Campus & Community

The Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus (HRC), with its 130-plus members drawn from Harvard students, faculty, staff, and the community at large, is not the Universitys most elite musical ensemble. Founded in 1979 as a training choir for students aiming for some of the more selective choral groups, it continues to serve that purpose while also catering to its many members for whom a lower-key musical experience fits the bill.

Noel Fahey, Irelands ambassador to the United States, visited Harvard Nov. 20 as a guest of the Celtic Department. Fahey, who served formerly as ambassador to Germany, presented his credentials to President Bush in Sept. of this year.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced that Srivatsa Krishna, a masters of business administration degree candidate at Harvard Business School where he is currently on sabbatical, has been selected to the 2003 class of Global Leaders For Tomorrow (GLT). Each year, after an impartial and extensive global consultation and nomination process, WEF selects 100 leaders – from both the corporate and public sectors – who will help shape the future of the world.

How does the sun shine? John Bahcall, visiting professor of astrophysics at Princeton University and Richard Black Professor of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., will explain on Wednesday (Dec. 11) at 4 p.m. His talk is the first in the Super Cluster Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

A computer technology that already shows people what the world looks like has the power to help transform it into a better, more sustainable, and easier-to-manage place, speakers at a symposium on Geographical Information Systems said last month.

Emily Mann, artistic director of the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, N.J., will give a lecture titled Documentary Theater on Monday (Dec. 9) at 4 p.m. This event, the second in the Deans Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, is co-sponsored by the American Repertory Theatre.

Standing in front of the row of homes on Hano Street in Allston where she has lived since 1966, Minnie Walcott paused for a moment as her voice thickened with tears. I raised three daughters here, and now my grandchildren come back to visit me, she told the crowd assembled to celebrate the recent renovation of the affordable rental units. This means a lot to me.

Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have found that children with a family history of asthma or allergies may face significantly higher risk of persistent wheezing and asthma later in childhood when bottle-fed in the bed or crib before sleep time. These findings are published in the Dec. 2 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Harold Howe II, U.S. commissioner of education during the Johnson administration and senior lecturer emeritus at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), died Nov. 29 in Hanover, N.H. He was 84.

The Kennedy School of Governments Forum of Public Affairs at Harvard University will be named in honor of John F. Kennedy Jr., announced Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. The Kennedy School Forum, which will be renovated during the summer of 2003 through a gift from the Institute of Politics (IOP), will be dedicated in the fall of next year.

More than 300 children and their families filled the galleries of the Sackler Museum on a recent Saturday (Nov. 23) to learn about ancient fun and games and entertainment. They listened to the Japanese Tales of Genji told by Cambridge librarian Daryl Mark, knelt on the floor to play the Roman game of Knucklebones, watched 8- and 9-year-old Indian dancers gracefully perform a dance about an Indian drum called dholak, and constructed ancient Egyptian rattles called sistrums from a variety of materials – including coat hangers, washers, pipe cleaners, and tabs from soda cans.

I underwent radiation treatment for prostate cancer in 1996, so I was startled to come across a recent report that predicts who among men like myself would still be alive after 10 years.

According to a report taken by the Massachusetts State Police, on Nov. 20, between approximately 6:40 and 6:50 p.m., a Harvard undergraduate was the victim of an armed robbery in JFK Park. The student reported that while he was walking through the park, three individuals asked him the time and then assaulted him. One of the suspects produced a knife, threatened the student, and demanded his wallet.

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers met with Francisco Santos, vice president of Colombia, on Nov. 22. Santos (seated) signs the guest book in Massachusetts Hall as Summers looks on. (Staff photo by Kris Snibbe)

HBS professor named book prize recipient The Harriman Institute at Columbia University has named Rawi Abdelal, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, the recipient of the 2002…

Hitting the hardwood running, the Harvard womens basketball team – picked by the pundits as the official team to beat in the Ivies – took its first spill of the season on Dec. 1, dropping a 84-44 decision to No. 7 Vanderbilt. Playing in the title game of the First Tennessee Tournament in Nashville, the overwhelmed Crimson trailed by 27 points to close out the half. The team shot just 24 percent from the field on the afternoon.

What is the hidden factor behind the gains women have made in the labor market since the 1970s? Claudia Goldin believes its the birth control pill.

If the Harvard Gazette ever decides to send me to Amsterdam as a correspondent for Dutch affairs, I want to live in the Borneo Sporenburg residential development.

The environment was his passion, both professionally and privately. Scott Sandberg, 32, a building services coordinator for four years at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, was killed Friday (Nov. 29) in a surprise avalanche at Tuckerman Ravine on New Hampshires Mount Washington.

Showing visitors around the Fogg Art Museums current exhibit Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, curator Marjorie Cohn pauses at a brass sculpture by Eduardo Paolozzi. Lois kept this in her garden, explains Cohn, the Foggs Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, and a wasps nest was discovered in it while mounting the sculpture on its exhibition pedestal.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation of Menlo Park, Calif., has awarded $1.25 million to the Harvard University Library (HUL) to support the librarys Open Collections program. The new, Harvard-wide program reflects the Universitys long-term commitment to the creation of comprehensive, subject-based digital resources that link throughout the Harvard library system. Once created, these new digital resources will be made available to scholars and researchers worldwide.

Robert C. Clark will conclude his service as dean of Harvard Law School at the end of the 2002-03 academic year, he announced Nov. 25.

Robert C. Clark will conclude his service as Dean of Harvard Law School at the end of the 2002-03 academic year, he announced today (Nov. 25).

The ARCO Forum at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government will be renamed the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, it was announced on Monday, Nov. 25. The forum will be renovated during the summer of 2003 and dedicated in the fall of next year. On Monday, Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. (left) unveiled an artist’s rendering showing how the redesigned and renamed space will look. Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers and U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, uncle of John F. Kennedy Jr., also attended the meeting.

Author of ‘A Theory of Justice’ was James Bryant Conant University Professor Emeritus

The toilet runs, there’s graffiti on the windows and a former resident left behind some belongings in this historic Harvard dormitory.

Implants of stem cells have, for the first time, been used to replace and preserve missing and dying nerve cells in the brains of mice with human-like diseases. The research opens the way for a better understanding of how our brain develops and ages, and how stem cells might be used to treat injuries and diseases that happen along the way.

On Nov. 13, at approximately 3:30 p.m., Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers responded to Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School to take a report of an unarmed robbery that occurred in the Yard approximately 30 minutes prior. The victim, a Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School student, stated that while walking through the Yard he was approached by three black males and one black female of high school age. One of the suspects held the victim in a headlock while the other suspects went through the victims pockets and removed his wallet. The suspects then fled the area. The victim returned to school to report the crime, and at that time HUPD responded to take the report.

Nov. 13, 1875 – New Haven, Conn., hosts the first Harvard-Yale football game, which Harvard wins, to the delight of some 150 student boosters from Cambridge. November 1903 – After…

The city of Cambridge and the Harvard Square Design Committee invite the public to attend a community meeting today (Nov. 21) between 6:30 and 9 p.m. to review potential changes to the streets and sidewalks in the square. Specifically, the meeting, which will be held in the Cronkhite Living Room (6 Ash St.), will address public opinion on providing a bicycle and pedestrian link through Flagstaff Park, and possible changes to the direction of Church, Brattle, and JFK streets to improve conditions for pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers.