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  • Sexual assault is reported

    According to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), a sexual assault occurred in an undergraduate residence hall in Harvard Yard on Thursday, Nov. 2, at 4:30 a.m. The case is…

  • Fellowship helps medical scholars over the hurdles

    Overcoming obstacles has become a way of life for Olga Kandror. In 1984, the Russian-born cell biologist earned her Ph.D. from Moscow University, then got a research position at the…

  • Harvard, M.I.T. team up on atom research

    Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) have created the Center for Ultracold Atoms to tap the strengths of researchers at the two universities and engage a wider…

  • Baha’i Club has dinner, discussion on Nov. 7

    The Harvard Baha’i Club will sponsor a dinner and discussion at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 7 at Quincy House, Apt. 300, 58 Plympton St. The topic of discussion is “Is…

  • New ‘Harvard Guide’ has it all

    The new edition of “The Harvard Guide,” the University’s official guidebook, is now on sale at the Harvard Events & Information Center in the Holyoke Center arcade. All information has…

  • Predicting the unpredictableJeremy Stein analyzes the vagaries of behavioral finance

    Precariously perched on a tiny scaffold 170 feet in the air over the Nevada desert last summer, Jeremy Stein anxiously contemplated an awe-inspiring feat – a bungee jump into a…

  • Robert Iuliano named deputy general counsel

    Gazette Staff Robert W. Iuliano ’83 has been named the University’s deputy general counsel. He replaces Robert Donin who left Harvard in August to take a position at Dartmouth. An…

  • Internet, the sequel: The Web of Academe

    A giant computer screen, flanked by smaller monitors, dominates the basement room on Cambridge Street, giving the impression you’re in Harvard’s version of Mission Control. You’re not. You’re in the…

  • Kick-off luncheon launches Community Gifts Campaign 2000

    Harvard’s annual tradition of giving back to the community is reaching out further than ever this year. Faculty and staff are being asked to open up their hearts and their…

  • October unkind to men’s soccer

    After winning three straight contests in mid-October, a run that included the season’s first Ivy League victory over a tough Yale squad, the Harvard men’s soccer team has dropped three…

  • Talking trash

    The Boston Area Student Environmental Leadership Conference at Harvard Oct. 27-28 served more than 1,000 meals to the 400 participants but generated only three bags of trash because of extensive…

  • HBS students help send area kids to camp

    November 2, 2000 Ten children from Cambridge and greater Boston will be able to attend camp next summer thanks to a donation from approximately 300 Harvard Business School (HBS) Master…

  • Talk on Moriyama highlights symposium

    November 2, 2000 The sixth annual Edwin O. Reischauer/Kodansha Ltd. Commemorative Symposium was held on Friday, Oct. 13, at the Kodansha/Reischauer House in Belmont, Mass. In attendance were representatives from…

  • Inside newsman Ted Koppel

    One of television’s most respected and familiar figures revealed some of the person behind the persona during an appearance at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) on Monday night. ABC…

  • Women’s History at Holyoke Center

    Female basketball players in knee-length bloomers and high socks, field hockey players in skirts that touch the grass, the cast of an all-female “Merchant of Venice” decked in doublets, capes,…

  • Faculty of Divinity Memorial Minute:James Luther Adams

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Divinity on April 17, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records. James Luther Adams – “JLA,” as he came to be…

  • HLS’s legal eagles fly for local community

    There’s nothing more “real life” than this: a notice to appear in court for nonpayment of rent. It’s an eviction notice, in effect, and there’s not much time to act…

  • Notes

    President, provost offer office hours for students Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov.…

  • Cancer vaccineIt’s being tested on kidney and skin cancer patients with promising results

    Tumors were eliminated in 25 percent of patients with widespread kidney and lethal skin cancers who received a new cancer vaccine. Another 25 percent showed encouraging shrinkage of large and…

  • Summit leaves Crimson seeing green

    Given the consensus among scientists, economists, and world governments on the devastating consequences of resource depletion, why is it that colleges and universities don’t put the environmental crisis front and…

  • Lee Fellowship: A commitment to public service

    In September 2001, about 18 senior public officials from Southeast Asia and China will exchange the summerlike days of Singapore for seven weeks of autumn at the Kennedy School of…

  • It’s more than just a beat

    Rapidly rising from his chair, and leaving a full plate of warm food, Patrol Officer Charles Marren of Harvard University’s Police Department (HUPD) grabs his cap from above the buffet…

  • Police Log

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 28. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29…

  • Notes

    Waging a peaceful celebration In celebration of Women Waging Peace, a Kennedy School program, there will be a concert on Monday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. With…

  • Police Log

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 21. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

  • Journal of African American Public Policy pays tribute to Higginbotham

    The Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with a new issue that pays tribute to the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. The journal,…

  • Peaceful protests

    An expanse of well-groomed lawn separated two groups of deeply divided demonstrators last Monday (Oct. 23) at Tercentenary Theatre. While Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) rallied in front of The…

  • Former Nieman curator is honored

    Nieman fellows and alumni from around the world have raised more than $22,000 for the newly named Kovach Library at Lippmann House. The donations honoring former Curator Bill Kovach will…

  • Crime numbers falling in several categories

    On-campus crime appears to be decreasing in several categories at Harvard University according to newly released crime statistics posted on the U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education Web…

  • Former News Office photographer William H. ‘Bill’ Tobey dies at 77

    Wiliam H. “Bill” Tobey, 77, a photographer and filming coordinator at the Harvard University News Office starting in 1956, died on Oct. 5 at Mid Coast Hospital in Maine. Born…