Year: 2002

William A. Graham, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of the History of Religion in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will serve as Acting Dean of the Harvard Divinity School pending the appointment of a permanent dean, President Lawrence H. Summers announced today.

Professor of Mathematics Richard Taylor has received the 2002 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in number theory. Presented every three years by the American Mathematical Society (AMA), the prize recognizes outstanding…

The Humanities Center at Harvard has received a $268,000 grant from the Andrew M. Mellon Foundation to help strengthen the role of humanities throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences…

When Linda Norden got hired by the Fogg Art Museum as associate curator of contemporary art, she faced a challenging problem. Museums like the Fogg collect art objects, and they…

The Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) released its final report Dec. 19, beginning a period during which President Lawrence H. Summers will review both the report and…

William Kaelin, a scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is among the first winners of the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York…

  In an era before anesthesia, antibiotics, fetal monitoring, X-rays, and genetic screening, childbirth was usually the riskiest and often the most painful experience of a woman’s life. Women frequently…

BIG seeks applicants The Harvard-M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) has announced the creation of the Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) program, a new training program to provide…

Harvard fellow makes 2001 ‘best books’ list “How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World” (Stanford University Press, 2001), by…

The good news is that the universe will last forever. The bad news is that we will be seeing less and less of it as galaxies fade and become frozen in time.

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. 1, 2002 March 5, 2002…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 5. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.

January 1870 ‹ A statute creates and defines the Deanship of the College Faculty. History Professor Ephraim W. Gurney becomes the first incumbent this year and serves until 1876.  Jan.…

At its sixth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council heard (and viewed) a report on space planning in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences presented by Nancy Maull, executive dean of the faculty, and David Zewinski, associate dean of the faculty for Physical Resources and Planning.