Campus & Community

A memorial service for the Right Reverend and Right Honorable Lord Robert Runcie of Cuddesdon will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 21, in the Memorial Church. The service is open to the public. It will be the only such service offered in the United States in memory of the late archbishop. Lord Runcie served as the 102nd archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991, and during his tenure expressed reformist ideas that were often in opposition to the then Conservative government.

There are some areas where, believe it or not, Harvard is not No. 1.

When it comes to the Ivy League, the competitive atmosphere among the best and the brightest – from the intellectual to the athletic – can be thick at times. Rarely does an opportunity arise in which Ivy League students can cooperate toward a common goal. Yet this spring, more than 3,500 Ivy students will do their part in breathing new life into that old air.

You wouldnt think someone could get in trouble for saying that people in the past loved their children or that husbands and wives, at least in some cases, cared about and respected one another.

Some Harvard educators were the ones doing the listening last week when actress Dame Diana Rigg staged a brief demonstration on the proper use of theatrical vocal techniques.

No other recent decade seems quite as dated as the 1950s. The 60s comes close with its bell-bottoms and tie-dyed T-shirts, psychedelic posters, and ubiquitous peace signs. But many of us still recognize the 60s as the convulsive birth pang or our own self-indulgent, anything-goes era. The decade of the 1950s, however, is a world apart.

The future of the massive, international anti-AIDS effort outlined by 128 Harvard faculty last week lies squarely in the hands of the Bush administration, which has given the plan a warm reception but which has yet to pledge any funds, according to Center for International Development Director Jeffrey Sachs.

Letters of acceptance to the Class of 2005 have been mailed to 2,041 applicants from a record pool of 19,009. For the 10th time in the past 11 years, applications for admission to Harvard have risen. Last year, 18,693 students applied for the 1,650 places in the entering class. The percentage of admitted students was the lowest in Harvards history (10.7 percent). Women will comprise nearly 49 percent of the class, an unprecedented proportion.

Beginning to plan his post-presidential pursuits, President Neil L. Rudenstine has agreed to serve as chairman of a major new nonprofit organization that will develop, maintain, and distribute digital resources for the study of art, architecture, design, and related fields in the humanities.

At its 12th meeting of the year, the Council met with Dean Bruce Donoff (Dental Medicine) and Professor Bjorn Olsen (Oral Biology) to discuss a proposed joint FAS/Dental School Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine. Deans Peter Ellison (Graduate School) and Margot Gill (Administrative Dean), and Professor David Pilbeam (Associate Dean of the Faculty) were present for this conversation.

The Harvard University Choir and the Mozart Society Orchestra join together in a performance of The Creation, composed by Franz Joseph Haydn, under the direction of conductor Robert Lehmann. The concert features soloists Jean Danton as Gabriel, Mark Risinger as Raphael, and Thomas Gregg as Uriel. The performance takes place at 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 8, in Sanders Theatre. Tickets are available at the door or through the Harvard Box Office at (617) 496-2222.

April 25, 1674 – The Harvard Corporation orders that “freshmen of the Colledg shall not at any time be compelled by any Senior students to goe on errands or doe…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 31. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

As an idealistic young student in Paris, Philippe Aghion dreamed of making the world a better place, of reducing inequality and environmental damage, and of taking better advantage of technological progress to reduce poverty and illiteracy and increase social well-being.

When he was 17 years old, Wolfgang Rueckner did not build a go-cart for the science fair. He decided to build an ion rocket engine instead – the ones that can propel a rocket in the vacuum of space. So, he wrote NASA and they sent him some research papers, and young Wolfgang obtained a huge sewer pipe from the city, sealed it with boilerplates, and somebody gave me a very crude pump, so I pumped it out. Then he boiled mercury in a flask to vaporize it and bombarded it with electrons until it got ionized, and voila! The experiment worked, and it looked memorable, too – that glowing trail of blue ionized mercury vapor processing eerily through the sewer pipe.

Botterill named 2001 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award winner Crimson women’s hockey forward, Jennifer Botterill, has been selected as this year’s Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award recipient. Presented by Texaco, the award…

Eric Lander was riding in a taxi during the week in February when government and private scientists published a nearly complete sequence of human genes. Not knowing that Lander, of the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, played a major role in that effort, the driver explained that the first map of all our genes – the blueprint of life – was now a reality. Lander remembers thinking, then, why am I going back to work?

University Health Services (UHS) has achieved its highest accreditation score ever from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Heathcare Organizations, earning 99 points out of 100 after a rigorous three-day inspection.

Making government work better, both at home and abroad, is the goal behind a $50 million endowment grant awarded today by the Ford Foundation to the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). It is the largest single donation KSG has ever received and the largest single endowment ever made by the Ford Foundation.

Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Paul Grogan will leave Harvard July 1 to take the helm of The Boston Foundation, a philanthropy dedicated to building community in Boston and helping the citys poor.

Associate Vice President for Human Resources Polly Price has announced the appointment of Henry Ryan as director of Workforce Initiatives for Harvard University. Ryan joined the University on Monday, April 2.

Harvard collected a record $34,101 for the American Cancer Societys annual Daffodil Days fundraiser this year, topping last years total by 2.2 percent and helping fund the Cancer Society programs, including research seeking a cure for the disease. This years results come just months after the University was recognized in February for being the top single-site seller in New England. This is the fourth consecutive year the University set an all-time high for contributions during Daffodil Days.

How are women faring in the information technology (IT) industry? Researchers from the Radcliffe Public Policy Center (RPPC) will address that question during a three-year study – funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) – of women working in IT. RPPC will partner with the Massachusetts Software and Internet Council (MSIC) to study employees in its member firms, using cutting-edge Internet-based survey technology in addition to field interviews. The project will establish the nations first systematic research database concerning workers in the IT industry.

The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering a fellowship award for the 2001-02 academic year for doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic consistent with the centers research agenda. The award will provide a stipend of $10,000. The Meyer Dissertation Fellowship is named in honor of John R. Meyer, professor of capital formation and economic growth emeritus, of the Kennedy School of Government.

Robert E. Rubin will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvards 350th Commencement on Thursday, June 7.

Relationships between black and white women in literature have provided a sometimes painful mirror of racial stereotypes in the real world, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison said Tuesday, concluding, however, that literature today has gotten beyond stereotypes, no longer mirroring reality but running ahead of it.

John E. Dowling, the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard University, was recently awarded the prestigious Llura Liggett Gund Award from The Foundation Fighting Blindness.

Veritas Forum returns to Harvard After a two-year hiatus, the Veritas Forum returned to Harvard yesterday (Wednesday, April 4), and will run through Monday, April 9. Through lectures, panels, and…

Each year, the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology receives a number of corporate fellowships instrumental in the training of graduate students in organic chemistry. The 2000-01 research fellowships are sponsored by Eli Lilly Research Laboratories, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., and Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research. Ten graduate students have been awarded the fellowships this year.

Eleven Harvard University students and graduates are among the 30 recipients for the 2001 Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship. Fellows receive up to a $20,000 stipend plus half tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the U.S.