Campus & Community

Once a week, first-year medical student Janice Jin leaves the Longwood campus to travel to Chinatown where she spends a couple of hours talking with a group of recently arrived Chinese immigrants about how to communicate with doctors.

The Joint Program on Religion and Public Life at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is sponsoring a research colloquium series beginning on Feb. 12. The series, which will run through April 28, aims to discuss the work of leading scholars who address the interaction of religion and public policy in the United States. Sponsors of the colloquium hope to connect and encourage graduate students working on related topics, and to strengthen the links between institutional centers of activity devoted to research and practice in this area.

At the Kennedy School of Government Monday night (Feb. 4), Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris dodged protestors, deflected attacks, and headed off dimpled chad and makeup jokes to stick to her carefully worded guns.

Author and religious scholar Elaine Pagels will give the 2002 William Belden Noble Lectures in the Memorial Church on Monday-Wednesday, Feb. 11, 12, and 13 at 8 p.m. Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, Pagels is the author of The Origin of Satan, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent, and The Gnostic Gospels, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award.

Foster honored for conservation efforts Charles Foster, a fellow with the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Kennedy School of Government, will receive a conservation citation from Interior Secretary…

In a windowless room in the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, David Ackerman sits amid an array of electronic paraphernalia that looks as if it might have been lifted from the bridge of a Klingon starship. The soundproof walls undulate with puckers of dark gray sponge. Intently tracking a sine curve on the computer screen before him, Ackerman lightly touches his keyboard. From somewhere in the darkness, music pulses forth: Duke Ellingtons Sultry Serenade, circa 1947.

The notes of Ralph Vaughan Williams Lark Ascending rolled over the audience, slow and melodious, almost haunting. But Daniel Chens violin performance wasnt in a classical concert hall, it was in the one of the linoleum-floored common areas of Youville Hospital.

Woman of the Year festivities, featuring the fabulous Sarah Jessica Parker, will begin today at 2 p.m. when the starlet will lead a parade through Harvard Square. Following the parade, the president of the theatricals and the vice president of the cast will roast Parker and present her with her Pudding Pot at 2:20 p.m. in the Hasty Pudding Theatre. After the roast, several numbers from this years production Snow Place Like Home will be previewed at 2:45 p.m., and a press conference will be held at 3:10 p.m. Next Thursday (Feb. 14), Sixth Sense ghost Bruce Willis will be feted as Man of the Year.

Mackie Dougherty 03 wants to help time-crunched Harvard students do good deeds … in their pajamas.

William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the Kennedy School of Government, has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award 2002. As part of his award, Clark will undertake a series of stays at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany beginning this July.

Davin Quinn, a third-year student at Harvard Medical School who loves to write, is going to Belfast next year as the recipient of a George J. Mitchell scholarship for graduate study in Northern Ireland.

Sarah Jessica Parker charmed Harvard as she collected the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Woman of the Year award

On Tuesday, Jan. 29, at approximately 8:30 p.m., a graduate school student was the victim of an armed robbery on Western Avenue near the intersection of North Harvard in front of Charlesview Apartments. The suspects, described below, confronted the victim after exiting a silver motor vehicle. One of the suspects displayed a silver handgun and demanded the victims money. The victim turned over an amount of cash and the suspects fled in the vehicle in an unknown direction.

More than 50 girls and young women from grade schools throughout Greater Boston packed the pools and jammed the courts of the Malkin Athletic Center this past Saturday (Feb. 2) for Harvards ninth annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) event. Between the sounds of splashed water, whacked volleyballs, and the gymnasium echo of squeaking sneakers, some important life lessons could also be heard, courtesy of Harvards finest female student-athletes and their coaches.

Renovations at the Harvard University Police Departments former 29 Garden St. headquarters has forced a move to new offices at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., but police officials say their hope is that the Harvard community will barely notice the change.

Leo P. Krall, M.D., an international leader in the field of diabetes for half a century and one of the original founders of Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, died Jan. 30, at the age of 87.

The Sept. 11 tragedies irretrievably changed the nature of public service and made it more important than ever that people take an active interest in their communities and in the public servants that make them work, Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift told a Kennedy School audience Tuesday (Feb. 5).

Race and the aesthetics of aversion, subjectivity and its discontents, and the impact of Sept. 11 on psychoanalysis are among the topics to be discussed at a one-day symposium sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Why Psychoanalysis? A Symposium on the Value of Psychoanalysis for Contemporary Life will be held on Friday, Feb. 22, in Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe Yard, and is free and open to the public.

The race was on. With the Harvard Museum of Natural Historys (HMNH) giant Kronosaurus skeleton as a backdrop, three groups of kindergartners and first-graders began assembling their puzzles, slapping pieces onto the blue-gray carpet until they revealed: A shark, a shark, and another shark.

Great blobs of dust may signal the presence of a planet orbiting Vega, the brightest star in the summer sky.

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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.