Campus & Community

Harvard University Office of the President Massachusetts Hall October 16, 2001 Dear Faculty, Students, and Staff, Our community has shown remarkable strength, resilience, and compassion during these past few difficult…

Have you ever purchased a lottery ticket thinking, Maybe this time the big winner will be me? Do you play the same lottery numbers every week because you believe that as soon as you change them, they are sure to be the winners? Emily Oster 02, became intrigued by these questions in her class on behavioral economics. A paper on the demographics of lottery behavior sparked Emilys interest in the players of Powerball, the multistate lottery with two drawings each week, and started her thinking about possible thesis topics.

Students as consumers, great researchers as inspiring teachers, and technology as anything but a magic bullet were some of the ideas discussed and argued Friday morning (Oct. 12) at The Company of Educated Men and Women: Challenges for the 21st-Century Undergraduate Experience, one of six faculty symposia held as part of the Inauguration of President Lawrence H. Summers.

Recently, a group of about 35 Harvard Neighbors ventured outside of Cambridge for the fragrant and only slightly demanding New England tradition of apple picking at the Honey Pot Orchards in Stow.

At an Oct. 12 symposium honoring the inauguration of Lawrence H. Summers as Harvards 27th president, five of Harvards top scientists described their cutting-edge research and sought to envision the ways that that research might affect our future.

The rich around the world are getting richer, but the poor arent necessarily getting poorer, as globalization-spurred trade boosts their nations economies, a panel of international development experts said Friday (Oct. 12).

An increasingly competitive and deregulated market economy has dramatically changed the medical and legal professions, a panel of five experts agreed last Friday during one of six symposia held to commemorate the inauguration of new Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers.

What distinguishes Superman from Man and Superman, Rock Around the Clock from Rachmaninoff, Jurassic Park from Mansfield Park?

The new study of cognitive changes caused by heavy marijuana use has found no lasting effects 28 days after quitting.

A novel use has been found for black silicon, an exotic material discovered accidentally in a Harvard research lab three years ago.

Final details were being set into place this week &mdash along with thousands of chairs in Harvard&rsquos Tercentenary Theatre &mdash in preparation for installing Lawrence H. Summers as Harvard University&rsquos 27th president on Friday (Oct. 12).

Oct. 7, 1783 – With high ceremony, Harvard Medical School officially opens as the “Medical Institution of Harvard University.” Its first home is the ever-versatile Holden Chapel.  Oct. 23, 1832…

A.R.T. costume sale The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) costume shop will hold a giant sale on Saturday, Oct. 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Loeb Drama Center,…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 6. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29…

It seems strange that a person who makes her living asking probing, often intimate questions of complete strangers and having those conversations broadcast daily to a nationwide radio audience should confess to being shy, but that is exactly how Terry Gross, host of National Public Radio&rsquos &ldquoFresh Air,&rdquo describes herself.

Tompkins to lead NIGMS grant project The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has selected Ronald Tompkins, chief of trauma and burn services at Massachusetts General Hospital, to lead…

The Office of the Provost has announced a new round of grants under the Provost&rsquos Fund for Student Collaboration. These grants are designed to promote intellectual interchange among students across faculties of the University. The deadline for grant applications is Friday, Nov. 2.

A. Michael Spence, Ph.D. &rsquo72, former dean of Harvard&rsquos Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), won the Nobel Prize for Economics yesterday, Oct. 10, for economic theories based on his doctoral thesis. Spence, Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus and former dean at Stanford University&rsquos Graduate School of Business, shares the award with economists George A. Akerlof and Joseph E. Stiglitz.

If you like a challenge, youll love the work of Greer Gilman.

A relaxed, bearded Al Gore called for national unity in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist hijackings Thursday, praising the public servants who responded to the crisis and passing up a chance to criticize President George Bush before a packed Kennedy School crowd.

Movies, music, television, video games, and the Internet can warp the way children view sex, drugs, their bodies, and themselves, but they can also be a positive tool, educating and inoculating children against evils such as drunk driving and gang violence, according to participants at a Harvard School of Public Health symposium Friday (Oct. 5).

Like many Harvard schools and organizations struggling to make sense of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Graduate School of Education shuffled its Askwith Education Forums to include a new forum, &ldquoUnderstanding More About Islam,&rdquo on Wednesday evening, Oct. 3. The panelists at the well-attended forum included an Iowan, an Egyptian, a Christian Arab, and a self-described &ldquoAsian-African-American Muslim&rdquo not surprisingly, pluralism and diversity in Islam were major themes of the discussion.

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, many Americans are looking for answers. What could have motivated the hijackers to sacrifice their lives to kill thousands of innocent people? What is their hatred based on? Are these the acts of isolated extremists, or do the terrorists represent something larger to which the United States had best pay careful attention?

Today, Oct. 11 7 p.m. “Segue!…” Student performance in Sanders Theatre (invitation only but waiting line for potential available seats). Overflow room for video simulcast in Loker Commons and Science…

A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge Friday, Oct. 12.

You might call it a &ldquosupergroup.&rdquo

Aug. 27, 1640* Civil and religious officials of the Bay Colony invite Henry Dunster to become “President of the Colledge.” He accepts. Harvard gains its first president. No formal installation…

At Cambridge. Is kept in the College there. Seems but little the worse for wear. That’s remarkable when I say It was old in President Holyoke’s day. – Oliver Wendell…

Rarely seen Harvard insignia of office will emerge from the vault of University Archives to bear silent witness to tomorrow&rsquos (Oct. 12) installation of President Lawrence H. Summers.

The following is a partial list of events at Harvard over the inaugural weekend. See Calendar for times, locations, prices, etc.