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May 18, 2000Study points to more targeted use of Ritalin -- Drug not effective for allWhile examining the brains of hyperactive, inattentive boys with a new type of scanner, Harvard researchers found a reduced flow of blood into a specific area of the brain. Known as the putamen and located deep in the center of the brain, this area helps to control movement and attention. Notes A special notice regarding Commencement Exercises Thursday, June 8, 2000 Lentz named to baseball All-Ivy League First Team Harvard sophomore catcher Brian Lentz has been selected to the All-Ivy League First Team for baseball. The team is voted on by the league's eight head coaches. Quarter century of service to University recognized One hundred forty-four people, from dining service workers to deans, will be honored on Thursday, May 18, 2000, for reaching a milestone: 25 years of service to the University. The 46th annual 25 Year Recognition Ceremony – a unique event in that it recognized both faculty and staff from across the entire University – will be held at the Ropes-Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School. President Neil L. Rudenstine will host the ceremony, and the guest speaker will be honoree Miles Shore, Bullard Professor of Psychiatry. Researchers face up to liars: expressions speak louder than words How good are you at detecting a lie? Liars often give themselves away by facial expressions or changes in vocal pitch. But most people do no better than 50/50 at lie detecting, that is, they are right only about half the time. U.S. tour of British Library exhibition opens The new British Library at St. Pancras, London, is the only major public building to be built in Great Britain in the 20th century. No other project, since the building of St. Paul’s Cathedral over 400 years ago, took so long to construct or was surrounded by so much controversy. Designed by Sir Colin St. John Wilson and opened in 1998, the library is now hailed as a great triumph of design and technology and is a showcase for British art, sculpture and tapestry as well as a great repository of library materials. The sounds of science -- ExperiMentors bring physics to life More than 200 local schoolchildren became scientists for a day last Friday, May 12, when they celebrated the ExperiMentors’ Science Day at the Science Center. Federman embarks on second 50 years Everyone knows that time-honored habits die hard. So it’s no surprise that Daniel Federman, the outgoing dean for medical education, would find it difficult to leave Harvard after a half century here as a student and teacher. Gay, lesbian caucus awards first Public Service Fellowship The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) has awarded its first-ever Public Service Fellowship to Anna Baldwin ’00. In Lilac Time Mother Nature got her act together just in time for Mother’s Day. New Mellon/Mentored Scholars named The Mellon/Mentored Scholars Program at Harvard, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, aims to increase the number of under-represented minorities on college and university faculties nationwide. By relieving undergraduates of some of their financial obligations and giving them the opportunity to work closely with faculty mentors and other top minority scholars, the program encourages promising students to pursue Ph.D.s in preparation for academic careers. Newsmakers Nieman Foundation announces U.S. fellows for 2000-01 Twelve U.S. journalists have been appointed to the 63rd class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University. They will be joined by approximately 12 international journalists to be named later this month. Two receive leadership award from Housing Studies The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies and the NeighborWorks Network of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation have named Sarah Karlinsky and Madeleine Pill as the two Harvard recipients of the Emerging Leaders in Community and Economic Development Fellowship program. Police Log Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 13. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. HUPD looks for suspect in unarmed robbery Harvard University Police detectives are investigating the unarmed robbery of an undergraduate, which occurred at approximately 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 16. According to police, the suspect approached the student from behind near the Adams House E-entry door and grabbed her pocketbook before fleeing down Plympton Street toward the river. He then took a wallet and dropped the bag. The suspect is described as a white male with a goatee, about 6-foot-3-inches tall, 20 to 23 years old, and wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans. Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact HUPD detectives at (617) 495-1796. Charles Warren Fellows for 2000-01 chosen The Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History has announced the recipients of its 2000-01 fellowships. The fellows, who will come to Harvard to spend a sabbatical year writing and conducting research, will concentrate on a core theme: "Global America: Connections between Developments in America and in Other Parts of the Globe." Weissman Program names this year's interns The Program is operated out of the International Experience Program at the Office of Career Services. The Program will be conducting an information meeting in October 2000 for interested students. The application deadline for the Weissman Program will be Thursday, February 15. For more information, contact the I.E.P. office or visit http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/html/weiss.html Woody wows film students If Woody Allen had been directing the scene, chances are he wouldn’t have left any of it on the cutting room floor. Holyoke Center Arcade: from neglected 'wind tunnel' to bright, bustling walkway When Josep Lluis Sert, the former Dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD), sketched his architectural drawings for the "futuristic" Holyoke Center 40 years ago, odds are he gave no thought whatsoever to such 21st-century amenities as Internet workstations and automated teller machines. Even an espresso bar was probably out of the realm of possibilities. Requiem for sax and canvas -- Carpenter Center project commemorates a friend Think of one of the great churches of Europe – St. Peter’s in Rome or England’s Canterbury Cathedral – a place of great beauty and solemnity filled with monuments to the illustrious dead, its lofty nave reverberating with sweet voices or the thunderous tones of an organ. Faculty of Arts and Sciences -- Memorial Minute -- Vsevolod Setchkarev Vsevolod Setchkarev, the Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Emeritus, and a noted authority on Russian fiction and poetry, died at his home in Belmont, Massachusetts, on December 1, 1998, at the age of 84. With his death, the Harvard community lost the last of a distinguished and colorful band of literary scholars who, born in Europe and educated there between the two World Wars, made Cambridge one of the world’s leading centers for the study of Slavic culture. Faculty of Arts and Sciences -- Memorial Minute -- Bartlett Jere Whiting In his nearly half a century on the Harvard faculty Bartlett Jere Whiting established a reputation for great learning, influential teaching, and dangerous wit. He died at 90 on 24 August 1995 in Waldo County Hospital, Belfast, Maine, a short distance from where he had been born in East Northport on 17 September 1904. His family was rooted in the shores of Penobscot Bay, and he met his future wife, Helen Wescott, as a freshman at Belfast High School. Whiting liked to point out (literally with a twinkle in his eye--for he had lost one eye in a childhood accident) that when they graduated in 1921, it was Helen who took first place as valedictorian, while he came in second as salutatorian. She was his intellectual partner for nearly five decades and is recognized as co-author of one of Whiting’s most important books. Helen died in 1977; the couple is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, six grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
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