Campus & Community

The Harvard Directory Project has announced Hannah Sarvasy ’03 as the winner of the 2001-02 student directory cover art competition. Sarvasy’s painting, “Weld Boathouse and the Charles,” will appear on…

The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science (GIS) has announced that Scott Bassett of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) and Irina Harris of the…

Third World countries are drowning in debt, and its up to the wealthy countries to save them, said rock superstar Bono, highlighting an afternoon of reflection, thank-yous, and goodbyes for members of the Harvard College Class of 2001 during Class Day ceremonies in Tercentenary Theatre.

Food facts Prepared for Commencement 2001: More than 26,000 chicken breasts  2,950 pounds of pasta salad  2,650 pounds of rice salad  More than 320 sheet pans of brownies baked in…

Certainly, Commencement marks the pinnacle of an undergraduates academic career. For many graduating seniors, however, friendships forged at Harvard are every bit as life-shaping as their academic achievements. To celebrate friendship, the Gazette introduces 10 senior men who share a suite in Dunster House.

When Jay Munir became president of the Law School Council (LSC) last March, no one could say he lacked experience. The 24-year-olds political career first got off the ground when he was elected president of the student government – in the fifth grade. Oh, and at Forest Hills Central High School in Grand Rapids, Mich., he was freshman class president, sophomore class president, junior class vice president, and, senior year, president of the student body.

A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today.

You cant get too bogged down in some of the awful, awful atrocities that happen, says human-rights activist Josh Bloom, 25. You cant try to understand torture and genocide. But there are people who are dealing with that every day.

Its been 16 years since the first of Ray and Rose Chavezs five children graduated from Harvard. This years Commencement will mark the culmination of a dream when Elena, the fifth and last from a family that scrimped and saved their way to five Harvard educations, receives her diploma.

The story of J. Justin Pasquariellos childhood is more tabloid than fairy tale. His father died when he was an infant. His mother struggled with bipolar disorder. At best, raising Justin was a challenge for her at worst, she endured lengthy periods of hospitalization. Justin bounced from his mothers care in the Boston area to his fathers relatives in England and finally, at age 7, to a foster home in Arlington, Mass. When he was 9 years old, his foster family, the Pasquariellos, adopted him.

This is Josephine Nobles story.

Sitting on stage in the altogether and having your body painted blue in a performance piece called Untitled – now thats a college memory!

When Adam Storeygard was a child, he imagined his back yard as a golf course. He drew a map of the recontoured landscape, Magic Marker lines running crazily, boldly, about the paper. On family vacations, he pored over road maps, directing his parents from the backseat of the car. When he was a teenager, he won the Massachusetts National Geography Bee, and he placed 11th nationwide out of 6 million participants. He drew, and still draws, maps from memory, the shapes of the American states eerily accurate, his maps of Africa admittedly shakier, but he numbers the African countries, from 1 to upwards of 50, to school his memory.

Ten fellows from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study talk on camera about their work and their fellowship year in a new videostream feature launched this week on the Radcliffe…

This year, the Harvard University Extension School’s Commencement Speaker award will go to Anthony Lorizio, A.L.B. ’01, whose speech is titled “Old Dogs Can and Do Learn New Tricks.” In…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Medicine on May 30, 2001, the following Minute was placed upon the records. A remarkably skilled surgeon, inspiring teacher, author of a leading…

Andrea Kurtz, a chemistry concentrator and a resident of Kirkland House who plans to do graduate work in her field this fall at Stanford University, is the winner of this years Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, awarded by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to a graduating senior.

Seventy-three undergraduates have won the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work or research. The $2,500 prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes 19. The Hoopes Prize recipients are as follows:

Speizer and Willett win prestigious Mott Prize

About 60 Harvard College seniors signed a written pledge on Thursday, May 31, to live life as environmentally friendly and as socially conscious as possible.

Two historians, a composer, and a physicist received Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) medals at a ceremony on Wednesday, June 6, at the Faculty Club. The 2001 Centennial Medalists are Bernard Bailyn Ph.d. 53 Caroline Walker Bynum, 62, Ph.D. 69 Elliott Carter, A.B. 30, A.M. 32 and Walter Kohn, Ph.D. 48.

The Institute of Politics (IOP) has awarded more than $100,000 to Harvard students for summer internships in the public sector. As part of three separate programs offered by the Institute,…

Alexis Craig ’02, of Lowell House, will intern at the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit at the District Attorney’s Office in Austin, Texas. Roopal Patel ’03, of Lowell House, will intern…

The accolades keep rolling in for Womens Track and Field Team co-captain and Harvard senior Brenda Taylor.

The snow was compact and the toboggan glided to the snowmobile trail head more easily than I had expected. I had a plastic sled with an unwaxed snowboard mounted on the bottom, and over 120 pounds in gear and supplies, enclosed by a brown tarp tied to the device with a thin nylon cord. The others – the Innu participants – had wooden or aluminum toboggans with belongings twice the weight of mine tightly roped down and covered with anything from recycled canvas strips to clear plastic. It occurred to me later that the Innu walkers were going to live in the country (nutssimat), while I was only prepared to camp. Unlike with our gear, for the most part we were all dressed uniformly, with handmade caribou moccasins and snowshoes prepared by a number of elders – technologies that would outlast our synthetic equipment. We had all made it to the trail outside of Happy Valley, and our 150-mile walk to Minipi (pronounced Mananipi in Innu) was to begin.

For Kathleen Dawson, spending a year at the Harvard Graduate School of Education was as much catharsis as it was education, the final marker of a 26-year journey in search of family, purpose, and excellence.

Twelve students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) are recipients of Fulbright Grants that will allow them to conduct dissertation or other advanced research abroad next year.…

Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright will receive the Radcliffe Medal from the Radcliffe Association on Friday, June 8, during the associations annual luncheon in Cambridge. The Radcliffe Medal is awarded yearly to an individual whose life and work has had a significant impact on society.

Staff photos by Jon Chase Following is the text that Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., used to introduce the gift of Nok sculptures to the Rudenstines on May 12: In…

Hundreds of Harvard Law School alumni will convene in Paris later this month to take part in the schools second Worldwide Alumni Congress – an international gathering of the Law School community featuring both intellectual and social activities.