Campus & Community

Donald Warne is about to make history, but hes not happy about it.

Laura Clancy cant tell you how she fills her pre-summer days. The best way she has to describe it is a blur of so many random things. But what else can you expect from someone who is gearing up (as she does every spring) for a seven-week summer program for 700 urban children at 12 sites across Boston and Cambridge? And thats in addition to her continuing responsibilities as president of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), which runs most of the University-affiliated public service programs involving more than 1,800 undergraduates.

Every Wednesday night growing up in tiny Palmyra, N.J., Taii Bullock 02 would sit down to family dinner at her Aunt Jeanes house with at least 20 relatives.

Almost 30 years after he dropped out of college, Bill Dodd sat in his office, looked at the pile in his in box, and decided to tackle the task that had been on his agenda the longest.

Martin Gonzalez refused to let colon cancer prevent him from making the most of his Harvard Business School (HBS) experience inside and outside the classroom. Mo-Yun Lei used her education background to enrich the learning process of her HBS classmates. In recognition of their service to the Business School community, these students received the sixth annual Deans Award from Kim B. Clark, dean of the HBS faculty, at a special luncheon Wednesday (June 5).

The Committee on African Studies has awarded eight student grants for travel to Sub-Saharan Africa this summer. The four juniors who received the grants will be conducting research for their senior honors theses, while the four graduate student recipients will be researching their doctoral dissertations. The graduate student grants are funded by an endowment established by Jennifer Oppenheimer 89, J.D. 93.

When Lawrence H. Summers settled into Massachusetts Hall on July 1, he opened a year that saw achievement and glory, inquiry and debate, exhilaration and more sadness than any of us could imagine.

Bac break Soojin Yim and Abby Schlatter (foreground) rest before joining other members of the Class of 2002 at the Baccalaureate Service at the Memorial Church on June 4. (Staff…

I was all set to give a speech today entitled, “American Jihad.” But after receiving several complaints, I’ve decided instead to give a less controversial speech entitled: “The Case for…

After decades of speculation and experiments, researchers have discovered brain changes that may underlie learning and memory.

After significant design changes and five years of community, University, and city government review, Harvards new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) is a City Council vote away from getting the go-ahead to put the Government Department and more than a dozen international centers under one roof.

A memorial service for Carolyn E. Andrews, who served as associate master of Leverett House from 1971 to 1981 with her husband, Kenneth R. Andrews, Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, will be held on June 11 at 2 p.m. in the Memorial Church. The service will be followed by a reception at the Harvard University Faculty Club. Mrs. Andrews died on March 20 at the age of 85.

Thursday, June 6

In a page 7 article in the May 23 issue of the Gazette, Ganz organizes peer network, the address for the Web site featured in the article was incorrect. The correct URL is http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/organizing.

May 17, 1956 – The Committee on Undergraduate Affairs grants permission for WHRB-Radio to expand into FM broadcasting.

≈Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday (May 25). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Harvard senior awarded Cooke scholarship Harvard senior Wenya Linda Bi, a neurobiology concentrator, has been selected as a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholar. Along with 49 other outstanding college…

Writing is hard work for some. For others, its a way to shout at the top of their lungs without getting arrested. For still others, its a way to understand inner feelings in a process of thats not right, thats not right – thats it.

Employment Services, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, is hosting Career Forum 2002 on June 11 at the Graduate School of Designs Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. The event will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. To allow colleagues who are layoff candidates an opportunity to meet directly with many hiring managers, the forum will open one hour early (10 a.m.) to internal candidates only.

The GSAS Harvard Biotechnology Club recently announced the winners of the 2002 Biotechnology Business Plan Competition. Sponsored by DuPont Bio-Based Materials, the competition is unique in that it focuses exclusively on biotechnology startups. This year, the competition received 18 entries from the United States, Canada, and Europe.

For the first time, researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center have isolated and cloned the third and remaining gene believed to be a key regulator of insulin production. The scientists believe this achievement may now pave the way for researchers to use the trio of genes to encourage stem cells or other cells that do not normally produce insulin to do so, thereby creating a possible new way to treat diabetes.

When The Ants by E.O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, there was little doubt that receiving this prestigious and coveted award exerted a positive effect on the books sales.

The coolest place to rest on a warm, breezy, post-exam day proves to be the large, dense stone slab benches in Cambridge Common.

The Womens Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) has announced its five research associates for the 2002-03 academic year: Paola Bacchetta of the University of Kentucky R. Marie Griffith of Princeton University Kelly Pemberton of the University of California, Berkeley Brigid Sackey of the University of Ghana and Elina Vuola of the Academy of Finland. Each will be in residence at the Divinity School for two semesters. The new research associates will teach a course as a visiting lecturer, and will share aspects of their research in a public forum.

Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers have discovered a way to genetically mimic the life-extending effects of calorie restriction – without the severe food deprivation that method entails.

Five Boston and Cambridge public school teachers have received 2002 – 03 James Bryant Conant Fellowships to study for one year at the Graduate School of Education (GSE). The Conant Fellowships, established in 1986 at Harvards 350th anniversary, support the professional growth of outstanding Boston and Cam-bridge public school teachers and administrators who have shown commitment to public education and demonstrated leadership potential. The fellowship is named for James Bryant Conant, Harvard president from 1933-1953, a dedicated supporter of public education and a strong advocate of school reform.

Award-winning author Gish Jen, feminist legal scholar Clare Dalton, and National Public Radio (NPR) senior foreign correspondent Anne Garrels are among the distinguished women who will be honored by the Radcliffe Association during Commencement/Reunion Week.

Three Cambridge public school teachers received the Crystal Award for Preeminence in Teaching at a ceremony hosted by Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers at the Harvard Faculty Club Wednesday, May 22. Alan Stone, vice president for Government, Community and Public Affairs at Harvard, presented awards to winners Carol Siriani, social studies teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Eva Jablonsky, sixth-grade teacher at the Fitzgerald School and Carol Gavin, special education teacher at the King School. Established by the Cambridge Partnership for Public Education to recognize and reward outstanding teachers in the Cambridge Public Schools, the Crystal Award bestows on the winners a $2,000 cash award, a Waterford crystal clock, and membership on the Superintendents Task Force for the Advancement of Teaching. In addition, six finalists receive $250 each for a classroom project or field trip.

More than 50 students and faculty from many schools at Harvard attended the May 10 Interdisciplinary Conference on Disability held at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The Interfaculty Working Group on Disabilities at Harvard, co-chaired by Graduate School of Education (GSE) faculty Evangeline Harris Stefanakis and Thomas Hehir, spawned the daylong forum, the very first interdisciplinary discussion at Harvard on persons with disabilities. KSG Associate Dean Joseph McCarthy offered the welcoming address, recalling his earlier work in pioneering disabilities services at Harvard College.

Seniors Matthew Rosenberg and Stephen N. Smith are the first two recipients of the Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service. Each will each receive $25,000 in support of a formative year in public service.