Year: 2002

Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union, will speak on “Looking Back on Perestroika” at Harvard University at 4pm on Monday, November 11.

The head of the Ford Foundations South Asia operation, Gowher Rizvi, has been selected as director of the new Institute for Government Innovation at the Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced earlier this week. Rizvi is scheduled to begin his new duties this month.

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH), Trinity College, and the Dublin Institute of Technology in Dublin, Ireland, examined the effect of a 1990 ban on coal sales and coal burning in Dublin on death rates in the city for six years before and after the ban was implemented. The study found that…

In a classroom in Pound Hall at the Harvard Law School (HLS), HLS student Yael Bar-Ilan is making her case. The good faith doctrine, a fundamental maxim of American contract law, is a dynamic tool with no autonomous content, she says.

Those looking for the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) entered a nondescript stairwell and had to climb three flights to find what they were looking for.

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass, leading philanthropists of American secondary and higher education, recently gave Harvard $7 million to endow two professorships in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Government scholar Michael J. Sandel will serve as the first Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor. The second professorship will be named in…

Justin Pasquariello 01, who was raised in foster care, speaks at the groundbreaking for Bostons Hope. A foster care and adoption program, Bostons Hope will not only provide new, affordable housing in Dorchester, it will also provide a program aimed at building permanent support for kids whove had multiple foster care placements. Listening are (from…

One of the biggest mysteries of biology is how humans and other animals get their shapes. For example, why do most people have their heart on the left side? A few humans have it on the right side, and they apparently suffer no ill effects. In fact, some people have all their visceral organs reversed.…

Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union, will speak on ‘Looking Back on Perestroika’ at Harvard University at 4pm on Monday, November 11.

What comes to mind when you think of Halloween? Pumpkins? Witches? Black cats? Five-year-olds in Spiderman masks proffering open shopping bags while their mothers lurk anxiously in the shadows?

Back in the technological dark ages, before travelers could download turn-by-turn directions prior to setting out for an unfamiliar address or switch on their Global Positioning Systems to help them find their way in a foreign city, motorists relied on maps, those fluttering sheets of paper that unfolded to the size of a bedsheet, contained…

Thirty-two foreign scholars and professionals have been named Fulbright Scholar Program grant recipients for the 2002-03 academic year. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, participating governments, and host institutions in the United States and abroad, these grants allow scholars from across the globe to lecture or conduct research at the University. In addition, five…

In a study assessing the impact of specific type and intensity of exercise and the risk of coronary heart disease among men, researchers from the School of Public Health (SPH) have found that men who train with weights, run, jog, row, or walk briskly, show the most significantly reduced risk of coronary heart disease (CHD)…

Sophomore Dennis Chira (left) speaks with Mark Gaipa, preceptor and an editor of Exposé Magazine, which features the best work of students who participated in the Expository Writing Program. The two are at the annual celebratory lunch at the Harvard Faculty Club. Chiras essay, Breaking with Our British Brethren: The Declaration of Independence Revisited, was…

In an effort to preserve a number of significant buildings in its plan to develop a portion of its land, McLean Hospital in Belmont is offering five 19th and 20th century cottages to parties who will pay the expenses to relocate them off its grounds.

Perhaps youve run out of file space. Maybe you cant find that report you know you wrote last year. Or youve completed a grant project and youre not sure which files to keep and which ones to toss. Each of these three problems – and many others – can be solved by records management. Now,…

Nothing runs like a pig. This indisputable truth is the motto for the Ultimate Frisbee club Junk of Pork, the host of the recent (Oct. 13-14) Frisbee tournament Red Tide Ultimate Clambake, 2002.

While working on his masters thesis in history at the Sorbonne in Paris, Gaston Kaboré, a filmmaker from Burkina Faso in West Africa, made a decision that would change his life.

Harvard Law School Dean Robert Clark has announced the establishment of the Hale and Dorr Professorship of Intellectual Property Law. A reception in honor of this professorship was held yesterday (Oct. 23) at the Law School.

To U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Paul ONeill, theres no better way to demonstrate corporate values and leadership than by keeping your employees safe.

One day after President Bush signed a measure authorizing him to use military force against Iraq, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol and former CIA director John Deutch publicly debated the question: Should the United States attack Iraq now?

When a faculty committee at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) convened last year to choose four books that everyone in the Ed School community would read and discuss, there was one irrefutable rule: no books by current or recent faculty members could make the list.

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) is the hub of the Kennedy School of Governments (KSGs) research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, science and technology policy, and conflict studies.

Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) professors stood conventional dietary wisdom on its head Friday (Oct. 18) by singling out for praise that burger-slapping, french-fry-pushing, soda-sloshing American icon, McDonalds.

Senior forward Joey Yennes goal and assist erased a 2-0 deficit against Yale this past Saturday (Oct. 19) at Ohiri Field, but not before Yales Kate Ling sealed the game with just under two and a half minutes remaining in the match to give the Bulldogs a 3-2 win. The loss drops Harvard to 6-5-1,…

This year marked the 38th Head of the Charles Regatta, an event that draws school crews and rowing clubs from around the world. Some 6,000 rowers converged on the noble river on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 19 and 20. From the banks of the Charles and the bridges (seven in all) above it, a crowd…