Year: 2003

A world of activity takes place around the fountain in front of the Science Center. The view is from the inside, as seen through a half-shaded and half-clear window.

Five high school science teachers peered into microscopes at the Science Center Friday (July 11) while others who had crowded into the small microscopy lab looked over their shoulders or at the computer screens nearby displaying images of stained skin cells.

Cross-dressing in the theater has a long and fascinating history, going back at least to the ancient Greeks. This summer, the Harvard Theatre Collection is presenting an exhibition that brings this history to life through rare playbills, posters, and photographs. The exhibition is open to the public in the Edward Sheldon Exhibition Rooms in Pusey…

When youre angry or afraid, its not just how you look but where you look that matters.

Some variation on the headline Asthma Rates on the Rise has been appearing in newspapers all over the United States for so long and with such frequency that many readers brains just flatline when they see it yet again. But if you take the time to check the statistics, they are indeed startling.

The late-afternoon sun casts elegant shadows of the Johnston Gate and passers-by.

Kicking off the most ambitious fundraising drive in the history of legal education, Harvard Law School (HLS) leaders gathered last month to launch Setting the Standard: The Harvard Law School Campaign. At a formal kickoff luncheon, the campaigns chairman, Finn M.W. Caspersen, announced that $170.1 million in commitments have already been secured toward a $400…

In an industry long associated with the old-fashioned corner store, the pharmacy at Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) only recently stepped into the 21st century. Actually, with HUHS’ latest modernization…

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a pair of decisions on affirmative action programs at the University of Michigan that, despite different rulings, support the admissions policies of Harvard and other colleges and universities that use race as one of many factors in creating a diverse college class.

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers gave this years 50th annual Blackfan lecture at Harvard-affiliated Childrens Hospital in Boston. The talk, delivered to a packed Enders Auditorium at the hospital, focused primarily on the economics of health care.

George McClelland Whitesides, the Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, has been named a winner of the 2003 Kyoto Prize. Presented by the Inamori Foundation of Japan, the award is given to people who have contributed significantly to mankinds betterment in the categories of Advanced Technology, Basic Science, and Arts and Philosophy. Whitesides won…

Harvard announced in June that it will embark on a major new collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (WIBR), and several Harvard-affiliated hospitals, intended to bring the power of genomics to bear on the understanding of disease and to accelerate the search for cures.

Twenty-one objects from the permanent collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum are now part of a unique online exhibition about Germanys Bauhaus school of art. The interactive exhibition – Extra Ordinary Every Day: The Bauhaus at the Busch-Reisinger – can be viewed at www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/sites/eoed through 2005.

The Earths ancient oceans were very different from todays, with oxygen-starved depths beneath oxygenated surface waters, Harvard researchers found in a study that provides clues about the Earths environment 1.5 billion years ago.

Richard Newman, a scholar of black studies and a civil rights activist who was senior research officer at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, died July 7 of a brain tumor. He was 73.

Charles Lieber, a pioneer in the minute world of nanotechnology, has won a world-size award. The Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry was presented with the 2003 World Technology Award for Materials on June 25 in San Francisco.

I Bernard I.B. Cohen, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science Emeritus at Harvard University and a pioneer in the field of the history of science, died of a bone marrow disorder June 20 at his home in Waltham. He was 89. A renowned scholar of Sir Isaac Newton, Cohen produced Principia: Mathematical…

Robert W. Iuliano has been named the Universitys vice president and general counsel, President Lawrence H. Summers announced June 16.

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers joined city of Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino at the Carter Playground in Bostons South End July 9 to celebrate Harvards contribution of $475,000 to the citys summer programs and jobs for youth.

Tom Lucey, president and chief executive officer of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, has been appointed Harvard Universitys director of community relations for the city of Cambridge. Lucey will join Harvards Office of Community Affairs staff on July 28.

For years data on the relationship between dietary fat and breast cancer have left scientists and the public puzzled, but the latest study from Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) provides more compelling evidence for young women to replace their intake of animal fats with vegetable fats. In contrast to earlier work in this area, the…

Drawing for Leedell Bean is a way out of a world that is sometimes cruel when caring is needed.

John Jay College awards Poussaint honorary degree Alvin Poussaint, professor of psychiatry and faculty associate dean for student affairs at Harvard Medical School, received an honorary doctorate of humane letters…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning June 8 and ending July 5. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

HMNH seeks Gallery Guides The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) seeks volunteers to share their enthusiasm for natural history with museum visitors in hopes of helping adults and children…

July 12, 1684 – President John Rogers dies in office during a total eclipse of the sun. July 18, 1780 – “Revolutionary” education? A young man visits Cambridge for the…

The courtyard of the Bauer Center for Genomics Research is brilliant in the summer sun. The centers goal is to combine a variety of approaches to find general principles that help to explain the structure, behavior, and evolution of cells and organisms. For more scenes of summer, go to www.harvard.edu and check out H20 (Harvard…

Our planet is 50 to 90 million years older than previously thought, according to new evidence found in meteorites.