Year: 2004

The Department of Biostatistics at the School of Public Health has named Robert C. Elston, director of the Division of Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology at Case Western Reserve University, the recipient of the 2004 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science. Elston will deliver a lecture at Harvard on June 4. He will also be…

Jennifer Hawkins ’04 delivers a stirring rendition of King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. The Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration is an annual event. Students interested in planning or…

Many Allston-Brighton children and their families braved the cold to hit Harvard ice for the 15th annual Allston-Brighton Family Skating Party on Tuesday (Jan. 20) night. The boys and girls strapped on their skates and zipped around the Bright Hockey Arena. Some demonstrated their skills with well-executed twirls, while others took command of the entire…

Harvard officials described a broad swath of environmental efforts on campus to a Boston task force on green planning and development Thursday (Jan. 15), highlighting efforts that have changed buildings and minds over the past three years.

Harvard has recently launched two new Web sites – community.harvard.edu and allston.harvard.edu – making current information on community services, campus activities, and projects in planning and development more accessible to neighborhood residents, as well as the Harvard community.

D.C. United selects soccer’s Ara All-Ivy Crimson midfielder Kevin Ara ’04 was selected by the D.C. United in the third round of the 2004 Major League Soccer draft on Jan.…

As part of its 60th anniversary celebration, the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is undergoing a $6 million renovation to improve the safety of its collections and to make the librarys space more functional and attractive to researchers from Harvard and…

A growing number of cancer patients are receiving aggressive treatments when they are near death, according to a study led by researchers at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The findings were published in the Jan. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Lester Esser has an unusual woodworking project this winter. Hes building a new bed of nails.

Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Associations (HAA) candidates for the 2004 elections to the Harvard Board of Overseers and the HAA Board of Directors. The election this spring will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA Elected Directors. Ballots for Overseer and Elected Director of the Harvard Alumni Association will be mailed by…

Design by Silvetti, Machado receives BSA award

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 Jan. 17. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

January 1935 – In his second Annual Report, President James Bryant Conant proposes the creation of a special category of academic appointment, the University Professorship. In his memoirs (“My Several…

Cambridge Police, working in cooperation with Harvard University Police, arrested a Holyoke Center maintenance worker Tuesday (Jan. 20) evening in connection with an indecent assault on a female graduate student on Mount Auburn Street.

Nonhuman primates are unable to grasp a fundamental grammatical component used in all human languages, researchers at Harvard University and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland reported recently in the journal Science. Their work provides the clearest example to date of a cognitive bottleneck during the evolution of human language, suggesting a sharp limit…

At the Barker Center, a student is dwarfed by John Singer Sargents painting of Maj. Henry Lee Higginson. Founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Civil War soldier, fellow of Harvard College – Higginson held a deep and passionate wish that we should live according to our highest ideals.

Both the patients and psychiatrists were startled. Manic-depressives undergoing brain scans, not a really pleasant experience, came out of the machine happier than when they went in.

The wind across Harvard Yard blew numbingly cold, but the scene inside Annenberg Hall Wednesday night (Jan. 7) was toasty and congenial at the second annual Freshman Study Break hosted by President Lawrence H. Summers. Nearly 1,200 members of the class of 07 were lured from their desks and library carrels by the irresistible trio…

Minjung Son, left, and her mother Niokjung, visisting from South Korea, were prepared for the arctic cold that descended on the Northeast this week. The Sons took a walking tour of the Harvard University campus Wednesday morning with the temperature at -2 degrees Farenheit.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 18, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

This illustration from the title page of a rare Dutch songbook is featured in the exhibition, Res Gestae: Libri Manent A Curators Choice, which opened Jan. 12 in the Edison and Newman Room of Houghton Library. The exhibition includes 89 other rare books acquired by Roger E. Stoddard, curator of rare books in the Harvard…

By curating the exhibition Life as Art: Paintings by Gregory Gillespie and Frances Cohen Gillespie, Theodore Stebbins Jr. has brought about a reconciliation of sorts, albeit a melancholy one.

It was weird, it was squirming around, said Baldwin School fourth-grader Taylor Vandick. It had three antennas or fangs or whatever and it was squirming around.

Karl Haglund (right), author of the recently released Inventing the Charles River, a pictorial history of the Charles River Basin – known as Bostons Central Park – was a guest last week at an event sponsored by Harvard Planning and the Allston Initiative. Along with Renata von Tscharner (second from left), president of the Charles…

Inspired by the spirit of the 50th Anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC), the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC), and The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University are jointly commissioning research on Southeast Asian Educational Opportunity. The studies, funded by…

The need for a stable, dedicated funding source for the Universitys expansion into Allston has prompted Harvards Corporation to extend the life of the Strategic Infrastructure Fund through the 25-year first phase of development.

Albert Alcalay is a survivor. Born to Jewish parents in Serbia in 1917, he and his family were forced to flee when the Nazis took over in 1941. They ended up in a concentration camp in Calabria, Italy, populated primarily by Jewish artists and intellectuals, and it was in that unlikely setting that Alcalay began…

Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) in partnership with Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) has received a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help eliminate health disparities in rural and urban communities.