Year: 2001

Having left their farms and businesses and state legislatures to head to Washington, 18 newly elected members of Congress took a detour to the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) last month for a crash course in federal governance just weeks before being sworn into office.

James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, and Maxwell L. Anderson, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, announced their joint appointment of Carol Mancusi-Ungaro as director of the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art at Harvard University and director of Conservation of the…

Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren, the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, has been named the second vice president of the American Law Institute (ALI), a 77-year-old scholarly institution dedicated to clarifying and adapting the law to better suit societys needs.

A memorial service is planned for a Harvard undergraduate student who died in December. Twenty-year-old Shira Palmer-Sherman 02 suffered irreversible brain damage after being struck by an automobile while crossing a street in Harvard Square.

Five Harvard seniors are among the latest group of American college students named Marshall Scholars by the British government in thanks for American help rebuilding their country after World War II.

George Huntston Williams A memorial service was held for George Huntston Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus, on Jan. 12 at the Memorial Church. Christopher McEvoy A memorial service was…

As she carefully maneuvered her way around stacks of cardboard boxes and piles of books in her temporary office at Fay Hall, Drew Gilpin Faust, the founding Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study who is assuming her full-time duties this month, didnt appear in the least bit flustered. It seems only natural for…

What was life like at Harvard 100 years ago? How did people spend their days? What did they eat? What did they wear? What did students think of their professors? What did professors think of their students? How did people spend their leisure time?

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Office of the Provost of Harvard University have jointly announced the debut of Lens: Research on Women and Public Policy at Harvard University. Lens is a semiannual newsletter that presents a review of ongoing scholarship on women and public policy across the University. In its pages and…

At 92, Tommy Rawson still drives to the gym from his home in Arlington five days a week, hits the heavy and speed bags a bit, and then proceeds to coach the Harvard Boxing Club, as he has done for the past 60 years. If necessary, he also still shovels the snow from his driveway.…

Ben Siracusa expects his garbage to get picked up. He expects the mail to be delivered and the lights to go on when he flips a switch. Like many Americans he expects his basic needs to be met – no muss, no fuss.

As President Clinton prepares to leave office, a new poll by Harvard University and University of Chicago researchers has found deep divisions in the ways African Americans and white Americans view his legacy.

Space is at a premium in research libraries as collections – and the technology and staff needed to support them – grow along with user demand for more room in which to study. Harvard College Library (HCL) is no exception and space issues in its 85-year-old Widener Library were under study by University planners when…

Smaller high schools, smaller class sizes, and programs targeting the difficult transition to ninth grade can help solve Americas high school dropout problem, according to experts who gathered at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Saturday.

Kwang-chih Chang, the John E. Hudson Research Professor of Archaeology, died Jan. 3, 2001, in Boston from complications from Parkinsons disease. He was 69.

The Harvard mens and womens track teams defeated Northeastern at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center on Saturday, Jan. 6. The womens squad, led by Captain Brenda Taylor with wins in the 60- and 200-meter hurdles, beat the Huskies 95-30.

The No. 6 womens hockey team (11-6-0, 5-1 Ivy) kicked off the new millennium – and the remaining half of the season – with a trio of consecutive victories. After dropping three straight, a spell that included two losses at Minnesota-Duluth and a home loss at the hands of the St. Lawrence Saints, the Crimson…

The Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (HILR) has introduced two online courses as part of its spring 2001 curriculum. The announcement supports HILRs commitment to remain on the cutting edge in educational offerings for its members. With the increased popularity and accessibility of the Internet, distance learning has become a common feature of continuing…

William Lambert Moran, esteemed Assyriologist and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities Emeritus, died on Dec. 19, 2000. He was 79.

Six finalists have been named for the Goldsmith Prize for investigative reporting. The winner will be announced at the Goldsmith Prize Awards Ceremony on March 15 at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The annual award of $25,000 recognizes superb investigative reporting that, according to the Prizes charter, discloses excessive secrecy, impropriety, mismanagement or…

Willard Van Orman Quine, one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, died on Christmas Day at the age of 92.

Thomas Kennedy, long a renowned professor and authority on labor relations at Harvard Business School (HBS) as well as a highly respected arbitrator in disputes between unions and management, died on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2000, at a retirement community in Kennett Square, Pa. He was 88 years old.

Harvard students and officials joined representatives of the University Lutheran Church, the city of Cambridge, and a community development organization at a ceremony in the church basement on Wednesday, Jan. 10, to mark the end of renovations to the student-run homeless shelter there.

Alexandra Adler, authority on schizophrenia, pioneer in the study of post-traumatic stress disorder, and one of the first women neurologists at Harvard, died in New York City on Jan. 4. She was 99.

On Jan. 16, University Hall re-opened for business after extensive renovations that began last June. Its occupants, returning from temporary offices at 1033 Massachusetts Ave. and the Engineering Science Lab on Oxford Street, include Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Jeremy R. Knowles, College Dean Harry Lewis, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts…

While a record 6,095 students applied for admission to the Class of 2005 under the Colleges Early Action program this year, applications rose only 1.2 percent compared with last years increase of more than 30 percent. The number of students admitted declined for the second year in a row to 1,105, down from 1,135 last…

When curator Joe Hickey found the original 1909 architectural plans for the Harvard Lampoon building where he works he rolled up his sleeves and got down to business.

Classical concert on Jan 28 is free for students

Bebchuk named AAAS Fellow

From an early age, Wai-yee Li has been a frequent visitor to the world of the imagination, at times preferring it to the world of the here and now.