Year: 2002
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Campus & Community
New chemistry medal is established:
Theres no praise sweeter than that from ones colleagues, says Frank Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemsitry Emeritus. After a lifetime of research, Westheimer, 90, has gotten this kind of sweet thrill to add to his many other laurels.
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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
Memorial services
Robert Dorfman A memorial service for Robert Dorfman, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy Emeritus, will be held at the Memorial Church on Oct. 9 at 2 p.m. The…
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Campus & Community
Berman named acting VP for finance
Senior adviser to the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Ann Berman has agreed to serve as acting vice president for finance while the search for a permanent successor to Elizabeth Beppie Huidekoper proceeds. Berman will assume her new role on Oct. 10.
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Campus & Community
Two are named University Professors:
An economist who has conducted groundbreaking research on information technology and economic growth, energy and the environment, and applied econometrics, and a music scholar whose studies of Bach and Mozart have incorporated research in architecture, theology, medicine, and economics have both been named University Professors.
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Science & Tech
From cradle to grave
Astronomers have been using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio telescopes to observe two opposing jets of high-energy particles emitted following an outburst, first detected in 1998 by NASA’s Rossi…
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Science & Tech
Daddy longlegs have a global reach
Huge numbers of arachnid and insect species remain unknown. Arachnologists like Gonzalo Giribet, toiling in relative obscurity, routinely identify new species – and their work is far from over. Giribet,…
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Campus & Community
Earth’s new center
The outer core is liquid, the inner core is solid. That’s the way Earth has been depicted in textbooks for the past 66 years. But the work of Adam Dziewonski,…
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Health
Harvard researchers complete genomic sequence of deadly malaria parasite
Malaria is the world’s most serious parasitic tropical disease and kills more people than any communicable disease except for tuberculosis. There is more human malaria in Africa today than at…
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Science & Tech
Report documents health effect of biodiversity
A new report catalogues the connections between biodiversity and human health. The interim executive summary was presented at the United Nations in late October 2002, following the U.N. World Summit…
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Health
Mammalian teeth regrown in lab
A study involved seeding cells from the immature teeth of six-month old pigs onto biodegradable polymer scaffolds. The researchers then placed these structures into rat hosts. Within 30 weeks, small,…
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Campus & Community
New region discovered at Earth’s center
An odd, previously unknown sphere, some 360 miles in diameter, has been found at the bottom of the Earth. It was detected by a Harvard professor and a graduate student who patiently examined records of hundreds of thousands of earthquake waves that passed through the center of the planet in the past 30 years.
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Campus & Community
Walter H. Annenberg, Harvard benefactor, dies at 94
Walter H. Annenberg, businessman, statesman, philanthropist, and Harvard benefactor whose donations helped finance undergraduate scholarships and the renovation of Annenberg Hall, died Tuesday (Oct. 1) at his home near Philadelphia from complications due to pneumonia. He was 94.
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Campus & Community
Libraries open with a new, improved HOLLIS system
As the 2002-03 academic year begins, returning students and faculty are finding that a new, Web-based version of the HOLLIS catalog is now in use. Users can connect to the new HOLLIS through the Harvard Libraries site at http://lib.harvard.edu.
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Campus & Community
Heavyweights battle over the Pledge of Allegiance
When the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declared the phrase under God in the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional last June because it violated the separation of church and state, the ruling touched off angry protests across the nation, including a spontaneous pledge-in by members of Congress on the steps of the Capitol building.
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Campus & Community
Former first lady promotes public service
With her characteristic candor and wit, the popular former first lady Barbara Bush provided glimpses of her famous family and offered up a few of Lifes Lessons to an admiring crowd at the ARCO Forum Thursday (Sept. 19) night.
