Year: 2005

Researchers have uncovered strong evidence that the ancient Chinese used diamonds to grind and polish ceremonial stone burial axes as long as 6,000 years ago – and incredibly, did so with a level of skill difficult to achieve even with modern polishing techniques. The finding, reported in the February issue of the journal Archaeometry, places…

Scientists at Harvard-affiliated Forsyth Institute have found and replicated a key aspect of the mechanism by which dental enamel is formed.

Sever Hall, the Henry Hobson Richardson-designed building that anchors the east side of Tercentenary Theatre in Harvard Yard, will undergo a major exterior restoration. Also, the buildings fourth floor will be renovated to create space for the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) film program. Work is slated to begin in June and conclude in September.

Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the Harvard Law School (HLS) will collaborate to renovate Hemenway Gymnasium in a project slated to run from late May to September of this year. The two schools will split the cost of the top-to-bottom interior rehabilitation of the 28,000-square-foot recreational fitness facility, which will be…

Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers report in the Annals of Internal Medicine that older physicians may be less likely to deliver currently accepted standards of care. The studys findings show that the number of years a doctor has been in practice may decrease the likelihood of the doctor providing technically appropriate care.

The pace of Tuesdays (Feb. 15) womens Beanpot championship game at Northeastern Universitys Matthews Arena was decidedly fast and frantic. For the Boston College womens hockey team, the whole ordeal mustve been a bit infuriating as well.

Men’s squash nabs Ivy League title The No. 2 Harvard men’s squash team captured its 36th outright Ivy League title with a 6-3 win over visiting Yale this past Saturday…

Crimson goalie Dov Grumet-Morris 05 makes a diving save on a shot by B.C.s Stephen Gionta in the consolation Beanpot game at the FleetCenter on Feb. 14. The Eagles beat the Crimson, 4-1.

New treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia Using rational drug design strategies, investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Novartis Pharmaceuticals in Basel, Switzerland, have created a targeted therapy for chronic myelogenous…

Film Archive to remember Malcolm X this month In memory of the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X this month, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and…

Real Fundación de Toledo awards Márquez prize Arthur Kingsley Porter Research Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Francisco Márquez was awarded the Premio Especial by the Real Fundación de Toledo…

Five years ago, Jennifer Shultis was a competitive equestrienne who rarely ran, had never mountain biked, and had what she calls a normal fear of heights.

Bakang Komunyane (from left), Rangarirai Miambo, Saritha Komatireddy, Monica Soni, and Aimee Miller practice a dance routine in preparation for Changing the Tide, a performance to raise funds for areas devastated by the recent tsunami in South Asia. The event takes place Saturday (Feb. 19), at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. For tickets, call the…

A one-time South Korean prisoner of conscience cautioned against using human rights as a political weapon against North Korea Thursday (Feb. 10) despite new details of horrific conditions in the communist nations political detention system.

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 Feb. 15. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Yes! Hasty Puddings 2005 Man of the Year, the delightful and affable Tim Robbins, will be at the Hasty Pudding Theatre tonight to enjoy the opening of Terms of Frontierment. There will be a champagne reception for Robbins at 7 p.m., followed by a roast of and then presentation of the Pudding Pot to the…

February 1950 – A capacity Sanders Theatre crowd hears Eleanor Roosevelt discuss “The World Struggle for Human Rights,” as guest of Harvard’s United Nations Council. She urges the U.S. to…

Asked during her press conference if her husband Michael Douglas, Hasty Pudding Man of the Year 1992, had given her any advice about how to comport herself during her own ceremonial ordeal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, the 2005 Woman of the Year, replied: Whatever they do, just give it right back to them, honey.

Some years ago, a student who had graduated with excellent grades from one of the traditional black colleges applied for admission to Harvard Medical School (HMS). Alvin Poussaint, faculty associate dean of student affairs, urged the admissions committee to accept him, but many were skeptical.

The choir loft, or cantoria, in the Sistine Chapel is a smallish, 8-foot-by-12-foot nook carved into the stone of the chapel wall and dimly illuminated through its original colored glass window. For the first three and a half centuries of the chapels history (it was built in the 1470s), only singers were allowed to enter…

For Charles Busch, author of The Tale of the Allergists Wife, the dark side of having a play on Broadway was that people would come up to him and ask how it felt to finally become mainstream.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences December 14, 2004, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

At a meeting of the Committee of Memorial Minutes of the Faculty of Medicine Dec. 16, 2004, the following Minute was selected.

Despite – and because of – their very different approaches, policy-makers and education specialists from UNESCO, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) convened on Saturday (Feb. 5) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) to discuss how to facilitate better interagency cooperation. They…