Year: 2002

Two people who have spent much of their lives working to challenge and correct social injustice were recognized this past Tuesday (April 30) at an award ceremony organized by the Kennedy Schools Center for Public Leadership.

The U.S. Treasury Department tapped into Harvards scholarly expertise last Friday (April 26) when about 100 government officials attended a seminar in Washington titled Islamic Finance 101.

Ali S. Asani, Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Cultures, will join 24 students in being honored at the annual David Aloian Dinner and Student/Faculty Award Ceremony to be held at the end of the semester in the Quincy House Dining Hall. For the past 20 years, the director of the Harvard Foundation…

Paid family leave is where the rubber of two of Americas most cherished private institutions – the family and business – meets the road of public government.

The Joint Center for Housing Studies, a collaborative unit affiliated with the Harvard Design School and the Kennedy School of Government, has named masters degree candidates Connie Chung and Alastair Smith as its 2002 Emerging Leaders Fellowship recipients. Both Chung, an urban planning candidate at the Graduate School of Design, and Smith, a masters degree…

The Association of Theological Schools (ATS) in the United States and Canada and the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., have named François Bovon as a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology for 2002-03. Bovon, the Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion at the Divinity School, was named a fellow in the category of Bible and…

Harvard Business School (HBS) students Matthew Mugo Fields 02 and Lucas Klein 02 and their business partner Jason Green like to begin their business plan presentations with a question: How does the U.S. Government forecast prison growth?

An article by Les Gura of the Hartford Courant about an instructor at Yale University who became the focus of stories that unfairly cast him as a murder suspect, is the inaugural winner of the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. The award, endowed by the former publisher of The Boston Globe and the…

The events of Sept. 11 have changed the way America responds to disasters, Daniel A. Craig, regional director (Region One) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), told a Harvard audience last month. FEMA needs to lead the charge in implementing these changes.

Up until the month of showers, success for the Harvard baseball team appeared to be postponed indefinitely. The Crimson notched just three victories in 14 outings during their opening month of play, dropping their first six games of the season. Yet ever since a doubleheader sweep over reigning Ivy champion Princeton in early April, Harvard…

Harvard seniors Erica Levy, Christopher Papagianis, and Marc Wallenstein have been awarded the George Peabody Gardner Traveling Fellowship for 2002. The fellowship, available to graduating seniors who are concentrators (or joint concentrators) in the Departments of Visual and Environmental Studies, Anthropology, English, History and Literature, Literature, or Philosophy, is awarded to students who demonstrate a…

The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced the recipients of the 2002 Harvard Medal: Peter A. Brooke 52, M.B.A. 54, Sharon Elliott Gagnon, A.M. 65, Ph.D. 72, John A. Lithgow 67 and Daniel C. Tosteson 46, M.D. 48. First given in 1981, the Harvard Medal recognizes extraordinary service to the University. President Lawrence H. Summers…

Youve heard of the Cambridge folk renaissance? Well, Lenny Solomon was there.

Dibner Institute appoints Cavicchi for second year

President Lawrence H. Summers and seven Harvard professors are among the 72 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, the academy announced Tuesday (April 30). Members are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those elected bring the total number of active members to 1,907. With its eight…

With globalization linking their fates, the developed world cannot afford to leave the developing world behind, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Wednesday (April 24), urging support for African efforts to help themselves.

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. Individuals wishing to meet with President Summers or Provost Hyman will be welcomed on a first-come, first-served basis. A Harvard ID is required.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, April 27. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

May 12, 1638 – By order of the Great and General Court, Newetowne is renamed Cambrige (Cambridge).

At its 14th meeting of the year the Faculty Council considered a proposed merger of the departments of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and Sanskrit & Indian Studies with Professor Peter Bol (chair, E.A.L.C.) and Professor Leonard van der Kuijp (chair, Sanskrit and Indian Studies).

A photo that appeared on page 12 of the April 25 edition should have identified Alison Vaughan as the executive director of Tutoring Plus of Cambridge. She was incorrectly listed as a tutor. The Gazette regrets the error.

Thursday, June 6, 2002

Recent evidence for the existence of strange types of stars made from a new form of material raises some questions about the stability of matter in the universe.

Un libro te lleva al cualquier sitio que tu quieras: a book takes you wherever you want to go, 9-year-old Gabriel Castro told Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers on Friday (April 26).

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has been selected by Harvards Nieman Fellows to receive the 2002 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism.

On April 10, the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory (HCL) treated its last patient.

Does your doctor sing? Does your dentist tap dance?