Campus & Community

At the age of 14, Neil Rudenstine set out on an epic journey. Physically, the distance was only a few miles, but in personal terms it was like traveling to another world.

Employment Office to host Career Forum The Employment Office will host Career Forum 2001 on Tuesday, June 12. This year’s event will be held from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.…

Imagine a time in the remote future when all that is known of our world is what archaeologists have been able to excavate from the rubble – a handful of tantalizing puzzles with most of the pieces missing.

More months on breast milk as infants may mean fewer pounds on older children and teens later, according to a Harvard Medical School study in the May 16 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Bolstered by a financial aid program that has been expanded twice in the past two years, the yield on students admitted to the College remains at high levels not seen since the early 1970s. The high yield means that only a small number will be admitted from the waiting list over the next few weeks, and the final yield could exceed last years 78.9 percent.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 10, 2001, the following Minute was placed upon the records. Robert Harris Chapman, Professor of English Literature, playwright,…

Art historian, religious scholar, and computer virtuoso, James Moore has always been interested in the lessons that things-inanimate objects, that is-can teach. Now in the fourth year of his doctoral studies at HGSE, he has focused on a quintessentially modern medium: the Internet.

Many Harvard students look at Mohammed Rehman every day, but they dont really see him. They may exchange a couple of dollars with him as they buy their morning paper at the Out of Town News stand in Harvard Square. But to truly see Mohammed Rehman, one must understand the country he left, his long and difficult journey to the United States, and the reason hes become a community leader here.

When Pam Whitehouse, an HGSE doctoral student and adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, put her Womens Studies 101 course online four years ago, she got a lot of resistance from her colleagues. The Web didnt jibe with long-held ideologies that womens studies courses must focus on face-to-face discussion and community, said her critics.

Here is a computer, and here is an assignment: log on and find out something interesting about Australia. Do you search using the key word Australia? Or do you search using Australia+money+food+school+sports+cooking+climate?

Robert Moses was a young man when he traveled from New York to Mississippi in the early 1960s. The voter registration movement he helped organize changed the political landscape of…

By clocking the biorhythms of older people, researchers have come up with a way to tell if a person has Alzheimers disease. As new drugs and even a vaccine are developed for this personality-robbing disease, it becomes critically important to make sure these treatments are given to the right people.

Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine yesterday announced the formation of a University-wide committee to consider principles and policies regarding the compensation and opportunities available to lower-wage employees and contracted workers at Harvard University. The committee, to be chaired by labor economist and Harvard faculty member Lawrence Katz, will consist of 10 additional faculty members, five Harvard staff members (three unionized employees and two senior administrators), and four students (two undergraduates and two graduate students) to be named by elected student councils.

At its 14th meeting of the year, the Council discussed plans for a new University-wide sponsored grants management system with Elizabeth Huidekoper (vice president for finance) and Elizabeth Mora (director of sponsored research). Professor Paul Martin, Dean for Research and Information Technology (DEAS and physics), Cheryl Hoffman, Associate Dean for Finance in FAS, and Alan Long, senior project consultant in the Office of the Executive Dean, were present for this discussion.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, May 5. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29…

Like most students at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), John Daggett M.P.P. 01 is committed to the idea of working in the public sector. Someday, he believes, hed even consider running for public office. But the realities of launching a career in the federal government are causing him some consternation.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has elected Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Research Fellow Mary Graham and former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick as members of the foundations board of directors.

Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, has been named a new member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his distinguished achievements in original research. The announcement was made Tuesday, May 1, during the 138th annual meeting of the Academy in Washington, D.C.

Radcliffe panel addresses gender and technology issues

Put down your saltshakers, America!

In the first comprehensive examination of caffeine consumption from a variety of sources and the risk of developing Parkinsons disease, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) have determined that moderate consumption of caffeine reduces the risk of Parkinsons disease in men and women. The findings are published on the Web site for the Annals of Neurology at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0364-5134/.

The Harvard Directory Project seeks artwork of all types for next years student and faculty/staff telephone directories. Current students, faculty, and staff are invited to submit works that represent the Harvard experience.

The bubble may have burst on dot-coms, but entrepreneurship is alive and flourishing at Harvard Business School (HBS). A total of eight teams of students – half of them representing social enterprise ventures – competed in the final round of the fifth annual HBS Business Plan Contest on Monday, April 30.

This years Harvard Arts Medal honoree, the multi-talented Peter Sellars 80 – director of theater, opera, and film – was a snug fit for the ninth annual Arts First festival. Much like Sellars, who received the award from President Neil L. Rudenstine, the four-day festival runs the gamut of artistic expression and style.

It took a little artifice, but it came off. In honor of President Neil L. Rudenstine and his wife, Angelica Zander Rudenstine, an art historian and curator, the Harvard University Art Museums made a surprise announcement on May 4: The museums have acquired 29 drawings and one painting by leading contemporary American artists to celebrate Rudenstines tenure. Taken unawares, the Rudenstines were delighted with the announcement and the guests that accompanied it, including Jasper Johns and Ellsworth Kelly, two of the artists represented in the acquisition. The group also includes works by Roy Lichtenstein, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Joel Shapiro, Richard Serra, and Ellen Phelan.

Gleevec, first known as STI571, was not developed for GIST, but to treat an often-fatal type of leukemia known as chronic myelogenous leukemia or CML. In one study 53 out of 54 patients in the early stage of CML saw their cancer go into remission. Cancerous cells in seven of the patients disappeared completely. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug on May 10 following the shortest review on record, a scant two-and-a-half months. Tests have of Gleevec have been expanded to include more than 3,000 patients worldwide.

May 1, 1775 – By order of the Committee of Safety, the College closes early. The Provincial Congress soon commandeers Harvard’s buildings and orders the library and scientific instruments to…

Since 1994, the Weissman International Internship Program has provided Harvard sophomores and juniors the opportunity to participate on an international internship in a field of work related to their academic…

IEEE to honor Frosch Senior Research Associate Robert A. Frosch will be awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) Founders Medal on June 23. The medal recognizes…