Year: 2002

The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) have announced the launch of Collections Online – a searchable Web-based database of more than 60,000 works of art from the collections of Harvards three art museums. Collections Online makes it possible for scholars, researchers, and the general public to access textual information on about one-third of the more…

When it comes to lengthy leaves and sponsored travel to exotic locales, University administrators usually get the short end of the stick. Faculty members and even enterprising students can avail themselves of research grants, travel fellowships, and sabbaticals, but the administrators who support their pursuit of knowledge must pay for their own trips from their…

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), one of the worlds oldest and largest astronomical organizations, has awarded the 2002 Thomas J. Brennan Award to Philip Sadler, director of the Science Education Department at the Harvard – Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). The Brennan Award recognizes exceptional achievement related to the teaching of astronomy at…

Erin K. Jenne, a postdoc fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the World Peace Foundation (WPF) Program on Intrastate Conflict at the Kennedy School of…

A powerful cancer drug found in the tissues of sea squirts is being tested on a variety of cancers. Trials conducted in the United States and Europe show that the compound has promising activity against connective tissue, breast, ovary, and prostate tumors.

The acerbic e-mails began a few days after the School of Public Healths (SPH) David Hemenway published Firearm Availability and Female Homicide Victimization Rates among 25 Populous High Income Countries in the Journal of the American Medical Womens Association (JAMWA) last month. The paper caught the attention of a small group of people, many of…

Freshmen roommates Susie McGregor and Annie Hilby pack Hilby’s clothes in their Hollis Dormitory. Hilby is hoping to make an afternoon flight to San Diego.

One hundred forty-one faculty and staff from across the University will be honored today (May 23) for 25 years of service to Harvard. The 48th annual 25-Year Recognition Ceremony will be held in the Ropes-Gray Room at the Law Schools Pound Hall. President Lawrence H. Summers will host the ceremony, and the guest speaker will…

Marshall Ganz knows better than most what community organizers are up against out there: trying to change minds, taking risks, supporting sometimes unpopular causes – and often with not much help around.

Who would suspect that an unassuming Greek Revival house, barely a Frisbee-toss from Harvard Divinity School, contains a doorway to another world?

When K.A. Kelly McQueen, M.P.H. student, came to the School of Public Health (SPH) last fall, her intention was to study international health and humanitarian crises, but her goals changed on her first day of school, Sept. 11.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday (May 18). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Deadline set for Noma – Reischauer Prize

Two land Hertz award

The president of Iceland, Olafur Ragmar Grimsson (left), greets President Lawrence H. Summers as Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Center for International Development at the Kennedy School, looks on.

Due to incorrect information supplied to the Gazette, Du Bois Institute fellow Malick Walid Ghachem was incorrectly identified in the May 9 issue. Ghachem, a J.D. candidate at the Law School, received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.

A committee will be formed to enhance educational and outreach efforts regarding sexual violence on campus.

Stephen Jay Gould, Harvards outspoken and often controversial paleontologist whose groundbreaking work on evolutionary theory – coupled with his award-winning writings – brought an expanded world of science to thousands of readers, died Monday morning (May 20) in Manhattan of metastasized lung cancer. He was 60.

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 (May 20).

Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard’s outspoken and often controversial paleontologist whose groundbreaking work on evolutionary theory – coupled with his award-winning writings – brought an expanded world of science to thousands of readers, has died after a twenty-year battle with cancer. He was 60.

In this age of desktop publishing, on-demand printing, and more copy machines than pay telephones, its easy to forget where the whole thing started, but a visit to the Bow and Arrow Press in Adams House is a good place to refresh your memory.

Actor Harrison Ford received the 2002 Global Environmental Citizen Award from Harvard Medical Schools Center for Health and the Global Environment Monday (May 13) for his efforts to protect the planets biodiversity.

The Kennedy School of Governments Carr Center for Human Rights Policy has announced the appointment of Michelle Greene as its new executive director. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Greene brings an array of experience in law, management consulting, government, and human rights to the Carr Center.

As part of Cambridges annual GoGreen Month Celebration, Rob Gogan (left), waste manager for Harvard’s Facilities Maintenance Operations, receives a GoGreen Award for Harvard’s recycling work from Cambridge Mayor Michael Sullivan (right).