Year: 2004

At its third meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed with General Counsel Robert Iuliano, University attorney Ellen Berkman, and Professor John Huchra (astronomy and chair of the Standing Committee on Research Policy) the relevance of national export control policy to university research. The council also considered revisions to the procedures for Memorial Minutes,…

Every day, in hospitals all over the country, biology clashes with medicine. Biology demands sleep medicine dictates long hours without it.

Until the early 1990s, the marshes of southern Iraq were a critical environmental lifeline, a source of water and nourishment in the desert, and home to Arab peoples who made their living from marsh fish, plants, and wildlife.

The kids at the Lampoon have given the usually inscrutable facade of their Mt. Auburn Street headquarters a frightful Halloween makeover.

Does playing music promote longevity? Many claim that it does, although the evidence is probably more anecdotal than scientific. Well, here is one more piece of data to add to a bulging albeit inconclusive file: James Yannatos is beginning his 41st year conducting the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO).

A panel of human rights activists condemned Sudanese government-sanctioned genocide that has left 1.5 million black Africans in Sudans Darfur region homeless and 70,000 dead.

Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang spends a solitary moment before the screening of his new film Goodbye Dragon Inn at the Harvard Film Archive on Tuesday (Oct. 19). Tsais recurring themes are the isolated nature of individual lives, the rituals that are essential for survival, and the restorative power of love. Goodbye Dragon Inn will be…

Robin Chase has already changed the way we drive, but shes not satisfied. Now she wants to change the way we live as well.

The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Southeastern Europe Study Group at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies will hold the seventh annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop on Feb. 4, 2005.

Young women who were treated for cancer as children have a greater chance of developing breast cancer if their treatment included chest radiation, if they initially had cancer of the bones, muscles, or connective tissue, or if they have a family history of breast cancer, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard-affiliated…

Diplomats, academics, and leaders of nongovernmental organizations gathered at the John F. Kennedy School of Government last week for a three-day conference examining the worlds rogue states and how best to handle them.

A Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study conference on womens reproductive health aimed to pierce a global sense of complacency that contributes to hundreds of thousands of women in poor countries dying in childbirth each year.

This fall the Harvard University Art Museums will return with a fourth year of its successful Sackler Saturdays program. Families with children ages 6 to 11 are invited to explore artworks from ancient cultures and distant lands such as China, Japan, Korea, India, Greece, and Rome. The program, which is free and open to the…

Winning finish caps 7-1 season for men’s water polo A pair of wins over Iona and Fordham this past Saturday (Oct. 16) in New London, Conn., improved the Harvard men’s…

An undersized Harvard football team effectively dismantled 19th-ranked Northeastern, 41-14, this past Saturday (Oct. 16) to keep its unbeaten season intact. Now 5-0, the host Crimson (2-0 Ivy) held the husky Huskies (3-3) to just two first-half touchdowns – 24 points below their per-game season average – while converting five turnovers into 13 Harvard points.

You walk into a room and spy a plate of gooey doughnuts dripping with chocolate frosting. But wait: You were saving your sweets allotment for a party later today. If it feels like one part of your brain is battling another, it probably is, according to a newly published study.

Scientists identify major molecular pathway that leads to diabetes Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health have discovered what they believe is the fundamental mechanism within cells that links…

Harvard University announced a groundbreaking partnership agreement Thursday (Oct. 14) with Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), creating a premiere fellowship program at Harvard for outstanding Ph.D. students from Mexico.

Peabody, Consulate General of Mexico to fete Day of the Dead The Peabody Museum and the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston will host a celebration of the traditional Mexican…

Six alumni/ae were recognized for their outstanding Schools and Scholarships work during an awards ceremony on Oct. 15.

Concerned about a recent trend that has seen a decline in the number of international students studying in the United States, Harvard University continues to work to smooth the road for those students, who in recent years have faced tougher screenings and longer waits to enter the United States.

Theres a war going on inside our bodies, early in life.

Dennis N. Skiotis, director of undergraduate studies at Harvards Department of History from 1985 to 1998, and associate director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies from 1976 to 1985, passed away on Oct. 19 from complications of pneumonia after a long struggle with leukemia. He was 67.

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 week ending Oct. 18. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A memorial celebration honoring the life of Philip S. Holzman will be held on Oct. 23 at 1 p.m. at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Holzman, who died on June 1, was the Esther and Sidney R. Rabb Professor of Psychology Emeritus, and professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry emeritus. A…

Robert A. Jones, a 37-year veteran of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), died of colon cancer on June 10. He was 61. A Boston native, Jones joined the HUPD force in 1963 after brief stints as a cook and security guard at Radcliffe College. Jones was promoted to sergeant in the late 1970s and…

The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School recently announced that Richard Holbrooke, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations credited with helping to end the war in the former Yugoslavia in 1995, is the recipient of its 2004 Great Negotiator award. Holbrooke will receive the award at a dinner in his honor at…

Oct. 6, 1642 – “The times and order of their Studies, unlesse experience shall shew cause to alter,” the earliest detailed Harvard curriculum, is preserved in writing. Harvard’s undergraduate course…

A phone totin pedestrian casts a long shadow as he walks in front of the Malkin Athletic Center.