Year: 2005

The 2005 Ig Nobel Prize winners will be announced and showered with applause and paper airplanes at Harvards Sanders Theatre on Oct. 6. Organized by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research in cooperation with several Harvard student groups, the Igs honor achievements in science that make people laugh and think.

Law School Dean Elena Kagan (above left) moderates a discussion among The Right Honourable The Lord Scott of Foscote (above center), Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer (above right), Justice Antonin Scalia (below right), and The Right Honourable The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry (below, second from right). The jurists talked about The Practice of Judging: Comparative…

Christopher M. Gordon, director of Capital Programs and Logan Modernization for the Massachusetts Port Authority, has been named chief operating officer (COO) for Harvards Allston development, President Lawrence H. Summers announced Thursday (Sept. 22). Gordon will oversee the creation of a new Harvard organization that will implement Harvards evolving plans for an extended campus in…

The Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital received one of three inaugural grants from the National Institutes of Health meant to bring cell-based therapy for heart, lung, and blood diseases out of the lab and into doctors medical arsenal for treating patients.

Visits to emergency rooms at Boston area hospitals plummet when the Red Sox play championship games.

Mens soccer rolled to its third straight win of the season this past Sunday (Sept. 25) blanking cross-state rival University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2-0, on the road. And though the Ivy season has yet to commence, this weekends victory – which came two days after Harvards 2-1 decision over visiting Fairfield on Sept. 23 -…

Junior running back Clifton Dawson rushed for 189 yards and three touchdowns, including the game-tying tally with 15 seconds left in regulation, as 15th-ranked Harvard took a thrilling 38-35 double-overtime decision – the first in Crimson football history – against visiting Brown this past Saturday (Sept. 24).

The Office of the Provost makes funds available to faculty for University projects that promise to alter and improve teaching and learning through the use of technology. The Provosts Instructional Technology Fund is made up of two funds: the Innovation Fund and the Content Fund. The Innovation Fund is for large-scale projects that propose to…

RMO workshop to cover electronic recordkeeping Harvard’s Records Management Office (RMO) is offering one of its fall workshops on electronic recordkeeping Oct. 5 at 10 a.m. in Pusey Library. The…

Sandel delivers Korean lectures on democracy Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel traveled to Korea earlier this month to deliver the ninth annual Dasan…

Playing is important, too. And a new Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) plan ensures that more space will be devoted to recreational, social, and, of course, study areas for…

Daniel Lord Smail, a cultural historian who studies social and legal transformations in the later Middle Ages, has been named professor of history in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective Jan. 1, 2006.

Ambivalence is such a common condition in our complex and uncertain times that it is astonishing to learn that the word has existed for less than a century. It was coined by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1911 to describe a condition in which a person holds contradictory feelings toward someone or something.

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. 26. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

September 1930 – The Class of 1934 enters with 897 members. Dunster and Lowell – the first of the seven original undergraduate Houses – are ready for occupancy. September 1936…

For doctors Miriam Baron and Jennifer Moye, the money couldnt have come at a better time.

In celebration of the Autumnal Equinox and the majesty of the Charles River Parklands, the Charles River Conservancy and the Revels called neighbors from Cambridge and Allston to the second annual RiverSing on Sept. 22. With massed choruses in the hundreds on either side of the Charles, traditional river songs were shared from shore to…

In Harvard Yard, first-years took time off from gobbling down hot dogs, hamburgers, and doughnuts to wait patiently in a long line and get a chance to shoot the breeze with the president. On this warm September day, President Lawrence H. Summers and a bunch of upperclassmen hung out in the Yard and extended a…

The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics has selected six graduate fellows in ethics for the 2005-06 academic year. The fellows, who study ethical problems in law, political science, philosophy, and medicine, were chosen from a pool of outstanding Harvard graduate students who are writing dissertations or are engaged in major research on topics…

This fall, Harvard will host its first Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender (LBGT) Film Series. This inaugural event seeks to examine and celebrate representations of lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender life and culture in cinema during the four decades since the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion in New York Citys Greenwich Village ignited the modern gay rights…

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Medicine December 15, 2004, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Newly elected Serbian President Boris Tadic said a democratic Serbia and Montenegro could be a regional force for stability and economic growth, but warned that moves to further fragment the nation would work against those goals.

Eleven leading academics and practitioners whose expertise ranges from health policy to Latin American studies have been named new faculty members at Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Dean David T. Ellwood recently announced.