Campus & Community

The Provosts Office has awarded the first round of 16 grants to Harvard professors and instructors for projects that will enhance the use of technology in education.

A massive project that is transforming Rio de Janeiro’s squalid shantytowns into functioning, integrated neighborhoods has won the Graduate School of Design’s Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design. Argentinian-born…

A message from Provost Harvey V. Fineberg: This statement was prepared jointly by HUCTW and representatives of the University on casual employees. The statement summarizes the very productive work done by the joint committee working on this issue. I am confident that you will join me in supporting the sentiments in the statement, and that we can all work toward future compliance in both the letter and the spirit of the rules on casual workers.

In an attempt to find ways to bridge the potentially explosive gap between police and minority communities throughout the country, a diverse group of civil rights activists, law enforcement officials, legal experts, journalists, and victims of racial injustice visited Harvard Law School (HLS) last week to participate in a three-day conference examining race and the criminal justice system.

The European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA), a recently founded Anglophone liberal arts college in Berlin, will host a wine and cheese party from 4 to 5 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 18, in the Thompson Room of the Barker Center.

David Rosenthal, director of University Health Services, accepted an American Cancer Society Sandra C. Labaree Volunteer Value Award for Mission last month at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. The award recognizes an outstanding contribution in leadership to the American Cancer Societys mission. Stephanie Harrison-Diggs, an American Cancer Society New England board member, presented Rosenthal with the award.

For the 18 members of the Harvard Equestrian Club, riding instructor Alyce McNeil is part drill sergeant, part cheerleader, and part ringmaster. Lets pick up to a trot, McNeil instructed during a recent Wednesday outing for the club. Really make them trot. Hard! Hit her harder . . . yank her and say get-up!

With guidance from the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Clinic, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has recently issued a comprehensive set of new rules providing asylum to abused women if their home countries fail to protect them.

A molecule streaks in from the right, smashing into a smaller molecule entering from the top. A third strikes the two as they briefly merge, sending all three on their separate ways, down and out of the frame.

Medical researchers have successfully treated Alzheimer’s disease in mice by putting drops of vaccine in their noses. They think it will ultimately be possible to do the same with people.

The 2000 Annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a sub-committee of the President and Fellows, is now available upon request from the Office for the Committees on Shareholder Responsibility . Please call (617) 495-0985 to request copies.

At its seventh meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed the report of the Faculty Library Committee with Professor Sidney Verba (Goverment), director of the University Library and chair of the Library Committee, Professor Jay Harris (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) vice chair of the Library Committee, and Nancy Cline, Roy E. Larsen Librarian of Harvard College.

As a boy in Sydney, Australia, Barry Conyngham learned to play piano from the nuns at the local convent.

A telescope that allows Harvard astronomers to see heavenly sights invisible from the Northern Hemisphere will be dedicated on Saturday, Dec. 9.

Eleven new fellows will join the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard this fall for one or two semesters of the 2000-01 academic year, according to Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the Institute and chair of the department of Afro-American studies. Founded in 1975, the institute is the oldest research center of its kind, and has supported the scholarly development of more than 250 alumni.

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity are critical ingredients to the Soviet empire remaining a thing of the past.

For the 18 members of the Harvard Equestrian Club, riding instructor Alyce McNeil is part drill sergeant, part cheerleader, and part ringmaster. Lets pick up to a trot, McNeil instructed during a recent Wednesday outing for the club. Really make them trot. Hard! Hit her harder . . . yank her and say get-up!

In an age when marketing is everything, protecting the brand is crucial. Here at Harvard, increased time and attention is being invested in the close monitoring of the Universitys name and its use, both by those within the Harvard community and by those outside.

His books adorn the shelves of CEOs, heads of state, academicians, and business school students alike. Countries and companies all over the world have embraced his theories on competition and strategy in the expanding global marketplace. His work has also been applied to a variety of important social issues, from the economic development of U.S. inner cities to environmental concerns.

Beginning Jan. 31, uniform policies regarding book loans and overdue book fines will go into effect in all the libraries within Harvard College Library (Cabot, Hilles, Fine Arts, Harvard-Yenching, Lamont, Houghton, Tozzer, Kummel, Loeb Music, Littauer and Widener) based on the recommendations of a task force of the University Library Council and with the support of the FAS Library Committee. This policy change is the result of efforts on part of the University to accommodate growth in the use of library collections by students, faculty, and staff, facilitated by the increasingly interdisciplinary conduct of teaching and research at Harvard.

Community Gift winners The winners of the Nov. 30 drawing for solicitors of the Community Gift Through Harvard Campaign are: 1. $50 gift certificate to Harvard Collections store: Patricia Loric,…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) through Dec. 1.

Award given to KSG Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. received the “Eagle on the World” award from the Japanese Chamber of Congress and…

James L. Kugel, Harry Starr Professor of Classical, Modern Jewish, and Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and a member of the Faculty of Divinity, has won the 2001 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book The Bible as It Was. The award, a $200,000 prize presented by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville, recognizes outstanding and creative works that promote understanding of the relationship between human beings and the divine.

Although early foul trouble continues to be something of a problem for the Crimson mens basketball team – it can also prove troublesome for opponents.

Stanford University and Harvard Business School (HBS) have announced their intention to jointly explore a project to develop and deliver online executive and management training.

Kerry Kennedy Cuomo visited Harvard on Monday, Dec. 4, to receive the Harvard Foundation Award for her outstanding contributions to human rights and intercultural relations.

It was, some said, miraculous. In 1839 a photographic process developed by Louis Jacques Mand&eacute Daguerre was unveiled in Paris. Within weeks, the world was buzzing about the astonishing accomplishment. At Harvard, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. suggested that Daguerre had help from high places: It will be recognized that a new epoch in the history of human progress dates from the time when He . . . took a pencil of fire from the hand of the angel standing in the sun, and placed it in the hands of a mortal.

Genomics – the analysis, study, and manipulation of thousands of genes and biomolecular processes simultaneously – is expected to yield breakthrough treatments for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s in the coming years. With the recent gift of $25 million from Charles T. ‘Ted’ Bauer AB ’42 endowing the Bauer Life Sciences Building that will house the Bauer Center for Genomics Research, Harvard will greatly strengthen its position in teaching and research in this field of exciting scientific possibilities. The gift is among the largest ever received by Harvard.