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Crimson football failed to shake the great gridiron rule – the team that makes the fewest mistakes wins – falling apart in the fourth quarter in an otherwise well-executed and exciting contest against Yale last Saturday. Despite setting a record for completions in a game, finishing 28-of-52 passes for 310 yards, quarterback Neil Rose, exhausted…

The Glass Flowers – Harvard’s majestic collection of more than 4,000 botanical models – is proof that the marriage of art and science is not only possible, but something quite extraordinary. Called “the Sistine Chapel of the glass world,” by Susan Rossi-Wilcox, curatorial associate at Harvard’s Museum of Natural History, the models also happen to…

Southern Africa has been hit harder by AIDS than any area of the world. In some countries, one in three adults is infected with HIV. One might expect these societies to be physically and socially devastated by an epidemic of such staggering proportions, and in many respects they are. But they are also responding in…

When the school bell rings each afternoon, millions of American kids hit the streets. Some head home to study or watch television. Some ride their bicycles or play soccer. But for many others, the free time is wasted and, in the worst cases, can lead to violence, drugs, and crime. How to keep children occupied…

Your dollars may count twice for the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). An anonymous donor is promising to match every dollar up to $250,000 contributed by faculty, staff, and students to PBHA’s Centennial Endowment Campaign. That includes money contributed through the Community Gifts Through Harvard Campaign 2000, which runs through the month of November. The…

The Massachusetts Architectural Access Board (AAB) has awarded this year’s William D. Smith Memorial Award to Gail Woodhouse and her colleagues at the Boston firm Amsler Woodhouse MacLean for the recent renovation of Divinity Hall at Harvard Divinity School (HDS). The AAB’s annual awards program recognizes “excellence in the design of buildings or facilities which…

All week long, they played spin doctor, having to justify their selection. On Saturday afternoon, they played their hearts out, and that justification was no longer necessary. A calendar week before, the Harvard women’s soccer team walked off Ohiri Field after an overtime loss to Columbia, tears flowing freely, believing the season may have come…

Every corner you turn you see different faces speaking different languages and expressing different viewpoints. It’s akin to taking a trip overseas without the pangs of having to cross over eight time zones to get there. Some 3,000 foreign students (approximately 18 percent of the total student population) come to Harvard each year. An additional…

An initiative of the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) to curtail the spread of HIV and AIDS in Nigeria has received $25 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant is the largest single private grant awarded to SPH in its history and the second given to SPH by the Gates Foundation…

“It is a matter of survival. Whatever action is feasible now must be taken now because there may be no tomorrow.” Those haunting words were delivered by Republic of Botswana President Festus Mogae at the culmination of “Africa Now! A Leadership Summit to Define African Priorities for AIDS” held in Cambridge earlier this week. More…

Joyce Chaplin’s latest book attempts to shed new light on an event that has left scant evidence in the historical record – the initial encounter between English colonists and Native Americans. The book, “Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science in the Anglo-Indian Encounter, 1500-1676” (Harvard University Press, forthcoming), uses ideas of 16th and 17th…

A Harvard affiliate was the victim of an unarmed robbery on Sunday, Nov. 12, at approximately 5:21 p.m. While riding a bicycle down Francis Avenue toward Bryant Street, the victim heard a fast approaching vehicle heading in the same direction. The victim pulled to the right between two parked vehicles. The vehicle then stopped and…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 11. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Nov. 6: At Soldiers Field Park Garage, officers investigated a vehicle that appeared to have been broken into. A wallet was reported stolen…

Volunteers sought for WorldTeach WorldTeach and Peace Corps staff and alumni invite students interested in volunteer opportunities to attend an information session today, Nov. 16, from 4 to 6 p.m., in the Junior Common Room at Eliot House. Refreshments will be served. Returned volunteers will share their experiences, answer questions, and provide information on how…

At its sixth meeting of the year the Council was briefed on the Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures (CIMS) by professors Bertrand Halperin (physics), Charles Marcus (physics), and David Weitz (DEAS & physics). Bill Appleton, the director of CIMS, was also present for this discussion. Dean Paul Martin (DEAS & physics), chair of the…

As of this writing, the outcome of the 2000 presidential election is still in the dark, but on Tuesday, Nov. 14, some light was shed on the situation by a panel of experts from the Kennedy School of Government. The format for the ARCO Forum panel discussion, titled “Election Impasse: How Do We Go Forward?”…

Harvard Business School, which pioneered the study of entrepreneurship more than 50 years ago, played host on Nov. 3 to the New England forum of Springboard 2000, a national organization dedicated to linking women entrepreneurs to investors. Chosen from a field of more than 300 candidates, 29 women, including Diane Hessan, MBA ’77 (above), and…

They’re only about 1/25th of an inch long, and no wider than a thread. You need a microscope to see these squirmy roundworms. But some scientists will tell you they are almost half human, genetically speaking. Called Caenorhabditis elegans, this little worm was the first creature to have all its genes sequenced, more than 19,000…

In many societies, people think of their country as a parent – a motherland or fatherland to which they owe their identity and their allegiance. Aloisea Inyumba has a different perspective. “Our country is like a baby,” she said, her expressive hands raised before her as though cradling a child. “It is only 4 years…

They identified difficulties in communication, a shifting corporate culture, and the lack of an understanding that the establishment of a diverse work force should be a stated goal for managers throughout the organization. Later, someone remarked that Millennium and Harvard may have some things in common. Which was the point, of course. Harvard’s Fifth Work…

Women Waging Peace, a global network of women working to stabilize regions of violent conflict, is holding its second annual colloquium Nov. 4-18. The initiative was founded last year by Swanee Hunt, director of the Kennedy School of Government’s Women and Public Policy Program. “Our first year has been a spectacular success,” Hunt said. “It’s…

“How are we going to give people salary increases? How are we going to pay rent increases? How are we going to pay health insurance premium increases? How are we going to afford computers and all the technology needs?” Those are the concerns voiced by Susan Ayers, the Center’s executive director. She says the agency,…

It’s difficult to imagine that scenic Franklin Park, one of Boston’s natural gems set aside for rest and recreation, is also home to the fierce competition of Harvard’s men’s and women’s cross-country teams. Hardly a jaunt through the woods, top runners can cover a 5-kilometer distance in less than 19 minutes. Add inclement weather, steep…