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The Institute for Government Innovation at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced that five initiatives have won 2001 Innovations in American Government Awards for their outstanding creative problem solving. All the winning programs received $100,000 to help communicate their efforts to citizens and other governments nationwide. The 15th annual Innovations in American Government…

Following twenty-seven years as a member of the Harvard Corporation, Robert G. Stone, Jr., will conclude his service as Fellow of Harvard College at the end of the 2001-02 academic year.

Don C. Wiley, Harvard’s John L. Loeb Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and one of the most distinguished structural biologists of his generation, died recently at the age of 57. Wiley was reported missing Nov. 16 by the Memphis, Tenn., police after his rental car was found on a bridge over the Mississippi River. He…

Charles Segal, Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics at Harvard University, died Jan. 1 after a long struggle with cancer. He was 65. Segal, whose scholarly career spanned almost four decades, specialized in the interpretation of Greek tragedy, Greek and Roman epic and lyric poetry, and the role of contemporary criticism in the study…

The present Ivy League Player of the Week, Harvard forward Hana Peljto ’04, made a strong case for Player of the Year candidacy last Saturday night (Jan. 5) at Lavietes Pavilion. The second-year forward (who happens to be last season’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year) poured in a career-high 36 points in an 88-77…

The Wallace-Reader’s Digest Funds have approved a $1.58 million grant to Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership to create a leadership program for school superintendents.

The Office for the Arts (OFA) has announced its sponsorship of more than 40 spring grants for creative projects ranging from music and the visual arts to theater and the cultural arts.

The Office for the Arts (OFA) has announced its sponsorship of more than 40 spring grants for creative projects ranging from music and the visual arts to theater and the cultural arts.

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) have found that elevated levels of specific antibodies that fight a range of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) antigens are associated with the onset of multiple sclerosis (MS).

Every Saturday morning, country music gets an Ivy League shine … and Harvard goes just a little bit hillbilly. That’s when the banjos and barn-dances of Hillbilly at Harvard, one of New England’s best-loved, most respected, and longest-lived country music radio shows, take over the microphones of WHRB (95.3 FM), Harvard’s student-run radio station.

A total of 1,174 students were admitted this year under the College’s early action program, the fourth consecutive year in which the number of students admitted early has stayed roughly the same. Four years ago, a record 1,185 students were admitted, compared with 1,105 last year. While a record 6,126 students applied for admission this…

William A. Graham, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of the History of Religion in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will serve as Acting Dean of the Harvard Divinity School pending the appointment of a permanent dean, President Lawrence H. Summers announced today.

Professor of Mathematics Richard Taylor has received the 2002 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in number theory. Presented every three years by the American Mathematical Society (AMA), the prize recognizes outstanding contributions to mathematical research in number theory. The prize was awarded Monday, Jan. 7, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego. Nearly 4,000 mathematicians…

The Humanities Center at Harvard has received a $268,000 grant from the Andrew M. Mellon Foundation to help strengthen the role of humanities throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). The grant, awarded last month, will help fund several new initiatives, including five annual interdisciplinary dissertation workshops for graduate students, two annual $17,500 dissertation…

When Linda Norden got hired by the Fogg Art Museum as associate curator of contemporary art, she faced a challenging problem. Museums like the Fogg collect art objects, and they support research that focuses on careful comparative analysis within an historical context, an approach often referred to as “connoisseurship.” Much contemporary art, however, resists such…

The Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) released its final report Dec. 19, beginning a period during which President Lawrence H. Summers will review both the report and input from the Harvard community on its recommendations. The committee, which included 10 faculty members, four students elected by representative councils, three union members, and…

William Kaelin, a scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is among the first winners of the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City. The prize was established this year to recognize discoveries by cancer researchers under the age of 45. Named for Paul A. Marks, president emeritus…

  In an era before anesthesia, antibiotics, fetal monitoring, X-rays, and genetic screening, childbirth was usually the riskiest and often the most painful experience of a woman’s life. Women frequently died in childbirth due to conditions such as septic shock and puerperal fever, which resulted from unsterile procedures. Breach births often meant that the baby’s…

BIG seeks applicants The Harvard-M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) has announced the creation of the Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) program, a new training program to provide students with in-depth education and research opportunities in the intersecting domains of quantitative techniques, biology, and genomics. The program provides qualified applicants with three years…

Harvard fellow makes 2001 ‘best books’ list “How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World” (Stanford University Press, 2001), by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, a Charles Warren Center Fellow, has been cited among the best books of 2001 by the Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, and the…

The good news is that the universe will last forever. The bad news is that we will be seeing less and less of it as galaxies fade and become frozen in time.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: Feb. 1, 2002 March 5, 2002 April 10, 2002 May 8, 2002 In addition, office hours will be open to any employees of the University on the following dates: April 10,…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 5. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.

January 1870 ‹ A statute creates and defines the Deanship of the College Faculty. History Professor Ephraim W. Gurney becomes the first incumbent this year and serves until 1876.  Jan. 6, 1871 ‹ The Harvard Corporation votes to establish the nation¹s first professorship of political economy, to which Charles F. Dunbar, Class of 1851, is…

At its sixth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council heard (and viewed) a report on space planning in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences presented by Nancy Maull, executive dean of the faculty, and David Zewinski, associate dean of the faculty for Physical Resources and Planning.