Year: 2003

On the corner of Brattle Street and James Street in Cambridge, just outside the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studys Gilman Gate, is a black sign on a black pole, naming the square in honor of Radcliffe recycling pioneer Scott Sandberg.

In conjunction with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTWs) recent online housing survey, an open house will be held Saturday (May 17) for members of the Harvard community to learn about affordable housing. The event, which will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Middle East Restaurant in Central Square,…

“No!” “No!” “No! No! No! No!” Shouting in unison, the women gathered in an empty Gund Hall room to kick, punch, and shout in explosive, carefully choreographed moves, as if rehearsing some sort of angry, punk-rock chorus line.

HBS installs solar panels Harvard Business School (HBS) has been awarded a grant for up to $172,800 from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) to install photovoltaic solar energy panels on…

Late May 1970 – Veteran football coach John M. Yovicsin announces that for reasons of health he will retire at the end of the 1970 season. After the gridiron, Yovicsin…

Career Forum 2003: Resources for the Current Economy, will be held June 17 at the Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy St.

At its 16th meeting of the year, the Faculty Council heard a report on the year now concluding from Dean William C. Kirby. The council also discussed with Dean Benedict Gross (mathematics and undergraduate education) the possibility of collecting data for the CUE Guide via an online questionnaire. In addition, the council discussed with Dean…

What would be the opposite of social justice? Gregory Nagy asked his Extension School Introduction to Greek Literature class last Thursday (May 1) evening.

The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Center of Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities has launched a faculty fellowship program designed to promote and support the careers of exceptional underrepresented minority junior faculty. The two-year, nondegree-granting program provides specific funding intended to assist participants with their professional development as faculty member researchers and clinician/teachers at…

With the temperature over 80 degrees a while back, it was time for these Harvard students lounging by the Memorial Church to remove the shoes.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences recently announced its newly elected fellows and foreign honorary members. Among this years class of 187 fellows and 29 foreign honorary members – honored for their achievements in business, science, and the arts – are 13 Harvard faculty members.

William C. Kirby, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has announced this years Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. Chosen for their eminence in history, literature or art, this years Fellows are Svetlana Boym, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature and professor of comparative literature Jorie Graham, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and…

Harvard University has lifted its moratorium on travel to Singapore, based on travel advice from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), effective May 6. The University on April 30 lifted its travel moratorium for Vietnam and Toronto, Canada, based on travel advice from the World Health Organization (WHO).

Oxford Street benefit concert Oxford Street Cooperative, the University’s affiliated day care, is sponsoring an afternoon concert for children and adults on May 17 at the House of Blues. Starting…

Its here again, and it is SO welcome after a winter when at times even the arts seemed to be sleeping. Well, they woke with a banner and a flourish. The banner hung behind a series of class acts on the Holyoke Center stage, including tuneful troubadours and academic a cappella singers. The flourishes were…

Summer is a-coming and the winter is away-o, sang Lynn the Fool just after dawn on Thursday (May 1). The bells on her jesters cap jingled as she entertained several dozen students from Lowell House, gathered on the Weeks Footbridge to celebrate May Day with their traditional waltz.

Its common knowledge that the United States is in the thick of a funding crisis for the arts. Less well understood is how the lack of funds affects arts education and still lesser known is how these consequences differ from urban to suburban school districts. These issues were tackled by a panel last Monday (May…

Driven by its unmatched military might but undermined by increasing global interdependence and by the structure of American democracy itself, America is embarked on an unfamiliar journey to world empire.

On May 15, 2003, 24 Harvard College juniors will be inducted into Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The juniors, who were elected to the undergraduate honor society on April 11, will participate in a dinner ceremony confirming their membership in the 223-year-old chapter.

Andrew Murray stands before his audience on April 30, a pingpong ball in hand. Not to play in a tournament, but to illuminate a point. The professor of molecular and cellular biology is giving a talk in the Science Center about cells and their chromosomes.

Cutting back dramatically on calories leads to a longer life, at least for species ranging from yeast to rats. But whether not eating the pudding gives the same advantage to humans has yet to be proven.

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) elected 72 new members last month, including Harvard faculty members J. Woodland Hastings, Paul C. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences, and Diane J. Mathis, professor of medicine, Joslin Diabetes Center. Members are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

In conjunction with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTWs) recent online housing survey, an open house will be held May 17 for members of the Harvard community to learn about affordable housing. The event, which will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Middle East Restaurant in Central Square, marks…

The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations honored 40 students and three house masters at its annual awards dinner on April 29 at Quincy House. Dean of Harvard College and Quincy House Associate Harry R. Lewis, who delivered the keynote speech, received a surprise award from President Lawrence H. Summers, and the students and…

Emotions ran high in Divinity Hall as activists on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict gathered together for an attempt at Dialogue in the Midst of Conflict. The civil but often tense panel discussion – part of the Women, Religion and Social Change II conference sponsored by the Pluralism Project at Harvard University – was…

The outcome of efforts to both reconstruct Iraq and to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will influence the level of worldwide terrorist activity in the years to come, the German ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday (May 7).

Indian film director Mira Nair 79 spoke Saturday (May 3) in Sanders Theatre, discussing her early struggles as a documentary filmmaker, the making of her acclaimed fiction films, her efforts to help Indian street children, and her artistic philosophy.

A standing-room-only crowd of graduates, professors, and students packed Ames Courtroom last Saturday (May 3) to listen to their distinguished colleagues discuss the experience of women at Harvard Law School (HLS) over the past five decades. The gathering was part of Celebration 50, the Law Schools commemoration of the 50th anniversary of its first female…

Joseph S. Nye Jr., dean of the Kennedy School of Government, and Director-General C.K. Liu of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston, representing the government of the Republic of China on Taiwan, signed a memorandum of understanding in Cambridge on April 29 to affirm their intention to develop and conduct an executive training…