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Stanbridge is Architect of Distinction at GSD Harvard Graduate School of Design student Paul Stanbridge ’00 has received both the Autodesk Architect of Distinction Award and the ALEX Award for Technological Innovations from the National Alliance for Excellence (NAE), a nonprofit foundation that recognizes the “nation’s most gifted young scholars and artists.” Stanbridge was recognized…

The Women’s Leadership Project (WLP) is currently accepting applications from Harvard undergraduates for its 13th annual Harvard Women’s Leadership Conference, to be held Sept. 4-9, 2000. The weeklong conference brings a select group of 35 undergraduates together with prominent women in politics, media, health, academia, science, business, and public service in an effort to foster…

A young woman from the West Indies – one of hundreds of people Mary Waters interviewed for her new book on West Indian immigration – told Waters that she had asked her mother to teach her to speak with a West Indian accent. She thought – and her mother agreed – that it would be…

Most Americans think that we are “Garbage” was the response of a 14-year-old Dominican boy when asked to complete a survey sentence by Harvard immigration experts Marcelo and Carola Suarez-Orozco. Many other immigrant children finished the sentence in similarly devastating fashion, using words like “bad,” “useless,” “thieves,” and “drug addicts.” Only a few completed the…

America’s Latino population is more than 30 million and growing. Yet, as the nation absorbs one of the largest waves of immigration in its history, knowledge about the Latino population – which makes up a large part of that wave – is inadequate, according to researchers at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.…

She was pistol-whipped, raped, beaten unconscious, and kicked until she bled. He used her head to break windows. He threatened her with a machete. When she pleaded with local authorities in her Guatemalan town to help her, they did nothing. They said it was a private matter between her and her husband. Without his approval,…

Make up your mind, America. That’s the message of Kennedy School of Government economist George Borjas, a specialist in immigration who believes the United States is of two minds about which immigrants – and how many of them – to let into the country. In his own estimation, Borjas believes the country is admitting too…

A growing population of seniors living longer, healthier lives will present new challenges and opportunities to the housing market, states a new report by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. Housing America’s Seniors, the final report of a two-year study by the Joint Center, examines a variety of issues that will face the next generation…

The Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) will hold its fifth annual Student Research Conference and International Forum on Feb. 25, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Gutman Conference Center. The conference is one of the only opportunities in the Harvard calendar for GSE students to present their research. More than 180 students…

In the summer of 1993, an outbreak of a waterborne disease in Milwaukee killed more than 100 people and sickened 400,000 others. The crisis could have been ripped from the pages of a germ-warfare thriller in which post-Cold War agents sabotage innocent-looking drinking water, but in real life a bacterium named Cryptosporidium proved to be…

Young athletes from all over Boston converged on Harvard on a chilly Saturday in February. They took instruction from Harvard coaches and student-athletes. They labored and sweated, pushing themselves to refine their skills in soccer, basketball, volleyball, water polo, softball and field hockey. By day’s end, the athletes – nearly 100 girls in all– had…

When the quintessential master of ceremonies took the stage to accept the Pudding Pot at the Hasty Pudding Theatre on Thursday night, he got exactly what he bargained for. Six-time Academy Awards show host Billy Crystal was cajoled into roping a mock cow, expressing his feelings for a pig, and acting out the calf-birthing scene…

Mention the word “studio,” and one generally thinks of an artist’s garret, preferably one with northern light. At the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), however, a studio has no walls, and its dimensions can span vast distances. It is a method of teaching that constitutes the core of a Harvard design education. Illustrating this…

Beginning in March, the Harvard University Art Museums will present the first in a series of exhibitions showcasing a decade of additions to their collections. More than 475 works will be featured, including masterpieces of Asian and Islamic art, old master and contemporary prints and drawings, paintings, sculptures, calligraphy, and photographs. The series will cover…

His Holiness Bhakti Bhavana Vishnu Maharaj, a Hindu monk and swami of the Gaudiya Vaishnava lineage, will give a lecture titled “Gaudiya Vaishnavism: The Spiritual Science of Vedic India” on Friday, Feb. 25, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in Harvard Hall 201. The event is sponsored by the Harvard Extension School Chaitanya Vaishnava Society, a…

Anna Portnoy had come halfway around the world to witness the birth of a goddess. It was a difficult delivery. As a junior concentrating in the Study of Religion, Portnoy had been looking for a topic for her honors thesis. Neelima Shukla-Bhatt, a graduate student who knew of her interest in Hindu goddesses, pointed out…

The Harvard Native American Program and the Askwith Education Forum at the Graduate School of Education will present artist Melanie Yazzie in a lecture and slide show titled “Holding the Truth: The Personal and Political in ArtxD3 on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 6 p.m. in the Gutman Conference Center, Gutman Library. Preceding the lecture, Yazzie,…

One of the grand mysteries of language concerns the nature of vowels and consonants. Are they really different entities processed separately by the brain, or just artificial labels developed for convenience? Researchers at Harvard University and their collaborators in Rome believe they have found the answer. Vowels are more sonorous than consonants, that is, they…

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Harvard sophomore Jennifer Botterill’s overtime goal gave Harvard (15-4-3) a 4-3 win over Northeastern in the championship game of the 22nd-annual women’s Beanpot Tournament at the Bright Hockey Center. Botterill, cutting toward the left post, took a feed from linemate Tammy Shewchuk ’01, and one-timed the puck past goalie Erika Silva for the game-winner. It…

At noon on a very wet Valentine’s Day, a lively group of seventh graders from the Grover Cleveland Middle School in Dorchester entered a lecture hall in Byerly Hall to meet with President Neil L. Rudenstine. Their visit was part of a program called GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs), which…

It¹s a yearly tradition for members of the Harvard Neighbors Quilting Group to make quilts for the children’s ward of Cambridge City Hospital and present them on Valentine’s Day.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 12. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden Street. Feb. 6: A bag was stolen from Memorial Hall; an individual later found in possession of the bag was arrested. Feb. 7: Personal property…

Journalist Helen Thomas to Speak at Law School The Harvard Law School Forum will present speaker Helen Thomas, “dean” of the White House Press Corps and UPI-Washington Bureau chief, on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom. Ellen Goodman ’63, associate editor and columnist for the Boston Globe, will introduce Thomas, who…

Harvard’s Memorial Church will host the 101st annual William Beldon Noble Lectures, which will be given by the Right Rev. John S. Spong, on March 6, 7, and 8 at 8 p.m. Spong, an author and theologian and the former Episcopal Bishop of Newark, N.J., will give the series of lectures, titled, “Developing a New…

Rev. Gomes Delivers Sermon at University of Cambridge The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes delivered one of six formal “University Sermons” in the Church of St. Mary the Great at the University of Cambridge, England, on Sunday, Feb. 6. Gomes delivered the sermon, “An Act of Defiance and the Yearning for Something More,” in his…

Hoping to foster international good will and peacekeeping, more than 2,000 college students from all over the world will gather in Boston this week to participate in Harvard’s National Model United Nations conference (HNMUN). The annual event simulates the hard work and diplomacy that characterizes the real United Nations. Over the course of four days,…

A memorial service for Perry Townsend Rathbone ’33, will be held Friday, Feb. 25, at 4:00 pm in Memorial Church, the Reverend Peter Gomes presiding. Rathbone was the director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1954-72, advisor to the council of the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research, 1953-58, and a member of…