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Every Tuesday afternoon for the past eight weeks, kids in the Young Scientists’ Club turned the Harvard Museum of Natural History into their own research lab to learn about light. Using the many exhibits and some traditional scientific methods such as observation, sketching, dissecting, and interviewing experts, the 15 children, ranging in age from 8…

The Kennedy School of Government will participate via satellite in the global “Women.Future Conference” to be held on Wednesday, April 5, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The conference will feature women business leaders from Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley who will initiate a conversation among business and professional women committed to creating positive global…

Facing a state court deadline last week to respond to the Attorney General’s lawsuit about Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s use of the Harvard name, the University has responded by requesting that the case be moved to Federal Court, citing the court’s “jurisdiction over trademark disputes in interstate commerce.” In a letter to state Attorney General…

The Harvard Law School Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) is providing free, confidential assistance in preparing state and federal tax returns to low-income, elderly, and handicapped residents of Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville. A student-managed organization, VITA performs this community service project in conjunction with the Internal Revenue Service. The VITA sites and their operating…

The class started off easily enough. Graduate School of Education Lecturer Meg Campbell said it was to be student-directed, following the principles of experience-based education. She had given the assignment ahead of time – the students were to observe an artifact in the Peabody Museum’s Hall of the North American Indian and write down their…

The Harvard Outward Bound Project and the Experiential Educators’ Network are planning a conference for those interested in learning more about experiential or experience-based education. The conference, called “The Common Thread,” is scheduled for noon to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5, at the Gutman Conference Center. The conference, which is free and open to…

The hands of time will begin turning again today on Busch Hall. It has been more than four months since the circa 1930 tower clock was disassembled, removed, and then transported to Freeport, Maine, for much-needed cleaning, polishing, and restoration. This morning, the ornate 700-pound timepiece will be hauled back into the 1917 German-designed building…

Environmental scholars at Harvard will soon have access to the personal papers of Maurice Strong, one of the central figures in international environmental politics for the past 30 years. Strong’s papers, recently donated to the University, document crucial events in the evolution of international environmental policy from an ad hoc collection of bilateral agreements to…

It was a crowded room, but the eyes of Ana Tavares and Fidencio Saldana did not meet across it. That is because Saldana is 6-foot-5 and Tavares is about a foot shorter. “It was more eyes to chest,” Tavares said. Fortunately, Saldana’s chest was adorned with a name tag, which not only allowed Tavares to…

Although the 1999-2000 women’s hockey season came to a disappointing end when the Crimson was not chosen for the AWCHA National Championship Tournament, the year was filled with many high points. Ranked in the top three for the entire season, Harvard compiled a 21-5-3 overall record and a 17-4-3 mark in the ECAC. Led by…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 18. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden St. March 12: A coat was stolen from Harkness Commons. A Palm Pilot computer and credit cards were stolen from the Faculty Club. March 13:…

“Witchdoctors and Biotechnology” is the subject of the annual Lowell Lecture, which will be delivered this year by ethnobiologist Mark Plotkin. The talk will take place on Friday, April 7, at 8 p.m. in Science Center C. Illustrated with slides, the lecture will explore the extraordinary advances in technology during the past decade that have…

Hauser to speak on his books at M.I.T. Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser will give a talk about his two books, The Design of Animal Communications (M.I.T. Press, 2000) and Wild Minds (Holt, 2000) on Thursday, April 6, at 6 p.m. at M.I.T.’s Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames St., Cambridge. An expert in…

Jane Fountain, associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and member of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, has been appointed to a three-year term as a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Internet Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Dubbed by its founders as the “Brookings Institution of the Internet,”…

Harvard College has selected Sameera Fazili ’00 as the winner of the Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award. Also, Emmy Award-winning senior correspondent for ABC Carole Simpson, has been named the recipient of the Harvard College Women’s Professional Achievement Award. Fazili, a Social Studies concentrator from Buffalo, N.Y., is the president of the Harvard Islamic Society,…

For about $20 you can determine your risk of a future heart attack, according to a new study from Harvard Medical School. The test measures levels of a protein that increase with the amount of inflammation in coronary arteries. The study showed that healthy women with the highest levels of this substance, known as high-sensitivity…

Professor Emeritus Bertrand Fox, an economist and investment banking expert who had a lasting impact on Harvard Business School as director of its Division of Research, died on March 14 in Lexington, Mass., at the age of 92. Fox was a distinguished member of the School’s faculty for 25 years, beginning in 1949. He served…

At its 11th meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed the annual Affirmative Action Report with Professor Marjorie Garber, Associate Dean for Affirmative Action, and Elizabeth Doherty, Assistant Dean of the Faculty for Academic Planning. The Council also heard a proposal from Professor Harry Lewis, Dean of Harvard College, concerning businesses in student rooms.…

George Lauder hits a few keys on his laptop, and a moving image appears on the screen. “That’s the fish’s pectoral fin,” he says, pointing to the grainy, black-and white-picture. “It’s slowed down because the camera was taking 250 images per second. But do you see the way the water is moving in a sort…

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June Dowling, a receptionist at the Harvard University Employees Credit Union since 1989, died on March 6, three months after being diagnosed with cancer. She is survived by her husband, Robert, who worked for Harvard University Police and Security from 1980 until his retirement in 1995. She also leaves seven children, 13 grandchildren, and eight…

Kathy Delaney-Smith rode her bike to the office the day after the devastating 96-74 loss to Dartmouth ended the Crimson women’s basketball season. It had been only days earlier, coming into the season’s last weekend, that Delaney-Smith, Harvard women’s basketball coach, had hoped Harvard would share the title that Dartmouth won outright. The whipping by…