Campus & Community

Six finalists have been named for the Goldsmith Prize for investigative reporting. The winner will be announced at the Goldsmith Prize Awards Ceremony on March 15 at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The annual award of $25,000 recognizes superb investigative reporting that, according to the Prizes charter, discloses excessive secrecy, impropriety, mismanagement or other shortcomings in government or instances of particularly commendable government performance.

William Lambert Moran, esteemed Assyriologist and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities Emeritus, died on Dec. 19, 2000. He was 79.

The Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (HILR) has introduced two online courses as part of its spring 2001 curriculum. The announcement supports HILRs commitment to remain on the cutting edge in educational offerings for its members. With the increased popularity and accessibility of the Internet, distance learning has become a common feature of continuing education programs around the country. HILR joins other institutes for learning in retirement such as the New School University in New York and the Northwestern University ILR in Evanston, Ill.

The No. 6 womens hockey team (11-6-0, 5-1 Ivy) kicked off the new millennium – and the remaining half of the season – with a trio of consecutive victories. After dropping three straight, a spell that included two losses at Minnesota-Duluth and a home loss at the hands of the St. Lawrence Saints, the Crimson returned to the win column Jan. 7, beating Cornell 5-3. Four days later, host Harvard defeated over-the-river rivals Northeastern 6-3. And last Saturday, Jan. 13, they topped the Providence Friars 7-4 – a match marked by junior Jennifer Botterills second hat trick in as many games.

The Harvard mens and womens track teams defeated Northeastern at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center on Saturday, Jan. 6. The womens squad, led by Captain Brenda Taylor with wins in the 60- and 200-meter hurdles, beat the Huskies 95-30.

Kwang-chih Chang, the John E. Hudson Research Professor of Archaeology, died Jan. 3, 2001, in Boston from complications from Parkinsons disease. He was 69.

Smaller high schools, smaller class sizes, and programs targeting the difficult transition to ninth grade can help solve Americas high school dropout problem, according to experts who gathered at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Saturday.

Space is at a premium in research libraries as collections – and the technology and staff needed to support them – grow along with user demand for more room in which to study. Harvard College Library (HCL) is no exception and space issues in its 85-year-old Widener Library were under study by University planners when the Library administration was unexpectedly offered the opportunity to lease a site in nearby Central Square. The library administration accepted.

As President Clinton prepares to leave office, a new poll by Harvard University and University of Chicago researchers has found deep divisions in the ways African Americans and white Americans view his legacy.

Ben Siracusa expects his garbage to get picked up. He expects the mail to be delivered and the lights to go on when he flips a switch. Like many Americans he expects his basic needs to be met – no muss, no fuss.

At 92, Tommy Rawson still drives to the gym from his home in Arlington five days a week, hits the heavy and speed bags a bit, and then proceeds to coach the Harvard Boxing Club, as he has done for the past 60 years. If necessary, he also still shovels the snow from his driveway. A small man with dancing blue eyes and a ready smile that belie his inner drive, the soft-spoken coach imparts his ring wisdom quietly but firmly as he circles purposefully among his practicing students. The man is legendary in the boxing annals of New England, and it seems fitting, though a bit improbable, that someone of his stature and longevity is still at the helm as the boxing club moves into the 21st century.

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Office of the Provost of Harvard University have jointly announced the debut of Lens: Research on Women and Public Policy at Harvard University. Lens is a semiannual newsletter that presents a review of ongoing scholarship on women and public policy across the University. In its pages and on the Web site, http://www.radcliffe.edu/lens, Harvard University faculty, students, and administrators, as well as government and NGO leaders, independent scholars, and faculty from other universities, will learn about research in their own areas of interest and beyond.

What was life like at Harvard 100 years ago? How did people spend their days? What did they eat? What did they wear? What did students think of their professors? What did professors think of their students? How did people spend their leisure time?

As she carefully maneuvered her way around stacks of cardboard boxes and piles of books in her temporary office at Fay Hall, Drew Gilpin Faust, the founding Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study who is assuming her full-time duties this month, didnt appear in the least bit flustered. It seems only natural for this well-respected Civil War historian to keep her cool under fire.

George Huntston Williams A memorial service was held for George Huntston Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus, on Jan. 12 at the Memorial Church. Christopher McEvoy A memorial service was…

Five Harvard seniors are among the latest group of American college students named Marshall Scholars by the British government in thanks for American help rebuilding their country after World War II.

A memorial service is planned for a Harvard undergraduate student who died in December. Twenty-year-old Shira Palmer-Sherman 02 suffered irreversible brain damage after being struck by an automobile while crossing a street in Harvard Square.

Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren, the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, has been named the second vice president of the American Law Institute (ALI), a 77-year-old scholarly institution dedicated to clarifying and adapting the law to better suit societys needs.

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.

Having left their farms and businesses and state legislatures to head to Washington, 18 newly elected members of Congress took a detour to the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) last month for a crash course in federal governance just weeks before being sworn into office.

Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Associations (HAA) nominations for this years election to the University’s Board of Overseers and the HAA Board of Directors. The election this spring will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA Elected Directors. Ballots will be mailed by April 15 and results of the election will be announced on Commencement Day, June 7.

Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Associations (HAA) nominations for this years election to the Universitys Board of Overseers and the HAA Board of Directors. The election this spring will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA Elected Directors. Ballots will be mailed by April 15 and results of the election will be announced on Commencement Day, June 7.

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.

The Center for Business and Government (CBG) at Harvards Kennedy School announced a full roster of fellows for 2000-01. The largest complement of fellows in the history of the Center, this global gathering of business leaders, scholars, industry representatives, and policy-makers from around the world will study subjects ranging from business reform to resource regulation and from energy policy to the evolution of world trade.

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

A number of questions have been asked in recent days about the University’s position and my own views on diversity. I thought a brief statement might be helpful in this regard.

Gennadii Boriak of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences presented a guide to the Central State Archive of Public Organizations of Ukraine to Harvard University in December. Sidney Verba (above), director…

Successes so far with the much-ballyhooed, tumor-choking drug Endostatin are leading researchers to believe they can keep cancer patients alive for many more years with the help of nontoxic drugs that dont have the debilitating effects of large doses of chemotherapy and radiation. The hope is that such drugs will play a key part in holding cancer under long-term control just as medications keep diabetes, asthma, and other chronic diseases in check.

Having spent months traversing the campaign trail explaining to voters why they should go to Washington, 18 newly elected members of Congress visited the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) in mid-December to bone up on the challenges they’ll face once they get there.

Fiscal 2000 was a year of milestones for Harvard University, including its merger with Radcliffe College, the end of the six-year Capital Campaign, and the Endowments remarkable 32.2 percent return, which boosted its value to $19.2 billion.