Campus & Community

Here is a computer, and here is an assignment: log on and find out something interesting about Australia. Do you search using the key word Australia? Or do you search using Australia+money+food+school+sports+cooking+climate?

Robert Moses was a young man when he traveled from New York to Mississippi in the early 1960s. The voter registration movement he helped organize changed the political landscape of…

By clocking the biorhythms of older people, researchers have come up with a way to tell if a person has Alzheimers disease. As new drugs and even a vaccine are developed for this personality-robbing disease, it becomes critically important to make sure these treatments are given to the right people.

Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine yesterday announced the formation of a University-wide committee to consider principles and policies regarding the compensation and opportunities available to lower-wage employees and contracted workers at Harvard University. The committee, to be chaired by labor economist and Harvard faculty member Lawrence Katz, will consist of 10 additional faculty members, five Harvard staff members (three unionized employees and two senior administrators), and four students (two undergraduates and two graduate students) to be named by elected student councils.

At its 14th meeting of the year, the Council discussed plans for a new University-wide sponsored grants management system with Elizabeth Huidekoper (vice president for finance) and Elizabeth Mora (director of sponsored research). Professor Paul Martin, Dean for Research and Information Technology (DEAS and physics), Cheryl Hoffman, Associate Dean for Finance in FAS, and Alan Long, senior project consultant in the Office of the Executive Dean, were present for this discussion.

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

Like most students at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), John Daggett M.P.P. 01 is committed to the idea of working in the public sector. Someday, he believes, hed even consider running for public office. But the realities of launching a career in the federal government are causing him some consternation.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has elected Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Research Fellow Mary Graham and former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick as members of the foundations board of directors.

Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, has been named a new member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his distinguished achievements in original research. The announcement was made Tuesday, May 1, during the 138th annual meeting of the Academy in Washington, D.C.

Radcliffe panel addresses gender and technology issues

Put down your saltshakers, America!

In the first comprehensive examination of caffeine consumption from a variety of sources and the risk of developing Parkinsons disease, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) have determined that moderate consumption of caffeine reduces the risk of Parkinsons disease in men and women. The findings are published on the Web site for the Annals of Neurology at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0364-5134/.

The Harvard Directory Project seeks artwork of all types for next years student and faculty/staff telephone directories. Current students, faculty, and staff are invited to submit works that represent the Harvard experience.

The bubble may have burst on dot-coms, but entrepreneurship is alive and flourishing at Harvard Business School (HBS). A total of eight teams of students – half of them representing social enterprise ventures – competed in the final round of the fifth annual HBS Business Plan Contest on Monday, April 30.

This years Harvard Arts Medal honoree, the multi-talented Peter Sellars 80 – director of theater, opera, and film – was a snug fit for the ninth annual Arts First festival. Much like Sellars, who received the award from President Neil L. Rudenstine, the four-day festival runs the gamut of artistic expression and style.

It took a little artifice, but it came off. In honor of President Neil L. Rudenstine and his wife, Angelica Zander Rudenstine, an art historian and curator, the Harvard University Art Museums made a surprise announcement on May 4: The museums have acquired 29 drawings and one painting by leading contemporary American artists to celebrate Rudenstines tenure. Taken unawares, the Rudenstines were delighted with the announcement and the guests that accompanied it, including Jasper Johns and Ellsworth Kelly, two of the artists represented in the acquisition. The group also includes works by Roy Lichtenstein, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Joel Shapiro, Richard Serra, and Ellen Phelan.

Gleevec, first known as STI571, was not developed for GIST, but to treat an often-fatal type of leukemia known as chronic myelogenous leukemia or CML. In one study 53 out of 54 patients in the early stage of CML saw their cancer go into remission. Cancerous cells in seven of the patients disappeared completely. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug on May 10 following the shortest review on record, a scant two-and-a-half months. Tests have of Gleevec have been expanded to include more than 3,000 patients worldwide.

May 1, 1775 – By order of the Committee of Safety, the College closes early. The Provincial Congress soon commandeers Harvard’s buildings and orders the library and scientific instruments to…

Since 1994, the Weissman International Internship Program has provided Harvard sophomores and juniors the opportunity to participate on an international internship in a field of work related to their academic…

IEEE to honor Frosch Senior Research Associate Robert A. Frosch will be awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) Founders Medal on June 23. The medal recognizes…

Play the Chessmaster, $2 the sign reads. The chess master, as he calls himself, has been a fixture in front of Holyoke Center in Harvard Square ever since 1982, a year before Au Bon Pain arrived. For $2 he takes on all comers, giving them a good advantage in his game of street chess: six minutes for the challenger, and three minutes for the chess master, to complete their game. Most often he wins, as he should, for Murray Turnbull is indeed a master, having reached that certified level in 1981. His current rating, just beneath the 2,400 that designates a senior master (the top category for nationally rated players) puts him in the top 1 percent of all rated players.

Less than 24 hours after student protesters vacated Massachusetts Hall, Landscape Services supervisor Paul Smith and his team were spraying a thick carpet of grass seed and mulch where the protesters tent city had been.

350th Commencement Harvard confers 6,194 degrees and 395 certificates Today the University awarded a total of 6,194 degrees and 395 certificates. A breakdown of the degrees by schools and programs…

Having a face-to-face encounter with a painting by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) and looking at a reproduction are very different experiences.

In the Faculty Council notice that appeared in last week’s Gazette the Council’s discussion of a “Certification and Disclosure Statement” was reported. All individuals holding academic or research appointments in…

May 9, 1643 – Lady Mowlson (Ann[e] Radcliffe) creates Harvard College’s first scholarship fund with a gift of £100. The “Harvard Annex,” founded in 1879 for women’s education, formally adopts…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, April 28. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

Aage B. Sørensen, professor of sociology at Harvard University and one of the world’s leading authorities on social stratification and the sociology of education, died on Wednesday, April 18, in…

French historical materials dating from the late 18th century have been reported stolen from Harvard’s Widener Library. Harvard College Library officials suspected theft when a number of empty book covers…