Year: 2002

Leo P. Krall, M.D., an international leader in the field of diabetes for half a century and one of the original founders of Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, died Jan. 30, at the age of 87.

Renovations at the Harvard University Police Departments former 29 Garden St. headquarters has forced a move to new offices at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., but police officials say their hope is that the Harvard community will barely notice the change.

More than 50 girls and young women from grade schools throughout Greater Boston packed the pools and jammed the courts of the Malkin Athletic Center this past Saturday (Feb. 2) for Harvards ninth annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) event. Between the sounds of splashed water, whacked volleyballs, and the gymnasium echo…

On Tuesday, Jan. 29, at approximately 8:30 p.m., a graduate school student was the victim of an armed robbery on Western Avenue near the intersection of North Harvard in front of Charlesview Apartments. The suspects, described below, confronted the victim after exiting a silver motor vehicle. One of the suspects displayed a silver handgun and…

Sarah Jessica Parker charmed Harvard as she collected the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Woman of the Year award

Davin Quinn, a third-year student at Harvard Medical School who loves to write, is going to Belfast next year as the recipient of a George J. Mitchell scholarship for graduate study in Northern Ireland.

William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the Kennedy School of Government, has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award 2002. As part of his award, Clark will undertake a series of stays at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany beginning this July.

Mackie Dougherty 03 wants to help time-crunched Harvard students do good deeds … in their pajamas.

Woman of the Year festivities, featuring the fabulous Sarah Jessica Parker, will begin today at 2 p.m. when the starlet will lead a parade through Harvard Square. Following the parade, the president of the theatricals and the vice president of the cast will roast Parker and present her with her Pudding Pot at 2:20 p.m.…

The notes of Ralph Vaughan Williams Lark Ascending rolled over the audience, slow and melodious, almost haunting. But Daniel Chens violin performance wasnt in a classical concert hall, it was in the one of the linoleum-floored common areas of Youville Hospital.

In a windowless room in the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, David Ackerman sits amid an array of electronic paraphernalia that looks as if it might have been lifted from the bridge of a Klingon starship. The soundproof walls undulate with puckers of dark gray sponge. Intently tracking a sine curve on the computer screen…

Foster honored for conservation efforts Charles Foster, a fellow with the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Kennedy School of Government, will receive a conservation citation from Interior Secretary…

Author and religious scholar Elaine Pagels will give the 2002 William Belden Noble Lectures in the Memorial Church on Monday-Wednesday, Feb. 11, 12, and 13 at 8 p.m. Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, Pagels is the author of The Origin of Satan, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, and The Gnostic Gospels,…

At the Kennedy School of Government Monday night (Feb. 4), Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris dodged protestors, deflected attacks, and headed off dimpled chad and makeup jokes to stick to her carefully worded guns.

The Joint Program on Religion and Public Life at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is sponsoring a research colloquium series beginning on Feb. 12. The series, which will run through April 28, aims to discuss the work of leading scholars who address the interaction of religion and…

Once a week, first-year medical student Janice Jin leaves the Longwood campus to travel to Chinatown where she spends a couple of hours talking with a group of recently arrived Chinese immigrants about how to communicate with doctors.

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, author and Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education, has been named chair of the board of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Eating a lot of red meats, refined grains, french fries, and other typically Western foods will increase your risk of developing diabetes as an adult by more than half, according to a new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers.

After an 8-0 drubbing of B.U. by B.C. in game one of the first round of Tuesdays 24th annual womens Beanpot Tournament, the small but passionate Matthews Arena crowd were treated to a finesse-filled thriller once Harvard and Northeastern took to the ice. Though, given the Beanpot history between these two teams, the final outcome…

Just 14 seconds into the first power-play situation in the first period of the first round of Mondays Beanpot Tournament, Northeasterns Mike Ryan slapped a shot past Harvard goalie Dov Grumet-Morris 05. It wouldnt be his last. The Huskie forward went on to earn a hat trick in the 50th playing of college hockeys most…

It may be the oldest of the arts. No materials required, only the body. Oh, yes, and something to get it moving – a song, a rhythm, the sound of wind in the trees or water over rocks, a feeling of joy, fear, sadness, anger, triumph, love, tenderness, desire, or the excitement of being alive.…

Nicholas Watson loves a challenge. As long as it doesnt involve a classroom of 15-year-olds.

About 80 mid-career students from the Kennedy School of Government toured

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: Feb. 8 March 5 April 10…

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

Papers for German conference sought The Eastern German Studies Association (EGSA) – an international network of scholars with research interests in the former German Democratic Republic and the new, eastern…

Feb. 10, 1853 – Jared Sparks steps down as President James Walker, Class of 1814, immediately succeeds him to become Harvards 18th President. Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morison describes Walker as stone deaf. Ironically, in the fall of 1856, music becomes the only new subject added to the curriculum during his presidency.

At the ninth Faculty Council meeting of the year, Dean of Harvard College Harry Lewis (Computer Science) presented his 2000-2001 Report on Harvard College for discussion by the Council. Lewis also proposed a change in the Facultys definition of rape, to bring it into accord with Massachusetts law.

Emaciated, bearded men stare with hollow eyes through the prison bars. Wrapped in blankets against the winter cold, they look, to a doctors trained eye, like men whose bodies are steadily weakening under the onslaught of cold and hunger, dysentery, and hepatitis.

In Catherine Dulacs laboratory, male mice are acting strangely. They do not attack other males that invade their territory. They will even try to mate with the invaders.