Year: 2002

For the first time, researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center have isolated and cloned the third and remaining gene believed to be a key regulator of insulin production. The scientists believe this achievement may now pave the way for researchers to use the trio of genes to encourage stem cells or other cells that…

The GSAS Harvard Biotechnology Club recently announced the winners of the 2002 Biotechnology Business Plan Competition. Sponsored by DuPont Bio-Based Materials, the competition is unique in that it focuses exclusively on biotechnology startups. This year, the competition received 18 entries from the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Employment Services, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, is hosting Career Forum 2002 on June 11 at the Graduate School of Designs Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. The event will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. To allow colleagues who are layoff candidates an opportunity to meet directly with many…

Writing is hard work for some. For others, its a way to shout at the top of their lungs without getting arrested. For still others, its a way to understand inner feelings in a process of thats not right, thats not right – thats it.

Harvard senior awarded Cooke scholarship Harvard senior Wenya Linda Bi, a neurobiology concentrator, has been selected as a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholar. Along with 49 other outstanding college…

≈Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday (May 25). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

May 17, 1956 – The Committee on Undergraduate Affairs grants permission for WHRB-Radio to expand into FM broadcasting.

In a page 7 article in the May 23 issue of the Gazette, Ganz organizes peer network, the address for the Web site featured in the article was incorrect. The correct URL is http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/organizing.

Thursday, June 6

A memorial service for Carolyn E. Andrews, who served as associate master of Leverett House from 1971 to 1981 with her husband, Kenneth R. Andrews, Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, will be held on June 11 at 2 p.m. in the Memorial Church. The service will be followed by a reception at…

After significant design changes and five years of community, University, and city government review, Harvards new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) is a City Council vote away from getting the go-ahead to put the Government Department and more than a dozen international centers under one roof.

After decades of speculation and experiments, researchers have discovered brain changes that may underlie learning and memory.

William C. Kirby, Geisinger Professor of History, will be the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday.

Getting in shape has become a high-tech endeavor, as any fitness club habitué knows. Athletes strap on digital wristwatches and heart-rate monitors to chart the nuances of their workouts. Even once-humble treadmills now blink with confounding displays of electronics measuring anything from calories burned to miles trod to fluctuations in the stock market.

Editors note: As part of a Graham and Parks School annual project, two seventh-grade students joined the Harvard News Office staff for one week. This is what Jared Hughes and Helen Cowdrey had to say about their experience.

Editors note: As part of a Graham and Parks School annual project, two seventh-grade students joined the Harvard News Office staff for one week. This is what Jared Hughes and Helen Cowdrey had to say about their experience.

About 30 John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) staff traded in computers for trowels, and pens for work gloves last Friday (May 17) to help beautify Cambridge City Hall and other sites as part of what organizers intend to make an annual day of service to the community.

For Nancy Rosenblum, liberalism is more than just a political philosophy to be studied and taught, its an ideal to be put into practice.

At the May 21 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Faculty Meeting, the Faculty unanimously approved two changes in Harvard College policies concerning grading and honors.

A memorial service will be held for John Shlien, professor of education and counseling psychology emeritus, at the Memorial Church on May 29 at 3 p.m. The service will be followed by a reception in the Eliot-Lyman Room of Longfellow Hall. Shlien died March 23 at his vacation home in Big Sur, Calif. He was…

May 4, 1943 – At the Boston Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Boston firm of Perry, Shaw & Hepburn accepts the J. Harleston Parker Gold Medal for Houghton Library as the best architecture in New England for 1942. The City of Boston has given the award annually since 1923.

Sushi for breakfast? Why not? Why not pizza? Why not chocolate cake?

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 7, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Thanks to tight budgets and layoffs throughout the region, the livin might not be so easy this summertime for teenagers scrambling for jobs in Boston and Cambridge. But Harvard is doing what it can to help, developing summer jobs for teens in its host communities around the University. Teenagers will fill close to 100 summer…

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced that it is awarding 60 student grants and fellowships amounting to more than $100,000 for the 2002-03 academic year. Sixteen grants will support Harvard College undergraduates, 32 grants will support graduate students, and 12 awards are being made to undergraduate and graduate student groups for their own…

Editors note: As part of a Graham and Parks School annual project, two seventh-grade students joined the Harvard News Office staff for one week. This is what Jared Hughes and Helen Cowdrey had to say about their experience.