Year: 2003
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Campus & Community
Memorial Minute: David Riesman, author of ‘The Lonely Crowd’
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 21, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.
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Campus & Community
Jerusalem during the reign of King Hezekiah
Youve read The Book. Now see the exhibition.
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Campus & Community
Harvard University Mail Services delivers
A quarter of the mail delivered to Cambridges 02138 ZIP code is Harvard-bound. And of that, 77 percent goes through Harvard University Mail Services (HUMS), where a relatively lean operation of staff and students shepherds it to its final destinations.
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
MHS honors Chandler with Kennedy Medal Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the Isidor Strauss Professor of Business History Emeritus at Harvard Business School, has received the John F. Kennedy Medal from…
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Campus & Community
Obituary: William Wayne Montgomery
The professions of medicine, otolaryngology, and head and neck surgery have lost a giant in the passing of William Wayne Montgomery, said Joseph B. Nadol Jr., Walter Augustus Lecompte Professor of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School (HMS).
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Campus & Community
Economist details North Korean plight
North Koreas long-running food shortage is a crisis of the nations own making that is hitting nonelite city residents hard and, without a leadership change, shows no sign of stopping.
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Campus & Community
Dawkins to deliver Tanner Lectures
Speaking by phone from his office at Oxford University, biologist Richard Dawkins politely declined to talk in detail about his upcoming lecture series at Harvard, The Science of Religion and the Religion of Science.
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Campus & Community
Zwick ’74 premieres ‘Samurai in Cambridge
For filmmaker Ed Zwick 74, the premiere of his forthcoming film The Last Samurai at the Harvard Square Theater Sunday night (Nov. 9) completed a circle he began more than 30 years ago.
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Campus & Community
Energy-saving programs ask Harvard to go ‘cold turkey’
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvards Longwood campus are squaring off in an energy-saving duel that asks faculty, staff, and graduate students to Go Cold Turkey over Thanksgiving weekend.
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Campus & Community
In brief
New Nieman wing to honor Knight Foundation The newly added wing to the Walter Lippmann House – home of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard – will be named in honor…
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Campus & Community
Yale snubs v-ball, 3-1
A school-record 35 digs by co-captain Allison Bendush 04 wasnt enough to lift the Harvard womens volleyball team past visiting Yale on Saturday (Nov. 8), as the Crimson dropped its final home match of the season, 3-1. The loss, which fell on the heels of Harvards 3-0 sweep of Brown on Nov. 7, ends a…
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Campus & Community
The Big Picture
When Veronica Fullard performed at her first Renaissance festival, she hid behind a camera snapping publicity photos (in character, of course, with an innovative back story to explain her portrait-taking device) to minimize her interaction with patrons. I used to be the most horribly shy person I knew, says Fullard, who is a staff assistant…
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Campus & Community
Bending notes
Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and Harvard College Professor Thomas Kelly strolls to work and is caught in the reflection of a car window.
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Campus & Community
Research on ESL children has surprising results
For an increasing number of children whose first language is not English, learning to read – arguably one of schools most important and most difficult lessons – can be an especially high hurdle.
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Campus & Community
Local shelter works to stop abuse before it starts
When Elsbeth Kalenderian, executive director of the Cambridge-based nonprofit Transition House, heard Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers speak about Harvards recent donation of a microscopy unit to Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, she sprung into action. Theres a link, she told him, between academic achievement and the dating violence her organization was fighting to prevent.
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Campus & Community
President Summers opens office to students, staff Dec. 1
President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
November 1942 – A Harvard Alumni Association advertisement for the well-known Harvard chair (black with gold trim and mahogany-colored arms; weight: 28 pounds; advertised price: $13.50) yields the following historical…
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Campus & Community
Bottom’s up
A glass paperweight in a stationery store reflects a topsy-turvy pedestrian as he walks along Massachusetts Avenue.
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Campus & Community
Franklin Ford memorial service set for Nov. 20
A memorial service for Franklin Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Emeritus, will be held Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. at the Memorial Church.
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Campus & Community
Stick to your promise and get your flu shot
University Health Services (UHS) will be providing free flu vaccines to members of the Harvard community beginning in November. The walk-in clinics are being held at the following locations:
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Campus & Community
Gene needed for puberty discovered
If your Harry Potter gene doesnt work, you cant reach puberty. Thats what researchers at Harvard University and in England have discovered.
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Campus & Community
Chim-chim-chi-red
Gift of the season: Bright red ivy enlivens a chimney on the roof of a Mt. Auburn Street building. Strong winds in the next couple of days should remove whats left of falls leaves.
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Health
Regeneration of insulin-producing islets may lead to diabetes cure
Type 1 diabetes develops when the body’s immune cells mistakenly attack the insulin-producing islet cells of the pancreas. As islet cells die, insulin production ceases, and blood sugar levels rise,…
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Health
Smoking increases bleeding into the brain, study finds
A research team at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) found that stroke risk for women increased proportionately with the number of cigarettes smoked each day. In contrast, women who stopped…
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Campus & Community
Scholars resuscitate dead languages
The goal of a Harvard academic research project is to develop advanced computer technology that will help scholars mine myriad scientific texts in a variety of languages, but also to…
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Campus & Community
Designing solutions to fresh water shortage
Robert France, associate professor of landscape ecology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, is a scientist who has studied the effect of environmental degradation of various plants and animals.…
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Science & Tech
Puberty gene identified
A gene discovered by Harvard researchers and their colleagues in England makes a protein necessary to trigger a hormonal cascade that flows from the brain to the gonads. Without it,…