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Campus & Community
Documentary examines ‘blaxploitation’ films
An old joke asks the question, “What do you call a 200-pound black man with a gun?” The answer, of course, is “Sir,” the subtext being that it is only…
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Campus & Community
Perfection: Popcorn, pop, fresh air, and Ferris
More than 3,000 members, family, and friends of the Harvard community gathered in a festive mood in Tercentenary Theatre on Sunday evening (Sept. 22) for President Lawrence H. Summers Its Movie Time at Harvard, a free screening of the high school-rebel classic comedy Ferris Buellers Day Off.
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Campus & Community
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations names 16 fellows for academic year
Harvards Program on U.S.-Japan Relations was founded in 1980 on the belief that the United States and Japan have become so interdependent that the problems they face urgently require their cooperation. The program enables outstanding scholars and practitioners to come together to conduct independent research and participate in an ongoing dialogue with other members of…
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Campus & Community
Center for Ethics selects its 2002-03 Safra Fellows
The University Center for Ethics and the Professions has selected five Harvard graduate students to be named Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellows in Ethics. Under the direction of Arthur Applbaum, professor of ethics and public policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), the new fellows will devote their time to an approved course of…
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Campus & Community
CSWR hosts 27 fellows at Divinity School
The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at the Divinity School will host 27 fellows during the 2002-03 academic year. Established in 1958, CSWR fosters excellence in the study of world religions on the broadest scale and from many perspectives. International in composition and subject matter, CSWR facilitates the exchange of ideas growing…
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Campus & Community
Serbian prime minister speaks:
Writers as far back as Sophocles have referred to the nation as a ship of state. In his talk at the Kennedy Schools ARCO Forum Friday (Sept. 20), Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic gave that metaphor a new twist. He compared his country to a bicycle.
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Campus & Community
Medical School recognized for excellence in minority health
Harvard Medical Schools Minority Faculty Development Program (MFDP), established in 1990 to increase minority faculty development, recruitment, and retention – as well as to expand the local pool of minority students seeking careers in science and medicine from grade school to graduate school – has received the prestigious Center of Excellence in Minority Health designation…
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Campus & Community
Sackler Saturdays to return for another season
This fall the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) will return with a second year of the Sackler Saturdays program for families and children. Families with children ages 6 to 11 are again invited to explore artworks from ancient cultures and distant lands in Asia, Europe, and this year, Africa. The program takes place in the…
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Campus & Community
Carr Center names its 2002-03 fellows
The Kennedy Schools Carr Center for Human Rights Policy has named its 2002-03 fellows. The six fellows bring with them the accumulated experience of working on a variety of compelling human rights issues on four continents.
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Campus & Community
It’s great to be live!
Staff from across the University whove toiled on the new PeopleSoft Human Resources system learned it was up and running on Monday (Sept. 23). Amid popping champagne corks and cutting cakes in the HR Project Situation Room in Holyoke Center, HR Project director Karen Davis (center) talks to workers who worked through the weekend in…
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Campus & Community
Oh, no! It’s Ig Nobel time again!
On Oct. 3, men and women from four continents will take the stage at Sanders Theatre, where Nobel laureates will shake their hands 1,200 strangers will pelt them with paper airplanes and a worldwide Internet TV audience will watch them receive their Ig Nobel Prizes. Each of the 10 new Ig Nobel Prize winners has…
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Campus & Community
Agreeing on what to argue about:
A new report on the nations environment presents a mosaic picture, containing both disturbing news such as the fact that virtually all our streams and groundwater contain contaminants and good news such as the fact that global-warming producing carbon safely stored in trees increased by 80 percent in the Eastern United States from the 1950s…
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Campus & Community
In the hot seat:
Even before Sept. 11, professional firefighters enjoyed the glow of a heroic mystique. Stock characters in picture books and childhood stories, they’ve long captured the imagination of children and remained in our adult psyches as steadfast, brave men and women who protect our lives and property.
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Campus & Community
Ah, Paris! The world capital of nostalgia:
When Patrice Higonnet was invited to teach at the College de France, a venerable Parisian institution whose free lectures are attended by everyone from street people to the haut monde, he decided to do something daring – instruct Parisians about their own city.