Year: 2003

After turning Harvard green for three years, the Harvard Green Campus Initiative is sharing the lessons it learned, reaching out through an Extension School course to students as far away as Australia and Iraq.

On April 9, 2003, when U.S. Marines helped an Iraqi mob pull down a 40-foot bronze statue of Saddam Hussein outside the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Anne Garrels was there. But her reporting of the event differed from the TV coverage that most of the American networks carried.

Doctors are writing fewer prescriptions for antibiotics, heeding warnings that overuse of the drugs could lead to widespread resistance to these medications. This is particularly true for most infections of the ear, throat, and sinuses in children and adolescents.

This fall, several new campus eateries stand at the ready to satisfy appetites revved by the crisp autumn air and renewed intellectual fervor.

Following the Harvard football teams 52-14 thumping of Brown this past Saturday (Sept. 26), you couldnt help but feel bad for the Crimson cheerleaders. What with junior quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and his cohorts generally going ballistic, marching and catching for 546 total yards, it seemed as if Harvards spirit squad spent their entire afternoon doing…

Sackler Saturday volunteers needed Harvard University Art Museums needs volunteers to help out with this year’s Sackler Saturday installments. The program, which kicks off Oct. 18 with an archaeological dig…

For sculptor Weronika Zaluska, art is a collaborative process. She doesnt create work with other artists, but rather thinks of her large ceramic sculptures as her partners.

Seniors named CSWR fellowship recipients Harvard seniors Hendrik Jan Slettenhaar and Melissa Borja have been selected to participate in the undergraduate thesis fellowship at the Center for the Study of…

Harvard University Office of the President Massachusetts Hall October 1, 2003 Re: Search for Harvard’s Next Treasurer: Request for Advice Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Ron Daniel recently announced…

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Sept. 27. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Sept. 8, 1836 – Some 1,100 to 1,300 alumni flock to Harvard’s Bicentennial, at which a professional choir premieres “Fair Harvard.” The oldest living alumnus – 96-year-old Judge Paine Wingate,…

Ford service set A memorial service for Franklin Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Emeritus, will be held Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. at the Memorial Church. Mosher…

At the Faculty Councils second meeting of the year President Lawrence H. Summers discussed opportunities for the University presented by the recently acquired property in Allston. Sally Zeckhauser, vice president for administration, was also present for this discussion. Prior to this conversation the council heard a report from Nancy Maull, executive dean of the faculty,…

In the Ukrainian Film Collection article that appeared on page 20 of the Sept. 25 Gazette, an incorrect byline was attached to the story. The article should have been attributed to Yuri Shevchuk. The Gazette regrets the error.

The largest building ever built by Harvard was dedicated Sept. 24. University President Lawrence H. Summers and Joseph Martin, dean of the Medical School, cut a crimson ribbon at the entrance of the 525,000-square-foot New Research Building at 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur in Boston.

Few would deny that the DVD is a remarkable invention. Its hard not to be astonished by a process that can put a two-hour movie on a plastic disc small enough to drop into your breast pocket.

Harvard Universitys endowment last year made up ground lost during the prior two years difficult investment climate, earning a 12.5 percent return during the 2002-03 fiscal year, bringing the endowments overall value to $19.3 billion.

The treasures of Harvard Universitys six museums – from fine art to flowers of glass, tarantulas to dinosaur eggs, prehistoric pottery to 20th century masterpieces – are priceless. But on Sunday (Sept. 28), theyll also be free, at the first-ever Harvard University Museums Community Day, an open house from 1 to 5 p.m.

Nine after-school programs in Boston have joined the Harvard After School Initiative (HASI) this fall, receiving more than a quarter million dollars in grants and the opportunity to work with Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) faculty and coordinators with other after-school organizations supported by HASI.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall on the following dates:

Blue light outshone white in a Harvard University experiment to find better ways to reset our body clocks.

More than 15,000 butterflies from Australia have moved into Harvards Museum of Comparative Zoology. They wear iridescent blue, green, and silver boast black, red, and white spots and flaunt color combinations beyond the imagination of hip fashion plates.

For this cyclist, the daily commute had become a grind. And a pop, a squeak, a scrape, and a sort of ching-ching-ching between gears.