Campus & Community

Jan. 18, 1943 – At Radcliffe, Briggs Hall becomes home to 75 Waves (all commissioned officers) studying at the Navy Supply Corps School at the Business School. The women will become disbursing officers and assistants in Navy storehouses. Another 75 are due to arrive on April 1.

Joyce Lever, the director of Alumni Information Systems, died on Thursday, Jan. 17. She was 60.

Watson elected president of AAS Professor of anthropology James L. Watson, the John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society, has been elected to serve as the 61st…

Joint Center fellowship program accepting applications The Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program – a competitive master’s level program for students in all of Harvard’s professional schools and related academic departments of…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 26. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.

Homi Bhabha was born in India, but he is quick to add that he is a Parsi, a member of an Indian minority with a population of only about 160,000 worldwide. The Parsis are Zoroastrians who migrated from Persia in the eighth century to avoid persecution by the Muslims.

From the roof above Sanders Theatre, Elizabeth Randall surveys her handiwork: University Hall, Boylston Hall, the freshman dorms. Randall, capital projects manager for Faculty of Arts and Sciences Physical Resources, oversaw the renovations of these and many other Harvard landmarks. She even helped pick out paint color for the Memorial Churchs recent sprucing-up.

The defending Ivy League champion Harvard wrestling team split a pair of homestand meets this past weekend (Jan. 26-27), downing Army 29-10, while losing a 21-20 decision to Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) powerhouse Lehigh. The Crimson, who also hold last seasons EIWA title, stand at 2-3 in dual meets and 1-1 in the EIWA.

Housing policy expert Cushing N. Dolbeare, founder of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, has been appointed senior scholar at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Nicolas P. Retsinas, the centers director, announced earlier this month.

Scientists have found pain in the same brain circuits that give you pleasure. That wont make you cry until you laugh, but its likely to lead to better ways to measure and treat chronic pain.

Faculty members at the School of Public Health (SPH) voted Thursday (Jan. 24) not to accept research funding from tobacco manufacturers and their subsidiaries. Because of an incompatibility with the public health mission, such funds had not been accepted at the School as a general practice for a number of years. The vote puts current practice into official policy and is consistent with Harvard Universitys 13-year-old policy of not holding stock in tobacco companies.

Teach For America seeks seniors ready to make an immediate impact

For a sighted person, blindness is a frightening prospect. Finding ones way, avoiding danger, interacting with strangers – without vision such tasks seem challenging to the point of insuperability.

A former New York Times columnist, an Israeli communication and government scholar, and a former Boston Globe editor will be among six visiting faculty and fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government this semester.

Like many first-year students, David Solá-Del Valle 04 came to Harvard with a number of goals. High on Solá-Del Valles to do list, however, was an item other freshmen might find a little daunting: landing a spot in a biology research lab.

Statement Regarding University Employment and Contracting Policies

Scientists have found pain in the same brain circuits that give you pleasure. That wont make you cry until you laugh, but its likely to lead to better ways to measure and treat chronic pain.

A distinctive signature of genes turned on and off greatly improves predictions of who has the best chance of survival of the most common type of childhood malignant brain tumor, according to a new study by researchers at Childrens Hospital in Boston and their colleagues. If verified by other studies over the next several years, the gene expression profile may help children survive the malignant brain tumor with fewer serious side effects. The study also shows that medulloblastoma has key molecular differences from other brain tumors, which eventually may help researchers find more targeted treatment. The study is published in the Jan. 24 issue of the weekly journal Nature.

Researchers, one of them an undergraduate, have used economic analysis to analyse and predict participation and medal outcomes for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nations oldest dramatic organization, announced the recipients of the 2002 Woman and Man of the Year awards: Sarah Jessica Parker and Bruce Willis.

Shortly after the Hasty Pudding Club announced its Woman of the Year (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Man of the Year (Bruce Willis) on Monday (Jan. 28), students around campus shared their opinions of the picks with the Gazette.

Exposure to students of several racial, ethnic, and economic groups is preparing Cambridge Rindge and Latin students well to face an increasingly diverse working world, according to a new Harvard…

Stephen Walt is named academic dean at KSG

Teachers learn to survive, prevail

University Professor Robert Nozick, one of the late 20th centurys most influential thinkers, died on the morning of Jan. 23 at the age of 63. He had been diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1994.

Ernest Joseph Brown, Langdell Professor of Law Emeritus, died in Fort Worth, Texas, on Dec. 31. He was 95.

At its eighth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed with Dean Harry Lewis (computer science and Harvard College) proposed changes in the rules for Advanced Standing and Advanced Placement.

Alfred (left) and Georgia, two hungry hawks who haunt the Holyoke Center, perch on their 10th floor lookout ledge keeping their sharp eyes peeled for small game.

Jan. 9, 1943 – To help alleviate a shortage of qualified teachers in mathematics and the physical sciences, the Graduate School of Education opens two 15-week retraining programs for experienced…

Remodeling expenditures by homeowners declined again in the fourth quarter of 2001. The drop in remodeling, according to the Remodeling Activity Indicator (RAI) devised by Harvards Joint Center for Housing Studies, reflects the slowing economy and reduced consumer spending. While spending has not fallen off precipitously, we are in the midst of a modest downturn, remarked Nicolas P. Retsinas, the director of the Joint Center. In light of the reality of the recession, homeowners have begun to defer and cancel major housing renovations.