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At its 12th meeting of the year, the Council met with Dean Bruce Donoff (Dental Medicine) and Professor Bjorn Olsen (Oral Biology) to discuss a proposed joint FAS/Dental School Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine. Deans Peter Ellison (Graduate School) and Margot Gill (Administrative Dean), and Professor David Pilbeam (Associate Dean of the Faculty)…

Beginning to plan his post-presidential pursuits, President Neil L. Rudenstine has agreed to serve as chairman of a major new nonprofit organization that will develop, maintain, and distribute digital resources for the study of art, architecture, design, and related fields in the humanities.

Letters of acceptance to the Class of 2005 have been mailed to 2,041 applicants from a record pool of 19,009. For the 10th time in the past 11 years, applications for admission to Harvard have risen. Last year, 18,693 students applied for the 1,650 places in the entering class. The percentage of admitted students was…

It doesnt have a pull-out keyboard drawer, full-extension hanging files, or a built-in surge protector, but theres probably no other desk like it in all of Harvard.

Helaine Daniels, formerly of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Oxfam, Mobil Oil Africa, and the Boston Globe, has been named director of international student programs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Associate Dean Joseph McCarthy announced.

Dear Colleagues and Friends, I am writing to let you know that I will be concluding my service as Provost as of June 30, 2001. Serving in this role these…

March 21, 1953 – Responding to the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, educational radio station WGBH-FM broadcasts two and a half hours of taped reflections from 12 Harvard professors…

Back in the mid-20th century, kids came streaming out of school at 3 p.m. into the gloriously unstructured portion of their day, the part between sitting upright at their desks and sitting upright at the dinner table. It was a time for stickball, tag, ringalevio, for riding a bike, strapping on roller skates, or earning…

During some of the nastier months of a New England winter, junior Amy Chang – the director and instructor of Harvards recreational ice skating classes – leads a group metamorphosis in the quiet confines of the Bright Hockey Center. From early February through March, this veteran skater of nearly 10 years eases novice students into…

His warm and enthusiastic teaching style endeared him to generations of undergraduates, and he firmly guided over twenty graduate students as they began their physics careers.

The mayor was vacillating. The police were posturing. The ACLU was pontificating. And hip-hop star Big X, having been stopped by police for a tilted license plate and detained for three hours, said his actual crime was DWB – driving while black. It was a press conference from the front lines of the urban American…

Home style maven Martha Stewart touted the “power of a single idea” at Sanders Theatre last week and told students that anyone can head their own company if they set…

Elaine Kamarck, senior policy adviser to the Gore 2000 campaign, returned to Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG) as faculty-in-residence at the Center for Business and Government (CBG). As a White House insider, Kamarck will share her experience in the classroom and bring that insight to her research at the Center.

While politicians argue, polar bears slowly starve.

Mark J. Roe, a Columbia Law School professor and current visiting professor at Harvard Law School, has been named professor of law at Harvard – a tenured appointment. A 1975 Harvard Law graduate, Roe has written extensively on corporate law and new methods of corporate reorganization and bankruptcy. At Harvard, he has taught corporate finance…

Darell Fields does not see in black and white, but in “blackness.” The term, according to the associate professor of architecture at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), refers not…

Elaine Kamarck, senior policy adviser to the Gore 2000 campaign, returned to Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG) as faculty-in-residence at the Center for Business and Government (CBG). As a White House insider, Kamarck will share her experience in the classroom and bring that insight to her research at the Center.

His first professional job took him into Bostons Combat Zone.

Babies come into the world with musical preferences. They begin to respond to music while still in the womb. At the age of 4 months, dissonant notes at the end of a melody will cause them to squirm and turn away. If they like a tune, they may coo.

Dan Schrag tells a good story.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 17. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

Botterill named Ivy player of the year Harvard University women’s hockey forward Jennifer Botterill ’02, was unanimously named the Ivy League Women’s Hockey Player of the Year. Botterill finished the…

Leverett A. Martel, who worked for 20 years in the purchasing department at the University, died on Friday, March 9, in Rockport, Mass. He was 82. Martel was employed at…

President holds office hours President Neil L. Rudenstine will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on April 4. Provost Harvey V.…