Year: 2005

Sidney Coleman is famous for his physics and his wit, and both were celebrated at a recent conference that included a history-making combination of winners of nine Nobel Prizes, a Fields Medal, and an Oscar.

New research is calling into question the prevalence and increasing popularity of religious schooling in Pakistan, with survey data that show previous estimates of enrollment in Islamic madrassas to be far lower than widely reported.

Senior Elaine Belitsos drives the ball down Jordan Field with her Syracuse opponents in hot pursuit on March 16. Harvard lost the contest, 10-4, after the Orange got off four straight goals in the first period. It was the Crimsons first loss of the season, putting them at 2-1.

According to keynote speaker Robert Franklin, there was – even before it had ended – a buzz already afoot nationally and internationally about the March 18 conference on black Pentecostalism held at Harvard Divinity School (HDS).

Linda Snyder has been appointed associate executive dean for physical resources and planning in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Reporting to FAS Executive Dean Nancy L. Maull, Snyder will assume her new role at Harvard in early May.

Harvard waste management officials saw a large drop in trash pickup in January, which, combined with increased rates of recycling, have them optimistic about the direction of the Universitys waste disposal efforts.

Asher Fredman 07 (left) and Francis Bok, a former slave from Sudan, share a minute of silence at the Memorial Church as part of a nationwide event sponsored by The Holocaust Memorial Museum in solidarity with hundreds of thousands of victims of the genocide in Sudan. The Harvard event was sponsored by the Darfur Action…

Harriet Wilson was a survivor. Now we have proof.

In the 1880s, the U.S. government set out to create detailed maps of the country, resulting in a series of topographical maps that can be viewed as both science and art. An exhibition of this rare cartography at the Harvard Map Collection features approximately 30 maps dating from 1885 to 1893. Cities like Boston and…

Several recent initiatives have enabled the University to enact substantial cuts in next academic years rates for student Blue Cross health insurance and to restructure rates to make purchasing health insurance more affordable for students with children.

First-year foiler captures NCAA title Freshman foiler Emily Cross defeated Alicja Kryczalo of Notre Dame, 15-7, to capture the NCAA women’s foil title last week. The win helped bring Harvard…

As the Harvard and Mercyhurst womens hockey teams lined up at center ice for the customary exchange of Good games and handshakes following Saturdays (March 19) triple overtime thriller at Bright Hockey Center, visiting goaltender Desi Clark – the very root of Harvards frustration over the past four hours and 17 minutes – suddenly found…

CERtoon winners honored by Greenies The Harvard Green Campus Initiative held an awards luncheon Wednesday (March 23) to honor the winners of the 2005 CERtoon (“carbon emissions reduction”) Cartoon Competition.…

Eduard Sekler awarded Austria’s Decoration for Science and Art In a March 9 ceremony at the Vienna Hofburg, Austrian President Heinz Fischer awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art…

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann announced March 21 that she will step down as dean of the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at the close of the 2004-05 academic year and will refocus her energies on scholarship and teaching as a member of the GSE faculty.

Harvard College has announced its fees for undergraduate tuition, room, and board for the 2005-06 academic year. Tuition is set at $28,752. Overall charges will total $41,675, an increase of 4.5 percent, including room rate, $5,148 board, $4,430 health services fee, $1,370 and student services fee, $1,975.

A renowned cancer epidemiologist, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Professor Dimitrios Trichopoulos, has received a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Innovator Award to explore fetal and early-life factors associated with adult breast cancer, including whether exposure to hormones such as estrogens and insulin-like growth factors while in the womb may cause the disease years…

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 March 21. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Looking like he might be trapped inside a modernist sculpture, custodian Marcus Baptist pauses for a moment in the temporary entrance to the music building to peer through a mysterious portal.

A memorial service for Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus Ernst Mayr will be held April 29 at 2 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Widely considered the worlds most eminent evolutionary biologist, Mayr joined Harvards Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1953 and led Harvards Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1961 to 1970.

March 16, 1951 – Nieman Fellows produce an issue of “The Harvard Crimson” in which (among other things) the veteran journalists hand out “Oscars” (from the “Harvard Square Academy”) to…

As its 11th meeting of the year on March 23, the Faculty Council discussed the work of the Task Forces on Women Faculty and Women in Science and Engineering. Dean Drew Faust and the chairs of the task forces, Professors Barbara Grosz and Evelynn Hammonds, were present for the discussion.

Chemists David R. Liu and Xiaowei Zhuang of Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences are among 43 young researchers nationwide named new investigators of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Monday (March 21). HHMI will collaborate with Harvard to fund the new investigators research for the next five years, with the possibility for funding renewal…