Campus & Community

The Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Council on the Arts have announced the winners of the 2000-2001 prizes for outstanding accomplishments in the arts. The winners are as follows:

Harvard Law School announced today that its library – the largest law library in the world – has received its most significant gift in more than 150 years, a major collection of rare English law books spanning 400 years of legal writing from 1491 to 1891.

He was committed tirelessly to hard work, clearly an example to family, friends and colleagues. His contagious joy in life with that infectious, irrepressible chuckle, encompassed his work, his relationships to people, as well as his travels, and delight in being exposed to the new and challenging.

In the communal living room at Bostons South Cove Plaza Saturday, under the quiet swirl of twin paddle fans, words from two languages – rapid-fire Chinese and slow, careful English – mingled in the rooms slowly stirring air.

As the Massachusetts Hall sit-in over wages for the Universitys lowest-paid workers extended into its eighth day on Wednesday, protesters and members of the Harvard administration searched for a resolution to the standoff.

Harvard faculty, staff, and retirees pledged a record-breaking $966,400 to local charities through this years Community Gifts through Harvard Campaign, surpassing last years mark by more than $95,000.

As the Massachusetts Hall sit-in over wages for the Universitys lowest-paid workers extended into its eighth day on Wednesday, protesters and members of the Harvard administration searched for a resolution to the standoff.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, April 21. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

Kirschner wins Gairdner International Award The Gairdner Foundation of Toronto has named Marc Kirschner, the Carl W. Walter Professor of Cell Biology, as one of the four recipients of the…

Rosalynn Carter to speak at ARCO Forum Former first lady Rosalynn Carter will speak at the ARCO Forum, Kennedy School of Government, on Monday, April 30, at 6 p.m. Her…

“Young ladies . . . Sir, good day, sir . . . Hello, big guy . . .” We’ve heard them all. Loud and smiling, Gregory Daugherty belts them out.…

Last years report on United Nations Peace Operations began with a somber statement: Over the last decade, the United Nations has repeatedly failed to meet the challenge of protecting people from war. The report, compiled by a panel of experts from all six continents and chaired by Lakhdar Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign minister, proposes extensive reforms of UN peacekeeping operations.

As the Massachusetts Hall sit-in over wages for the Universitys lowest-paid workers extended into its eighth day on Wednesday, protesters and members of the Harvard administration searched for a resolution to the standoff.

As the Massachusetts Hall sit-in over wages for the Universitys lowest-paid workers extended into its eighth day on Wednesday, protesters and members of the Harvard administration searched for a resolution to the standoff.

For 10 years, Alan DAndrea labored to find the cause of one of the rarest diseases on Earth. Called Fanconi anemia, it affects only 500 families out of 280 million people in the United States.

Every time Harvard sophomore Sandra Nudelman sees her grandfather, she is thankful for the 19-year-old nursing student whose donated liver saved his life. Her grandfather, Norman Rudow, waited from late…

Enrique Anderson Imbert, the Victor Thomas Professor of Latin American Literature at Harvard University from 1965 until his retirement in 1980, died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this past Dec. 6.…

Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business will hold its second semiannual conference on Thursday, April 26, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Charles Hotel. The organization’s goal is to promote…

April 4, 1945 – At the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, Calif., the Radcliffe Club of San Francisco performs launching honors for the S.S. Radcliffe Victory, one of several wartime Victory…

The following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, April 14. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29…

Harvard University April 2001 Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Let me first thank the many of you who have offered your good wishes as I prepare to take up…

The Harvard Cancer Society and the Asian American Brotherhood are working with the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) to recruit more minorities for the National Marrow Donor Registry. Each year, more than 30,000 children and adults in the United States are diagnosed with life-threatening blood diseases like leukemia. For many of these patients, a marrow or stem cell transplant is the only chance for a cure.

Frederick Schauer, academic dean and Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School of Government, is among a distinguished group of scholars, scientists, and artists awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

People with heart disease who consume an average of 14 alcoholic drinks a week appear less likely to die from a heart attack than nondrinkers. Low to moderate drinking is also associated with a lower risk of heart failure among older people.

The Harvard baseball team wrapped up a four-game series against Yale with a pair of wins this past Saturday (April 14), after splitting a doubleheader a day earlier. The Crimson finished the homestand weekend with three consecutive victories, good for a 3-1 mark.

The University Center for Ethics and the Professions, one of Harvards first interfaculty initiatives, has received a bequest, estimated at $12 million, from the estate of the late Lester Kissel JD 31. The bequest will be used to establish the Lester Kissel Presidential Fund for Ethics, the income from which will support part of the core activities of the center, including faculty and graduate student fellowships, faculty and curricular development, and interfaculty collaboration.

When Mather House Co-Master Leigh Hafrey acted on the idea to turn the Houses once-bleak common space into a vibrant art gallery, neither he nor the gallerys principal players had any idea that their creation would become a focal point for heated debate about the role of art in public spaces.

Bhumi, the Harvard International Development Group, has announced the selection of three Harvard University students to spend the summer abroad as interns. The Bhumi Internship Committee, consisting of Harvard administrators and Bhumi members, selected the three interns from a pool of 22 applicants. The interns will work with small, grassroots nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Malaysia, Nicaragua, and Senegal.

Approximately 50 students entered Massachusetts Hall on the Harvard University campus yesterday (April 18) demanding a mandatory wage floor for all persons who work on the Harvard campus – whether employed by Harvard or by outside service providers, and whether represented by unions through the collective bargaining process or not.

The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History has announced the recipients of its 2001-02 fellowships. The fellows, who will come to Harvard from faculty positions at other institutions to spend a sabbatical year writing and conducting research, will concentrate on this years core theme, Exceptional By Nature?: American Science and Medicine, 1500-1900.