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A relaxed, bearded Al Gore called for national unity in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist hijackings Thursday, praising the public servants who responded to the crisis and passing up a chance to criticize President George Bush before a packed Kennedy School crowd.

If you like a challenge, youll love the work of Greer Gilman.

A. Michael Spence, Ph.D. &rsquo72, former dean of Harvard&rsquos Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), won the Nobel Prize for Economics yesterday, Oct. 10, for economic theories based on his doctoral thesis. Spence, Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus and former dean at Stanford University&rsquos Graduate School of Business, shares the award with economists George A.…

The Office of the Provost has announced a new round of grants under the Provost&rsquos Fund for Student Collaboration. These grants are designed to promote intellectual interchange among students across faculties of the University. The deadline for grant applications is Friday, Nov. 2.

Tompkins to lead NIGMS grant project The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has selected Ronald Tompkins, chief of trauma and burn services at Massachusetts General Hospital, to lead a multifaceted team of scientists in a $6.7 million grant project to research the immune system’s response to traumatic injury. As part of the research,…

It seems strange that a person who makes her living asking probing, often intimate questions of complete strangers and having those conversations broadcast daily to a nationwide radio audience should confess to being shy, but that is exactly how Terry Gross, host of National Public Radio&rsquos &ldquoFresh Air,&rdquo describes herself.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 6. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Sept. 30: Officers took a report from a victim who had been robbed at knifepoint. Units found suspects matching description. Cambridge Police Department…

A.R.T. costume sale The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) costume shop will hold a giant sale on Saturday, Oct. 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St. The costume clear – out is an excellent, and inexpensive, opportunity for Halloween revelers and theatrical groups alike. All items will be…

Oct. 7, 1783 – With high ceremony, Harvard Medical School officially opens as the “Medical Institution of Harvard University.” Its first home is the ever-versatile Holden Chapel.  Oct. 23, 1832 – Dane Hall, the Law School’s first new building, is formally dedicated in Harvard Yard and serves for more than half a century thereafter.  October…

Final details were being set into place this week &mdash along with thousands of chairs in Harvard&rsquos Tercentenary Theatre &mdash in preparation for installing Lawrence H. Summers as Harvard University&rsquos 27th president on Friday (Oct. 12).

A novel use has been found for black silicon, an exotic material discovered accidentally in a Harvard research lab three years ago.

As with other musical offerings celebrating the beginning of a new administration, a peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge in joyous thanksgiving for the Installation of Lawrence H. Summers as 27th president of Harvard University. Long a Harvard tradition, bells rang for the 1849 inauguration of Jared Sparks and the 1909 inauguration of Abbott…

In a ceremony marked by emotion and remembrance, J. Dirk Iglehart, M.D., was installed as the first incumbent of the Anne E. Dyson Chair in Women’s Cancers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School (HMS). The ceremony was held at the Medical School’s Gordon Hall on Monday, Sept.…

A relaxed, bearded Al Gore called for national unity in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist hijackings Thursday, praising the public servants who responded to the crisis and passing up a chance to criticize President George Bush before a packed Kennedy School crowd. Gore delivered the 2001 Jerry Wurf Memorial Lecture Thursday evening (Oct.…

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The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA) is offering an open house for undergraduates to meet with fellows, faculty, visiting scholars, associates, graduate students, and staff of the center today (Thursday, Oct. 4) from 4 to 6 p.m. in the lobby of Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge St. The reception is an opportunity for students to…

At the Sackler Museum on Tuesday, Oct. 2, essayist and novelist Paul Auster introduced ‘I Thought My Father Was God,’ a collection of 180 personal, true-life accounts submitted to the National Story Project in coordination with National Public Radio’s Weekend ‘All Things Considered.’ When the National Story Project was first introduced, the response was overwhelming.…

Medical School (HMS) researchers have identified a mouse gene that, in certain forms, renders mice resistant to anthrax – an often fatal disease that is caused by a bacterium thought to be a prime biological weapon in the terrorist arsenal. The genetic variants appear to work by enhancing immune cells’ response to the lethal toxin…

The Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University has selected five leading scholars for its postdoctoral program in 2001-02. The postdoctoral residence in Cambridge will give the young scholars the opportunity to turn their dissertations into books, which may be published by the Harvard University Asia Center. The Postdoctoral Program Fellows for 2001-02 Stefania…

Eight doctoral candidates of exceptional promise have joined the Society of Fellows as Junior Fellows. The society gives scholars at early stages of their careers an opportunity to pursue their studies in any department of the University, free from formal requirements. They must demonstrate exceptional ability, originality, and resourcefulness. Junior Fellows are selected by the…

Mariana Tres, an artist from Portland, Ore., whose work has been inspired by an array of astronomical imagery and phenomena, has been invited to be the Center for Astrophysics’ (CfA’s) first artist in residence. For the past five years, Tres has been drawing images of meteorites, impactites, and other astronomical phenomena for her work. “This…

There’s gold in them thar hills, and Emilie Norris is the prospector. OK, not really gold. Norris is mining for art, sculpture, and historical artifacts buried in offices and houses and alleyways all over Harvard. She’s not looking to strike it rich; rather, as project manager of Harvard’s Cultural Properties Survey, Norris aims to help…

In the 19th century when education was dominated by the twin poles of Classical literature and Christianity, comparing Jesus and Socrates was a favorite essay topic for getting students to think in more profound terms about moral and religious values. In the first of six lectures titled “Lessons of the Masters on the Art of…

Today’s new teachers are as likely to be 40-year-old former lawyers or scientists with a five-week certification course behind them as they are to be 20-somethings fresh from teacher education programs. And unlike generations of their predecessors, they have their eyes on advancement. The face of teaching is changing, say researchers at the Harvard Graduate…

Harvard to receive HP, Intel grant In a joint effort by Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Intel Corp., 40 universities worldwide, including Harvard, will receive servers and workstations as part of a new grant program forged by the companies. The Itanium-Based Systems Grant Program is part of each company’s ongoing commitment to support education worldwide and…

Birthday party At the 25th anniversary celebration for the Henry A. Murray Research Center on Friday, Sept. 28, keynote speaker Jacquelynne Eccles (left), a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, with Murray Center Associate Director Jacquelyn James (center), and Murray Center Director Annemette Sørensen. Eccles spoke on ‘Identity: A Lifelong Project.’ (Photo by…

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the second grant cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, a KSG faculty committee will consider applications for small one-year grants (up to $30,000) to support advanced research by Harvard University faculty members on issues of…

When you hear the word “surgeon,” the next word you think of isn’t likely to be “humble.” Surgeons literally hold other people’s lives in their hands. That makes them the court of last resort for patients at death’s door, generals of the operating room, monarchs of the medical profession – and, according to the clichés…