Campus & Community

Former U.S. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander has been named the Roy M. and Barbara Goodman Family Visiting Professor of Practice in Public Service at the Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced.

The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, a research center based at the Kennedy School of Government, will introduce its 2001 spring fellows and visiting faculty on Monday, Feb. 5, at 4:30 p.m. in the Taubman Building, Kalb Seminar Room T-275, at the Kennedy School. The event is open to the public.

One is certainly among the most accomplished and well-respected actors of his generation, while the other is a former childhood star who burst upon the American scene when she was just a first-grader. Anthony Hopkins and Drew Barrymore this week have been named the 2001 Man and Woman of the Year by Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

Starting this month, the Harvard Divinity School&rsquos Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) will be hosting the directors of some of the world&rsquos leading museums at regular intervals.

The morning the selections were announced, the Gazette surveyed a dozen students at random to get their thoughts on the Hasty Pudding Man and Woman of the Year. Here is a sampling of their comments.

Proposed 2001-02 rents for current Affiliated residents living in Affiliated Housing

Deputy Secretary of Commerce Robert L. Mallett will teach at the Kennedy School of Government this semester, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced. Mallett will join the Kennedy School and serve as visiting professor of the practice of public management.

The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute offers graduate and undergraduate student fellowship support and summer research travel funding in the field of Japanese studies.

Historian Simon Schama returns to Harvard next week to speak on a subject in which he has established impressive credentials: bringing history to a popular audience.

Think of a space 33 percent larger than the Boston Common and the Public Garden combined. This is what New York Citys 503 privately owned public spaces would add up to if they were combined to form a single area.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 12, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

On Saturday, Jan. 27, between 4 and 4:10 a.m., two individuals unaffiliated with the University were the victims of an assault and battery while walking along Francis Avenue at Bryant Street when a vehicle approached them. Words were exchanged between the vehicles occupants and the two individuals after one of the individuals had fallen down. Soon after driving away, the vehicle returned when one of the occupants of the vehicle approached one of the two individuals, striking him with a black, club-type weapon. The victim suffered a minor laceration to the head. The vehicle and its occupants then fled the area in an unknown direction.

Women in Business project is now online The Baker Library at the Harvard Business School has recently completed the first year of its Women in Business project — a survey…

What’s old is new again.

In their return to action following the break, the Crimson mens basketball team (10-6, 3-1 Ivy) staved off a late-game surge by the Hartford Hawks (4-15), eking out an 80-78 win this past Monday at Lavietes Pavilion. Sophomore guard Patrick Harveys game-winning floater at the buzzer, his second game-winning shot for the Crimson this season, exemplified the drama-filled second half.

Two years ago we slowed it down to 38 miles an hour now weve been able to park it then bring it back up to full speed. Lene Hau isnt talking about a used motorbike, but about light &mdash that ethereal, life-sustaining stuff that normally travels 93 million miles from the sun in about eight minutes.

Scott Sandberg knew that folks at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study were finally on board for his recycling program last March when they threw him a surprise 30th birthday party. The cake had Happy Anniversary written on it.

Orientation teaches teachers The Derek Bok Center’s Winter Teaching Orientation for faculty and teaching fellows will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 30, from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. on the…

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino hosts a breakfast and ceremony at City Hall this morning (Jan. 25), conferring the 2000 Award for Excellence in Childrens Health. The award honors The Horizons Initiative for the range of comprehensive services it offers at its Community Childrens Centers.

Jan. 24, 1873 – The first issue of the weekly Magenta – predecessor of The Harvard Crimson – appears as a two-column booklet that contains reviews, essays, and poems. The…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Jan. 20. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

Harvard University Police officers escort Kenneth Leong from the Science Center following his arrest on Jan. 18. Leong is accused of bursting into an auditorium filled with more than 250 students as the students were beginning work on a final exam. Witnesses say Leong hurled a brick against a blackboard and threatened to detonate a bomb. The building was evacuated but no explosives were found and nobody was injured. Leong was arraigned on various charges in Cambridge District Court and ordered to undergo 20 days of psychiatric evaluation at an area mental health facility.

Stephanie Sandler wears a deep blue stone on one hand and a wide gold wedding band on the other. These are idiosyncratic pieces – large for her fingers, a little irregular in shape, strong statements for such a slight and self-contained woman. She has something of the ballerinas mien about her – erect, watchful – and indeed, she danced for 11 years, from the time she was 4 until she started reading Russian novels as a teenager. Then she stopped dancing but her mind has continued to sketch precise and unpredictable movements, always graceful in their arcs, a little dangerous in their turns, absorbing to behold.

The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships Administrative Board has announced the selection of five graduating seniors for its 2001-02 fellowship.

In sports, as in much of life, it is the small, imperceptible things that happen in the background, behind the scenes, that separate the good from the very good and make the best that much better.

Thanks to a generous contribution from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), the Kennedy School of Government has launched a new program to expand teaching and research on the critical issues facing Kuwait and the Gulf region, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced.

It requires only a cursory glance at the classified ads to determine just how exorbitant the cost of living has become in and around Boston.

The Ford Motor Co., through the Ford Motor Company Fund, plans to add $1 million to an existing five-year award of $1.5 million to Harvard. The new funds will support a University Committee on Environment study of the long-term environmental and economic consequences of transportation choices in developing countries, taking a multidisciplinary systems perspective. The Harvard team will collaborate with a local university on a new country case, India, expanding a study initiated in China that is led by Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering Peter P. Rogers Ph.D. 66 and seed-funded by the Thornton Foundation.

Energy Secretary to teach at Kennedy School U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson will teach a course at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) this semester, announced Dean Joseph S.…

As a successful midcareer professional, Janine Clifford last year confronted an intriguing dilemma – whether to return to her Honolulu architectural firm or continue her ascent toward a doctorate degree at the Graduate School of Design (GSD). After careful consideration she chose to do both.