Campus & Community

The Ukrainian Research Institute (URI) at the University has created a new program of postdoctoral fellowships. The Shklar Fellowships in Ukrainian Studies are designed to bring distinguished scholars from around…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday Nov. 4. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29…

Ruth Wisse hesitates to compare her latest work to the Bible, but she admits there may be some similarities. In “The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture”…

Following the success of September’s “Celebration of Black Alumni,” Harvard Law School will hold its Latino Alumni Conference in San Antonio, on Dec. 1. The three-day conference is sponsored by…

The Interfaculty Health Policy Forum has announced Nancy Ann DeParle will be its first Forum Fellow. She will be in residence during the 2000-01 academic year. DeParle served as the…

The Earthwatch Institute will hold its annual conference on Saturday, Nov. 18, at the Harvard Science Center. The program, which is open to the public, begins with registration at 9…

In honor of Luise Vosgerchian, the Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music Emerita, radio station WHRB (95.3 FM, and simulcast live over the Internet at http://www.whrb.org/) will broadcast a memorial…

Bell’s ‘landmark’ book republished Harvard University Press has republished “The End of Ideology” by sociologist Daniel Bell. First published in 1960, becoming “a landmark in American social thought,” according to…

With the outcome of the 2000 presidential election very much in doubt, American voters are left grappling with the prospect of having elected a chief executive without a popular mandate.…

There will be a memorial service for David Elliott Bell on Friday, Nov. 17, at 3 p.m., at the Memorial Church. Bell, the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Population Sciences…

At its fifth meeting of the year, the Council discussed parking issues arising from the Faculty’s continued growth with the Vice President for Administration Sally Zeckhauser, and the Associate Vice…

She was the only one to survive the horrible car crash that killed her parents and siblings. The teenager was inconsolable. Shipped from her home in Oregon to the East…

According to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), a sexual assault occurred in an undergraduate residence hall in Harvard Yard on Thursday, Nov. 2, at 4:30 a.m. The case is…

Overcoming obstacles has become a way of life for Olga Kandror. In 1984, the Russian-born cell biologist earned her Ph.D. from Moscow University, then got a research position at the…

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) have created the Center for Ultracold Atoms to tap the strengths of researchers at the two universities and engage a wider…

The Harvard Baha’i Club will sponsor a dinner and discussion at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7 at Quincy House, Apt. 300, 58 Plympton St. The topic of discussion is “Is…

The new edition of “The Harvard Guide,” the University’s official guidebook, is now on sale at the Harvard Events & Information Center in the Holyoke Center arcade. All information has…

Precariously perched on a tiny scaffold 170 feet in the air over the Nevada desert last summer, Jeremy Stein anxiously contemplated an awe-inspiring feat – a bungee jump into a…

Gazette Staff Robert W. Iuliano ’83 has been named the University’s deputy general counsel. He replaces Robert Donin who left Harvard in August to take a position at Dartmouth. An…

A giant computer screen, flanked by smaller monitors, dominates the basement room on Cambridge Street, giving the impression you’re in Harvard’s version of Mission Control. You’re not. You’re in the…

Harvard’s annual tradition of giving back to the community is reaching out further than ever this year. Faculty and staff are being asked to open up their hearts and their…

After winning three straight contests in mid-October, a run that included the season’s first Ivy League victory over a tough Yale squad, the Harvard men’s soccer team has dropped three…

The Boston Area Student Environmental Leadership Conference at Harvard Oct. 27-28 served more than 1,000 meals to the 400 participants but generated only three bags of trash because of extensive…

November 2, 2000 Ten children from Cambridge and greater Boston will be able to attend camp next summer thanks to a donation from approximately 300 Harvard Business School (HBS) Master…

November 2, 2000 The sixth annual Edwin O. Reischauer/Kodansha Ltd. Commemorative Symposium was held on Friday, Oct. 13, at the Kodansha/Reischauer House in Belmont, Mass. In attendance were representatives from…

One of television’s most respected and familiar figures revealed some of the person behind the persona during an appearance at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) on Monday night. ABC…

Female basketball players in knee-length bloomers and high socks, field hockey players in skirts that touch the grass, the cast of an all-female “Merchant of Venice” decked in doublets, capes,…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Divinity on April 17, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records. James Luther Adams – “JLA,” as he came to be…

There’s nothing more “real life” than this: a notice to appear in court for nonpayment of rent. It’s an eviction notice, in effect, and there’s not much time to act…