Year: 2002

HDNet to carry Ivy basketball

Jan. 11, 1924 – Gale-force winds rip off the new copper roof of the library at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory (Milton, Mass.), depositing heavy sheets up to 30 feet away.

Former foster children whove aged out of the child welfare system are an all-but forgotten population with few services and fewer statistics to show researchers how theyre doing, according to speakers at an all-day Kennedy School forum on their plight Friday (Jan. 11).

The last link in the chain from food to fat has been found. Deep in human cells sits the master regulator of fat cells, a gene with the awkward name PPAR-gamma. When activated, this gene and the protein it produces drive the formation of fat cells that are part of the epidemic of obesity now…

William Clinton Burriss Young ’55, formerly associate dean of freshmen in Harvard College, died in Cambridge on Jan. 8 after a long illness. He was 68 years old. For more…

Elijah Wood, the young actor currently starring as Frodo in the blockbuster film “The Lord of the Rings,” journeyed from Middle Earth to Harvard Yard last Saturday and Sunday (Jan.…

Red-tailed hawks, Harvard Yard residents for several years, are alert and watchful now. Recently, they treated the sharp-eyed to a view of natureÕs spectacle that might have been hidden by the leaves of summer or fall.

Eric Price ’05 and Emily Wilcox ’03, members of the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team, practice their choreography at the MAC.

January 2002 marks the launch of National Mentoring Month, a public service campaign created and spearheaded by the Harvard Mentoring Project (HMP) in collaboration with AOL Time Warner, the ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox television networks, the National Mentoring Partnership, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and other nonprofit groups.

After three hours of mathematics one recent Saturday morning, 25 Boston middle school teachers paused briefly for lunch, after which they began their fourth hour of class totally engaged with…

The Institute for Government Innovation at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced that five initiatives have won 2001 Innovations in American Government Awards for their outstanding creative problem…

Following twenty-seven years as a member of the Harvard Corporation, Robert G. Stone, Jr., will conclude his service as Fellow of Harvard College at the end of the 2001-02 academic year.

Don C. Wiley, Harvard’s John L. Loeb Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and one of the most distinguished structural biologists of his generation, died recently at the age of 57.…

Charles Segal, Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics at Harvard University, died Jan. 1 after a long struggle with cancer. He was 65. Segal, whose scholarly career spanned almost…

The present Ivy League Player of the Week, Harvard forward Hana Peljto ’04, made a strong case for Player of the Year candidacy last Saturday night (Jan. 5) at Lavietes…

The Wallace-Reader’s Digest Funds have approved a $1.58 million grant to Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership to create a leadership program for school superintendents.

The Office for the Arts (OFA) has announced its sponsorship of more than 40 spring grants for creative projects ranging from music and the visual arts to theater and the cultural arts.

The Office for the Arts (OFA) has announced its sponsorship of more than 40 spring grants for creative projects ranging from music and the visual arts to theater and the cultural arts.

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) have found that elevated levels of specific antibodies that fight a range of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) antigens are associated with the onset of multiple sclerosis (MS).

Every Saturday morning, country music gets an Ivy League shine … and Harvard goes just a little bit hillbilly. That’s when the banjos and barn-dances of Hillbilly at Harvard, one of New England’s best-loved, most respected, and longest-lived country music radio shows, take over the microphones of WHRB (95.3 FM), Harvard’s student-run radio station.

A total of 1,174 students were admitted this year under the College’s early action program, the fourth consecutive year in which the number of students admitted early has stayed roughly…