Campus & Community

On Tuesday, Jan. 29, at approximately 8:30 p.m., a graduate school student was the victim of an armed robbery on Western Avenue near the intersection of North Harvard in front of Charlesview Apartments. The suspects, described below, confronted the victim after exiting a silver motor vehicle. One of the suspects displayed a silver handgun and demanded the victims money. The victim turned over an amount of cash and the suspects fled in the vehicle in an unknown direction.

More than 50 girls and young women from grade schools throughout Greater Boston packed the pools and jammed the courts of the Malkin Athletic Center this past Saturday (Feb. 2) for Harvards ninth annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) event. Between the sounds of splashed water, whacked volleyballs, and the gymnasium echo of squeaking sneakers, some important life lessons could also be heard, courtesy of Harvards finest female student-athletes and their coaches.

Renovations at the Harvard University Police Departments former 29 Garden St. headquarters has forced a move to new offices at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., but police officials say their hope is that the Harvard community will barely notice the change.

Leo P. Krall, M.D., an international leader in the field of diabetes for half a century and one of the original founders of Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, died Jan. 30, at the age of 87.

The Sept. 11 tragedies irretrievably changed the nature of public service and made it more important than ever that people take an active interest in their communities and in the public servants that make them work, Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift told a Kennedy School audience Tuesday (Feb. 5).

Race and the aesthetics of aversion, subjectivity and its discontents, and the impact of Sept. 11 on psychoanalysis are among the topics to be discussed at a one-day symposium sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Why Psychoanalysis? A Symposium on the Value of Psychoanalysis for Contemporary Life will be held on Friday, Feb. 22, in Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe Yard, and is free and open to the public.

The race was on. With the Harvard Museum of Natural Historys (HMNH) giant Kronosaurus skeleton as a backdrop, three groups of kindergartners and first-graders began assembling their puzzles, slapping pieces onto the blue-gray carpet until they revealed: A shark, a shark, and another shark.

Great blobs of dust may signal the presence of a planet orbiting Vega, the brightest star in the summer sky.

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Jan. 18, 1943 – At Radcliffe, Briggs Hall becomes home to 75 Waves (all commissioned officers) studying at the Navy Supply Corps School at the Business School. The women will become disbursing officers and assistants in Navy storehouses. Another 75 are due to arrive on April 1.

Joyce Lever, the director of Alumni Information Systems, died on Thursday, Jan. 17. She was 60.

Watson elected president of AAS Professor of anthropology James L. Watson, the John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society, has been elected to serve as the 61st…

Joint Center fellowship program accepting applications The Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program – a competitive master’s level program for students in all of Harvard’s professional schools and related academic departments of…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 26. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.

Homi Bhabha was born in India, but he is quick to add that he is a Parsi, a member of an Indian minority with a population of only about 160,000 worldwide. The Parsis are Zoroastrians who migrated from Persia in the eighth century to avoid persecution by the Muslims.

From the roof above Sanders Theatre, Elizabeth Randall surveys her handiwork: University Hall, Boylston Hall, the freshman dorms. Randall, capital projects manager for Faculty of Arts and Sciences Physical Resources, oversaw the renovations of these and many other Harvard landmarks. She even helped pick out paint color for the Memorial Churchs recent sprucing-up.

The defending Ivy League champion Harvard wrestling team split a pair of homestand meets this past weekend (Jan. 26-27), downing Army 29-10, while losing a 21-20 decision to Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) powerhouse Lehigh. The Crimson, who also hold last seasons EIWA title, stand at 2-3 in dual meets and 1-1 in the EIWA.

Housing policy expert Cushing N. Dolbeare, founder of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, has been appointed senior scholar at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Nicolas P. Retsinas, the centers director, announced earlier this month.

Scientists have found pain in the same brain circuits that give you pleasure. That wont make you cry until you laugh, but its likely to lead to better ways to measure and treat chronic pain.

Faculty members at the School of Public Health (SPH) voted Thursday (Jan. 24) not to accept research funding from tobacco manufacturers and their subsidiaries. Because of an incompatibility with the public health mission, such funds had not been accepted at the School as a general practice for a number of years. The vote puts current practice into official policy and is consistent with Harvard Universitys 13-year-old policy of not holding stock in tobacco companies.

Teach For America seeks seniors ready to make an immediate impact

For a sighted person, blindness is a frightening prospect. Finding ones way, avoiding danger, interacting with strangers – without vision such tasks seem challenging to the point of insuperability.

A former New York Times columnist, an Israeli communication and government scholar, and a former Boston Globe editor will be among six visiting faculty and fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government this semester.

Like many first-year students, David Solá-Del Valle 04 came to Harvard with a number of goals. High on Solá-Del Valles to do list, however, was an item other freshmen might find a little daunting: landing a spot in a biology research lab.

Statement Regarding University Employment and Contracting Policies

Scientists have found pain in the same brain circuits that give you pleasure. That wont make you cry until you laugh, but its likely to lead to better ways to measure and treat chronic pain.

A distinctive signature of genes turned on and off greatly improves predictions of who has the best chance of survival of the most common type of childhood malignant brain tumor, according to a new study by researchers at Childrens Hospital in Boston and their colleagues. If verified by other studies over the next several years, the gene expression profile may help children survive the malignant brain tumor with fewer serious side effects. The study also shows that medulloblastoma has key molecular differences from other brain tumors, which eventually may help researchers find more targeted treatment. The study is published in the Jan. 24 issue of the weekly journal Nature.

Researchers, one of them an undergraduate, have used economic analysis to analyse and predict participation and medal outcomes for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nations oldest dramatic organization, announced the recipients of the 2002 Woman and Man of the Year awards: Sarah Jessica Parker and Bruce Willis.

Shortly after the Hasty Pudding Club announced its Woman of the Year (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Man of the Year (Bruce Willis) on Monday (Jan. 28), students around campus shared their opinions of the picks with the Gazette.