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Campus & Community
Black History Month Service To Be Held At Memorial Church on Sunday, Feb. 13
A service in honor of Black History Month will be held Sunday, Feb. 13, at 3:30p.m. in The Memorial Church, Harvard Yard. The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes will preach;…
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Campus & Community
Male Baldness Linked To Higher Incidence of Heart Disease
It appears that balding men have more to worry about than their vanity. The largest study to date concludes that male pattern baldness is associated with an increased risk for…
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Campus & Community
Standing Committees for 1999-2000 Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Upon the recommendation of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the President approved and announced the following Standing Committees at the FAS Faculty Meeting of Oct. 19,…
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Campus & Community
For the Love of the Race
When Alexis Todor was 10 years old, she experienced her first serious clash with authority: the principal of her elementary school reprimanded her for not throwing away her lunch (she…
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Campus & Community
Studies: ‘High Stakes’ Tests Are Counterproductive Economically Disadvantaged Students
So-called “high stakes” testing policies that require students to pass standardized tests deepen educational inequity between whites and minorities and widen the educational gap between affluent and impoverished students, according…
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Campus & Community
Karl Strauch, High Energy Physicist, Dies at 77
Karl Strauch, a leading high energy physicist, and professor emeritus of physics at Harvard University, died at Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston on January 3, 2000. He was 77…
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Campus & Community
Smith To Conclude Service With Harvard Corporation
Richard A. Smith, a member of the Harvard Corporation since 1991, will conclude his service as a Fellow of Harvard College at the end of the 1999-2000 academic year. Smith…
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Campus & Community
Police Log
The following are some of the incidents reported to the HUPD for the week ending Jan. 15. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Jan. 9:…
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Campus & Community
Ocean Weather Prediction System Developed
Oceanographer Allan Robinson stared at the front page of the newspaper showing where EgyptAir Flight 990 had plunged into the sea with 217 people aboard. He focused on a map…
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Campus & Community
Notes
Office of Work and Family relocates The Office of Work and Family has relocated to 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Holyoke Center Rm. 761, Cambridge, MA 02138. The phone and fax numbers…
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Kahn Named President of Joslin Diabetes Center C. Ronald Kahn took over as president of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston on Jan. 13. The Mary K. Iacocca Professor of…
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe Professorship Established
Terrence Murray, a 1962 graduate of Harvard College, has donated one of the largest gifts in Radcliffe history to establish the first professorship of the new Radcliffe Institute for Advanced…
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Campus & Community
Marilyn Monroe’s Books Donated to Schlesinger Library
Five books owned by American film icon Marilyn Monroe have been anonymously donated to the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Purchased in October at Christies auction house in New York, the books will be on display at the library throughout the month of January.
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Campus & Community
Mondrian Painting Is First for Busch-Reisinger
The Busch-Reisinger Museum has acquired its first painting by one of the centurys greatest masters of geometric abstraction, Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872-1944). Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow and Red (1922) is an exceptionally well-preserved example of the artists “classic” period, clearly showing Mondrians painterly sensibility shiny black lines and delicately brushed fields, subtle gray…
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Campus & Community
Little Named Director of Center for the Study of Values in Public Life
David Little, T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict at the Divinity School, has been named director of the Schools Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, effective immediately.
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Campus & Community
Online Reference Shelf Will Put Historical Data at Your Fingertips
When researchers seek historical information about Harvard or Radcliffe, or even about the history of higher education in the United States, they often turn to primary sources in the Harvard and Radcliffe Archives. Most often, the quest begins with a browse through the many volumes of annual reports of the Harvard and Radcliffe presidents.
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Campus & Community
Landscape Architecture Establishes Hornbeck Chair
The Graduate School of Design (GSD) has received a $1.7 million gift to establish the Peter Louis Hornbeck Fund supporting the Department of Landscape Architecture. Made through the bequest of Peter L. Hornbeck, a graduate of the Department (MLA 59), the fund will endow the Hornbeck Professor-in-Practice of Landscape Architecture, as well as support research,…
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Campus & Community
Winter Blooms
As the elevator reaches the sixth floor of the Biological Laboratories building, it shudders, grinds, and opens up to the bright sunlight that fills the Biolabs greenhouses. Through the glass, Harvards campus spreads out on all sides, but the lush jungle of plants inside the greenhouse is equally captivating. On the first of a series…
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Campus & Community
FAS Names Two To Dean Positions
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles has announced the appointment of two new deans to oversee undergraduate and graduate education.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council Jan. 12
At its seventh meeting of the year the Faculty Council met with the Vice President for Finance, Elizabeth Huidekoper, to review the implementation of Project ADAPT in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Present for this discussion were Dan Moriarty, Assistant Provost and Chief Information Officer for the University; Sara Oseasohn, Acting Director of Project…
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Campus & Community
Librarian Finds Treasure in the Stacks
A librarians mundane afternoon in the Widener Library stacks and a subsequent sleepless night have thrust Harvard into the limelight throughout the Spanish-speaking literary world.
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Campus & Community
Dede To Join GSE Faculty
Chris Dede, an expert in technology and education, will join the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a full professor in August 2000.
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Campus & Community
Presidential Debates Get Attention, Not Enthusiasm
The recent rash of presidential primary debates has spawned news coverage that has caught the publics attention, but the debates have failed to generate deep voter interest or excitement, according to recent polls by the Joan Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Universitys John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Campus & Community
Determining Your Risk for Cancer
The first Web site in the country where you can get a personalized estimate of your risk for various cancers, together with advice on how to lower that risk, is now available to everyone for free.
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Campus & Community
Healthy Lifestyles, Regular Screenings Would Cut U.S. Colon Cancer Morbidity in Half
The bad news: colon cancer is a killer. The disease is responsible for approximately 48,000 deaths in the United States each year, making it the second leading cause of cancer death in the country.
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Campus & Community
Young Scholars Find Challenges, Acceptance at Extension School
Extension School students David Colt and Amos Lichtman strolled into Sever Hall on their way to their College Algebra class. A little early, they plunked themselves down on the wooden…
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Campus & Community
2000-01 Fellowships at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced the following opportunities for fellowships during the 2000-01 academic year: Graduate Student Associate Positions The Graduate Student Associate Program provides a supportive…
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Campus & Community
Phillips Brooks House To Celebrate Centennial
The Phillips Brooks House Association Inc. (PBHA), the oldest and largest volunteer public service organization at Harvard College, is rededicating its home, the historic Phillips Brooks House, on the centennial…
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Science & Tech
New detector may open new window on the universe
A new receiver is capable of detecting and amplifying very-high- frequency signals with very fine frequency resolution, so it can detect the spectral lines, or chemical fingerprints, of interstellar molecules…
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Science & Tech
Chandra finds “cool” black hole at heart of Andromeda Galaxy
A team of scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., reported that the gas funneling into a supermassive black hole in the heart of the Andromeda Galaxy,…