Campus & Community

None of the artists who participated in the Nov. 9 panel discussion Sprung From Ruins presumed to offer words of wisdom about how the arts might heal or soothe or put right the terrible damage wreaked on this country on Sept. 11.

The Faculty and Student Advisory Committees of the Harvard Foundation awarded 87 grants to some 40 different undergraduate student organizations for projects in the fall 2001 semester. More than $20,000 were disbursed for intercultural and race relations projects ranging from an East Coast Chicano (Mexican-American) Student Conference to a Korean Association lecture on the Korean Comfort Women of World War II to the French Clubs play, Molieres Le Malade Imaginaire.

Im the man with the blue guitar. Picasso tried to paint me in Paris but he never got my soul.

Once a week, about 40 Harvard students visit Boston high schools to teach students about globalization.

The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) will be closing its Glass Flowers and Mineral galleries from Dec. 8 through Feb. 7 for a renovation of the Glass Flowers gallery.

A former slave and former slave owner from Mauritania urged Harvard students Tuesday night (Nov. 13) to fight the slavery that, though outlawed, still keeps more than 100,000 people in bondage in the West African nation.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the University of Penn – one of the best defensive teams in the nation – must have been absolutely smitten with…

Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) announced last month that the hospitals Department of Dermatology has been awarded a Skin Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The Harvard Box Office did a brisk business this week in free tickets to President Bill Clintons address at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center Monday, Nov. 19. On Tuesday (Nov. 13), the first day the tickets were available to Harvard students, faculty, and staff, a line snaked through the Holyoke Center lobby and out the door until early afternoon by the end of the day, more than 2,000 tickets had been distributed. By Wednesday night, only about 200 tickets remained, all slated for undergraduates.

School of Public Health researchers will be taking the countrys temperature on bioterror in the coming weeks in an effort to track what Americans so far have taken pretty much in stride, according to the first survey published last week (Nov. 8).

Harvard Law School unveiled a portrait of U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts, the first and only openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual member of the federal judiciary, on Saturday, Oct. 27. Batts, a 1972 graduate of Harvard Law School and 1969 graduate of Radcliffe, was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1994 by President Clinton. Simmie Knox of Silver Spring, Md., a distinguished and prolific artist who is currently working on the official portrait of Clinton, painted Batts portrait. It was presented to the Law School by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Alumni/ae Committee of the Harvard Law School, which also raised the funds for it. I am so touched and amazed that anyone would do this, said Batts, who attended the unveiling. In fact, I am as embarrassed as I am pleased.

Two films produced and directed by independent filmmaker Barbara Hammer, a 2001-02 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be shown at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square Nov. 16 – 18. The film series, which will mark the Boston premiere of History Lessons, is co-sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute and the Brattle.

More than 70 original prints from the Harvard Theatre Collections Hoyningen-Huene archive are on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) exhibition The Look: Images of Glamour and Style, Photographs by Horst and Hoyningen-Huene. As chief photographers at Vogue, Horst and Hoyningen-Huenes elegant style heavily influenced fashion photography of the mid-20th century. This exhibition features dramatic black-and-white photographs dating from the 1930s to 1950s of actors, artists, models, and socialites.

Eight new fellows have been selected for the 2001-02 Administrative Fellowship Program. Of the eight fellows, five are visiting fellows and three are resident fellows. Visiting fellows are professionals drawn from business, education, and other fields outside the University, while resident fellows are minority professionals currently working at Harvard who are identified by their department and identified by the fellowship program review committee to have the leadership potential to advance to higher administrative positions.

Harvard is singing. And playing. And rehearsing. Every corner of every building that can be pressed into service hums with melody. Even Jack Megan, the new head of the Office for the Arts, discovered he has to share his Common Room with Tom Everetts Jazz Band practices once a week.

The Harvard University Choir has announced the appointment of the first class of 10 Choral Fellows for the 2001-02 academic year. The program, which took eight years to develop, is unique to the American university system and marks the latest development in the long tradition of choral music at Harvard.

Nov. 15: Piano Society master class, John OConnor, pianist, Kirkland House Junior Common Room, 3 p.m.

Nathan Pusey dies at 94

Celebration Honors Pusey Contributions

Barely two months after Sept. 11, students in Religion 1529 are grilling Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies and director of the Pluralism Project, on religious tolerance, respect, and understanding. A teaching fellow roams Science Center B with a microphone like a talk show hostess, amplifying questions that are as academic as they are heartfelt. What do you do when your religious beliefs insult anothers religion? How can we reconcile that religion, with its enormous capacity for peacemaking, can also promote violence? For 20 minutes after the class ends, students linger, vying for one-on-one time with Eck, who has spent much of the past weeks fielding similar questions from major news outlets.

Matthew Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, has been raising his voice in opposition to biological and chemical weapons since 1963. He investigated the largest known outbreak…

At its fourth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council received a report on the work of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies from the chair of the committee, Professor Lawrence Katz (economics).

Higginbotham remembered Brandeis University Professor Anita Hill joins Law Professor Charles Ogletree Jr. and others at the Law School on Monday (Nov. 5) to talk about the legacy of A.…

Nov. 24, 1873 – Charles Sprague Sargent officially begins a 54-year term as first Director of the Arnold Arboretum (est. 1872). Sargent soon enlists the aid of pioneering landscape architect…

KSG offers book tours on Web The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is offering book tours these days. Using the power of the Web, the school is highlighting recent publications…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 3. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.