Year: 2002

John M. Shlien, professor of education and counseling psychology emeritus, died on March 23 at his vacation home in Big Sur, Calif. Shlien, 83, was a leading researcher in the field of counseling and psychotherapy. He had been suffering from cancer for several months.

The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering a fellowship award for the 2002-03 academic year for doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic consistent with the centers research agenda. The Meyer Dissertation Fellowship award, named in honor of John R. Meyer, professor of capital formation and economic growth…

Harvard Club of NYC in Cambridge Members of the admissions committee of the Harvard Club of New York City will be at Pound Hall (Room 334) and the Murr Center’s…

College students have continued binge drinking at about the same rate over the past 10 years, despite increases in alcohol education programs and substance-free on-campus housing, and a decrease in high school binge drinking, according to a Harvard School of Public Health study.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced that financial support for short-term intellectual collaborations will be made available for exploratory and advanced seminars. These seminars are intended to offer resources for Harvard faculty and their colleagues at other universities in developing new ideas. The Radcliffe Institute will provide a meeting space, travel and hotel…

Harvards Class of 2006 has been selected from a record pool of 19,605. The 2,068 admitted students were notified by letter and e-mail on Wednesday, April 3. The percentage of admitted students was the lowest in Harvards history (10.5 percent).

Testing, testing.

Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE) has announced the approval of the new rent schedule for approximately 2,300 Harvard-owned apartments rented by graduate students and other University affiliates. The new rents will take effect July 1, when the 2002-03 rental season begins.

Harvard and the Rowland Institute for Science, an interdisciplinary research institute in Cambridge, have negotiated a merger agreement, to become effective later this spring. This merger aims to both strengthen and enrich the Rowlands intellectual and physical resources, building on a longstanding collaborative relationship with Harvard, and to enable Harvard to develop its research and…

Author, activist, and pastor the Rev. Anthony Campolo will be in residence at the Memorial Church as the 2002 Easter Missioner. Along with his wife, writer and editor Peggy Campolo, he will lead a series of events on the topic Jesus Is Alive: Now What? All events take place at the Memorial Church and are…

Crimson grapplers Jesse Jantzen 04 and Dawid Rechul 02 earned All-American honors by finishing in the top eight at the NCAA Championships held March 21-23 in Albany, N.Y.

Tied 3-3 at the end of regulation in NCAA regional action last month against the University of Maine, the Harvard mens hockey team was very much in their element. After pulling out three straight overtime wins in playoff action against Brown, Clarkson, and Cornell, the Crimsons last few outings have appeared preordained. Yet Harvards postseason…

Each month Harvard adds up to 100 new phone numbers to its existing records. As a result of this ongoing expansion, the University Information Systems (UIS) Telecommunications group has acquired a new exchange in the 617 area code. The new exchange, 998, was implemented for use in the telephone-dialing plan across the University.

Elliot Forbes has been attending Morning Service in Appleton Chapel since 1958, the year he became a Harvard professor. It was an older colleague, Mason Hammond, who persuaded Forbes to join the group of celebrants who gather every morning from 8:45 to 9 for prayer, music, and a short talk by a volunteer speaker.

Rising carbon dioxide levels associated with global warming could lead to an increase in the incidence of allergies to ragweed and other plants by mid-century, according to a report by Harvard University researchers. The study, appearing in the March Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, found that ragweed grown in an atmosphere with double the…

Jerzy Soltan, the Nelson Robinson Jr. Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Emeritus, has received the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, awarded jointly by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

World leaders, scholars, journalists, and CEOs will join high-level U.S. and foreign officials for the 2002 Harvard Colloquium on International Affairs, April 12-13 at Harvard University. Panel discussions sponsored by over a dozen Harvard Schools, centers, and programs will focus on what has changed in world affairs since Sept. 11 – and what has not.

Thursday, June 6, 2002

On Tuesday, April 2, at 8:05 p.m., the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to Peabody Terrace on the report of an indecent assault. The graduate student victim reports the assailant alleged he was a tenant of the building but had forgotten his keys. The assailant entered the lobby and the elevator with the victim,…

Carolyn E. Andrews, honorary associate of Leverett House, and wife of Kenneth R. Andrews, Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, died in her sleep on March 20 during a visit to New York City. She was 85.

Fredric Schiffer has invented glasses that let him look into some peoples minds. Through using them, he has shown that some patients with depression and post-traumatic stress syndrome see the world differently, depending on whether they look at it through the outer half of their left or right eye. The Harvard Medical School psychiatrist has…

Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical International (a division of the Medical School), and Key3Media Group Inc. announced that they will jointly present the first global biosecurity conference, Nov. 18-22, in Las Vegas.

The University of Maine men’s hockey team clinched the opening round of the NCAA East Regionals, 4-3 in overtime, on Saturday afternoon (March 23) at the Worcester Centrum, ending Harvard’s…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 12, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

It was the first weekend signaling the coming of spring and what better way to spend it than shooting a film. On a balmy Saturday (March 9) followed by a crisp Sunday, a crew of 13 and a cast of five principal actors and seven extras assembled at the Busa Farm in Lexington to shoot…

With a $50,000 planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Harvard University Librarys Weissman Preservation Center will embark on a one-year program to assess the preservation needs of photographic collections held in museums and libraries throughout the University. Harvards photographic holdings, which may number as many as 5 million objects, have been assessed on…

There are people in Los Angeles, accountants and writers and teachers, who have become so accustomed to feeling the ground shake that they make a sport of trying to determine every earthquakes point of origin, betting that they can call it within a certain number of miles or dinner is on them. More often than…

Aiming to foster a deeper understanding of the volunteer experience, the Harvard College Library (HCL) honored HCL employees who make lasting contributions to their communities, at a volunteer fair on Tuesday, March 12, in the Gutman Conference Center of Gutman Library. The daylong event, a collaborative effort between the HCL joint council and administration, showcased…