Campus & Community

Researchers from the School of Public Health studying the role of fish consumption and risk of stroke among men have found that men who eat fish as little as twice per month significantly reduce their risk for ischemic stroke compared with men who eat fish less often or not at all. The findings are in the Dec. 25, 2002, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

For most of the 1,400 freshmen who joined President Lawrence H. Summers at the first-ever Reading Period Study Break in Annenberg Hall Monday night (Jan. 6), it was the food – sumptuous displays of decadent desserts and a veritable mountain of nachos – that lured them away from their books and papers.

If chickens could talk, would they have anything interesting to say? Most scholars think not. But Marc Hauser, a Harvard professor of psychology, disagrees with them.

Thinking outside the box seems to have given Harvard students the edge in the Rhodes Scholarship competition this year. Four Harvard College students and one from the Medical School received the prestigious award – more than from any other school. All of them are pursuing academic careers that are interdisciplinary and unconventional.

Lewie Remele 06 hangs holiday decorations inside his dorm room in Grays Hall.

Dec. 3, 1948 – The 110-member Harvard University Band makes its second appearance at Symphony Hall, Boston. The program features well-known marches and traditional band music, along with works by…

Dear Colleagues, I am writing to bring to your attention a Harvard initiative concerning scholars who face persecution…

At the Askwith Education Forum at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Friday (Dec. 6), Al Gore introduced himself as the former next president of the United States and closed with a cautious endorsement of the electoral college system that kept him from that post in 2000.

Matthew Shair takes his inspiration from nature. The recently tenured professor of chemistry and chemical biology tries to solve natures mysteries and learn enough in the process to improve upon the mother of life. His work is called biomimetic synthesis, mimicking the way that life works by mixing chemicals in a laboratory.

There were just enough moments of dazzle and dominance in this past Saturdays (Dec. 7) womens hockey match-up at the Bright Hockey Center that host Harvard appeared to be playing against an ice version of the Washington Generals – that hapless squad of fall guys made infamous by the Harlem Globetrotters. Though for the No. 1 nationally ranked Crimson, the 4-0 shutout against Northeastern (5-8-2) was no trickery.

There are those who say America is losing its regional identity, that theres no more difference between Spokane and Spotsylvania, Klamath Falls and King of Prussia than there is between fast-food stops along the interstate. They say the mass media has homogenized our culture, making us all look the same, dress the same, act the same, and talk the same.

Thirty years ago, when Emily Mann 74 was an undergraduate directing plays at the Loeb Drama Center, someone told her that as a woman, she couldnt possibly have a career as a playwright and theater director. Had she considered childrens theater?

MVP Morris named top senior Harvard wide receiver Carl Morris ’03 – named the Ivy League’s most valuable player for the second consecutive season – received the Harry Agganis/Harold Zimman…

Harvard employees currently paid on a semimonthly basis will find something extra in their first paychecks when they switch to biweekly pay in January – an advance equal to nine days pay without taxes or deductions.

HOLLIS unavailable on 27th The Harvard University Library (HUL) has announced that the HOLLIS Catalog will be unavailable from 4 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Friday (Dec. 27). HOLLIS will…

Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) in Boston have determined that obesity is a measurable risk factor for stroke in men, and have calculated that risk in terms of the popular equation used to measure obesity, known as the Body Mass Index, or BMI.

Harvard has historically engaged alumni on a school-by-school basis. Those who graduate from one school have the opportunity to learn about its activities get to know its faculty, academic leaders, and fellow alumni and are encouraged to support its priorities. Alumni who graduated from the College, the Business School, and the Law School, in particular, have given generously to these schools over the years, and their support has been vital to the development of outstanding teaching and research programs at each school.

Outside the Science Center, at Harvards very own version of Stonehenge, snow-capped boulders make for a surreal landscape.

Build a better mobile home and the world probably wont beat a path to your door because chances are youll have pulled up stakes and moved on. But since your e-mail address will remain the same, theyre sure to find you that way.

Just a few hours before showtime, Macbeth was undergoing some last-minute plastic surgery.

Postmenopausal women who have taken hormone replacement therapy in the past were 50 percent less likely to develop the blinding disease related to advanced age called maculopathy (ARM), as compared with women who never used hormone therapy.

The following students were selected as the Senior 48 by the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Harvard College:

Analysis of available data suggests that Chlamydia pneumoniae, which causes walking pneumonia, may contribute to atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and its complications, such as heart attack and stroke, according to a paper in the Dec. 4 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

In the upcoming months, getting into the administrative offices in the Holyoke Center will take a little extra effort. But once there, employees and visitors will be much safer.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 12, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

The Board of Directors of Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. (HSA), has elected Abhishek Gupta 04 as president for the upcoming fiscal year. He will begin his term Feb. 1, 2003, and he will lead the corporation for one year.

At the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts Thursday (Dec. 5), slides of the work of Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo conveyed their powerful, horrible beauty: Womens worn shoes roughly sutured behind a thin membrane of animal skin … armoires filled with concrete … a battered cabinet with a zipper between its gaping seams … wooden desk chairs lowered over the sides of Bogotas Palace of Justice, the site of a brutal urban battle between guerilla forces and the army that killed more than 100 people in 1985.

Yu Huang, a doctoral student in Professor Charles Lieber’s lab, has used fluid flows to arrange tiny bits of wires that are just billionths of a meter wide into millimeter-long…

“Contrary to popular belief, college students are engaged in their community and tuned into current events,” said Dan Glickman, director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics and a former U.S. Cabinet…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Dec. 7. The official log is located at 1060 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.