Campus & Community

Researchers at Harvard-afilliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Children’s Hospital, and other institutions have pinpointed a region on human Chromosome 4 that is likely to contain a gene or genes associated with extraordinary life expectancy. Their findings, reported in the Aug. 28 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may lead to a better understanding of the aging process.

Fata Nhail reaches up and hooks his fingers around a water pipe near the ceiling of the basement room in Grays Hall, one of those being used for evening classes by the Refugee Youth Summer Enrichment Program (RYSE).

Aug. 11, 1637 – John Harvard formally becomes a “Townsman” of Charlestown. He and his wife are given land on Gravel Lane. The town contains about 150 houses.  August 1819…

Burns, served Harvard for 43 years, dies at 79 Robert Burns, retired Harvard parking director, died July 30 in Boston. He was 79. Burns began his career at the University…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for July 16 through Aug. 11. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

Fun works at HUDS Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS), the nation’s oldest collegiate food-service operation, is featured in best-selling author Leslie Yerkes’ latest book, “Fun Works.” In the book and…

Nafha – its you! exclaims Ali Bustamante, a Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School senior who is also, this summer, a photography intern at the News Office.

This September, Kevin Chan 04 will have an interesting answer to the essay question, What did you do on your summer vacation? While working on a summer project at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), 18-year-old Chan used one of the centers supercomputers to discover a novel arrangement of atoms that had been missed by other scientists studying such clusters. Chan made the unexpected discovery in late June. He used a variation of a well-known mathematical technique to discover that 78 neutral atoms can theoretically settle into the shape of a particular double icosahedron. Icosahedrons – whether clusters of atoms or baseballs glued together – are 20-sided objects.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, was made commander of the National Order of Benin by the president of Benin, Mathieu Kerekou, in a June ceremony in Cotonou. President Kerekou also conferred honorary citizenship upon Gates. These honors recognized his work in editing the Encarta Africana CD-ROM and The Africana Encyclopedia, and his exploration of African civilization in the BBC program and book Wonders of the African World.

Davíd Carrasco will join the Faculty of Divinity in September as the inaugural Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America. Carrasco, who has been professor of the…

The Environmental Leadership Program (ELP), a nonprofit organization that seeks to transform public understanding of environmental issues by training and supporting visionary, action-oriented leaders, is accepting applications for the ELP Fellowship Class of 2002-04. The program provides training and project support to 25 talented individuals each year from nonprofits, business, government, and higher education.

Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers led a contingent of University faculty and officials to Washington, D.C., July 11 and 12 for a day-and-a-half effort to call attention to the importance of federal funding for basic scientific research.

The English poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was a great fan of the United States. A lifelong admirer of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, he once said that he envied the explorers Lewis and Clark and wished that he could see American Indians.

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has awarded the prestigious Hassenfeld Public Service Fellowship for Rhode Island to Providence resident Caroline Benedict-Drew. The award carries a years tuition and stipend to study at the KSGs internationally acclaimed masters program in public administration.

Beginning Sunday, Aug. 19, the HOLLIS Portal, a gateway to Harvard libraries electronic resources such as Lexis-Nexis, MEDLINE, OED, and all electronic journals, will institute a University-wide authentication system – the University personal identification number (PIN) service.

They met dinosaurs and tigers, marched in a parade, sailed a boat, and traveled to an island.

Improving the quality of mental health services has been an abiding concern of Kennedy School student Joshua Rubin.

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, revolutions and rebellions were occurring at a rate that made established regimes tremble. In addition to the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789, and a dozen rebellions that swept across Europe from Italy to Ireland, there were slave insurrections in Surinam (1763) and Haiti (1791), an unsuccessful rebellion in the Brazilian province of Minas Gerais (1789), and, between 1816 and 1824, a series of revolutions in South America led by Sim&oacuten Bol&iacutevar and Jos&eacute de San Mart&iacuten.

Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and Taiwanese foreign minister Hung-mao Tien signed an agreement last month establishing the KSG-Taiwan Leadership Program. The new…

Summer school occupies one of the darkest chambers of high schools hall of horrors. Theres the shame of having failed a class – or several – during the year, the agony of waking up early and going to school on beautiful summer days, the ache of spending sultry evenings with homework assignments instead of with friends.

Blue skies shone and balloons bobbed over Tercentenary Theatre on July 31, as Harvard University and the city of Cambridge welcomed nearly 1,000 Cambridge senior citizens to the 26th annual Harvard Yard Picnic.

This is how Jordan Swanson is spending his last summer as a Harvard undergraduate: June in Bangladesh as a U.S. State Department intern investigating human rights abuses, July and August in Thailand conducting malaria research.

Biomedical trade show to be held next month The 2001 Biomedical Research Equipment and Supplies Exhibit will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 19, and Thursday, Sept. 20, from 9:30 a.m.…

Forty-nine concerned citizens from all over the United States came to the Summer Leadership Institute (SLI), sponsored by the Divinity Schools (HDS) Center for the Study of Values in Public Life to train clergy, lay leaders, and community developers in inner-city economic improvement.

Harvard University joined Brigham and Womens Hospital and the nonprofit tenants organization Roxbury Tenants at Harvard in an unusual three-way land-swap agreement that will make way for a new medical center while preserving affordable housing in Bostons Mission Hill neighborhood.

Glenn Kleiman recalls the time his 7-year-old son asked him when color was invented.

Merrell Aspin is working as an intern with the Massachusetts Division of Medical Assistance in the Managed Care Program, where she is researching contracting issues for the divisions upcoming contracting process. She is a student at the School of Public Health (SPH).

It’s the rarest, shortest-lived matter in the universe. In fact, it’s antimatter – the opposite of matter. When the two meet, they annihilate each other in a burst of energy.

Four from Harvard are included in Time magazine’s select list of America’s Best in science and medicine.

Extraordinarily tiny holes are behind a whole new way to make structures only a few dozen atoms in size.