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Accolades abounded at Tuesday evening’s “Harvard University Volunteer Recognition Program 2000.” Over 100 Harvard employees, who volunteer their time, were invited to the Law School’s Ropes and Gray Room for voluntarism’s answer to the Oscars. In opening remarks, President Neil L. Rudenstine reflected on past presidents’ reports dating from the beginning of the century –…

They walk through the door with handfuls or even shoe boxes crammed with crinkled letters, receipts, and tax documents from their pension plans, banks, the Social Security Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service. They rattle off questions and grievances one after another, looking for answers and a compassionate ear. And they usually find both, when…

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Good morning. I’’m very glad to be with all of you this morning, to celebrate your school and its achievements, and to wish you good fortune as you begin your ambitious fund-raising drive. I’’ve been asked – in the next nine or ten minutes – to offer you some brilliant, pithy, and profound remarks about…

Warfield Named Chair of Anesthesia and Critical Care at BIDMC Carol A. Warfield, associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, has been named chair of the anesthesia and critical care department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). An expert in pain management with a 22-year career at BIDMC and its predecessor, Beth Israel…

Monkeys can tell the difference between Dutch and Japanese as easily as human infants, language researchers have found. This ability makes humans less special than previously believed, and ties our mental abilities more closely to our evolutionary kin. “We don’t know yet what mechanisms in our brain allow us to discriminate different languages, but we…

Dayna Muller will be wired like an astronaut when she runs the grueling 26.2-mile Boston Marathon on April 17. A pillbox-sized sensor on one shoe will broadcast her running speed to a watch on her wrist. A heart monitor strapped to her chest will send her heart rate to the same watch. “They wanted me…

Two books and a work-in-progress have been named winners of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project, an awards program jointly administered by the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard to recognize superb works of nonfiction. The awards will be presented on Saturday, May 6, at the Harvard Faculty…

Declaring that music has been central to the African-American experience since slavery, Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. announced Friday the creation of the first endowed professorship in African-American music at Harvard and possibly in the nation. The chair, created with a $3 million gift from media giant Time Warner Inc., is named…

For many of us, food can be a powerful reminder of who we are and where we come from. But the foods that Rebecca Weisinger ’02 remembers from her family dinner table were a little different from most. “Sometimes my mom would make Chinese dishes and then add potatoes to them, or she would serve…

Nearly 300 students turned out for the first annual H’ARD CORPS (Harvard Community Outreach and Public Service) event on Saturday. Breaking into teams, they worked on 18 different projects in Boston and Cambridge, including site clean-up, gardening, visiting the elderly, and helping the Greater Boston Food Bank and AIDS Walk Boston . The event was…

Quality-of-life factors are the most significant determinants for prospective faculty when they’re considering a job offer, according to a new study conducted by the Project on Faculty Appointments at the Graduate School of Education, and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Senior Researcher Cathy Trower admits these results may come as an “absolute shock” to…

The following members of the Faculty have been elected to the Council for terms beginning on July 1, 2000: Professors John Y. Campbell (Economics), Jay M. Harris (NELC), Pamela K. Keel (Psychology), Robert P. Kirshner (Astronomy), Michael Mitzenmacher (DEAS), Paul Pierson (Government), and Gloria Pinney (Classics) At its meeting April 12 the Faculty Council considered…

Each year, the department of chemistry and chemical biology receives a number of corporate fellowships for organic chemistry research. These fellowships are sponsored by several corporations whose support has been instrumental to the training of graduate students in the department. The fellowships for 1999-00 have been sponsored by Eli Lilly Research Laboratories, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.,…

The Graduate School of Education’s literacy laboratory will be renamed the Jeanne S. Chall Reading Laboratory in honor of its founder and a leading expert in reading research and instruction for more than 50 years, announced School of Education Dean Jerome T. Murphy yesterday (April 12). Chall, a psychologist and a professor at the School…

The American Red Cross will run a blood drive in Memorial Hall on Friday, April 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and at St. Paul’s Church, 29 Mount Auburn Street, on Thursday, April 27, from noon to 6 p.m. and Friday, April 28, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call (800) 462-9400, ext. 2093.

Founders and graduates of Harvard’s Afro-American Studies Department came together last weekend to reflect on the struggle that gave the department birth, to plot strategies for the future, and to praise the dream become reality. “None of us who were there at the beginning of this can be anything but proud,” said Jeffrey Howard, a…

The Peabody Museum will host a symposium on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). A Decade of NAGPRA: Reviewing the Law will take place Friday, April 14th, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland St. and is being held with the sponsorship of Harvard’s Native American Program. The…

Harvard University is scoring high in U.S. News and World Report’s latest rankings of the nation’s top graduate schools. The rankings were released this week, and are contained in the magazine’s April 10 issue. The Harvard Medical School, the School of Public Health, and the Graduate School of Education are each ranked number one in…

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