Year: 2004

Faust to offer insight on PBS program Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Dean Drew Gilpin Faust, who is also professor of history, will share her scholarly insight as a historian…

Physicists at Harvard University have created a pulse of light that contains photons, is compressed to fit within several centimeters of space, and does not travel. The finding builds upon earlier demonstrations of stored light by halting actual photons, not just their signature.

Suchanan Tambunlertchai 04 concentrates intently in Lamont Library, where she has plenty of company as students prepare for exams.

Albert Szabo, a teacher of architecture and design with a flair for finding beauty in the fragmentary debris of civilization, died Dec. 10 at Mt. Auburn Hospital from complications following surgery. Szabo, who suffered from Parkinsons disease, was 78.

Attenborough named Peterson Medal recipient The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) has named world-renowned natural history filmmaker and conservationist Sir David Attenborough the 2004 Roger Tory Peterson Medal recipient.…

Warren A. Law (MBA 48, Ph.D. 53), the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking Emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS) and an eloquent critic of the corporate takeovers that convulsed the world of American business in the 1970s and 1980s, died of cancer on Dec. 11, at his home in Belmont. He was…

Harvard Law School students and recent graduates have won an unprecedented eight Skadden Fellowships to pursue public interest work. The awards represent the most given to applicants from any single law school in the 15-year history of the Skadden Fellowship Foundation.

A study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Womens Hospital has found that participants who regularly drank coffee significantly reduced the risk of onset of type 2 diabetes, compared to non-coffee-drinking participants. The findings appear in the Jan. 6 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

While many individuals complain of difficulty adjusting to bright light, scientists have had little success in identifying an abnormality in the retina that causes this symptom. A research team led by scientists at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary has identified genetic defects in five unrelated individuals that interfere with the ability of cells in…

Triangular nozzles provide the tiniest droplets, say researchers in Harvard Universitys Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences who used a mathematical algorithm to determine that a miniature three-sided tap could produce drips some 21 percent smaller than a conventional round nozzle.

As Sarah Kinsella 07 works out at the Malkin Athletic Center, she is framed by the arms and weight of her equally determined roommate and friend Rejoice Opara 07.

David G. Freiman, pathologist in chief at Beth Israel Hospital from 1956 to 1979 and the first person at Beth Israel to hold a chair endowed by Harvard Medical School, has died from complications resulting from a fall in his home. He was 92.

Memorial services are often somber affairs, but when the person being honored lived well beyond the biblical three score and ten, was productive, nay, indispensable, up until his final days, left behind a list of accomplishments that would have been impressive had they been parceled out among a dozen lesser mortals, and touched the lives…

Venerable Mallinckrodt Lab is reflected in the more modern building across the street.

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, comparing data on the rates of use of 12 specific high-cost operative procedures among Medicare beneficiaries in for-profit and not-for-profit health plans, found that, contrary to conventional wisdom, enrollees in for-profit health plans were no less likely to have the procedures done. The findings appear in the…

Have you heard the one about the Muslim woman who walked into the comedy club wearing a headscarf?

Theres beauty everywhere, even underfoot, if you only look. A puddle captures the tower of Harvard Hall gracefully framed by a bare winter tree. (Staff photo Jon Chase/Harvard News Office)

Ask most people to pull up a mental image of a physicist, and theyll likely present a wild-haired amalgam of Albert Einstein and Bill Gates wearing Buddy Holly glasses, a lab coat, and yesterdays lunch on his shirt. After all, it hardly matters what you look like if youre doing great science, right?

For the first time in Harvards history, women outnumber men in gaining admission to the College under the Early Action program. Early Action admissions for the Class of 2008 total 906, 50.9 percent of which are women. For quite some time, we have been on the verge of reaching this milestone. Alumni/ae, faculty, students, and…

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 for the weeks beginning Dec. 7 and ending Jan. 3. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will conduct an accreditation survey of Harvard University Health Services on Feb. 10 -13.

Jan. 10, 1921 – In the Music Building’s John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Marian MacDowell, widow of composer Edward MacDowell, gives a lecture on “The MacDowell Colony at Peterborough” (the…

At its sixth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed three interrelated topics: (1) The extension of the Infrastructure Fund (2) The rise in and effects of the fringe benefit rate and (3) Faculty of Arts and Sciences financial results for FY 2003 and prospects for this and future years. Ann Berman, vice president…

A memorial service for Kennedy School faculty member Susan C. Eaton will be held Saturday (Jan. 10) at 10:30 a.m. at First Parish Church in Cambridge. Eaton died Dec. 30 from complications of leukemia. She was 46.

On Dec. 11 at approximately 7 p.m. a graduate student was walking on Mt. Auburn Street toward Dunster Street when she was approached by a male who attempted to grab her crotch while walking by her. The victim pulled back causing the suspect to briefly touch her thigh. The suspect and the victim continued to…

Paloma Valverde knows scorpion venom. A biochemist, she has worked with it for years, and marveled at how it can both kill prey and fight a number of diseases in both animals and humans.