Year: 2003

  • Campus & Community

    Rowe to step down as dean of the Design School

    Peter G. Rowe, dean of the Harvard Design School and an authority on urban planning and design, announced Wednesday (Oct. 29) at a faculty meeting that he would step down as dean, effective June 30, 2004, after 12 years of service. Under Rowes leadership, the faculty of the School has been significantly expanded, educational offerings…

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    Mazzoli, 70, goes for master’s

    After 12 terms in Congress and innumerable legislative battles, former Kentucky Congressman Ron Mazzoli could teach students of government a thing or two.

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    President to hold office hours Monday

    President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

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    This month in Harvard history

    Oct. 17, 1943 – The Fogg Museum announces that Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Class of 1886, LLB 1889, has left Harvard “the most valuable and comprehensive art collection ever given to…

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    A decade of helping

    A recent party marked the 10-year partnership between the Law School and Boston-based law firm Hale and Dorr. The product of this collaboration, Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center of…

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    Memorial service set for Ford

    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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    Faculty Council notice for Oct. 29

    At the Faculty Councils third meeting of the year, the council discussed pending changes in the facultys appointment procedures with Associate Dean Cynthia Friend (FAS and chemistry) and Associate Dean Vincent Tompkins (academic affairs). Friend is currently chairing a faculty committee on the appointments process.

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    Indecent assault and battery reported on Cambridge Common

    At approximately 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 22, an undergraduate student was walking through Cambridge Common when a male approached her from behind, grabbed her wrist and waist, spun her around, grabbed her breast, and then attempted to remove her coat. The victim struck the suspect in the face. The suspect then struck the victim in…

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    Summers: Will and knowledge can beat AIDS

    Most people are well aware that AIDS in Africa is a crisis of vast and terrible proportions. In a speech Oct. 28 at the School of Public Health (SPH), President Lawrence H. Summers declared that is it also one that offers a great deal of hope.

  • Health

    Researchers boost blood cancer fight

    Working with colleagues at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, Harvard researchers found that giving mice a hormone known for building bones increased their production of blood stem cells.…

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    Speedy solar storm reaches Earth

    An Oct. 28, 2003 eruption created a monstrous solar flare – the third largest recorded since 1976 – and an associated coronal mass ejection, in which superheated gas, called plasma,…

  • Health

    Study shows medical schools lack end-of-life training

    A study, published by Dana-Farber researchers in the September 2003 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, suggests that increasing medical students’ opportunities to learn about end-of-life care will…

  • Health

    Matrix-buster inhibitor has second way to throttle angiogenesis

    Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their regulators, the tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs), form an intriguing partnership. MMPs work by breaking down the dense matrix surrounding cells, freeing them to wander…

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    Boston Public Schools to participate in 3-year project

    The Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE), Harvard Business School (HBS), and nine urban school districts announced the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) on Tuesday (Oct. 21). PELP is a joint venture collaboratively designed to dramatically improve the educational outcomes of these school systems. The districts, representing more than a million students in urban areas…

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    President to hold office hours on Nov. 3

    President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

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    ‘Creativity is for everyone’

    Be habitual. Get organized. Make decisions.

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    Healthy by design

    Promoting Physical Activity and Health by Urban Design – a conference sponsored by the School of Public Health (SPH) and the Design School – will be held Nov. 4 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 600 Atlantic Ave. (across from South Station). With obesity emerging as a serious public health problem in America, the…

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    Segregation talk kicks off population lecture series

    Deep and persistent racial segregation remains a fact of American life and leads to a host of social ills and health concerns that perpetuate stereotypes and create a vicious cycle keeping many African Americans trapped in inner-city neighborhoods.

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    Ambassadors discuss Southeast Europe’s future

    A stronger, larger Europe will become a better partner, not a bigger rival, to the United States in international affairs, according to European ambassadors and consuls gathered at the Kennedy School of Government last week (Oct. 15).

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    One on One: Kerry defends Iraq stance

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

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    Weissman International Interns return for 10th anniversary celebration

    This past summer, when Claire Porter 05 was rising at 5 a.m. to greet the Ugandan dawn by recording the vocalizations of colobus monkeys, she hardly imagined she was leading a Harvard trend. Delivering babies in rural Mexico, Ashkan Abbey 05 didnt have a broad educational initiative on his mind.

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    School of Public Health honors Couric

    Katie Couric, one of the most recognizable faces on television, accepted an award from Harvards School of Public Health (SPH) Tuesday (Oct. 21) for work that she said is more important to her than her daily interviews with newsmakers and stars.

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    Newsmakers

    LuPone class canceled Due to unforeseen circumstances, the master class with Tony Award-winning actor/singer Patti LuPone on Oct. 24 in Paine Hall at the Department of Music has been canceled.…

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    CDC awards KSG, SPH with grant

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded a $250,000 start-up grant to Harvards School of Public Health (SPH) and Kennedy School of Government to develop and establish the National Preparedness Leadership Academy (NPLA). In light of bioterrorist and other terror threats, this university-wide training initiative is geared toward senior government officials with…

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    Alcohol and Health Committee established

    As part of Harvards continuing effort to address issues of alcohol and health that have affected college-age students here and nationwide, Harvards provost and College dean have announced the formation of the Committee to Address Alcohol and Health at Harvard that will work to review all institutional prevention, education, outreach and treatment services to reduce…

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    In brief

    HUHS to present ‘Myths and Realities of Aging’ The Center for Wellness and Health Communication at Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) is sponsoring the second installment of “Myths and Realities…

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    Re-union

    During a first-time-ever labor-management conference of 100 union members and 100 Harvard managers held Oct. 16, former Harvard President Derek Bok and Kris Rondeau, Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers lead organizer, listen to speakers. Union members and managers later broke into groups to discuss the important themes to be addressed during the upcoming…

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 18. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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    Elisabeth MacDougall, pioneer in formal study of gardens

    Elisabeth Blair MacDougall, an art historian who helped transform the study of gardens into an academic discipline, died Oct. 12. She was 78.

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    This month in Harvard history

    Oct. 17, 1944 – In the “Harvard Service News,” Anthropology Professor Earnest A. Hooton advocates the election of a woman to the U.S. presidency, noting that “the females of our…