Year: 2003

Whether the result of a solar flare, the nearness of Halloween, or the lustrous alchemy of cloud, setting sun, and October light, the coming of dusk on Oct. 29 turned Harvard Square into a luminous spectacle.

Harvard researchers demonstrated how the first living cells may have formed in a series of experiments that indicate that clay can be an important catalyst for life.

Whether your heart winds up in the right place may be determined as early as the first hour of your life in the womb.

The Harvard University Alumni Association presented six awards this year to some of its most loyal longtime volunteers who work all over the world administering alumni services. The award is named in honor of Hiram S. Hunn 21 who did schools committee work for 55 years in Iowa and Vermont. At the Agassiz Theatre event,…

This is the third in a series of interviews with Democratic presidential candidates.

Harvard Colleges Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) donated $11,000 of its profits from its 155th production, Its A Wonderful Afterlife, to help launch the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Fund for Cultural Enrichment in Cambridge Public Schools. The fund will provide

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the fifth funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, a KSG faculty committee will consider applications for small one-year grants (up to $30,000) to support advanced research by Harvard University faculty members on issues of…

This is my fourth season on staff as craft artisan at the ART [American Repertory Theatre]. There are three areas of costuming that are my responsibility: craftwork, fabric painting/dyeing, and distressing.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 25. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave, sixth floor.

Harvard researchers have stimulated mice to increase their production of blood stem cells, a development with apparent human parallels that researchers hope will have immediate benefits in the treatment of blood cancers.

The Harvard-Yenching Library is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year – not all that old compared with its parent institution, created when John Harvard left his 300-plus book collection to the commonwealths fledgling college in 1638. But it is old enough to have been a constant in the lives of some of its most devoted…

Elizabeth Warren, a portrait in soft-spoken calm as she sips tea in her gracious office at Harvard Law School, is sounding an alarm.

Established even earlier than the venerable University across the street, the Old Burying Ground in Harvard Square, though beaten and battered over the centuries, persists as one of the citys most charming historic sites. The modest cemetery, located along Massachusetts Avenue and Garden Street between the First Parish and Christ churches and first fenced in…

Harvard University and its most valuable resource – its faculty – exist for its students, President Lawrence H. Summers told the parents of freshmen on Friday (Oct. 24), the opening day of Freshman Parents Weekend.

As a child, Frank Raines A.B. 71, J.D. 76 learned to appreciate the value of books while working in his junior high school library. Later, while studying at Harvard, Raines would browse the aisles at Widener Library, fascinated by the volumes upon volumes on display.

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:

With an accordion strapped across her shoulders and gold ornaments dangling from her neck, fingers, and hips, Petra Gelbart, a second-year graduate student in ethnomusicology, belted out a Rroma (Gypsy) song with a gorgeous urgency that she seemed to be channeling from generations past. Then Jessica Maya Marglin 06 turned the stage into a passage…

The next time Elliot Rojas sees his grandmother, hell have plenty to tell her about the breast cancer she battles. He can describe the role of the immune system, how stem cells work, and the research that is aiming to make bone marrow transplants more successful. He can even tell his grandmother what bone marrow…

A majority of college students say President George Bush is doing a good job even though they think his administration isnt being entirely truthful about Iraq, a new Institute of Politics (IOP) poll shows.

If Jos&eacute Padilla can be held incommunicado in a U.S. Navy brig, without being charged, without the prospect of a trial, and without access to legal counsel, then none of us is safe.

Seven Harvard faculty have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the worlds largest federation of scientists. The honorees, to be announced on Oct. 31, include Richard Bambach, Edward Benz, Gary Chamberlain, Jeremy Knowles, Clifford Saper, Dennis Selkoe, and Fred Winston.

There were two principals walking the halls of Jackson/Mann Elementary School last Tuesday (Oct. 28) – one who has helped to shape the school and its children over the past 12 years, and the other, a newcomer, who runs a school across the Charles River that those children may one day attend.

A late Crimson surge proved to be too late as Harvards field hockey team dropped a 3-2 decision to Princeton this past Saturday (Oct. 25) at Jordan Field. The No. 15 Crimson, suffering its first defeat since an Oct. 8 heartbreaker against Northeastern, cut the lead to a single goal on a Jennifer McDavitt 06…

For a month dedicated to celebrating the centennial of Harvard Stadium, the Crimsons dramatic 43-40 overtime victory against Princeton this past Saturday (Oct. 25) made for a fitting installment to the stadiums rich 100-year history. In fact, the emotional game – featuring five lead changes, two ties, two missed field goals, four (for four) botched…

Harvard and the city of Cambridge, following a unanimous vote from Cambridge city councilors, reached a milestone agreement this week regarding University development in Riverside.

Committee on Honorary Degrees to consider nominees The Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees will be meeting during the fall and spring to consider nominees for honorary degrees to be awarded…

Van Valkenburgh wins design award Charles Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture Michael Van Valkenburgh was named a finalist in the environment design category at the National Design Awards…