Campus & Community

Harvard is dishing up another helping of community service with its annual Pie in the Sky effort. On Sunday (Nov. 24), more than 50 staff members and their families from Dining Services and the Office of Human Resources (OHR) will bake and box 1,750 pies. The massive volunteer effort supports Community Servings, which sells the pies and will garner $35,000 for the Harvard effort alone toward its programs that provide food for people homebound with HIV and AIDS.

The number of applicants for Early Action admission to Harvard College has risen 24 percent above last year’s record 6,128 to a total of 7,615. The academic quality of the pool is impressive. For example, 64 percent of the applicants average 1,400 or more on the combined SAT verbal and math test.

Well have done enough groundwork to back up a decision, said Kathy Spiegelman, associate vice president for planning and real estate, who was recently appointed chief University planner and director of the Allston Initiative. She takes over the new position Jan. 1, 2003.

The Starship Enterprise is propelled through the universe of science fiction by a rocket fuel that combines ordinary matter and antimatter. When the two meet, they annihilate each other in a burst of energy that thrusts the starship from galaxy to galaxy.

The students of the South Asian Association, Dharma, and the Harvard Foundation welcomed renowned Nepalese actress and Bollywood star, Manisha Koirala (left) to Harvard on Friday (Nov. 8). Before a packed Boylston Hall audience, the popular Koirala presented clips from her latest film Escape from Taliban and spoke on Hindu-Muslim relations and women in films. At the conclusion of the talk, she was presented with Harvard memorabilia from students and faculty, including a Harvard sweatshirt from foundation director S. Allen Counter.

In an effort to combat the flu across campus this season, University Health Services (UHS) will be providing free flu vaccines to all members of the Harvard community. The walk-in clinics are being held at the following locations:

Nov. 28, 1942 – The Cocoanut Grove, a celebrated Boston night spot, burns on Thanksgiving weekend, killing some 500 people, including 15 from Harvard. Already in Boston at the time, an instructing officer and several student officers of the Harvard-based Naval Communications School are among the first to arrive on the scene. They play an important part in initial rescue efforts. Additional Harvard instructors, undergraduates, and alumni arrive before midnight and during the following day to lend a hand as stretcher-bearers, hospital orderlies, and body-identification assistants. Many students and faculty from the Medical School assist as well. The Harvard Alumni Bulletin reports that a deep pall was cast over the entire University.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Nov. 9. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Friends and colleagues of Arthur Solomon, professor of biophysics emeritus, are invited to attend a memorial service at the Memorial Church on Friday (Nov. 15) at 12:30 p.m. Following the service, a reception will be held at the Fogg Art Museum.

Why does the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) take longer to approve asthma medicines than arthritis medicines?

Dean’s Award nominations sought The Joint Committee on the Status of Women (JCSW), on behalf of Joseph Martin, dean of the faculty of medicine, is seeking nominations for two distinguished…

Giving a gift to Harvard seems a simple thing. A donor writes a check or transfers some stock, and thats the end of it.

Yucel inducted as ACR Fellow E. Kent Yucel, associate professor of radiology and director of cardiovascular imaging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, was inducted as a fellow in the American…

I picture Siberia, three weeks away

Gerald Gabrielse needs magnetic quiet to work. The professor of physics generates magnetic and electric fields, super-empty vacuums, and supercold temperatures in his basement workshop in Jefferson Laboratory at Harvard University. He needs such exotic conditions to hold bits of antimatter steady. If antimatter touches normal matter, such as makes up the walls of ordinary containers, the antimatter annihilates itself in a flash of energy.

Pennsylvanias womens volleyball team continued its hassling of the Crimson this past Saturday (Nov. 9) at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), sweeping the Harvard hitters in three games: 30-15, 30-14, 30-21. The shutout marks Harvards second defeat of the season against the Quakers – who endure as the only Ivy team to earn a pair of wins over the Crimson this year. With the loss, Harvard (13-10, 9-3) drops to second place in league standings, while the Quakers (19-4, 9-3) climb to the No. 1 spot.

