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For Joe Nullet, the road to graduation from Harvard was dotted with the usual seminars, final exams, and late-night study sessions. But Nullet also took leisurely rest stops for getting married, having a family, owning a business, and launching a career. Total travel time: 22 years.

James Ackerman to receive Balzan Prize James Ackerman, the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus, has been selected by the International Balzan Foundation as the recipient of the Balzan Prize 2001 for the History of Architecture (including town planning and landscape design). Ackerman will receive the award, ranked among the most prestigious in…

Following the horrific tragedies in New York City and Washington, D.C., a number of threatening calls have come into the University, including a bomb threat that led some people to leave Holyoke Center on the morning of Friday, Sept. 14.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for Aug. 21 through Sept. 15. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Aug. 21: At Holyoke Center, officers arrested an individual for trespassing and aggravated assault. Wallets were reported stolen from the Goldenson and Warren Alpert…

Installation fete for Summers set

On Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 1 a.m., the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to a report of an indecent assault. The freshman victim was entering the “A” entry door when someone lifted her skirt from behind. The assailant fled Harvard Yard to Massachusetts Avenue, down Dunster Street, and then down Winthrop Street. A thorough…

President holds office hours

Sept. 19, 1639 – Accused of neglecting and physically mistreating students, Nathaniel Eaton is fined and discharged as Master of the College by the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Harvard closes its doors and dismisses students after little more than a year’s operation. Sept. 1653 – Backed by English-based President and Society…

At its first meeting of the year, the Faculty Council elected a Docket Committee for 2001-02 as follows: Professors Jay Jasanoff (linguistics), Robert Kirshner (astronomy), and Peter Marsden (sociology), with Dean Jeremy R. Knowles (chemistry and chemical biology) serving as chair (ex officio). The council also agreed to propose Professor Roderick MacFarquhar (government) as parliamentarian…

More than 1,500 people packed a Memorial Church remembrance service on Friday, Sept. 14, capping a week in which the University community mourned the victims and struggled to make sense of the tragic crashes at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania.

A group of faculty at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), and the University of California, Santa Barbara, is one of a handful nationwide to win millions of dollars in National Science Foundation funding to begin a Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center – which will explore and manipulate items as small as a single…

September 19, 2001 Dear Members of the Harvard Community: The shocking events of last week leave all of us with a profound and enduring sense of loss. We grieve together for the victims and their loved ones, and we contemplate a world altered by the unspeakable acts of September 11th, even as we do our…

As the bell of the Memorial Church called the Harvard community to a vigil in Tercentenary Theatre Tuesday evening, its inscription – “In memory of voices that are hushed” – rang as true as its pealing. “We come together, united by a sense of shock, of sadness, of outrage,” said President Lawrence H. Summers to…

The reception to welcome the new Nieman Fellows, scheduled for 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, has been canceled due to the tragic events of Tuesday. No alternative reception is scheduled at this time. Call (617) 495-2346 if you have questions.

All Harvard Medical School affiliated hospitals are on alert. Childrens and Brigham and Womens hospitals have cancelled elective surgery and in-patient visits to conserve resources, especially blood. These facilities, as well as Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are collecting blood. At noon on Wednesday, Susan Craig of Childrens noted that donor…

Responding to calls from students of various cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations will remain open to provide a place for students to gather and talk about the terrorism tragedy, according to Foundation Director S. Allan Counter Jr.

Harvard University Health Services (UHS) is providing buses for members of the Harvard community to get to blood donation centers at Brigham and Women’s and Children’s hospitals in the Longwood Medical Area. Buses will leave from Johnson Gate at 8 a.m., noon, and 5 p.m. for the next two or three days, depending on need…

The following letter was emailed to the Harvard community today by Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers

Counseling and support University Health Services (UHS) is providing mental health outreach and support throughout the Harvard community. Groups are being set up throughout the campus. Group Sessions HUHS Holyoke Center 4th Floor, Wacker Room Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001, 12:30pm to 1:30pm and 3:30pm to 4:30pm Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001, 12:30pm to 1:30pm and 3:30pm…

“It felt like a movie.” Two students from New York City, Madeleine Elfenbein ’04 and Luke Stein ’02, described their dazed reactions to yesterday’s tragedy the same way. Katy Brodsky ’02 was shocked into a similar sense of unreality. “I’ve always considered New York to be untouchable,” she said. All three students, whose families are…

As the horrendous images of devastation at New York’s World Trade Center and destruction at the Pentagon blanketed the airwaves Tuesday, Harvard absorbed the awful news, shook off the shock, and got to work. It was anything but business as usual, however. At Harvard, as at many universities and businesses across the country, normal functioning…