Year: 2003

At one end of Lowell Houses stately dining room, as servers clear away the last vestiges of the nights meal, students are still arriving, shedding coats and changing shoes and studying musical scores. Beneath a truss hung with theatrical lights that surrounds the rooms awe-inspiring chandelier, they assemble on a plywood platform stage.

Does jazz belong to Louis Armstrong or Benny Goodman? Does Dr. Dre have more of a claim on hip-hop than Eminem?

The Harvard Black Mens Forum (BMF) will present the 2003 Woman of the Year Award to actress Phylicia A. Rashad, best known for her portrayal of a loving mother of five and high-powered attorney Claire Huxtable on televisions The Cosby Show. The award to Rashad is the highlight of the BMFs Ninth Annual Celebration of…

A faulty protein that interferes with the heart muscles ability to relax is one cause of congestive heart failure, Harvard geneticists found in a discovery that promises more precise treatment of a disease that afflicts 4.7 million Americans.

After chasing the Columbia Lions for 40 minutes this past Saturday night (March 1) at Lavietes Pavilion, an exhausted – and victorious – Harvard womens basketball team calmly took to center court, and proceeded to party like animals. Considering the past 24 hours, who could blame them?

Building on preliminary data, researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have documented that high folate (vitamin B-9) and vitamin B-6 levels may improve a womans chances of preventing breast cancer. Additionally, researchers observed that adequate folate levels may be particularly important for women who are at higher risk of breast cancer due to…

Samantha Power has been a bit overwhelmed by the attention she has been getting lately. A typical day for her includes one or more speaking engagements, an interview or two, and an inbox crammed with hundreds of e-mail messages. And all this on top of her teaching and research commitments.

Bok Center offering postdoc fellowship The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning is offering a half-time postdoctoral fellowship for the 2003-04 academic year to support a strong scholar familiar…

President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 1. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

At its 11th meeting of the year, the Faculty Council heard a report from Professor Jennifer Leaning (medicine and public health) on the work of the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard that she chairs. Present for this discussion were three members of the committee: Professor Everett Mendelsohn (history of science and Master emeritus…

Mozambique was once a world power in the cashew industry, but today it is a bit player, and there is apparently nothing the World Bank can do to change that.

For the first time, surgeons at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) will broadcast cutting-edge surgeries over the Web, in an effort to familiarize doctors with new surgical techniques and to inform the general public about medical advances.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 10, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Composer and performer Livingston Taylor will return to the Faith & Life Forum on Friday (Feb. 28) at 7:30 p.m. for a free concert. Open to the Harvard community, the performance will also feature special guests from Harvards Festival Choir and will be held at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.

An exhibition of more than 100 drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection will open at Harvards Fogg Art Museum on March 22, and will remain on view through July 6. The collection includes Dutch and Flemish drawings and is the foremost group of 17th century Dutch drawings in private hands. The exhibition will…

The 2003 Black Arts Festival takes place Friday (Feb. 28)-Sunday (March 2). For a complete schedule, go to www.blackartsfestival.net. Events include: Forum: ‘Whose Music Is It Anyway? Thinking About Jazz,…

A center for social science research has been quietly growing on the Harvard campus for five years, fostering interdisciplinary thought and coming up with new ways to conduct social science research on topics such as the causes of war and removing bias from social science surveys.

The free flow of ideas may be a better protection against biological weapons than the secrecy created by classifying academic research, said panelists at the Kennedy School of Government Friday (Feb. 21).

Sophomore Asher Hochberg (right) squares off against Yales Aftab Mathur in the Crimsons final dual match of the season on Feb. 19 at the Murr Center Courts. Harvard fell, 5-4, but returned the favor at the College Squash Association Team Championships this past weekend at Princeton, topping the Bulldogs, 5-4, in the consolation round of…

The Harvard mens basketball team reached a milestone of sorts this past weekend. Unfortunately for the Crimson, it entailed losing three straight games to some of the Ivys finest (and not-so-finest) basketball clubs.

Adding two experimental drugs to the standard four-drug chemotherapy regimen has significantly improved survival in patients with nonmetastatic Ewings sarcoma, a highly malignant bone cancer of children and young adults, according to a report published in the Feb. 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Locke is elected president of APS Steven E. Locke, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and staff psychiatrist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will assume the presidency…

On March 10, the Graduate School of Educations Askwith Education Forum will host a panel about Arts in Civic Dialogue. The panel, held at the Gutman Conference Center from 6 to 7:30 p.m., follows a live performance of The Trial of Anthony Burns, a historical play about an 1854 fugitive slave trial in Boston that…

President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:

Feb. 6-7, 1978 – The Blizzard of ’78, a snowstorm of historic proportions, dumps 27 inches of snow on Greater Boston and brings the state to a virtual standstill for…

Most people have upward of 700 different bacteria living in their mouths. Some cause bad breath, while others may protect you from it. Dental researchers have known this for a long time but have difficulty telling which bacteria are which.

Shes got a Grammy on her shelf and an Oscar nomination, but actress and rap musician Queen Latifah didnt let fame and royalty stand between her and a good time with Harvard students. Latifah, the Harvard Foundations 2003 Artist of the Year, mingled warmly and performed enthusiastically at Harvards 18th annual Cultural Rhythms Festival Saturday…

Who steals my purse steals trash tis something, nothing Twas mine, tis his, and has been slave to thousands But he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed.