Year: 2003

Lisa Simpson designs and makes costumes for the Gold Dust Orphans, a theater company that puts on plays with titles such as Joan of Arkansas, Scarrie (with apologies to Stephen King), Joan Crawfords Christmas on the Pole, and the groups newest offering, The Ebonic Woman.

Anton wants into the act as his mother, first-time quilter Melanie Stoehr, puts the finishingtouches on a quilt, one of her Harvard Neighbors Quilting Bee group projects. The Valentine Quilt, along with more than a dozen others, will go to a local hospital.

Six entries have been chosen as finalists for the 2003 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, which is awarded each year by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The winner of the $25,000 prize will be named at an awards ceremony on…

Professor of History Ann Blair 84 tells of a 17th century German scholar who created a portable cabinet in which to store his notes. Hed jot notes on cards and hang them on alphabetical hooks in the cabinet, then rearrange them as he accumulated additional information.

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 Feb. 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A memorial service for Donald OHara, lecturer on biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology in the Department of Medicine, will be held Feb. 21 at 2 p.m. in the Faculty Room of Gordon Hall, Harvard Medical School. University faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend.

Feb. 9, 1970 – About 100 individuals take part in an SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) demonstration protesting the presence of a U.S. Army recruiter at the Office of…

A herd of bicycles is covered by one of the innumerable snowshowers of recent weeks.

A good-natured Whitney – er, Anjelica – Huston took a ribbing as well as a faux beating Thursday (Feb. 6) to earn her pudding pot as this years Woman of the Year for the nations oldest collegiate drama troupe, Harvards Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

To true believers, the opening round of this past Monday’s (Feb. 3) Beanpot tournament at the FleetCenter started auspiciously for the Harvard men’s hockey team.

A largely unheralded meeting is under way in Europe that some say is akin to a constitutional convention for a slowly emerging supernation but that experts at a Harvard conference Friday (Jan. 31) said is unlikely to produce startling changes in the European Union.

Nima Arkani-Hamed is searching exotic places for clues to questions about our universes construction and the gravitational glue that holds it together.

For a long time, scientists have wondered why blacks seldom get skin cancer or macular degeneration, the major cause of blindness in elderly white people. Experiments at the Childrens Hospital in Boston have yielded one possible answer – the black pigment called melanin apparently protects them in a peculiar way.

Who has blue?

Sensible or fashion-foolish … practical or stylish … sandal, boot, slipper, or clog … shoes in all their forms almost universally capture our fancy.

In anticipation of Feb. 14, two groups of Harvard students are preparing to mark the occasion not with hearts and cupids but with a consciousness-raising celebration of the other V: vagina.

Arthur Rock, a member of the Harvard Business School M.B.A. Class of 1951 and a pioneering venture capitalist who helped form numerous start-ups that went on to become 20th century success stories, including Intel Corp., Teledyne, Scientific Data Systems, and Apple Computer, has donated $25 million to the School to fund the establishment of the…

The new University Ombuds Office, providing confidential and impartial problem-solving assistance to all faculty, staff, and students, opened on Feb. 1.

Ann E. Berman has been named vice president for finance and chief financial officer of the University, President Lawrence H. Summers announced on Monday (Feb. 3).

UN’s Diouf addresses hunger

Nathan named Howland Medal winner The American Pediatric Society has named David G. Nathan, president emeritus of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the 2003 recipient of the John Howland Medal, the society’s…

Perry Rosenthal considers himself an agnostic, but recently he has had the disquieting sense that his life may be shaped by some higher purpose.

Jerome H. Buckley, the Gurney Professor of English Literature Emeritus, died Jan. 28 at Massachusetts General Hospital at the age of 85. The cause of death was respiratory failure following a series of strokes.

Sports page change For special Beanpot coverage, see pages 14 and 15. CSWR summer grants available The Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School has announced…

Its National Literacy Week, and all over Harvard, teachers and learners are engaged in an ongoing, multilevel effort to improve reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.

Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have found that women who care for sick or disabled spouses for nine or more hours a week may have an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). The findings are published in the February issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.) -Walt Whitman As an artist, Heather Stewart, like Whitman, happily contradicts herself. One day,…

Despite subzero temperatures, Allston-Brightons youngest hockey fans recently turned out for Harvard Universitys annual Allston-Brighton Family Skating Party at the Bright Hockey Rink. This has been a popular night out for Allston-Brighton families for the past 14 years. David Reilly (left) gives son Shawn a push, while friend Taylor Laffey (right) gets into the act.