There is a growing consensus among scientists that inhabitants of the Earth are facing more-than-minor climate changes in the coming years. What are the nature of these changes? Are they inevitably negative, and if so, what are the solutions? A group of leading scientists and experts will wrangle over these questions at a fundraising symposium and dinner at the Harvard Museum of Natural History on Saturday (Nov. 16).

After a summer of scorching heat waves up and down the Eastern seaboard, apocalyptic flooding in Prague and Dresden, droughts parching the western United States, and population-displacing monsoons throughout the Himalayas, if there is still anyone out there who does not believe in global warming, Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies and director of Harvards Center for the Environment, has a message for them: This is not controversial, he says. Its not just a gentle warming. And its caused by us.

Cinematic wunderkind Larry Meistrich addressed the Dudley Film Program on Nov. 7 about the state of independent filmmaking and distribution in todays changing economy. Meistrich, 35, was the founder and CEO of The Shooting Gallery, a premiere independent film studio and entertainment production company. Between 1990 and 2001, he produced more than 30 films including the Oscar-winning Sling Blade and Oscar-nominated You Can Count On Me.

Echoes of the reforms that ended the former Soviet Union are still reverberating in Russia and other former Soviet republics, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Unions last leader and the man who implemented those world-altering changes, told a packed Sanders Theatre Monday (Nov. 11).

Monday, November 11, 2002 Sanders Theatre, Harvard University TRANSCRIPT TIMOTHY COLTON: Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I am Timothy Colton, a Professor of Government, and Director of the Davis Center…

Researchers at Brigham and WomenÕs Hospital (BWH) have found that regular physical activity, such as walking, can help reduce the risk of osteoporotic hip fracture in postmenopausal women. This is the latest finding of the landmark NursesÕ Health Study and was published in the Nov. 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Can a trip to the mall cure cancer? Will a new puppy or a meeting with Donald Duck speed a childs wait for a heart transplant?

The Memorial Church marked its 70th anniversary Sunday (Nov. 10) with a solemn remembrance of those who died in World War I and in subsequent conflicts, and with a celebration of donors who helped make the churchs future more secure in the recent fundraising campaign.

The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School is an international leader in the development of the academic study of world religions. Students enrolled in any Harvard University doctoral program whose dissertation research involves substantive study of religious phenomena are invited to apply for a CSWR Dissertation Fellowship for academic year 2003-04. The award consists of a stipend of $10,000 and the possibility of residence at the center. In addition, dissertation fellows are fully integrated into the centers academic and social activities. The center is particularly interested in receiving applications from students whose proposed research will touch on the following topics in the centers current research agenda: Religion and the Arts, Globalization and Religion, Religion, Health and Healing, and Religion and the City.

It is commonly held that the rare collections of Harvards libraries are awe-inspiring, albeit widely dispersed among various faculties. And they are however, through Nov. 27, bibliophiles have the unique opportunity to view rare and historical materials from the collections of six major libraries in one central location. The exhibition – Some Special Collections at Harvard University Libraries – will be housed in the Edison and Newman Room of Houghton Library.

The Loeb Drama Center, home to the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.), the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) – will open its doors to the Cambridge and Boston community on Saturday (Nov. 16), 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) is the hub of the Kennedy School of Governments (KSG) research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, science and technology policy, and intrastate conflict prevention and resolution studies.

John Mekalanos (far left), the Adele Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School Debra Peattie Ph.D. 80, M.B.A. 96, and president of RCT BioVentures NE and David Edwards, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and scientific founder of Advanced Inhalation Research (AIR), participated in a panel on therapeutic product start-ups. The panel was part of a workshop jointly sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Universitys Office for Technology and Trademark Licensing (OTTL), and the Medical Schools Office for Technology Licensing (OTL). Aimed at academics who are thinking of adapting their research to the marketplace, the workshop offered information, advice, and friendly encouragement.

In a Nov. 7 article about Day of the Dead events at the Peabody Museum and the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Gazette neglected to mention the Peabody Museum in its headline. The altar at the Peabody was, as the article stated, the central attraction. Some of the artists who worked on the exhibit and whose work was featured in the article are John Tarzian, Jenny Quinonez, and Mizael Sanchez.