Year: 2004

Two new exhibitions have opened at Houghton Library.

For the group of public school educators and administrators who gathered at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Wednesday (March 31), pink slips and hiring freezes make teacher shortages difficult to imagine.

With the identification of the gene responsible for a newly recognized type of mental retardation, researchers at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have also discovered what appears to be the key target in the evolution of the frontal lobes of the brains cerebral cortex. The findings, reported in the March 26 issue of…

Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) has announced the approval of the new rent schedule for approximately 2,500 Harvard-owned apartments rented by graduate students and other University affiliates. The new rents will take effect July 1, when the 2004-2005 rental season begins.

League hands Hendricks player of the week Harvard hurler Trey Hendricks ’04 has been named Ivy League Pitcher of the Week for his efforts in steering the Crimson to a…

One is bound to feel some déjà vu in the wake of the Harvard womens hockey teams recent stumble in the Big Dance. Yet unlike last years showdown, when the University of Minnesota-Duluth pulled off a dramatic 4-3 win in the second overtime, the Crimsons 6-2 loss against the University of Minnesota this past March…

Memorial Hall is light enough to give the crescent moon and Venus, shining together in the western sky, a little competition. After the sun and Memorial Hall, the moon and Venus are the two brightest objects in the sky. (Staff photo Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office)

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute officials recently announced the establishment of the Center for Applied Cancer Science, a far-reaching initiative designed to convert basic molecular discoveries into new therapies for cancer. The center is an integral part of Dana-Farbers strategic plan, which commits the institute to making major advances in the development of cancer cures by accelerating…

President Lawrence H. Summers reaffirmed Harvards commitment to globalization and international education on a trip to Chile and Brazil last week (March 30-April 1), the first formal visit to Latin America by a Harvard president. Public lectures and meetings, including one with Chilean President Ricardo Lagos and one with former Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, packed…

For the first time in Harvards history, women comprise more than 50 percent of the students admitted to the freshman class.

Okin memorial set for May 2 Friends and family of Susan Moller Okin, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will host a memorial service on May 2…

Harvards Records Management Office (RMO) will offer a new presentation for office managers and other staff charged with file keeping. The new one-hour presentation, which will be offered on three Thursdays (April 15, July 8, and Oct 28), will provide practical guidance on filing systems, filing rules and procedures, and equipment and supplies. Each session…

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 weeks beginning March 21 and ending April 3. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

April 19, 1775 – Six Harvard students march off with the Minutemen. April 1861 – A student chronicler at the Divinity School describes responses to the start of the U.S.…

Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree…

James F. Rothenberg, a leading figure in the investment world and a distinguished alumnus of both Harvard College and Harvard Business School, will become the Universitys next treasurer and the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, effective July 1.

If you want to increase your chances of living longer, taking cholesterol drugs is an easy way to do it. Thats the message from a Harvard study of 4,162 people hospitalized in 350 places in eight countries. It is the first research to show that intense lowering of cholesterol results in a major reduction in…

John Bidwell will present the Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture Industrial Hubris: A Revisionist History of the Papermaking Machine today (March 25) at 5:30 p.m. in the Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library. Bidwell, Astor Curator of Printed Books and Bindings at The Morgan Library, will discuss London stationers Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier, who between…

Former U.S. weapons inspector David Kay called it a damning charge against Western democracy that it took the fear of horrific weapons of mass destruction to move the world to act against the corrupt, murderous regime of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Its been a year and a half since Jonathan Tilly, Joshua Johnson, and Jacqueline Canning looked at each other and understood that if their experimental numbers were right, a foundation of reproductive biology had to be wrong.

Throughout their history, artists have looked at birds and tried to make them soar on paper with pen and paint. According to renowned British naturalist and documentary filmmaker Sir David Attenborough, though, there are birds so lovely and ingenious they can justifiably be categorized as art – and even artists – themselves.

Psychologists at Harvard University and the University of Texas, San Antonio, have found that the thoughts we try to put out of mind while awake tend to reappear in dreams. The finding lends support to Sigmund Freuds 1900 contention that dreams bother us because they harbor things we dont want to think about, a theory…

Senior wrestler Jesse Jantzen brought home Harvards first national championship in 66 years with an impressive 9-3 win against Oklahoma States Zach Esposito this past Saturday (March 20) in St. Louis. John Harkness 38, who was actually on hand to cheer on Jantzen, was the last Crimson grappler to capture the national title – back…

Youve got to use your imaginojo, baby! Sporting a pinky ring on each of six hands, a lace dickey, and a very strong resemblance to Austin Powers, the Blind Spider told theatergoers and his fellow actors how to navigate the Island of Anyplace – both the stage set for a bored young girl, and the…

Surely there are easier places to make art than Antarctica. There, at the bottom of the world, acrylics crack on the page and watercolors turn to slush. En route to Antarctica by sea, pastels are often the only option any liquid would spill as the ship rolls to such a pitch that sleeping bunks are…

Kennedy School of Government (KSG) alumna Michelle Rhee, M.P.P. 97, was among a dozen individuals honored with the 2004 Citizen Activist Award by the Gleitsman Foundation on Monday (March 22). Designed to honor those who have challenged social injustice in the United States, the award is presented in alternating years with the International Activist Award.

This years Harvard participation in the American Cancer Societys Daffodil Days raised $35,514, a new record. The total number of dazzling yellow bouquets sold: 4,962, many of which (1,158) were donated to local hospitals. The Harvard Mail Services volunteered to deliver the flowers to more than 90 locations across the University in both Cambridge and…

Taiwans election has put the United States in the uncomfortable position of discouraging a growing democracy in order to keep relations with mainland China stable, according to Timothy Crawford, a professor of political science at Boston College.