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When it comes to the Beanpot, winning games in overtime has become something of a tradition for the Crimson womens hockey team. And its junior standout Jennifer Botterill who has proved to be the teams resident stickler for tradition.

To create a sanctuary to honor an entire, complex culture – one rich in history and language and lore – that flourished for thousands of years on this continent before being virtually annihilated in just a few decades: that is the challenge for W. Richard West, founding director of the National Museum of the American…

Ann Marie Cody 03 has long been reaching for the stars. As a high school student in Harvard, Mass., Cody was intrigued by the evidence detected by astrophysicists in 1995 that at least 30 Jupiter- and Saturn-like gaseous planets are orbiting distant stars. Not only have these discoveries provided spectacular confirmation that our solar system…

Internationally renowned pianist Eugen Indjic 69 was a recent visiting artist with the Office for the Arts Learning from Performers series. Above, Indjic talks to performer Berenika Zakrzewski 04 at the Dunster House Library.

The annual Walter Channing Cabot Fellowships have been conferred on four members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The recipients are: Mario Davidovsky, Fanny P. Mason Professor of Music Peter Galison, Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics Katharine Park, Samuel Zemurray Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the…

“This is something!” Don Share proclaims, rising out of his seat and bustling over to the shelves by his desk. He picks up a can – it looks like a…

By any account, the 19th century cholera epidemics were horrible. Rumor and ignorance fed fear of a disease that could strike in the afternoon and kill by bedtime. In Charles Rosenbergs eyes, though, the epidemics are also a lens through which to view American society.

Subramaniam Ramakrishnan, senior associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), died Feb. 7. Ramakrishnans relationship with the University started in 1975, when he was awarded a fellowship at the Kennedy School. From 1982 to 1999, he worked as a senior associate at HIID. Ramakrishnan had directed and taught in HIID workshops for government…

A memorial service will be held on March 2 for philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 10. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

William Olney, a former fundraiser for Harvard University, died Jan. 3 in his home in Westwood, Mass. He was 76. From 1962 until his retirement in 1988, Olney was the…

East Asian Legal Studies accepting submissions The East Asian Legal Studies (EALS) program of the Harvard Law School (HLS) will award the Yong K. Kim ’95 Memorial Prize to the…

Former South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk made a case for international protection of minority groups to a receptive but sometimes skeptical audience that questioned his role in the abuses of South Africas discarded apartheid past.

The stocky, shifty-eyed man wearing a tuxedo and a sly smile claimed it was a case of mistaken identity, but the audience knew better.

Facing the challenges of tomorrow Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences prevPage 5 Financial Status The new chart of accounts allows me to report the…

Facing the challenges of tomorrow Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences prevPage 4next The Library Two years ago, I invited the Standing Committee of the…

Facing the challenges of tomorrow Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences prevPage 3next The Graduate School Admissions. The number of applicants rose again this year,…

Emily Dickinson Townsend Vermeule, distinguished archaeologist, classicist, and art historian, died last Tuesday, Feb. 6 at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She was 72. Vermeule was professor emerita at Harvard University.

Almost two years ago, senior Marta Szabo found out she was pregnant just weeks before her spring exams, and although Szabo is now successfully juggling classes and diapers, she said it hasnt been easy. So with the hope of making the experience of unexpected pregnancy easier for future students, Szabo joined a group of six…

Lunch with Sen. John McCain have a shot at stardom with a nonspeaking, walk-on role in the hit TV show Dharma &amp Greg tour the set of ER or The West Wing get into the action as a ballboy or ballgirl at a Celtics game shadow CNN correspondent William Schneider for a day.

February 1949 – As a gesture of sympathetic distress over a Jan. 26 fire that destroys 11 of 12 great murals in the Gondo (Golden Hall) of Horyu-ji Monastery at…

The Stride Rite Post-Graduate Public Service Grants support involvement in public service projects during the year following graduation. Graduating seniors are eligible to apply and receive grants between $10,000 and $25,000. Funded programs are to be full time and community-focused

Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree…

Scholarships for one academic year of study or research in China are made possible through an agreement between the Ministry of Education of the Peoples Republic of China and Harvard University. For academic year 2001-2002, five full scholarships (covering tuition, housing, health insurance and books) and ten partial scholarships (covering tuition only) will be offered…

Cells from fetuses implanted in the brains of a dozen people with Huntingtons disease improved the ability of nine of them to control their movements and has, perhaps, postponed their deaths.

When a gay tutor at Mather House opted to leave Harvard after becoming a target of harassment last year, his friend Serre-Yu Wong 01 was devastated. That was a sad moment for our community because we couldnt come together enough for him, in support of him.