Year: 2002

On last weeks front page, the caption should read: The change from the oblong skull and protruding face of ancient humans (right) to the modern rounder skull and retraced face (left) is associated with a sharper bend in the floor of the brain case.

Do animals think?

Dudley Co-op has an image problem.

In the good old days, intellectual property battles at the OK Corral were fair fights between evenly matched foes. When General William Westmoreland sued CBS for libel in 1982, each side had the financial heft to hire the best lawyers and state its case.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, these are a few of the things we know about global warming: The average land-surface temperature of the Earth has risen by 1 degree Fahrenheit in the past century. Precipitation has increased by about 1 percent, and the sea level has risen 6 to 8 inches, in part due…

Lei, Zhou win Weintraub Award Graduate student Elissa P. Lei of the Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and Zhaolan Zhou, former graduate student in the Department of Molecular and…

When poet and author Carrie Allen McCray attended Alabamas Talladega College in the early 1930s, images of black women were everywhere: on pancake mix, on cookie jars, on salt and pepper shakers.

Tickets are sold out for a public address by Democratic New York senator and former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is scheduled to address the Harvard community during a 3 p.m. speech at Memorial Hall’s Sanders Theater today, March 11.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter, wrote John Keats. In the silence of the Music Buildings Early Instrument Room, the unheard melodies are practically deafening.

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

For the 2002-03 academic year, Harvards package of undergraduate tuition, room, board, and student fees will increase by 4.9 percent, to $35,950. Costs include: tuition, $24,630 room rate, $4,461 board, $4,041 health services fee, $1,020 and student services fee, $1,798.

Jeff Winer 04 intently watches the result of his shot during a heated pool match with his friend Victor Lee 05 inside Loker Commons.

The Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government has announced the availability of one doctoral fellowship for the 2002-03 academic year. The fellowship, designed to provide the successful applicant with the opportunity to complete, or make significant progress toward the completion of his or her dissertation, is open to any student in…

The first-ever American Indian tribally operated eagle sanctuary that helps meet a pueblos religious and ceremonial needs, an internationally recognized Native American lacrosse team whose members travel abroad using passports issued by their Indian nation, and a tribal wellness program that prevents and combats diabetes are among the 16 finalists in the Universitys American Indian…

Continuing to enact a strategic plan that calls for expanding its core faculty and fostering greater student-faculty interaction, Harvard Law School (HLS) has hired two new assistant professors. Ryan Goodman and Guhan Subramanian will officially join the HLS faculty in July and begin teaching in the fall.

During the first week of September 2001, the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) launched a unique program that brought 13 senior officials studying in an Asian university to take courses with their counterparts at the School.

Dental School offers free screenings

Harvard Project on Justice to co-sponsor peace program

Some anthropologists travel thousands of miles to reach their fieldwork sites. John L. Jackson Jr. traveled a few blocks to reach his, but its proximity didnt make gathering or interpreting the data any less challenging. As a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University, Jackson conducted his fieldwork in Harlem, just uptown from Columbias main campus.

Harvard Business School (HBS) officials recently announced the formation of the Service Leadership Fellows Program to encourage students seeking to make a significant contribution to society early in their careers to apply for one- or two-year postgraduate service fellowships.

The health status of women and their children is a key factor influencing whether single mothers moving off welfare can remain employed, according to a study by researchers at the School of Public Health (SPH). Having a health limitation increased a womans probability of job loss by 57 percent, while having a child with a…

On March 4, President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles officially dedicated Harvards new Bauer Laboratory, which will house the Bauer Center for Genomics Research. The new building was made possible by a major gift from Charles T. (Ted) Bauer 42. For family, friends, alumni/ae, guests,…

Like most of us, Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship was stopped in her tracks by the events of Sept. 11.

Overachievers?

Just minutes after the Harvard womens basketball team won its seventh Ivy League crown, beating Yale 77-65 on Friday (March 1), senior captain Katie Gates reflected on her own start, as a kid fan of the University of Kansas womens team.

The father had high expectations for his son, hoping perhaps that he would write great literature one day. So he named the child Shakespeare, no small burden for a boy brought up on a farm on the West Indian island of Dominica. And with a surname of Christmas, you might expect a personage as windy…

Most people wouldnt walk a tightrope unless they knew there was a safety net below.

A couple of soaked, silhouetted figures framed by a doorway of Annenberg Hall apparently have enough sense to come in out of the rain.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, March 2. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.