Campus & Community

Environmental epidemiologists from the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) analyzing tap water samples from 36 surface water systems throughout Massachusetts have found high levels of disinfection by-products (DBPs), which form during water treatment and transport, and a wide range of by-product activity in the water supplies they tested. The study appears in the February issue of Environmental Health Perspectives (http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/allpubs.html).

As the audience questions escalated from softball (How did you start writing?) to hardball (How do you manage multiple points of view in your narrative?) to curveball (Why is there a disproportionate representation of Asian Americans among novelists all of a sudden?), novelist Gish Jen 77 responded thoughtfully, respectfully, insightfully.

If I learn one new thing, it makes my night, Cheryl Haberman, a Waltham kindergarten teacher, said on the roof of the Harvard College Observatory Thursday night (Jan. 17). Ive never walked away disappointed.

Teach For America seeks seniors ready to make an immediate impact

Michael Brenner is one of those rare people who does something different almost every day, and has fun doing it.

Janis Sacco, head of exhibition planning and interpretation at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH), loves her job.

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 11, 2001, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

It is an ancient custom, as ancient as the Roman Empire, to idolize those whom we honor, to make them larger than life, to give their marvelous accomplishments a magical and mystical origin. By exalting the accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr. into a legendary tale that is annually told, we fail to recognize his humanity – his personal and public struggles – that are similar to yours and mine. By idolizing those whom we honor, we fail to realize that we could go and do likewise. As I have said on many occasions, honoring Martin Luther King Jr. would be dishonorable if we remember the man and forget his mission. For those among us who believe in him, his work now must become our own.

The last link in the chain from food to fat has been found. Deep in human cells sits the master regulator of fat cells, a gene with the awkward name PPAR-gamma. When activated, this gene and the protein it produces drive the formation of fat cells that are part of the epidemic of obesity now sweeping the United States.

Former foster children whove aged out of the child welfare system are an all-but forgotten population with few services and fewer statistics to show researchers how theyre doing, according to speakers at an all-day Kennedy School forum on their plight Friday (Jan. 11).

Jan. 11, 1924 – Gale-force winds rip off the new copper roof of the library at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory (Milton, Mass.), depositing heavy sheets up to 30 feet away.

HDNet to carry Ivy basketball

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 12. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: Feb. 1, 2002 March 5, 2002…

A memorial service for Charles Segal, Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics, will be held on Friday, March 1, at 3 p.m., at the Memorial Church. The service will be followed by a reception at the Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St., from 4 to 6 p.m.

On Jan. 14, 2002, the Shelby County Medical Examiners Office issued a report indicating that an accidental fall from a bridge into the Mississippi River was the probable cause of death for Professor Don C. Wiley. Wiley was first reported missing by the Memphis, Tenn., police on Nov. 16. His body was recovered from the Mississippi River on Dec. 20.

Halperin selected as Eisenhower Fellow

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is sending its Radcliffe Seminars in Creative Arts to Lesley University so the institute can focus on its new, postmerger mission.

Following the success of the inaugural Sackler Saturdays series last fall, the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) will again sponsor the program for families with children ages 6 to 11. The program, which is free and open to the public, aims to foster the appreciation of artworks from ancient cultures and distant lands.

The following students were selected as the Senior 48 by the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Harvard College. The students, listed below with their Houses and concentrations, were elected to Alpha Iota this past November.

After matching archrival Yale goal for goal throughout two periods last Saturday night (Jan. 12) at the Bright Hockey Center, the Harvard mens hockey team dominated the final stanza, scoring two consecutive tallies to earn a 4-3 victory. The game had the look and feel of a wild playoff battle, complete with a second-period melee.

During a reading period study break, Caitlin Riley 04 puts in a request for Bob Marley just after someone else had requested 45 minutes of Tupac Shakur songs on the free jukebox inside Loker Commons.

Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Associations (HAA) candidates for the 2002 election to the Harvard Board of Overseers and the HAA Board of Directors. The election this spring will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA Elected Directors. Ballots will be mailed by April 15 and results of the election will be announced on Commencement Day, June 6.

Cambridge officials huddled with Kennedy School faculty Thursday (Jan. 10) to discuss the challenges facing local government in todays trying economic and social times.

Harvard Medical School (HMS) scientists have identified a key molecule that helps push very early embryonic cells down the road to becoming a specific organ or tissue. Though the molecule, CBP-1, occurs in worms, it is very similar to one found in humans. The discovery, which appears in the January EMBO Reports, has implications for therapeutic cloning and cancer research.

Dr. Kenneth John Ryan, former chairman of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Brigham and Womens Hospital and the Kate Macy Ladd Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Emeritus at Harvard Medical School (HMS), died on Saturday, Jan. 5. He was 75.

William Clinton Burriss Young 55, formerly associate dean of freshmen in Harvard College, died in Cambridge on Jan. 8 after a long illness. He was 68 years old.

Art museums have never been more popular, rivaling professional sports in their ability to pull in huge audiences.

Taking advantage of every available moment, Annie Wong 02 studies for an upcoming English exam while taking the Harvard bus from Radcliffe Quad to the Yard.

The students studied the European beech tree, as wide as it is tall even though it towers 70 feet into the air. Before them, Catherine Cardamone talked as she squatted in the street, sketching the scene before them in bright blue marker on a large pad laid in the road.