Year: 2002

At the Harvard Islamic Societys (HISs) weekly prayer service in Lowell Lecture Hall Friday (March 15), nearly 50 members of the Universitys Muslim community gathered, as they do most weeks. As the Muslims bowed and prayed, sitting stocking-footed on carpets aligned toward Mecca, a dozen others watched from the seats of Lowell, one even filming…

Theres no cease-fire in the battle of the sexes, at least not at the genetic level, said pioneering genetics researcher and Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman in her Deans Lecture Series talk at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Monday afternoon (March 18).

The University Committee on Human Rights Studies is launching a new Harvard initiative to assist scholars who face the risk of persecution in their home countries because of their beliefs, scholarship, or identity. The yearlong fellowship is intended to provide a safe environment for academics, writers, or independent intellectuals (employment at an academic institution is…

Longtime benefactors Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood have donated Mrs. Calderwoods extensive collection of Islamic art to Harvards Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The gift continues the Harvard University Art Museums leadership role as a recipient of major acquisitions for the purpose of teaching and research.

The urge to help others may not be universal, but it is unquestionably widespread, and, just as surely, its an urge that has been strengthened by the unforgettable events of six months ago. On March 27, Harvard employees will have the opportunity to attend the first Harvard Volunteer Fair to explore specific ways they can…

Old-school feminism came to the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study last week (March 12), as author and activist Andrea Dworkin spoke and signed copies of her latest book, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, at the Cronkhite Living Room.

Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has announced this years Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. Honored for their eminence in history, literature, or art, as such terms may be liberally interpreted, the new fellows are Tom Conley, professor of romance languages and literatures Peter Ellison, professor of anthropology Michael McCormick, professor…

Lifting the U.S. ban on paid organ donations might help meet the desperate need of thousands of sick and dying recipients, but some fear it would also expand a thriving international market that already views the poor as little more than a source for spare parts.

To reach Hal Hartleys office, you must descend into the basement of Sever Hall and wend your way through a maze of low-ceilinged corridors, stopping in momentary perplexity at restroom doors and emergency exits until you find yourself in the warren of rooms that houses the filmmaking faculty of the Department of Visual and Environmental…

George Francis Carrier, one of the worlds pre-eminent applied mathematicians and T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics Emeritus, died of cancer in a Boston hospital on March 8. He was 83 and lived in Wayland.

Last month, when Professor Charles Lieber and his students made wires whose thinness is measured in atoms instead of fractions of an inch, he boasted excitedly that there are so many potential uses for this technology that we feel like kids in a candy shop.

William Saturno was hot, frustrated, low on food, low on water, and low on patience when he sought shade in a trench dug by looters at the San Bartolo archaeological site deep inside the Guatemalan jungle.

Sixteen Harvard-related students are among the 30 recipients for the 2002 Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship. Fellows receive a $20,000 maintenance stipend plus half-tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States. Of the 16 recipients from Harvard, 11 are present or…

Business leaders in human resources and knowledge management gathered at the Faculty Club Wednesday, March 13 for the quarterly meeting of Learning Innovations Laboratories (LILA) of the Harvard Graduate School of Educations Project Zero. LILA participants discuss organizational change and share stories from the trenches, said David Perkins, professor of education and facilitator of LILA.…

William Christie 66, internationally acclaimed harpsichordist, conductor, musicologist, and teacher, will receive the eighth annual Harvard Arts Medal.

Talk about a turnaround. After dropping seven of their final 10 regular season games, the Harvard mens hockey teams postseason hopes werent exactly sky high. Yet with a most unusual three game win streak under their belt: all OT wins – against Brown, Clarkson, and Ivy Champion Cornell – the Crimson suddenly finds itself thrust…

To the tune of 85-58, the North Carolina Tar Heels tripped up the Harvard womens basketball team this past Saturday (March 16) at the Big Dance in Chapel Hill. Capitalizing on superior quickness and physical play – and the Crimsons cold shooting (33 percent) – the fourth-seeded Tar Heels, who led by 18 at the…

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A first-year science teacher starts the school year knowing nothing about the course hes been hired to teach except its title: Physical Sciences.

The way the word model is used in academic discourse can seem a bit of a letdown for those who grew up gluing together miniature aircraft carriers from boxes full of tiny plastic parts or stretching tissue paper over the balsa frameworks of World War I biplanes. Too often in academe models turn out to…

Harvard fencing sends three to NCAA Championships Junior foiler Ben Schmidt has been selected to compete at the NCAA Fencing Championships slated for March 21-24 at Drew University in Madison,…

If you were to say, John is a red-headed physics student, any native speaker of English would instantly accept the sentence as normal and correct.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, March 16. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations presents Per Wästberg, a member of the Nobel Prize Committee of the Swedish Academy. Wästberg will discuss The Nobel Prize: Who Gets It and Who Does Not, on Thursday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m., at the Memorial Church. This is the inaugural Peter J. Gomes Lecture.

March 29, 1872 – The Arnold Arboretum (the nations oldest arboretum) formally comes into existence when, at the discretion of three Boston trustees (George B. Emerson, John James Dixwell, and Francis E. Parker), a residuary bequest of over $100,000 from New Bedford (Mass.) merchant James Arnold is legally transferred to the Harvard Corporation to develop…

At the Faculty Councils 11th meeting of the year, Professor William Fash (anthropology) and Professor William Kirby (history) presented the Report on Study Abroad prepared by the Facultys Standing Committee on Out-of-Residence Study.

The sixth annual Celebration of Faculty and Staff Authors at the Graduate School of Education was held at the Gutman Library on March 8. This gala event, sponsored by the Deans Office, honored 32 GSE authors who published books or created multimedia productions during the past year. The occasion also marked the 82nd anniversary of…