Campus & Community

Last month, William P. Alford, the Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law and director of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, was the guest of President and Mrs. Clinton at a White House dinner honoring the Special Olympics. Alford was invited in recognition of his work on behalf of the Special Olympics in China.

Ilene K. Gipson, senior scientist and ocular surface scholar at The Schepens Eye Research Institute, and professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, has received a $65,000 Senior Scientific Investigator Award from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB).

The world was watching as Pope John Paul II embarked on his historic journey to Cuba three years ago – the first visit by the Catholic Churchs spiritual leader since Fidel Castro and his band of revolutionaries toppled the Batista regime in the island-nation in 1959. Reporters from around the globe assembled in Havana to document the popes arrival, his message to the Cuban people, and their reaction to his words.

Dedication ceremonies for the new 121,000 square foot Spangler Center were held at the Harvard Business School (HBS) on Monday, Jan. 22.

James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, and Maxwell L. Anderson, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, announced their joint appointment of Carol Mancusi-Ungaro as director of the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art at Harvard University and director of Conservation of the Whitney Museum. The appointments become effective April 1. The Whitney appointment is accompanied by a $5 million grant from the Robert W. Wilson Foundation in support of conservation at the Whitney, given by Whitney trustee Robert Wilson.

Students from Edwards Middle School in Charlestown paid the Graduate School of Education a visit last Friday, Jan. 19, for a day of questions and answers, tours, and insight into college life. Sponsored by Project IF (Inventing the Future), a research and practice partnership centered at GSE, the annual visit is part of the initiatives mission of educational mentoring, future-oriented counseling, and optimum development for children of low-income backgrounds.

The following students were selected as the Senior 48 of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Harvard College. The students were elected to Alpha Iota in the fall of 2000.

The Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation in New York awarded 18 Runyon-Winchell postdoctoral fellowships to outstanding young scientists conducting theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of the causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention of cancer. Among the 18 recipients, who were selected at the November 2000 Scientific Advisory Committee review, are two young scientists who will conduct their research at the University – Kathryn M. Koeller, and Mohammad Movassaghi. The three-year fellowships are carried out in the laboratories of the fellows sponsors.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Medicine on December 20, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records. Manfred Leslie Karnovsky, Harold T. White Professor of Biological Chemistry,…

When School of Public Health (SPH) doctoral student Mark Hickman goes to medical school in September, he will not be commuting. He is flying off to the green farming terraces of the village of Dhulakiel in Nepal where, on a swath of land jutting from the side of a Himalayan mountain, engineers are laboring in the thin air to erect a building that may revolutionize medical education in Nepal. The building will be a medical school organized by Nepalese officials with the help of Harvard professors.

One of the questions Civil War historians have argued over is the extent to which ordinary enlisted men cared about the issues behind the conflict.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 17, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 14, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

It is a standard albumen print, labeled Palmyre, Sculpture dun chapiteau, Syrie, and signed in the lower right by the Bonfils studio. The caption refers to the capital of a fallen column that dominates the foreground, and locates it at a tourist site in Palmyra, Syria. Except for a child apparently sleeping on the capital, dwarfed by its deeply carved acanthus leaves, the scene is barren.

Leverett House residents take to the snow for a game of football that scores all the way around

At its eighth meeting of the year the Council heard a report from Paul Bergen, the Facultys Instructional Computing Group Manager, on the development of instructional computing in the Faculty. Dean Paul Martin, chair of the Standing Committee on Information Technology, and Frank Steen, director of Computer Services, were present for this discussion.

January 1659 – President Charles Chauncy describes a recent “great disorder at Cambridge” involving nighttime fighting “betweene the schollars and some of the toune.” Cambridge and Harvard thus chalk up…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 13. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

On Monday, Jan. 8, at approximately 2:19 p.m., the victim of an indecent assault and battery incident came to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) headquarters to report that she had just been attacked while walking along Berkeley Street near Phillips Street in Cambridge. The suspect approached the victim from behind and grabbed her in an indecent manner. The victim was knocked to the ground, whereupon her screams prompted a witness to approach. The suspect then fled down Berkeley Street toward Garden Street. An immediate search of the area by the HUPD and the Cambridge Police Department proved unsuccessful.

Cambridge School Volunteers Inc. (CSV), is a private, nonprofit organization that recruits, trains, places, and provides support services for volunteers in kindergarten through grade 12 in the Cambridge Public School system. CSV needs people of all ages and backgrounds to serve as tutors, classroom aides, and library assistants.

From an early age, Wai-yee Li has been a frequent visitor to the world of the imagination, at times preferring it to the world of the here and now.

Bebchuk named AAAS Fellow

Classical concert on Jan 28 is free for students

When curator Joe Hickey found the original 1909 architectural plans for the Harvard Lampoon building where he works he rolled up his sleeves and got down to business.

While a record 6,095 students applied for admission to the Class of 2005 under the Colleges Early Action program this year, applications rose only 1.2 percent compared with last years increase of more than 30 percent. The number of students admitted declined for the second year in a row to 1,105, down from 1,135 last year and the record 1,185 for the Class of 2003.

On Jan. 16, University Hall re-opened for business after extensive renovations that began last June. Its occupants, returning from temporary offices at 1033 Massachusetts Ave. and the Engineering Science Lab on Oxford Street, include Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Jeremy R. Knowles, College Dean Harry Lewis, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Peter Ellison, Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan Pedersen, and the offices of Academic Affairs, FAS Administration, FAS Communications, Faculty Development, the FAS Financial Office, the Secretary of the Faculty, and Undergraduate Education. Phone numbers for all offices remain the same university mail can be directed to the department name in University Hall.

Alexandra Adler, authority on schizophrenia, pioneer in the study of post-traumatic stress disorder, and one of the first women neurologists at Harvard, died in New York City on Jan. 4. She was 99.

Harvard students and officials joined representatives of the University Lutheran Church, the city of Cambridge, and a community development organization at a ceremony in the church basement on Wednesday, Jan. 10, to mark the end of renovations to the student-run homeless shelter there.

Thomas Kennedy, long a renowned professor and authority on labor relations at Harvard Business School (HBS) as well as a highly respected arbitrator in disputes between unions and management, died on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2000, at a retirement community in Kennett Square, Pa. He was 88 years old.

Willard Van Orman Quine, one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, died on Christmas Day at the age of 92.