Year: 2003

If your goal is to go home with a nice picture of an earthenware pitcher and a bowl of apples that you can frame and give to your Aunt Ida, better go somewhere else. Here its all about process, not product.

Benedict H. Gross, dean of Harvard College, has assembled his senior staff for the Office of the Dean of Harvard College and completed the consolidation of this office with the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education, as begun this spring.

Head coach of W’s lax named Two-time All-American Sarah (Downing) Nelson ’94 has been named head coach of the Harvard women’s lacrosse team. After starring on three Ivy championship teams…

The Harvard Business School (HBS) rugby team will open its fall 2003 season with a pair of home matches against the Boston Irish Wolfhounds Rugby Club on Sept. 13. The teams pitch is located next to Harvard Stadium and the action kicks off at noon. For more information, visit the squads Web site at http://sa.hbs.edu/rugby/.

Despite forecasts to the contrary, weather held a tentative truce with Harvards 28th annual Senior Picnic on Aug. 6, treating the 1,100 Cambridge senior citizens to a rain-free, albeit humid, celebration of friendship and community.

Roaming the stacks of Widener Library as a selector for the HD Push Project – which processed books for transfer to the Harvard Depository – Matthew Battles, mesmerized by rows and rows and rows of volumes, began to ponder his surroundings – the library. With Widener as an ever-present muse and a valuable resource, Battles…

A former boss of mine once called me a scissor-bill. I concluded that it was not a term of endearment, but I didnt know what it meant.

The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health named Wayne A. Fuller, professor in liberal arts and sciences at Iowa State University, the recipient of the 2003 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science. Fuller delivered a lecture at Harvard titled Analytic Studies with Complex Survey Data this past May.

Robert C. Orr, a leading authority on nation building and peace operations, has been named executive director for Research of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

You wouldnt expect a collection of crumbling documents from a trial that occurred more than half a century ago to still have power to shock, but Harry S. Martin, director of the Law School Library, knows better.

Let him in!

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, in the first study to investigate the potential benefit in humans of the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) in reducing the risk of Parkinsons disease, have found that regular users of these drugs had a lower risk for Parkinsons disease than nonusers. The findings appear in…

Preparing for their positions as co-directors of a Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) summer day camp, Kristin Garcia 05 and Chris Vena 05 had a jam-packed semester this past spring. Into their Harvard studies they shoehorned the sorts of real-world duties that would make their camp – the Franklin I-O Summer Program in Dorchester -…

What makes a great summer? Warm weather, cloudless skies, a blanket on the sand or an Adirondack chair by the lake, and, above all, a stack of reading matter that includes all the books you meant to read all year but didnt have the time.

Somewhere between seared tilapia and popcorn chicken, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) Council of Chefs is cooking up a revolution. Assembled just over a year ago, the council – a critical mass of culinary talent, according to Alexandra McNitt, director for marketing and communications at HUDS – is in charge of creating and executing menus…

Taped on the side of a gray filing cabinet in Eric Krakauers Harvard Medical School office is a black-and-white photograph of a 4-year-old Vietnamese girl holding a bowl of food and wearing a sour expression.

Youve seen the billboards: Natural gas: The clean alternative. But is it?

The Interlibrary Loan Division (ILL) at Widener Library is the No. 1 lender in the New England area according to statistics recently published by the New England Library Network (NELINET). ILL received, processed, and shipped 18,075 loans or copies through the national Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) in the year 2002.

Former White House chief of staff and New Hampshire Gov. John H. Sununu will join the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government this fall. Sununu will serve as Roy M. and Barbara Goodman Family Visiting Professor of Practice in Public Service, announced Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr.

Mars has always fascinated humankind.

With his sixth novel, Mystic River, landing on bestseller lists and soon to be released as a Clint Eastwood-directed film, Dennis Lehane is, without a doubt, a successful writer.

A year after posting a $5.9 million budget deficit, the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) finished the 2003 fiscal year in the black, with a modest $84,495 surplus after a year of belt-tightening, personnel reductions, and space consolidation.

A Working Partnership: Acquisitions Made With the Assistance of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute will open Sept. 3 in the Amy Lowell Room, Houghton Library. Over the past 10 years, Houghton Library has worked closely with the Du Bois Institute to acquire materials to support research in African and African-American history and literature. The exhibition…

William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), announced on July 31 the appointment of three new divisional deans, effective Sept. 1. David Cutler, professor of economics, will serve as the FAS’s first dean for the Social Sciences. Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Harvard…

One hundred years ago, a young African-American scholar and activist named William Edward Burghardt Du Bois published a volume of essays titled The Souls of Black Folk, in which he made the assertion, The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, – the relation of the darker to the lighter races…

The Open Society Institutes Criminal Justice Initiative (CJI) supports individuals to further its mission of reducing the nations overreliance on policies of punishment and incarceration. Through three fellowships – the Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship, the Soros Justice Senior Fellowship, and the Soros Justice Media Fellowship – CJI funds dynamic individuals from various fields to design…

Eleven young journalists from Youth Opportunity Boston, a city agency that provides employment and training for Boston youth ages 14-21, visited the Harvard News Office Aug. 4 for a daylong lesson on Harvard, journalism, and the world of work. Hosted by Assistant Director for Publications John Lenger, the young adults put out a newspaper on…

Harvard has launched a new research project on mental health in children and youth focused on the impact of early social experiences and on the prevention of addictions in teens, Provost Steven E. Hyman announced.

The spreading of cancer from one part of the body to another has always been thought of as unpredictable, pure bad luck that causes more deaths than the original tumor.