Year: 2002
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Campus & Community
Rosenthal is Morgan Chase Award finalist
Assistant clinical professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School Perry Rosenthal has been selected as a finalist for the JP Morgan Chase Health Award at the Tech Museum of Innovation Awards, presented by Applied Materials, Inc. The founder of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmarys Contact Lens Service, Rosenthal was elected for his involvement in…
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Campus & Community
Twin signals may hold key to breast cancer, guide intervention:
Researchers from Harvard Medical School (HMS) have discovered that dual genetic signals are required to disrupt the framework of normal breast tissue during early tumor development. While most genes associated with breast cancer can only deliver one of those signals, one common breast cancer gene, HER2 (also called ErbB2), is able to provide both culprit…
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Campus & Community
Free speech flourishes
Among recent gatherings on campus was a rally against war on Iraq (above) on Monday (Oct. 7), where Derrick N. Ashong, a Ph.D. candidate in Afro-American Studies, spoke. At the Law School – where, because of a threat to federal funding, military recruiters have recently been allowed access to the School – an Oct. 7…
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Campus & Community
Green houses (and dorms):
For the first time, paid undergraduates will fan out into Harvards dorms and houses this year, teaching and preaching and shepherding fellow students into greater environmental awareness and action.
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Campus & Community
Ig Nobels go to the dogs, honoring canine translators, cat-washing machines:
Ostrich lust, belly button lint, and creative corporate accounting took honors at the Twelfth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony in Sanders Theatre on Oct. 3, an event that celebrates scientific achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced.
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Campus & Community
‘Faith and Doubt’ at Memorial Church:
Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney will present portions of her PBS Frontline documentary Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero, at the Memorial Church on Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m. The New York Times calls the film an extraordinary work, adding that it is an elegantly made, unsentimental look at the widely varied ways in which…
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Campus & Community
When problem-solving is a problem:
Observing hospital nurses for 239 hours, Anita Tucker watched them solve problems all day, every day.
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Campus & Community
In brief
Widener Library main entrance to close for six months Starting Oct. 19, the main entrance of Widener Library will be closed for six months in order to renovate the first…
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Campus & Community
KSG announces new program:
Joseph S. Nye Jr., dean of the Kennedy School of Government, has announced the creation of a program to educate new leaders for the free and prosperous development of Armenia and the good of her citizens and countrymen around the world. The Manoukian Public Service Program for Armenia is supported by a gift from the…
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Campus & Community
SPH makes changes to its exam calendar
Responding to student requests that fall term exams be held before the winter break, the School of Public Health (SPH) has adopted a new fall schedule this year that not only pushes the exams up, but provides for new learning options during a monthlong January session.
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Campus & Community
The importance of the quotidian:
As a social historian, Emmanuel Akyeampong focuses on those aspects of life that often escape the attention of scholars who chronicle the large-scale events that shape a nations political destiny.
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Campus & Community
Associate vice president named:
Harvard Universitys Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) William C. Kirby and Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Thomas M. Reardon announced that Beth Balmuth Raffeld has been named associate vice president and dean for development for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Campus & Community
Steadfast Lehigh tops Crimson at own game
In a battle of nationally ranked teams, Harvard football saw its 11-game win streak snapped by the Mountain Hawks of Lehigh University, 36-35, this past Saturday (Oct. 5) in Bethlehem, Pa. With the win, the hosts, who rallied for 15 fourth-quarter points, extended their home victory streak at 26 games.
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Campus & Community
Homestick blues:
The consistently successful Harvard field hockey team (6-2, 3-0 Ivy) showed a penchant for being consistent in the losing department as well, dropping its second 3-2 decision at Jordan Field on Oct. 5, this time to third-ranked Wake Forest. The seasons second loss snapped a four-game win streak for the Crimson, who managed three shutouts…
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Campus & Community
Shanel Nand:
People have come up to Shanel Nand with tears in their eyes to tell her how moved they were by her singing.
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Campus & Community
Nobelist Amartya Sen to return:
Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen will return to Harvard in January 2004 as Lamont University Professor.
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Meselson wins ASCB’s Public Service Award The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) will present Matthew Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, with its Public Service Award…
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Campus & Community
President and Provost office hours
President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 5. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
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Campus & Community
Former professor, two Harvard Ph.D.’s win Nobels
Among this years Nobel Prize winners are two Harvard Ph.D.s and a former professor in the Astronomy Department. Riccardo Giacconi is one the winners of the Nobel Prize for physics. In addition to having held a professorship in astronomy at Harvard, Giacconi was associate director for High Energy Astrophysics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics…
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
Oct. 12, 1942 – Lt. Gen. Hsiung Shih-sei, of the Chinese Military Mission to the United States, visits Harvard with other Chinese officers and diplomats. Although the University is officially…
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council
At its fourth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council met with Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise the Dean of the College Harry Lewis (DEAS) and the Associate Dean of the College for Human Resources and the House System Thomas A. Dingman to discuss the experience of Harvard athletes and policy questions relating to…
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Campus & Community
Genes found that regulate brain size:
Two genes that determine brain size have been discovered. One can increase the thinking parts of mice brains, possibly making the rodents smarter. The other is present in people with microcephaly, a genetic disease characterized by a smaller-than-normal brain and head. Such people are mildly retarded.
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Campus & Community
Reischauer named to Harvard Corporation:
Robert D. Reischauer 63 has become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced Sunday (Oct. 6).
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Science & Tech
Researcher wins Nobel Prize for work in X-ray astronomy
Riccardo Giacconi worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 1973 to 1981. During that period, he led the development of the Einstein X-ray Observatory, which was launched in 1978.…
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Science & Tech
When problem-solving is a problem
If an ill-timed delivery left them short of linens, nurses observed by Harvard Business School doctoral student Anita Tucker found a way to borrow from another unit. Such initiative taking…
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Health
Genes found that regulate brain size
A gene that builds bigger brains, called beta-catenin, was discovered in the laboratory of Christopher A. Walsh, Bullard Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Researchers there engineered increased activity…
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Science & Tech
Website saves wet books
Wondering what to do if you discover a bunch of old books are floating in backed-up sewer water or if a parchment manuscript gets soaked by an automatic sprinkler? The…