Featured series 
Year: 2007
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Arts & Culture
Film Archive screening to fete works of Land
The Harvard Film Archive will host “Reverence: The Films of Owen Land” (formerly known as George Landow) — a touring exhibition celebrating the work of one of the most original and celebrated American filmmakers of the ’60s and ’70s — on April 16. The program, which includes 15 shorts ranging from between 3 and 22…
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Arts & Culture
The ‘Last Ruskinians’: Detail, detail, detail
Many of the paintings and drawings in the Fogg Museum’s new exhibition “The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle” are astounding for their jewel-like detail and trompe l’oeil realism, but to regard them as a higher sort of eye candy would be to miss the point.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council
At its 13th meeting of the year on April 4, the Faculty Council considered a proposal for mandatory course evaluations and planned for the upcoming faculty discussion of a motion and proposed amendments on general education.
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 2. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
Nye presented honorary degree from King’s College London
Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and former dean of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), has been named honorary doctor of social science at King’s College London.
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Campus & Community
Spring into health: Wellness classes now online
The Center for Wellness and Health Communication at Harvard University Health Services will offer several sessions and courses this spring ranging from yoga and Reiki to integrating feng shui in the workplace. For a listing of programs and to register, visit http://www.huhs.harvard.edu.
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Campus & Community
EALS accepting submissions
The East Asian Legal Studies (EALS) program of Harvard Law School (HLS) is accepting submissions of papers for the Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize.
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Campus & Community
Free tour through ancient times
The Semitic Museum will sponsor a docent-led tour of its “Ancient Egypt: Magic and the Afterlife” and “Cyprus, the Cesnola Collection” exhibits on April 12 at 12:15 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
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Campus & Community
HSPH releases recommendations on smoking in films
The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) recently released materials presented to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in a scientific briefing on the impact of youth smoking and the behavioral influence of films that depict tobacco use. The presentations (requested by the MPAA) were held in February in Los Angeles.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Foundation to welcome Esmeralda Santiago
The Harvard Foundation will host a lecture by Esmeralda Santiago ’76, author of the memoirs “When I Was Puerto Rican” and “Almost a Woman,” and the novel “América’s Dream.” The lecture will take place April 10 from 4 to 5 p.m. in Harvard Hall (Room 104).
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Campus & Community
Edmund Chi Chien Lin
Edmund Chi Chien Lin, Professor emeritus in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, died peacefully in Boston on March 6, 2006.
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Campus & Community
James L. McKenney of Business School, 77
Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus James L. McKenney, an expert in management information systems and the use of computer systems for teaching management, died on March 28 in Belmont, Mass. He was 77 years old.
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Campus & Community
Memorial to honor Stubbins, professor of architecture
A memorial service for Hugh Stubbins Jr., an alumnus and professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), will be held April 11 at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Following the service, there will be a reception in the Stubbins Room of Gund Hall from 6 to 8 p.m. Stubbins died…
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Campus & Community
Kokkalis Program accepting applications
Harvard’s Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is accepting applications for a limited number of small grants to support summer internship and/or research projects focusing on Southeast Europe. These grants aim to encourage and support Harvard students to take on summer work or research in Southeastern Europe.
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Campus & Community
Landscape Institute to transition to new leadership
John Furlong, director of the Landscape Institute at the Arnold Arboretum, will step down from his position in order to devote time to teaching and private practice, it was recently announced. This transition will occur following the arrival of a new director in the coming months.
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Campus & Community
HBS’s George to deliver Peabody Lecture
William W. George, Harvard Business School (HBS) professor of management practice and former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic Inc., will deliver the prestigious Francis Greenwood Peabody Lecture on April 13 at 8 p.m. in Memorial Church.
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Campus & Community
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curatorship of Asian Art established
David Rockefeller has agreed to establish a new Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curatorship of Asian Art within the Harvard University Art Museums, Thomas W. Lentz, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, announced recently.
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Campus & Community
Harvey Mansfield named 2007 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities
Political scientist Harvey Mansfield, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard, will travel to Washington, D.C., in May to deliver the 2007 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
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Campus & Community
Schauer appointed director of Safra Foundation Center
Interim President Derek Bok announced today (April 5) that Frederick Schauer, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School of Government, has been appointed director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Sports in brief
Senior saberist Tim Hagamen edged Notre Dame’s Patrick Ghattas, 15-14, in the gold medal bout of the NCAA national championships March 23 in Madison, N.J., to become the first Harvard man to win an individual title in the saber event.
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Health
Root, root, root for the umpire
The roar of the crowd may subconsciously influence some referees to give an advantage to the home team, according to a study that examines the results of more than 5,000 soccer matches in the English Premier League. The matches were played between 1992 and 2006, and involved 50 different referees, each of whom had officiated…
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Campus & Community
Daffodil Days, Harvard collect record amount
Consistently one of New England’s top sellers for the American Cancer Society’s annual Daffodil Days fundraiser, this year Harvard even managed to outdo itself. In this latest edition of the benefit, members of the University helped raise $45,843 to better every Harvard effort since the fundraiser’s inaugural run in 1988.
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Campus & Community
Students help the grass roots grow in New Orleans
Statistics may cause some people to grow bleary-eyed, but not a group of New Orleans residents at a recent community meeting where they listened to Harvard students talk about post-Hurricane Katrina recovery rates in their neighborhood.
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Health
Manipulating genetic switch in mice eases MD symptoms
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have shown in a laboratory study that revving up a crucial set of muscle genes counteracts the damage caused by a form of muscular dystrophy.
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Science & Tech
Libraries, museums meet with IT
The ability to search the actual text of millions of books — instead of just titles or summaries — will change the way students and academics conduct research, revealing a host of new sources invisible to current search methods, a Harvard University Library official working on the Google project said on March 28.
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Science & Tech
Collaboration yields first citywide network of wireless sensors
Harvard University, BBN Technologies, and the city of Cambridge have begun a four-year project to install 100 wireless sensors atop streetlights in Cambridge, Mass., creating the world’s first citywide network of wireless sensors.
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Health
Finding the start of Alzheimer’s disease
Faces are hard to remember. Even harder are the names that go with them. It’s one of the most common problems people face as they get older.
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Health
Weight gain in pregnancy linked to overweight in kids
Pregnant women who gain excessive or even appropriate weight, according to current guidelines, are four times more likely than women who gain inadequate weight to have a baby who becomes overweight in early childhood. These findings are from a new study at the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention of Harvard Medical School (HMS) and…
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Science & Tech
Warming may not spark tree growth
A bright spot in the gloomy global warming picture has been scientists’ predictions that at least some carbon dioxide will be removed from the atmosphere by a burst of growth from tropical forests. New research from the Arnold Arboretum, however, questions that prediction, finding that trees in two forests on opposite sides of the world…