Campus & Community

Lizabeth Cohen, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and author of a new book that views postwar American history through the lens of consumerism, is laughing at herself. Asked to suggest a local shopping mall for a photo shoot, shes stumped. I hardly ever go to the mall, she admits.

The realm where science blends into art lies in a back room of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, on a small sheet of paper under Laszlo Meszolys hand.

Ernst Kitzinger, the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor Emeritus, an art historian specializing in Byzantine, early Christian, and early medieval art, died of a stroke Jan. 22 at his home in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was 90 years old.

Annemarie Schimmel, Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Emerita, died this past Sunday (Jan. 26) in Bonn, Germany, at the age of 80.

The Harvard fencing team traveled to Chestnut Hill this past Saturday (Jan. 25) where the Crimson went undefeated in Northeast Fencing Conference (NFC) competition against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Tufts, Brown, Smith College, and host Boston College.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Jane Fonda have decided to scale back plans announced in 2001 to create a new center on gender and education. The HGSE will, however, continue to collaborate with Fonda on research and curricular programs relating to gender in the classroom.

A proposal co-written by a research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government establishes the framework for the sale of low-cost generic HIV drugs in developing nations. The proposal is outlined in an article published in the Jan. 25 edition of The Lancet, and is co-authored by Amir Attaran, research fellow at the Kennedy Schools Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Henk den Besten, director of the International Dispensary Association (IDA) and Michael A. Friedman, vice president of Pharmacia Corp.

An award-winning political satirist, a television news anchor, and a chief congressional correspondent are among the new fellows this semester at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvards Kennedy School of Government.

U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy continued his attack on President Bushs Iraq and domestic policies Friday (Jan. 24), calling the looming Iraq conflict the wrong war at the wrong time and assailing policies on education, health care, taxes, and affirmative action during a speech at the Kennedy School of Government.

As the nation remembered the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. last weekend, Harvards Civil Rights Project (CRP) released a report on Americas increasingly segregated schools that blew a chilling wind on the optimism of Kings I have a dream speech.

The Boston Theological Institute will convene at the Brattle Theatre on Feb. 7 and 8 for the third annual Boston Faith and Film Festival. Sponsored by the institute, which counts the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) among its members, this years festival will screen films that stimulate discussion about the nature of holiness and saintliness. Among the films to be screened are Carl Theodor Dreyers La Passion de Jeanne d Arc, Spike Lees Malcolm X, and last years blockbuster Amelie.

Musician Larry Flint and the Rev. Dorothy Austin join others in song as approximately 450 friends, co-workers, and fans attended a memorial service for Brian Sinclair 62, longtime Harvard employee and co-host of the WHRB country music radio show Hillbilly at Harvard, on Friday (Jan. 24) at the Memorial Church. Friends, including Hillbilly co-host Lynn Joiner 63, former Hillbilly host Dave Schmalz 63, and Office of Human Resources co-worker Joanne Klys 84 remembered Sinc, as he was known to almost everyone, with stories both poignant and funny. Local country musician John Lincoln Wright and his band performed Not a Day Goes By, a song Wright wrote for Sinclair.

It took two years of negotiations after decades of steadily rising tensions for the Idaho Nez Perce Tribe and a coalition of 23 local non-Indian government groups to agree to sit down and talk to resolve their disputes.

Poster day registration Faculty and students of the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) are invited to participate in the 17th annual Poster and Exhibit Day, to be held March…

Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have found that both long and short sleep durations may be independently associated with an increased risk of heart disease in women. These findings are published in the Jan. 27 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

When it comes to testing alternative fuel vehicles that could reduce the Universitys impact on the environment, Harvard is cooking with gas.

Many Americans view government regulations as complicated edicts handed down by distant bureaucrats. But what if ordinary citizens from across the country could monitor rulemaking in Washington, D.C., and participate actively in the process of making new government regulations – all without ever leaving their offices or homes? Information technology may hold the answer.

Metabolic syndrome, a cluster of health problems that includes high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, high blood sugar, and obesity, is a common condition that medical experts believe is caused by a combination of genes, lack of physical activity, and overeating. Now researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have shown that even people with these risk factors may benefit by having their C-reactive protein (CRP) levels checked.

Cardosa Abubaca of FMO steers three empty carts as he passes the Aiken-IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, a primitive computer inside the Science Center.

Brenda Shaffer wants to shatter our stereotypes about Muslim societies.

At the Kennedy School of Governments ARCO Forum Monday night (Jan. 27), syndicated columnist and political turncoat Arianna Huffington gave an opening nod to her former Comedy Central and Politically Incorrect sparring partner, Shorenstein Fellow Al Franken 75. During the 1996 presidential campaign, she was the conservative voice of their point-counterpoint segment Strange Bedfellows, and, she said, sex [with Franken] was so good that I become a liberal.

In the first study to assess the role of high levels of dietary acrylamide (found in fried and certain other cooked foods) and risk of cancer in humans, researchers from the School of Public Health and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm found no association between the consumption of foods high in acrylamide and increased risk of three forms of cancer. The study results appear in the Jan. 28 issue of the British Journal of Cancer.

Director/producer Martin Scorsese and actor/director Anjelica Huston will be in Cambridge next month. This year’s choices for the Hasty Pudding Man and Woman of the Year awards keep company with…

Unused launches sit on the snow-covered dock of Newell Boathouse during a frigid week that had sections of the Charles River iced over three to four inches thick.

Snook’s ‘Friendly Fire’ wins AOM award Harvard Business School Associate Professor Scott A. Snook has received the Academy of Management’s (AOM) George R. Terry Award for his book “Friendly Fire”…

Franklin and Wendy Raines have made a generous gift to the Kennedy School of Government to support the library and other critical areas of the Schools public service mission, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced Monday (Jan. 27).

Harvards 20/20/2000 program has helped generate about 1,700 units of affordable housing in its first three years, aiding in the creation of everything from homeless shelters to low-income rental housing to home ownership programs for middle-income residents.

Reflected in one of the windows of Boylston Hall, Wigglesworth Hall appears to live up to its name.

At its eighth meeting of the year the Faculty Council reviewed with FAS Dean William C. Kirby a draft of his Annual Letter to the Faculty. The council also discussed with Associate Dean Jeffrey Wolcowitz (undergraduate education and economics) a proposed early course selection system. Finally, the council heard a report, from Wolcowitz, on the steps being taken to implement the facultys legislation of May 7, 2002, on study abroad.

Ca. January 1960 – Harvard announces plans to build a Center for the Study of World Religions near the Divinity School to replace a rented residence in Cambridge serving scholars…