.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Police Report

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Jan. 27. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    This Month in Harvard History

    Feb. 24, 1789 — From the “Journal of Disorders” of Eliphalet Pearson, the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages: “Mr. James [. . .] found Mackey was drunk…

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Looking for causes of teen violence

    In response to a recent rise in teenage violence in and around Boston, the Harvard Injury Control Research Center at the School of Public Health (SPH) is helping launch a major new project aimed at pinpointing causes and potential solutions for this disturbing growing threat. The Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center (HYVPC) is funded through…

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Future phones face campus test today

    The telephones of tomorrow are sitting on 100 desks across the University today in a pilot program that could give Harvard greater flexibility in deciding where and when to install a phone and simultaneously put the University at the leading edge of an eventual nationwide switch in telephone technology.

    5–7 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    The U.S. and faith-based social initiatives

    U.S. President George W. Bush has signaled that he is serious about offering federal support to faith-based social service initiatives. What does that mean for the separation of church and…

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Internet will enhance, not replace, current educational models

    In January 2001, Harvard information technology experts outlined a future in which the Internet, computers, and other technologies will enhance rather than replace the current educational experience. What that means…

    1–2 minutes
  • Health

    Using statistics to understand genes

    Professor Jun Liu studies repetitive patterns in the DNA that lies between genes. This material contains instructions for regulating the expression of genes, and it is involved in whether the…

    1–2 minutes
  • Health

    No link between hepatitis B vaccine and risk of multiple sclerosis

    The French government in 1998 decided to temporarily suspend hepatitis B vaccine programs in schools after several cases of multiple sclerosis were reported a few weeks after the vaccine had…

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Dark night sky tells us about structure and formation of solar system

    The darkness of the night sky is one of astronomy’s great puzzles. An infinite universe uniformly filled with stars and galaxies should produce an infinitely bright night sky, Johannes Kepler…

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Drivers place children in rear seat because of new law

    A Rhode Island law that requires that children sit in the back and wear proper restraints imposes fines of $30 for violation of the rear seating requirement and $150 for…

    1–2 minutes
  • Health

    Fish may reduce risk of stroke in women

    “Our research suggests that women can reduce their risk of thrombotic stroke by up to 48 percent by eating fish two to four times per week,” said Kathryn M. Rexrode,…

    1–2 minutes
  • Health

    Protein may play double role in issuing genetic gag order

    So cells can differentiate and maintain their specialized identities, large sections of unneeded genes must be turned off. During cell division, the stability of every chromosome depends upon sections of…

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Snow ball

    Leverett House residents take to the snow for a game of football that scores all the way around

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    A picture’s worth 1,000 prejudices

    It is a standard albumen print, labeled Palmyre, Sculpture dun chapiteau, Syrie, and signed in the lower right by the Bonfils studio. The caption refers to the capital of a fallen column that dominates the foreground, and locates it at a tourist site in Palmyra, Syria. Except for a child apparently sleeping on the capital,…

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Faculty of Arts and Sciences – Memorial Minute:

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 14, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

    4–7 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Faculty of Arts and Sciences – Memorial Minute

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 17, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Civil War soldiers fought with pen as well as sword

    One of the questions Civil War historians have argued over is the extent to which ordinary enlisted men cared about the issues behind the conflict.

    5–7 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Teaching medicine Western-style

    When School of Public Health (SPH) doctoral student Mark Hickman goes to medical school in September, he will not be commuting. He is flying off to the green farming terraces of the village of Dhulakiel in Nepal where, on a swath of land jutting from the side of a Himalayan mountain, engineers are laboring in…

    4–6 minutes