Year: 2002

Scientists have shown that the kitchen sink – not the regularly scrubbed toilet – harbors the most fecal matter in the average home, carried there by unwashed hands after using the bathroom.

This summer, when Harvard rolls out the new and improved online HOLLIS catalog, library patrons – faculty, students, staff, and other researchers – will benefit from a number of new features. The entirely Web-based catalog has a new format and design, offering users a variety of new and more functional features, while giving users more…

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 today.

Ada Jane Maxwell 02 likes to focus on things that bring people together, not keep them apart.

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

The Office of the Assistant to the President and Workforce Initiatives, Office of Human Resources at Harvard University, recently sponsored the Seventh Workforce Management Conference at the Law School (HLS). Focusing on Globalization and Diversity in the 21st Century University, the conference opened with remarks by President Lawrence H. Summers, who stressed the Universitys commitment…

Eileen Chang 04, a history and literature concentrator in Quincy House, is committed to improving the Spanish she has studied since she was in junior high school.

For the past nine years the Weissman International Internship Program, established by Paul (52) and Harriet Weissman in 1994, has provided nearly 150 Harvard sophomores and juniors with the opportunity to participate in an international internship in a field of work related to their academic and career goals. The internship strives to expose students to…

Dennis C. Marnon, administrative officer at Houghton Library, has been named the recipient of the 2001-02 Douglas W. Bryant Fellowship. Marnon will use the fellowship to pursue his work on the recovery and description of Charles Olsons research notes on the life and works of Herman Melville.

Two Harvard College seniors and one junior have been named recipients of the Joseph L. Barrett Award. Administered by the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC), the award is named in memory of Joe Barrett 73, and is given to students who have enhanced the learning of others. This years recipients — Bartlomiej Czech 02, Matej…

The Skytte Foundation at Swedens Uppsala University has announced that the 2002 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science will be awarded to Sidney Verba, the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library. According to the Skytte Foundation, Verba was chosen for his penetrating empirical analysis of political participation and its significance…

The Program on Justice, Welfare, and Economics at Harvard University has announced its graduate student fellowship recipients for 2002-03. This new, interdisciplinary initiative connects faculty and student research across the University, and promotes research, learning, and knowledge connecting the study of freedom, justice, and economics to human welfare and development. Dissertation fellowships and research grants…

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers visited the Peoples Republic of China from May 10 through May 14. Summers was accompanied on the trip by 13 Harvard faculty members who met with many Chinese scholars, including those with ties to various Harvard-related programs currently under way in China. Summers and the faculty members also met with…

Two FAS junior faculty members have received the Roslyn Abramson Award, given each year to recognize excellence in teaching.

Sociologist David Riesman, best known for his influential study of post-World War II American society, The Lonely Crowd, died May 10 in Binghamton, N.Y., of natural causes. He was 92.

Call them what you will – winners, fighters, survivors – the 2002 Ivy League champion baseball team, who just won all the marbles with a two-game sweep of Princeton this past Saturday (May 11) at ODonnell Field, is a sneaky bunch. Since the second half of the season, the Crimson, who entered the Ivy arena…

For most of us, time slips by in increments of days, hours, and minutes, measured by the tick of a second hand or the yawn at a meeting. But for Norman Ramsey, the Higgins Professor of Physics Emeritus and one of the developers of the atomic clock, time is measured in the tiny movements of…

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The yield on students admitted to the College has reached a level not seen since the early 1970s. Close to 80 percent of the students admitted to the Class of 2006 have chosen to enroll this coming September. The high yield means that it is unlikely that anyone will be admitted from the waiting list…

APS elects 6 to membership

The slides that flashed across the screen as the audience crowded into the ARCO Forum easily proved the assertion that Richard Parker made minutes later in his introductory remarks: Here was a man who was not merely a celebrity, but rather embodied that rarer quality, fame.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday (May 11). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

May 1908 – Funding prospects for the newly created (March 30, 1908) Graduate School of Business Administration look so grim that it may not open in September as planned. On May 19, however, an anonymous benefactor (later revealed to have been Maj. Henry Lee Higginson) comes to the rescue, underwriting the shortfall in full. In…

At its 15th meeting of the year, the Faculty Council reviewed the agenda for the May 21 faculty meeting, including the motion proposing merger of the departments of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Sanskrit and Indian Studies, and the motions concerning the calculation of grades and honors for students in Harvard College.

Two faculty members were misidentified in the May 9 issue (Four honored as College Professors). The caption should have listed William Mills Todd III (left) and Jeremy Bloxham as Harvard College Professors.

Juniors Angela Freeburg (right) of Cabot House and Justin Erlich of Quincy House have been chosen by the Harvard Alumni Association to receive the 2002 David Aloian Memorial Scholarships. The award recognizes special contributions to the quality of life in the Houses and thoughtful leadership that makes the College an exciting place in which to…

If the newest crop of Radcliffe Institute Fellows is any indication, the purpose of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is, perhaps, rocket science.

Sitting in a Harvard Square café in front of a half-eaten bagel and a Mountain Dew, Charity Bell could be any young mother, cradling a 3-month-old in one hand and a baby bottle in the other.