Campus & Community

Sixteen Harvard-related students are among the 30 recipients for the 2002 Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship. Fellows receive a $20,000 maintenance stipend plus half-tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States. Of the 16 recipients from Harvard, 11 are present or to be enrolled graduate students, four are alumni, and one is an undergraduate.

William Saturno was hot, frustrated, low on food, low on water, and low on patience when he sought shade in a trench dug by looters at the San Bartolo archaeological site deep inside the Guatemalan jungle.

Last month, when Professor Charles Lieber and his students made wires whose thinness is measured in atoms instead of fractions of an inch, he boasted excitedly that there are so many potential uses for this technology that we feel like kids in a candy shop.

George Francis Carrier, one of the worlds pre-eminent applied mathematicians and T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics Emeritus, died of cancer in a Boston hospital on March 8. He was 83 and lived in Wayland.

To reach Hal Hartleys office, you must descend into the basement of Sever Hall and wend your way through a maze of low-ceilinged corridors, stopping in momentary perplexity at restroom doors and emergency exits until you find yourself in the warren of rooms that houses the filmmaking faculty of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES).

Lifting the U.S. ban on paid organ donations might help meet the desperate need of thousands of sick and dying recipients, but some fear it would also expand a thriving international market that already views the poor as little more than a source for spare parts.

Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has announced this years Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. Honored for their eminence in history, literature, or art, as such terms may be liberally interpreted, the new fellows are Tom Conley, professor of romance languages and literatures Peter Ellison, professor of anthropology Michael McCormick, professor of history Michael Sandel, professor of government Kay Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History.

Old-school feminism came to the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study last week (March 12), as author and activist Andrea Dworkin spoke and signed copies of her latest book, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, at the Cronkhite Living Room.

The urge to help others may not be universal, but it is unquestionably widespread, and, just as surely, its an urge that has been strengthened by the unforgettable events of six months ago. On March 27, Harvard employees will have the opportunity to attend the first Harvard Volunteer Fair to explore specific ways they can satisfy that urge. The fair is being held by the Harvard Administrators Forum and will take place in Loker Commons (lower level of Memorial Hall) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Longtime benefactors Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood have donated Mrs. Calderwoods extensive collection of Islamic art to Harvards Arthur M. Sackler Museum. The gift continues the Harvard University Art Museums leadership role as a recipient of major acquisitions for the purpose of teaching and research.

The University Committee on Human Rights Studies is launching a new Harvard initiative to assist scholars who face the risk of persecution in their home countries because of their beliefs, scholarship, or identity. The yearlong fellowship is intended to provide a safe environment for academics, writers, or independent intellectuals (employment at an academic institution is not required of fellowship candidates) to pursue scholarly work without fear of repression, violence, censorship, or punishment. The fellowship is not envisaged as an opportunity to mobilize political support on the issues giving rise to a scholars predicament.

Theres no cease-fire in the battle of the sexes, at least not at the genetic level, said pioneering genetics researcher and Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman in her Deans Lecture Series talk at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Monday afternoon (March 18).

At the Harvard Islamic Societys (HISs) weekly prayer service in Lowell Lecture Hall Friday (March 15), nearly 50 members of the Universitys Muslim community gathered, as they do most weeks. As the Muslims bowed and prayed, sitting stocking-footed on carpets aligned toward Mecca, a dozen others watched from the seats of Lowell, one even filming the service on a videocamera.

Aiming to foster a deeper understanding of the volunteer experience, the Harvard College Library (HCL) honored HCL employees who make lasting contributions to their communities, at a volunteer fair on Tuesday, March 12, in the Gutman Conference Center of Gutman Library. The daylong event, a collaborative effort between the HCL joint council and administration, showcased volunteer opportunities and workshops that detailed volunteers personal accounts.

There are people in Los Angeles, accountants and writers and teachers, who have become so accustomed to feeling the ground shake that they make a sport of trying to determine every earthquakes point of origin, betting that they can call it within a certain number of miles or dinner is on them. More often than not, they lose, and when their predictions do match those of seismologists, Michael Antolik would likely tell you, its probably a matter of good old-fashioned luck. Antolik, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, is working to improve the locating of earthquakes. No, he cant move them from one place to another, but he is making them easier to find.

With a $50,000 planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Harvard University Librarys Weissman Preservation Center will embark on a one-year program to assess the preservation needs of photographic collections held in museums and libraries throughout the University. Harvards photographic holdings, which may number as many as 5 million objects, have been assessed on the collection level. But as Jan Merrill-Oldham, the Malloy-Rabinowitz Preservation Librarian, notes, We need to know these collections not only as historical evidence but as physical objects.

It was the first weekend signaling the coming of spring and what better way to spend it than shooting a film. On a balmy Saturday (March 9) followed by a crisp Sunday, a crew of 13 and a cast of five principal actors and seven extras assembled at the Busa Farm in Lexington to shoot the short film Scratching the Surface, one of the eight short films that will premiere at the Third Annual Dudley House Film and Video Festival.

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

Crimson vs. Tar Heels

Do animals think?

On last weeks front page, the caption should read: The change from the oblong skull and protruding face of ancient humans (right) to the modern rounder skull and retraced face (left) is associated with a sharper bend in the floor of the brain case.

March 6, 1808 – Students establish the Pierian Sodality, forerunner of todays Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.

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

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. Individuals wishing to meet with President Summers or Provost Hyman will be welcomed on a first-come, first-served basis. A Harvard ID is required.

Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo (right) chats with President Lawrence H. Summers in Mass. Hall on Wednesday afternoon (March 13) a few hours before Zedillo delivered the 2002 Collins Lecture at the Kennedy School of Governments ARCO Forum.

Two years ago, Afsaneh Najmabadi delivered a lecture on gender and Iranian modernity as part of her selection process to the Harvard faculty. The talk summarized the final chapter of her nearly completed manuscript, Male Lions and Female Suns: The Gendered Tropes of Iranian Modernity.

Shed always been a dancer, just like the girl in the Beatles song – toe shoes, leotards, tutus, first position, second position, pliés at the bar.

The Harvard Childrens Initiative and the Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative have announced research awards of up to $1,500 for Harvard juniors and seniors (as of fall 2002). The second annual Kagan Undergraduate Research Awards are named in honor of Jerome Kagan, Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, for his indispensable work in developmental psychology, and his deep commitment to undergraduate education.

Scoring three unanswered goals in the first quarter, the Harvard mens lacrosse team soared past the Hartford Hawks, 11-7, this past Saturday (March 9) at Jordan Field. Junior attackman Matt Primm and senior co-captain Jim Christian notched three goals apiece in the home opener, as Harvard goalie Jake McKenna 04, who had 14 stops on the day, staved off a steady Hartford attack with seven saves in the opening period alone. The Crimson – ranked 25th in the nation – secured a 2-0 record with the win, while the Hawks dropped to 1-1.

Christiane Amanpour, this years winner of the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism, gave the keynote address at the awards ceremony. Amanpour, chief international correspondent at CNN, spoke about the trials, tribulations – and rewards – of being a war correspondent in these difficult days. The ARCO Forum talk was a highlight of the 10th anniversary of the Goldsmith Awards, which are distributed by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government.