Campus & Community

Astronomers have discovered a new planet in the constellation Sagittarius, the farthest from Earth found to date. Its so distant that light takes 5,000 years to travel from there to here at a speed of 186,000 miles per second.

Ca. January 1956 – West Publishing Co. (St. Paul, Minn.) presents the Law School with one of two known copies of “The Capitall Lawes of New-England, as they stand now…

Awarded each year to an outstanding student of Japanese. David Hembry 06 is this years winner of the Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize. The prize is awarded annually to an outstanding student of Japanese who has completed at least two years of Japanese language study at Harvard. The award is sponsored by the Tazuko Ajiro Monane Memorial Fund and hosted by the Japanese Language Program.

Hysteria is no longer accepted as a valid medical diagnosis. You wont find it in the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, nor are any of the major pharmaceutical firms producing drugs to alleviate its symptoms.

From the Dudley House Lounge, a student can be seen scurrying to his next study session.

In Woody Allens film, The Purple Rose of Cairo, a character from a 1930s movie walks off the screen and into the life of an audience member.

When a young Barbara Haber accepted a part-time, low-paying position at a small library devoted to womens history in 1968, her library school mentor was dismayed. She showed such promise, he thought, that she should pursue loftier employment leading toward the goal of one day directing a library.

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The Harvard mens and womens indoor track and field teams hosted crosstown rival Northeastern this past Saturday (Jan. 11) with mixed results. Powered by a first- through third-place sweep in the mile run, and strong outings in the long, triple, and high jumps, the mens team floated past the Huskies, 75-70. The womens squad, however, surrendered the meet, 71-56, despite a balanced afternoon in the field events.

A service commemorating the life and mission of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held on Jan. 20 at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, will deliver the keynote address, and the Kuumba Singers, a 90-member choral group of Harvard undergraduates dedicated to the expression of black creativity and spirituality, will perform.

Howard K. Koh, commissioner of public health for the commonwealth of Massachusetts since 1997, has agreed to join the faculty at the School of Public Health (SPH) as an associate dean and professor.

After analyzing medical malpractice insurance claims that involved 22 hospitals, researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have identified risk factors underlying medical errors that involve leaving surgical sponges or instruments inside patients after an operation, a rare but serious complication. Their findings appear in the Jan. 16 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.

For Boston middle school students, schools out at 1:35 in the afternoon. Between that time and when their parents return home from work, youth crime spikes and drug use rises. Risk for teenage pregnancy increases in the late afternoon.

Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have found that a lifetime history of depression may be significantly associated with an early decline in ovarian function. Women in their late 30s and early 40s experiencing depressive symptoms and currently on medication to treat their mood disorders appear to be at the greatest risk of starting perimenopause at a younger age. These new findings are documented in an article published in the Jan. 13 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.

The late Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was, in the opinion of admirers and detractors alike, the recluse/bookworm nonpareil. At the same time, he was (and is) regarded as a pop culture icon – one of Mick Jaggers heroes. Borges was an author, translator, avant-gardist, and expert in Medieval Anglo-Saxon literature. He was a man who hid in the solitude of libraries and a man who was considered a political threat in 1970s Argentina. The traveling exhibition Borges/The Time Machine, now on display in the Edison and Newman Room of Houghton Library, attempts to bring together the diverse roles played by Borges during his life and reveals a man who left traces across continents, across literary genres, across centuries.

The arts and visual culture of colonial India will be on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum now through May 25. Visitors will see works ranging from paintings and fine luxury objects to documentary drawings and historical photographs that show India during the European colonization of South Asia in the 17th through early 20th centuries.

A new Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) internship is giving five undergraduate students a taste of life as computer programmers and developing new ways computers and the Internet can help teachers teach.

The School of Public Healths Harvard Mentoring Project and MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership have launched their second annual National Mentoring Month (NMM) campaign – a public/private initiative aimed at recruiting mentors for kids who are at risk of not achieving their potential.

Harvard set a recycling record in November, collecting 311 tons – the largest monthly volume ever and 34 percent of the Universitys total waste for that month, according to Rob Gogan, supervisor of recycling and waste management for Facilities Maintenance Operations.

The Cambridge City Council unanimously approved an order last week to name a city square after the late Scott Sandberg – the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study building services coordinator who died in a November avalanche – in honor of his efforts to improve recycling.

January may not be autumn, but its first two weeks envelop students in the fall reading period nonetheless. Its that almost-free-but-fretful time after the holiday break, when regular class sessions have ended but term papers are due and exams loom.

President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:

A team of astronomers led by Matthew Holman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and JJ Kavelaars (National Research Council of Canada) has discovered three previously unknown moons of Neptune. This finding boosts the number of known satellites of the gas giant to 11. These moons are the first to be discovered orbiting Neptune since the Voyager II flyby in 1989, and the first discovered from a ground-based telescope since 1949.

Co-authors receive TIAA-CREF award The TIAA-CREF Institute, a research and education unit of TIAA-CREF, has announced that Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics John Y. Campbell and Assistant Professor of…

When Emily Famutimi 03 founded Keylatch Mentor for adolescents who had aged out of the South Ends Keylatch Afterschool Program that she directed, she took money from her own pocket, buying supplies as well as T tokens and movie tickets for the kids activities with their mentors.

C. Douglas Dillon 31, LLD 59, the former U.S. treasury secretary and president of the Harvard Board of Overseers whose accomplishments spanned the realms of government, diplomacy, finance, economics, and art, died last Friday (Jan. 10) at age 93. Dillon had lengthy and distinguished careers in investment banking and public service, ultimately serving in the administrations of three U.S. presidents.

Archaeologist Ofer Bar-Yosef is an interpreter of ancient human history as told by barn owls, a sleuth in search of mankinds past, reading the ashes of campfires extinguished millennia ago and examining stone flakes for evidence of a human hand in their creation.

In Woody Allens film, The Purple Rose of Cairo, a character from a 1930s movie walks off the screen and into the life of an audience member.

Despite a substantial jump in Early Action applications to Harvard College this year, the number of admitted students remained at roughly the same level as the previous five years. A total of 1,150 students were admitted this year from a record pool of 7,620. Last year, 1,174 of 6,126 applicants were admitted.