Year: 2003

Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) and the University of Massachusetts Medical School have determined that a large percentage of elderly outpatients take their medications improperly, and that in many circumstances the medication-related mistakes they make are easily preventable. The study appears in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found that high-protein diets may be associated with kidney function decline in women who already have mildly reduced kidney function. On further analysis, the risk was only significant for animal proteins, indicating that the source of protein may be an important factor. Researchers observed no association between…

In a lecture at the Kennedy School of Governments ARCO Forum Friday (March 7), activist and intellectual Angela Davis advocated for the abolition of prisons, casting the issue in human rights terms and urging a broader vision of justice.

President of Rwanda Paul Kagame visited last week with President Lawrence H. Summers.

Houghton Library and snow-covered trees are reflected in the glass windows of Lamont Library.

A contingent of Davids, the severed heads of their Goliaths displayed triumphantly at their feet, were at the Kennedy Schools ARCO Forum Tuesday night (March 11) to be honored for their courage, their persistence, and their devastating aim.

William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, has announced the formation of four working groups charged with examining areas related to the review of undergraduate education at Harvard. He also announced co-chairs for each of the groups. They are expected to report the results of their work in…

Gates elected to Academy of Cultures Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, has been elected to the Universal Academy of Cultures. Inaugurated by the late…

At a Wednesday (March 12) anti-war demonstration taking place in front of the Science Center, Susan McGregor 05 (right), a member of the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice, holds a microphone for musician Martha Older as she plays to the crowd of about 300 protesters.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

On Wednesday (March 12) at approximately 2:12 a.m., a male not affiliated with the University was walking down DeWolfe Street when two young males approached him. One of the suspects said empty your pockets while one of the suspects put a handgun to the victims head. The victim struggled with the suspects before he was…

Harvard and seven other Greater Boston research universities took center stage this week in their role as the areas special economic advantage: magnets for talent and investment that infuse more than $7 billion into the regional economy each year. At a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast, leaders from the universities, including President Lawrence H.…

Teacher Cynthia Abatt of Cambridge waits by the Morpho Magic exhibit for her students to arrive for their visit to the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Medicine on December 18, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

What America bills as a War on Drugs at home is executed as a war on peasants in the Bolivian Andes, the leader of a peasant coalition told a Kennedy School of Government audience on Friday (Feb. 28).

The Boston Cameratas 2002-03 season concludes on March 14 at 8 p.m. with a colorful musical anthology titled O Triumphale Diamante: Music for Ferrara 1400-1500. Music for this concert is drawn from the brilliant court of 15th and 16th century Ferrara, Italy, and includes works by Guillaume Dufay and Josquin des Près. Music director Joel…

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the fourth funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. The fund is made possible through the generous support of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. A KSG faculty committee will consider applications for small one-year grants (up to $30,000) to support advanced research by…

For the next several weeks, the entire Harvard community will be getting de-stressed, balanced, massaged, yogad, and, one hopes, a good nights sleep.

Sandy Seleskys idea of fun is spending hours on her hands and knees, inching toward a covey of terns or sandpipers in the hope of snapping a few shots with her Nikon before they scatter and regroup farther down the beach.

Rotberg to deliver Rhodes Lecture Robert I. Rotberg, director of the Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict, Conflict Prevention, and Conflict Resolution, will deliver the first of this year’s Rhodes…

March 27, 1828 – Corporation Fellow Nathaniel Bowditch lambastes President John Thornton Kirkland, who has in practice ignored many recent cost-saving measures that Bowditch had set in motion. To everyone’s…

In an article about Heinz Award winners that appeared on page 10 of the Feb. 27 issue of the Gazette, Professor of Medical Anthropology Paul Farmer was not included as an award recipient because complete information had not been provided to the Gazette by press time. Farmer received the Heinz Award for the Human Condition…

In the Feb. 6 issue of the Gazette, in a page 7 article on literacy programs around the University, the Gazette neglected to properly credit authorship of a section of the article. The section dealing with the Department of Social Medicine Writing Seminar for International Postdoctoral Fellows was written by Robynn Maines, who teaches the…

Bishop Charles E. Blake, minister of the 20,000-member West Angeles Church of God In Christ in Los Angeles, was awarded the Harvard Foundation Humanitarian Medal on Feb. 27. The ceremony took place before a crowd of students, faculty, and members of the greater Cambridge community at Harvards Memorial Church. The event, sponsored by the Harvard…

At the end of the largest study of its kind to date, researchers have concluded that rheumatoid arthritis in women may double their risk of heart attacks.

You might expect John Malkovich to feel a sense of triumph at having finally brought The Dancer Upstairs to the screen. After all, it took eight years to get the film made, much of that time occupied with finding financial backing.

In February, a group of Harvard staff and affiliates visited the Far East – that is, the Harvard Neighbors space at the far eastern edge of Harvard Yard – to learn the Japanese art of bookbinding. Yayoi Witzel-Yoshida, who started the Japanese Culture interest group of Harvard Neighbors 10 years ago, and Japanese Culture stalwart…

The executive committee of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs awarded $220,000 this past December to a research team comprising four University faculty members to commence a long-term research project on International Human Capital Flows and their Effects on Developing Countries. This decision marked the centers fourth annual award of a Weatherhead Initiative grant, a…

Harold Amos, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Emeritus at Harvard Medical School (HMS), died Feb. 26. He was 84.