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Marshall Carter, a senior fellow and adjunct lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Center for Business and Government, has been asked to chair a state commission prompted by the Sept. 11 hijackings to examine operations at Logan Airport and the Massachusetts Port Authority. Logan’s management has come under heavy fire for security…

Harvard University has pledged $1 million and joined with the American Council on Education to raise scholarship funds, on behalf of higher education, for the children and spouses of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers had announced in a Sept. 19 letter to the Harvard community that the…

Cherrapunji, an otherwise unremarkable town in “the abode of the clouds” – the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya, nestled midway between the Bay of Bengal and the Himalayas – was once called the wettest place on Earth by the Guinness Book of World Records. In 1986 the English travel correspondent Alexander Frater set off on…

Students at Harvard drink more, smoke less, and have less sex than students at other colleges, according to the first nationwide survey of college lifestyles and health behaviors. Harvardians also are more depressed, get into fewer fights, and are slightly more likely to be homosexual or bisexual. The American College Health Association did the survey…

The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards were established in 1990 to recognize alumni who provide outstanding volunteer service to Harvard through alumni activities. This year’s recipients, listed below, will be honored on Thursday, Oct. 25, during the opening dinner of the HAA Board of Directors. Christopher T. Bayley ’60, J.D. ’66, of Seattle, served as…

Coming off a big 2-1 overtime win against 6th-ranked University of San Diego on Friday, Sept. 21, the Harvard men’s soccer team (5-2, 1-0 Ivy) dropped a 1-3 contest at Loyola Marymount (7-3), and a 2-3 encounter at Boston College (7-2-1) – a game beset with crippling red card suspensions for the Crimson team. On…

A limited number of tickets to the inauguration symposia will be made available to the Harvard community on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets can be picked up at the Harvard Ticket Office in the Holyoke Center arcade between noon and 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Oct. 9-11. Tickets can also be picked up…

Harvard’s modern-day president will meet time-honored tradition on stage at Tercentenary Theatre on Oct. 12 as Lawrence H. Summers takes part in the centuries-old ceremony installing him as president. Preparations for the ceremony continued this week, moving into the final stage. E-mail invitations went out to graduate students; follow-up calls confirmed reservations to ticketed events,…

Thursday, Oct. 11 7 p.m. “Segue!…” Student performance in Sanders Theatre (invitation only, but waiting line for potential available seats). Overflow room for video simulcast in Loker Commons and Science Center D. Friday, Oct. 12 9:45 – 11:30 a.m. Symposia, open to ticket holders only. A limited number of tickets will be available to the…

“We’ve been recycling since 1636, when students used to throw their garbage out the windows and the feral pigs of Cambridge would eat it,” is how Rob Gogan, waste manager for Harvard’s Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO), explains that, though he may be the University’s first employee officially charged with recycling efforts, he’s hardly Harvard’s first…

Bestor joins Anthropology Dept. Theodore C. Bestor, a specialist in contemporary Japanese society and culture, has been appointed professor in the Department of Anthropology. Bestor, who has written extensively on Tokyo’s markets, food, and popular culture, will also be affiliated with Harvard’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. He previously taught at Cornell University. Herzlinger wins…

A fascination born of conflict led Sugata Bose decades ago to study the economic forces and motivations affecting South Asian rural areas. The often tumultuous lives of Indian farmers and Bangladeshi peasants made up Bose’s first, relatively circumscribed, interest. Today, after establishing himself as an authority in South Asian history, Bose has broadened his scope.…

As the reverberations of Sept. 11 continue to be felt by individuals and institutions across the country, all Schools and departments at Harvard also have been evaluating their security procedures, and increasing support services for members of the community. “The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) has received no information about credible threats to Harvard or…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Sept. 29. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Sept. 23: Officer dispatched to a report of a suspicious male hanging around outside Grays Hall. Officer spoke with individual who then left…

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: Oct. 26 Nov. 29 Dec. 13 Feb. 1, 2002 March 5, 2002 April 10, 2002 May 8, 2002 In addition, office hours will be open to any employees of the University…

Oct. 6, 1642 – The times and order of their Studies, unlesse experience shall shew cause to alter, the earliest detailed Harvard curriculum, is preserved in writing. Harvard’s undergraduate course of study, begun as a three-year program, expands to four in 1652. Oct. 24, 1656 – The Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony…

Alan Stone, vice president for public affairs at Columbia University, an experienced professional in government relations and communications, has been appointed vice president for Government, Community, and Public Affairs at Harvard University, President Lawrence H. Summers announced today. Beginning in November, Stone will oversee Harvard’s relations with all levels of government – federal, state, and…

Imagine never needing to have another tooth drilled and filled. Imagine a vaccine that prevents cavities in your children’s teeth for their entire lives. Furthermore, no injection would be necessary; the vaccine would simply be sprayed into people’s noses. Such a vaccine has been made and successfully tested on humans and rats by researchers at…

Beginning in November, Stone will oversee Harvard’s relations with all levels of government – federal, state, and local; coordinate a wide range of activities involving the University’s neighboring communities; and manage communications and media relations.

This past Friday afternoon (Sept. 21), members of Harvards Muslim community came to Lowell Lecture Hall for prayer. The gathering, known as Juma, is a regular weekly occurrence, but the events of Sept. 11 made it anything but ordinary.

Speaking at Morning Prayers Friday, Sept. 21, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers offered comfort and support to the campus while highlighting the Universitys unique responsibility in the face of last weeks attacks.

When you walk into the new Big Dig exhibition at Gund Hall from the Quincy Street entrance, the first thing that hits your eye is a pair of mural-sized photographs of Boston from the air.

The Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard has selected 17 associates for research projects for the 2001-02 academic year. Founded in 1980, the program enables outstanding scholars and practitioners from the United States and Japan to come together at the University to conduct independent research and participate in an ongoing dialogue with other members of…

Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) will host a health fair on Wednesday, Oct. 3, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., on the Science Center grounds. The aim of the first annual Harvest of Health Fair is to inform students of the health care resources available to them at HUHS and throughout the Harvard community. For…

Plans for the inauguration of Lawrence H. Summers as Harvards 27th president on Oct. 12 continued to come together this week with faculty, students, and staff receiving letters of invitation to the installation ceremony, which is to take place in Tercentenary Theatre, the same location used for Commencement.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Sept. 22. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Sept. 16: An officer was dispatched to a report of a room broken into at Kirkland House. A suspicious activity report was filed.…

Joseph Warren Gardella ’41, former dean of student affairs at Harvard Medical School (HMS), died June 12 at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Following his graduation from Harvard, the former Crimson football captain entered the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He received his M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins in 1944. In 1951, Gardella became a…

A previously unknown function of blood vessels has been found. Beside supplying blood, they guide the formation of the pancreas and possibly other organs during the development of embryos, according to researchers at Harvard University.

This past Friday afternoon (Sept. 21), members of Harvards Muslim community came to Lowell Lecture Hall for prayer. The gathering, known as Juma, is a regular weekly occurrence, but the events of Sept. 11 made it anything but ordinary.

Medical School (HMS) researchers have identified a mouse gene that, in certain forms, renders mice resistant to anthrax – an often fatal disease that is caused by a bacterium thought to be a prime biological weapon in the terrorist arsenal. The genetic variants appear to work by enhancing immune cells’ response to the lethal toxin…