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  • New funding helps University reach out

    The technological revolution has spurred an array of educational changes that are modifying how students and instructors interact in a traditional classroom setting and creating new stay-at-home students for whom…

  • Technology at Work on Campus

    Distance learning and instructional technology are already all around us at Harvard – and they have been for a while. Following are several examples of current programs involving the use…

  • There’s no place like home page: FAS course tools

    After teaching Microeconomic Theory for 14 years, Jeffrey Wolcowitz, senior lecturer on economics and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ associate dean for undergraduate education, decided in 1998 to rethink…

  • Internet class is HBS’s business

    When the CEO of Click ’n Pick needs someone to clarify the company’s murky financial picture, who does he come to? Harvard Business School students – well, actually future Harvard…

  • In the news

    As technology advances, educational entrepreneurs are taking advantage of new ways to reach potential students. Following are some recent examples of Internet-based learning venures: UNext: Michael Milken-inspired online venture involving…

  • Tennis everyone? Camps offer variety of classes

    One of Harvard’s – and Boston’s – most popular summer activities, the Tennis Camps at Harvard, will be opening its 10th season on June 12 at the new Robert M.…

  • 25-year recognition

    Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine (left) congratulates 25-year Harvard employee Bertha Demirjian, who works at the Admissions and Financial Aid Office. Demirjian has worked in different departments within Harvard…

  • A-crewing honors — Harvard heavyweights churn up the Charles

    Radcliffe and Harvard crews advanced to the Grand Finals in all six of the major divisions at the 55th annual Eastern Sprints Championships, held May 21, on Worcester’s Lake Quinsigamond,…

  • Biological clock genes identified

    Scientists have gotten the closest look yet at the inner works of biological clocks that drive our natural sleep-wake cycle. They’re surprised at how complicated the mechanism is. Steven Reppert…

  • 25-year recognition

    Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine (left) congratulates 25-year Harvard employee Bertha Demirjian, who works at the Admissions and Financial Aid Office. Demirjian has worked in different departments within Harvard…

  • Faculty of Arts and Sciences — Memorial Minute — John H. Finley

    On a festive occasion marking John Finley’s retirement as Master of Eliot House in 1968, an admiring colleague evoked the mythical image of Cheiron, the wise centaur who was teacher…

  • Cub reporters join Gazette

    It is 2 p.m. at Graham & Parks School in Central Square. Susan McCray passes out a letter to each student in her seventh-grade homeroom. Tension was building as the…

  • Hoopes Prize winners named

    Sixty-four undergraduates have won the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work or research. The Prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes ’19, a firearms expert…

  • ‘Virtual’ innovations change our lives for real

    Just how – and how much – is the dotcom world changing our lives? In a V.I.P.-studded attempt to answer this question, the Harvard community is hosting the third Internet…

  • Faculty of Arts and Sciences — Memorial Minute — Earl Kim

    “I am reducing everything to its maximum.” This was Earl Kim’s way of describing his own music and the compositional processes and aesthetic which assured its distinctive, individual character. Spare,…

  • ew ‘my.Harvard.edu’ portal will speed access to database links

    The password isn’t “open sesame” but the new cyber-gateway into Harvard databases still seems like something of a marvel (at least to the non-techies among us). Paul Martin, dean for…

  • Twelve Nieman Fellows named

    Twelve international journalists have been named Nieman Fellows for the 2000-01 academic year. They will join twelve U.S. journalists whose names were announced earlier in May to make up the…

  • Newsmakers

    Two from Harvard named Carnegie Scholars Two Harvard professors were among 12 leading researchers in American universities who have been named Carnegie Scholars by the Carnegie Corporation. Caroline Hoxby, Morris…

  • Rudenstine leaving presidency in 2001

    “No one person deserves credit for all of that, and Neil would be the last person to claim it,” Stone said. “But, more than anyone else this past decade, he…

  • Rudenstine receives praise from many

    “[President Clinton] appreciates Neil Rudenstine’s leadership at Harvard, particularly his commitment to federal research and science and technology and also his efforts to expand the African-American Studies department there.” —White…

  • Notes

    Ulam memorial service, May 31 A memorial service for Adam Ulam will be held on Wednesday, May 31, at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Ulam was the Gurney Professor…

  • Police Log

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 20. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.…

  • Mock Web site raises tough ethical issues about privacy

    There’s a lot going on in Gotham City. Participants at the Third Biennial International Conference on Internet & Society (iS2k) at Harvard next week will get the opportunity to hear…

  • Weatherhead Center awards 2000-01 travel grants

    The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced that 16 Harvard juniors will become 2000-01 Undergraduate Associates of the Center. These students have received summer travel grants to support senior…

  • Five fellows named by HDS’ Women’s Studies

    The Women’s Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School has named five visiting fellows for the 2000-01 academic year. They are Sidnie Crawford, Sue Houchins, Oyeronke Olajuba, Tracy Pintchman,…

  • Harvard Foundation honors students for improving racial climate

    Racial harmony doesn’t happen by accident on a college campus. It often takes hard work. Sixteen students who have dedicated themselves to improving intercultural understanding and race relations at Harvard…

  • Internet is revolutionizing the way designers (and others) work

    Spiro Pollalis, professor of design technology and management at the School of Design and co-chair of the Internet conference. Staff photo by Rose Lincoln. When Graduate School of Design (GSD)…

  • Importance of voting registers with students

    Next September, first-year students at Harvard College will be able to register for more than Molecular Biology, Expository Writing, and Introduction to Old Norse; they will also have the opportunity…

  • Rudenstine to Conclude Tenure as Harvard President in June 2001

    Neil L. Rudenstine announced today that he will conclude his tenure as President of Harvard University at the end of the 2000-01 academic year.

  • Weissman Program names this year’s interns

    The Weissman International Internship Program, established by Paul (’52) and Harriet Weissman in 1994, is now in its seventh consecutive year of operation. The program affords sophomores and juniors the…