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While spending a semester away from the daily grind, the Spring 2000 fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center will focus on, among other things, the relevance of character in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, advances in East Asian press freedom since the 1997 financial and political crisis, and media legislation in Central Europe. The Joan…

The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research will hold a memorial service in honor of Professor Benjamin Schwartz on Thursday, Feb. 3 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. A reception will follow at the Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street. A fund in Schwartz’s name has been established to encourage the…

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation’s oldest dramatic organization, announced the recipients of the 2000 “Woman and Man of the Year” awards: Jamie Lee Curtis and Billy Crystal. The 50th anniversary of the Woman of the Year celebration will be Thursday, Feb. 10. Curtis will lead a parade through the streets of Harvard Square at…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the HUPD for the week ending Jan. 29. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Jan. 23: A burnt-out part in a boiler caused a fire alarm at Peabody Terrace. One hour later, a fire was reported in an underground tunnel at the…

Newly found connections between pain and memory are leading to novel ways to control pain. Nerves carry pain signals to the spinal cord and brain where they excite cells involved with making memories of pain, according to Clifford Woolf, Kitz Professor of Anesthesia Research at Harvard Medical School. This excitation is a main contributor to…

Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Association’s nominations for this year’s election to the University’s Board of Overseers and the HAA Board of Directors. The election this spring will determine five new Overseers and six new members of the HAA Board. Ballots will be mailed by April 15 and results of the election will be…

Harvard Neighbors to review artists’ portfolios The Harvard Neighbors Art Committee will hold its annual review for Harvard-affiliated artists interested in applying to exhibit during the 2000-2001 academic year. Faculty and staff with regular or part-time positions and their spouses or partners are encouraged to apply. Portfolios will be accepted March 1 and 2, from…

Reinhardt Book Links Business and Environment Forest Reinhardt, associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, has linked business success and environmental consciousness in his book Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management. The book, published in December 1999, argues that business managers would benefit if they set about solving environmental problems…

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Two professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have received research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Suzanne Blier, professor of the history of art and architecture in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, received a fellowship for a project titled “Imaging Amazons: The Art of Dahomey Women…

The Fellows for Spring 2000 at the Institute of Politics will discuss their personal perspectives on politics in a panel discussion at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 8, in the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. This semester’s fellows include: Jon Cowan, chief of staff of the U.S. Department of…

What would Martha Ballard think of DoHistory.org? Would she be puzzled that so much fuss was being made about a woman from rural Maine who died almost 200 years ago, unknown to any except her local community? Or would she be pleased that the work she had done as a midwife and healer was finally…

The People’s Lawyer: A to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham” will be held at the Kennedy Library in Boston from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 6. The tribute will include film clips of Judge Higginbotham and a roundtable discussion by friends and colleagues, among whom will be Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree, Anita…

Richard Heck sits in his office, his lanky frame sprawled on a worn armchair. A half-finished bottle of Coke rests on the seat of a wooden chair beside him. Nothing unusual in this picture, but to Heck, who is a professor of philosophy, the tableau raises enormous problems. “One of the basic questions in philosophy…

Children dying of cancer experience substantial suffering in the last month of life, according to researchers at two prominent cancer hospitals in Boston. Not all such suffering is necessary, say experts at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital. The major problem, they believe, stems from the idea that the quality of life of children…

More than 13,000 visits were logged on to a new Website of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention within the first week of its launch in mid-January, making it the most successful site launched at the Harvard School of Public Health. Your Cancer Risk, at http://www.yourcancerrisk.harvard.edu, received 1 million hits on its first day and…

Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has named this year’s Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The four recipients of this fellowship are: Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art; James Engell, Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and director of the John…

The pictures will be available to the public next year in an exhibit, “Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings,” scheduled for April through July 2001 at the Fogg Art Museum. Eleven of these transatlantic paintings were included in the 1995 Mondrian retrospective at the Haags Gemeentemuseum, the National Gallery of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art.…

The Harvard women’s basketball team has jumped out to a 10—5 record on the season, and as of Feb. 1, sits atop the Ivy League standings with a perfect 3—0 record. The team has rebounded from an injury-filled 1998-99 season (in which it finished with an uncharacteristic 10—15 mark) to find itself as one of…

François Bovon has spent many years peering into the mists that shroud the early history of Christianity. His investigations have shown him something that might surprise nonscholars – that even in the religion’s infancy, when the first generation of Christians were spreading the faith, diversity of belief was already the norm rather than the exception.…

January 21, 2000 Dear Alumni, Alumnae, and Friends, I write with a simple purpose: to thank you, on behalf of the entire Harvard community, for taking part in the most ambitious fundraising campaign in the history of higher education. By December 31, 1999, when the campaign drew to a close, 174,378 graduates and friends had…

Gingerich wins LeRoy Doggett Prize in Astronomy Owen Gingerich, professor of astronomy and the history of science, received the LeRoy E. Doggett Prize from the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society “in recognition of his wide-ranging contributions to the field and his effectiveness in keeping the history of astronomy before the public.” Gingerich…

Three Harvard students – two undergraduates and a Medical School student – will be studying in Ireland for a year as part of the inaugural cohort of George J. Mitchell Scholars. Winifred Li and Laela Sturdy, both seniors living in Eliot House, and Rebecca Reichert, a second-year medical student in the Medical School/M.I.T. Health Sciences…

One out of every 25 hospital patients suffers complications related not to illness, but to treatment. And more than any other single cause, that treatment involves drugs. A study by a Harvard School of Public Health adjunct professor highlights a low-cost way to catch two of every three drug errors before they occur. The study,…

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person,” and that “no one shall be subjected to torture, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.” “If we accept the declaration, then we must see intimate partner violence as a human rights issue,” said Nancy Isaac, a…

The man brought his 9-year-old son into the makeshift clinic to test the boy’s brain. There was no point in doing even the simplest test, the nurse noted. The boy was so retarded he didn’t know his own name, and he walked with a shuffling gait produced by severe brain damage. Allen Counter, an associate…

Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE) has proposed a 2.5 percent rent increase for current affiliated housing residents who live in the approximately 2,300 Harvard Affiliated Housing apartments. The proposed 2.5 percent increase for current affiliated housing residents has been reviewed by the Faculty Advisory Committee on Affiliated Housing, and would take effect July 1,…