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Tomiko Brown-Nagin has been appointed a Harvard Law School Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow. The Houston Fellowship was established in 1992 by Dean Robert Clark to promote new channels of entry into legal teaching and enhance diversity within the profession. During her year in residence at the Law School, Brown-Nagin will transform certain aspects of her…

Harvard Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has accepted the recommendation of a faculty task force to close the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) after integrating some of its programs and functions into Harvard’s Schools. Fineberg made the announcement in letters delivered to HIID staff Jan. 21, saying Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine and the members…

Susan Vacca calls it her “odyssey.” In July of 1998, Vacca, associate director and librarian in the Office of Career Services, flew from Boston to Genoa, Italy; from Genoa to Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia; from Cagliari by hired taxi to the Porto Vesme ferry; and from the ferry, finally, to the small island called…

January 27, 2000 At its eighth meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed the recent Report of the Provost’s Committee on Student Mental Health Services. Members of the Committee present for this conversation were Paul Summergrad, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School, chair; Thomas A. Dingman, Associate Dean of Harvard College;…

Gail C. Christopher, director of the Alliance for Redesigning Government and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, has been named executive director of the Innovations in American Government Program at the Kennedy School of Government. As director, Christopher plans to seize the opportunities presented by today’s electronic technology to expand the role…

In a letter being sent this week to all contributors to Harvard’s University Campaign, which ended on December 31, President Neil L. Rudenstine thanked them for advancing the University’s teaching and research missions while establishing a new milestone in the history of philanthropy for higher education. The University’s donors contributed a total of $2.6 billion…

Painter, sculptor and printmaker Oliver Jackson will discuss his work and career in an illustrated lecture at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 22, at the Sackler lecture hall, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway. The program is free and open to the public. Born in St. Louis, where he was a founding member of the…

The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe will award travel grants to students seeking to work or pursue research in the region of its focus during the summer of 2000. Harvard students are strongly encouraged to apply. Submit a proposal/statement of purpose, a CV and one letter of recommendation by March 31 to the…

Following a successful run last fall, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will again host its “Voices of Public Intellectuals” lecture series this spring with a focus on “Feminisms and the Practice of Democracy.” Cosponsored by Radcliffe Seminars and the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies, this year’s series kicks off on Monday, Feb. 7, at…

When men’s squash co-captain, senior Tim Wyant, speaks of being a part of the Harvard program, his pride is evident. Thirty-one national team championships. Twenty-four Potter Trophies. Thirty-three Ivy League titles. Twenty-six individual national champions. One hundred and twelve All-Americans. “It is simply incredible,” states Wyant, a 21-year-old with the tireless court demeanor and competitive…

The first images of a polio virus as it infects a human cell have been captured by researchers at Harvard Medical School. The paralyzing disease has been eradicated from Western countries with vaccines, but biologists still want to know how it gets into the cells of the intestines, from where it makes its way to…

The following are some of the incidents reported to the HUPD for the week ending Jan. 22. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Jan. 16: A wallet was stolen from Loker Commons. An individual who had previously received a trespass notice was arrested at Memorial Church and charged with one…

Cambridge Emergency Management Director David O’Connor was on the scene as an underground electrical fire forced hundreds of Harvard graduate students and their families to evacuate from Peabody Terrace on Sunday. But O’Connor, whose job it is to oversee such incidents for the city, had an advantage he doesn’t have with most of Cambridge’s other…

100 Years of Encouraging and Supporting Volunteerism 1917 1922 1940’s 1958 Its elegant meeting rooms have seen the likes of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lani Guinier, and ACLU founder Roger Baldwin. Its programs have served as models for the Peace Corps and the National Service Corps. Named for one of the 19th century’s most famous preachers,…

After three months writing a novel on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Ariel Pakes learned he had a scholarship to Harvard to do graduate work in economics. An aspiring journalist who was drawn by economics’ mix of theoretical thinking and real-world problems, Pakes was torn. So he gave parts of the book to three friends,…

Lottery to be held for Harvard Conference on Internet & Society Registration Spaces The Third International Harvard Conference on Internet & Society, to be held May 31-June 2, 2000, will explore the impact and implications of the Internet in transforming industry, government, and individual lives. Harvard University will make 100 registration spaces available through a…

Sarah Clark Donahue has been appointed director of financial aid for Harvard College. Donahue served for over a decade as director of financial aid at Harvard Law School, where she is currently the director of career services. Previously she served as director of student financial assistance at the Kennedy School of Government. Beyond her extensive…

Taking a comprehensive look at healthcare delivery to children for the first time in more than a decade, a report by the Harvard School of Public Health’s Center for Children’s Health and the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has found that asthma, injuries and mental health problems are the leading causes of…

The Kennedy School of Government has established a new chair in government, the Scott M. Black Professorship of Government. The chair, made possible by a gift from Scott M. Black MBA ’71, a member of the advisory board of the Kennedy School’s Malcom H. Wiener Center for Social Policy, will be broadly defined to allow…

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; the title of his sermon is “Who Are Your People?” Music will be provided by the Kuumba Singers, the Harvard University Choir, and the choirs…

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 heart disease. The more the hair loss, the higher the possible risk, according to researchers from the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital…

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, 1999. Standing Committees of the Faculty are constituted to perform a continuing function. Each committee has been established by a vote of the Faculty, and…

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 avows it was an accident) and assigned her to garbage duty for the following day. This punishment meant picking up lunch trash in a large…

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 to two studies of education reform in Texas. The studies, commissioned by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, were presented at a policy briefing…

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 years old and lived in Lexington, Mass. The immediate cause of death was pneumonia. His death also ended a 15-year struggle with Parkinson’s Disease. Strauch…

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 is the chairman and former chief executive officer of Harcourt General Inc., and of The Neiman Marcus Group, and has for decades been a leading…

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: Money was stolen from a student’s room in Grays Hall. Jan. 10: An unspecified amount of cash was stolen at SPH3 at the School of…

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 illustrating a search for bodies and floating debris that was going on to the east of the crash site. “I suddenly realized that they were…

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 remain the same: Phone: 495-4100 (main line); 495-2851 (Judy Walker); 495-4940 (Cyndie White); Fax: 495-4124 Course in Reading and Study Strategies offered The Bureau of…

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 Medicine at the Medical School succeeded Kenneth Quickel Jr. who served as president since 1987. Kahn is the sixth president of the Center, founded in…