Year: 2004

Harvard researchers have shed new light on how blood clots and say the information can aid the development of better anti-clotting drugs, which are critical to the recovery of patients suffering from heart attacks, strokes, and other ailments.

Harvards Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG), together with other leading institutions, will establish the federally funded Center on School Choice, Competition and Achievement.

Airway response mechanism in asthma investigated A mechanism that helps explain how airways respond to constriction in asthma has been identified by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers. The…

Give a pint, get a pint The first Harvard University Blood Drive of the academic year continues today (Sept. 30) from noon to 6 p.m., and Friday (Oct. 1) from…

S. Allen Counter appointed honorary consul general of Sweden Associate Professor of Neurology S. Allen Counter has been appointed honorary consul general of Sweden in Boston and New England by…

John E. Mack, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School since 1972 and founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Cambridge Hospital, was struck by a car and killed on Monday evening (Sept. 27) in London. He was 74. Mack was hit as he walked home from a symposium he was attending on…

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

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Sept. 27. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Cox to be remembered on Oct. 8 A memorial service for former Harvard Law School Professor Archibald Cox will be held on Oct. 8 at 2 p.m. in the Memorial…

Sept. 19, 1782 – The Harvard Corporation votes to establish the Medical School, following a detailed plan from President Joseph Willard and Professor Edward Wigglesworth. The plan calls for new…

Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) is holding its fourth annual Harvest of Health Fair for students on Oct. 6. Featuring complimentary food, chair massage, bicycle tune-ups, and giveaways, the fair will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Science Center grounds. Clinician specialists will also be on hand to answers questions, give…

At its second meeting of the year the Faculty Council considered, with Dean Peter Ellison (anthropology and GSAS), a proposed Ph.D. program in Chemical Biology. Professor Christopher Walsh (biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology, HMS) spoke in support of the proposed program, and Professors David Liu (chemistry and chemical biology) and Suzanne Walker (microbiology and molecular…

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) recently named a new endowed professorship in global leadership and public policy in memory of Anna Lindh, the late foreign minister of Sweden, who was murdered one year ago. The Anna Lindh Professorship will promote advanced scholarship, teaching, research, and outreach from a leading member of KSGs faculty.

On Sept. 30 at Sanders Theatre, good and bad science will take center stage at the 14th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Showered with applause and paper airplanes, this years class of winners will be honored for scientific achievements that first make people laugh, then think. Genuine Nobel laureates will be on-hand to present…

A new class of fellows whose work extends from Iraq to Rwanda will join the Kennedy School of Governments (KSG) Center for Human Rights Policy for the 2004-05 academic year. The class of fellows includes experts and activists from various disciplines including anthropology, law, and journalism, and will focus on topics ranging from democratization within…

At its first meeting of the year the Faculty Council heard a report on the Harvard College Curricular Review from Deans William Kirby (history and FAS) and Benedict Gross (mathematics and Harvard College). The Council also considered, with Dean Peter Ellison (anthropology and GSAS), a proposed Ph.D. program in Systems Biology. Professor Marc Kirschner, chair…

International efforts to combat tuberculosis may inadvertently be aiding the emergence of deadly, drug-resistant strains of the disease, Harvard School of Public Health researchers found.

Elissa Poorman ’06, and her mother, Jeanne Poorman recycle boxes together while moving into Eliot House this fall.

A chance to gaze eye-to-eye with a chuckwalla lizard, a couple of stolen minutes drawing centuries-old ritual bells, discovering the contours of an ancient stone – these are just a few moments captured by neighbors and visitors at the Harvard Museums second Community Day.

Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies Lizabeth Cohen, director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, recently announced the names of nine scholars participating in the centers 2004-05 workshop: The Culture and Politics of the Built Environment. This years Warren Fellows were selected from a pool of more than 75 applicants…

A BBC senior producer, a political journalist, and an international scholar of political campaigning are among the recently named fellows and visiting faculty at the Kennedy School of Governments (KSG) Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy this semester.

The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics (formerly the Center for Ethics and the Professions) recently announced its Graduate Fellows in Ethics for the 2004-05 academic year. The fellows are Harvard-enrolled graduate students and professional students who focus on ethics topics in their research. During the fellowship year, they will pursue philosophical topics relevant…

Declaring that Africa is winning the battle against violent conflicts, Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano brought his vision of hope, prosperity, and peace to a packed forum at the Kennedy School on Sunday (Sept. 19).

With a $2.1 million gift from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Harvard University Library will establish a comprehensive, Universitywide preservation program for Harvards holdings of more than 7.5 million photographs. The Mellon Foundation is providing a $1.25 million matching grant to endow the position of senior photograph conservator in the librarys Weissman Preservation Center…

Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) plans to outfit all of its student housing for wireless Internet access over the next 12 to 18 months, making the University one of just a handful of institutions nationwide that have announced plans to offer full wireless coverage in most dormitories.

Joseph S. Nye Jr. and Peter G. Rowe have been named Harvard University Distinguished Service Professors, President Lawrence H. Summers has announced.