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  • Harvard focuses on mental health

    People may think of Harvard students as models of cool, as intelligent, sophisticated youths well able to handle the pressures of academic work and social life at an elite university.…

  • Female monogamy is fiction, not fact, Hrdy says

    Women are naturally monogamous. Men tend to rove. That assumption is not only part of popular belief, it has also been enshrined by science. Darwin, writing of animal mating habits,…

  • Bicycle bandits still at large

    According to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), a University student was the victim of assault and unarmed robbery on Sunday, Oct. 15, at 10 p.m. While walking down Holyoke…

  • Community service is key: Ebert Awards recognize the commitment of eight

    Eight medical professionals were recently recognized for extraordinary service — locally and globally — by the Medical School/School of Dental Medicine Office of Community Outreach Programs. Joseph Martin, Dean of…

  • Water power: Once American women rowers trailed the field. In 1975, that all changed.

    If you had been walking along Memorial Drive early one particular morning during the summer of 1975, you might have seen a group of strapping young women expertly lowering a…

  • Field hockey hits its stride

    Crimson field hockey is rolling right along this year, with (at press time) an 8-3 record on the season and a perfect 4-0 in the Ivy League. A week ago…

  • Administrative fellows named

    Eleven new fellows have been selected for the 2000-01 Administrative Fellowship Program. Of the 11, six are visiting fellows and five are resident fellows. The Administrative Fellowship Program, coordinated by…

  • Ravitch slams school reform: Ed School forum shows the failures of progressive education

    From “social efficiency” to “curriculum integration” to “open classrooms,” the history of American education is littered with failed school reform efforts that mobilized support and generated momentum for fits and…

  • Belfer Center announces fellows

    The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is the hub of research, teaching, and training in international security affairs; environmental and…

  • A neighborly place for families

    It takes a village to raise a child, but if there’s no village handy, try Harvard Neighbors. Two groups, one for babies up to 12 months, the other for toddlers…

  • Notes

    Noteworthy events around the University Classical ensemble performance is free for students Boston’s classical music ensemble, Collage New Music, will present its first concert of the season on Sunday, Oct.…

  • Police Log

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 14. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

  • Former administrator Gillespie, 72, dies

    Joan Marie (Colllins) Gillespie, a former Harvard administrator, died on Sept. 14. She was 72. A lifelong resident of Arlington, Mass., Gillespie worked for the Anthropology and Social Medicine Departments…

  • The familiar becomes strange: in Charles Marcus’ world, you can be in two places at once

    Charles Marcus doesn’t believe that he or anyone else lives in the real world. He thinks that everything we see around us, from wood to whales, comes from a more…

  • Konrad Bloch, Nobel winner, dies at 88

    Konrad Emil Bloch, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964, died Sunday, Oct. 15, at Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass. He died of complications from congestive…

  • Mongan Center: Collection behind the collections

    There’s considerably more than meets the eye at the Fogg Art Museum. Long an invaluable resource not just for Harvard, or even regionally, but on a national scale, the Fogg…

  • New marshals guide Class of ’01

    Eight Harvard seniors were elected class marshals this month, taking over a post that will have them guiding their class not only through its senior year, but also after graduation.…

  • Butterflies, beetles, and bugs, oh my!: Class brings kids and winged wonders together at Museum of Natural History

    One of the many classes offered by the Museum of Natural History (HMNH) took flight last Saturday morning in a burst of color and light. Led by Ann Ambiel, a…

  • Belfer Center associate holds ground in genocide debate

    It was labeled “the greatest, most pathetic, and most arbitrary tragedy in history” in a statement published in the New York Times on Nov. 1, 1915. The American Committee on…

  • Student’s legacy is tool from which others learn

    A memorial service will be held this coming Saturday (Oct. 14) for a Harvard graduate student who found an opportunity to serve others under the most challenging of personal circumstances.…

  • Arts-to-smarts link overblown: Researchers sing a new tune for the Mozart effect

    Listening to Mozart won’t raise a child’s IQ, but music classes could help her or him to understand directions and diagrams. For enhancing a student’s ability to speak, read, and…

  • Ig Nobels flush out the world’s top brains :Bad science gets good reputation at 10th annual prize ceremony

    While more informed minds awaited this week’s Nobel Prize awards, the Sanders Theatre crowd cheered the Tenth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, honoring “achievements that cannot, or should not,…

  • Ig Nobel winners

    The Biology Prize, awarded for a report “On the Palatability of Some Dry-Season Tadpoles From Costa Rica.” Winner Richard Wassersug of Dalhousie University clarified that while the tadpoles were eaten…

  • Faculty Council Notice

    At its third meeting of the year, the Faculty Council reviewed with Administrative Dean of the Faculty Nancy L. Maull all of the faculty’s current building projects and plans. Associate…

  • Leadership Forum examines health disparities

    “When you hear that there is a disparity between minorities and the rest of the population, believe it,” says John Ruffin, the first associate director of research on minority health,…

  • Over in overtime

    Cornell’s Adam Skumawitz took a pass from teammate Colin Nevison and fired it past Harvard keeper, junior Dan Mejias, with just under six minutes remaining in the second overtime to…

  • Analyst of the American Dream: Hochschild tries to untangle issues of race and education

    For someone who was once sure she wanted to be a clinical psychologist, Jennifer Hochschild hasn’t done too badly as a political scientist. Hochschild, recently named a professor with a…

  • Got milk?

    The John Harvard statue, which has been sheltered during the reconstruction of University Hall, was apparently not safe from vandals. A “milk” mustache was painted on the revered statue. Staff…

  • ‘Horizon’ widens at Schlesinger

    In her autobiography, “The Dyer’s Hand,” astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, one of the first female tenured professors at Harvard, summed up the rewards of a career in science: “Do not undertake…

  • Pryor to students: Get involved

    When Arkansas Senator David Pryor packed his bags, sold his home, and departed Washington in 1996 after more than 30 years in public service, he didn’t think twice about leaving.…