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  • Franken, Lithgow lead laughs at ARTS FIRST

    Good luck keeping a straight face during ARTS FIRST 2000. Actor John Lithgow ’67 and comedian Al Franken ’73 will light up the marquee at the Pan-Harvard Comedy Carnival that…

  • Potent cancer drugs made — Sea squirts provide recipe

    Sack-like sea squirts living on the sea floor make a complex anti-tumor drug hundreds to thousands of times more powerful than any cancer potion now in use. For the past…

  • Charles Coulson, former director of Harvard Varsity Club, dies at 69

    Former Harvard Varsity Club Director Charles “Chuck” Coulson died on April 11, 2000, in Johnstown, Penn., where he was visiting family. He was 69. Coulson was a devoted long-time supporter…

  • Smashing roadblocks to diversity

    Approximately 200 Harvard middle managers got together at the Charles Hotel this past Friday, April 28, to discuss obstacles to staff diversity. The conference, sponsored by the Office of the…

  • Harvard Benefits

    Harvard offers a generous package of benefits and perks – including liberal time off, tuition assistance, a wide range of health plans and special perks like discount theater and movie…

  • A Bridge to literacy, learning

    In an innovative move to bridge the gap between workers in low-paying jobs and those enjoying the nation’s booming new economy, Harvard University will launch a new workplace education program…

  • Ad Hoc report calls for expanded training, benefits, new contract guidelines

    After more than a year of studying issues surrounding Harvard’s contingent workforce and its lowest-paid workers, the Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies released a report yesterday (May 3) recommending…

  • Education key to upward mobility

    D. Quinn Mills, the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, chaired the eight-member Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies that for the last…

  • Defenders of a radical idea

    It was a radical idea at the time. The concept of Law School (HLS) students representing indigent clients in criminal cases may have shocked more than a few people in…

  • Committee calls for expanded training, benefits

    A committee of faculty and administrators studying workforce issues at Harvard has recommended several groundbreaking initiatives. Central to these recommendations is a greatly expanded free, on-site workplace education program for…

  • Five labor contracts settled last year

    In a recent remarkably productive period of labor relations activity, the University signed 5 new contracts with four of its unions between July and November of last year. Following is…

  • NAACP Retreat

    The National Board of Directors of the NAACP attended its third board retreat at the Business School last week. President Neil L. Rudenstine (left) met with NAACP Chairman Julian Bond…

  • Newsmakers

    Galbraith, Gould, and Whipple dubbed “Living Legends” John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus; Stephen Jay Gould, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative…

  • Nieman reunion convenes some of world’s top journalists

    If a war had broken out somewhere last weekend, there’s a possibility the rest of the world might have missed it. That’s because more than 400 of the most heralded…

  • Notes

    Organizers sought for next Ig Nobel event Organizers are sought to help produce the 10th Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, which honors individuals whose achievements “cannot or should not be…

  • Celebrating John Knowles Paine’s legacy

    Aaron Copland. Leonard Bernstein. Igor Stravinsky. John Knowles Paine. These four eminences were among 25 composers, musicians, and educators inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in 1998.…

  • Police Log

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

  • Spring silliness

    Eat, drink, and be merry — thousands showed off their spring fever during Springfest 2000 at the MAC Quad, coming out to support student bands, eat, compete, and enjoy the…

  • Mighty metaphors — Zaltman’s method opens the ‘windows of consciousness’

    When the Heinz Endowments of Pittsburgh, Pa., embarked on a mission two years ago to invigorate its Arts and Culture program, it turned to the Mind of the Market Laboratory…

  • Memorial service for Bellow set for May 25

    A memorial service for Harvard Law School professor Gary Bellow will be held on Thursday, May 25, at 2 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The service will be followed with a…

  • Kids rule at Sports Fest

    Mayor Thomas Menino joined hundreds of local youths, student athletes, and coaches last Friday (April 28) to kick off the annual Sports Festival held at Harvard. Designed to celebrate the…

  • Ruth Dixon Turner, professor of biology, dies

    Ruth Dixon Turner, professor of biology emerita, died Sunday in Meadow Green Nursing Home in Waltham at the age of 85. Turner was curator of malacology at the Museum of…

  • Vorenberg memorial service set for May 10

    A memorial service will be held for Roscoe Pound Professor of Law James Vorenberg, a former Harvard Law School dean, on Wednesday, May 10, at 2 p.m. in Memorial Church,…

  • Irvin H. Blank, Leader in Dermatology, Dies

    Irvin H. Blank, a former research fellow at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and physician on the Dermatology Service at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), died in his Belmont home on April…

  • Sharon Clayborne Memorial Is Changed to May 2

    The memorial service for Sharon P. Clayborne, director of financial aid at Harvard Medical School, who died on April 13, has been changed. The service will be held on Tuesday,…

  • Community Gifts Donations Surpass Last Year’s by $69K

    The generosity of Harvard employees has always been great. This year it has proved to be greater than ever. The 1999-00 Community Gifts through Harvard Campaign has raised $871,912, an…

  • Harvard Reaches Out To Forge Links With Cuba

    At a time when U.S—Cuban relations are at best strained and at worst bordering on crisis, a group of Harvard scholars is working to strengthen educational and cultural ties between…

  • Kennedy School Student Leaders Push for End of Cuban Embargo

    Student leaders at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) passed a resolution this week calling for the immediate repeal of the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba. The vote capped a…

  • Small Chemical Spill Forces Evacuation at Science Center

    A minor chemical spill forced the limited evacuation of the Science Center basement on Wednesday morning. According to authorities with the Environmental Health and Safety Office (EHS), a small amount…

  • Faculty Council Notice

    At its 14th meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed a proposed Statement on Outside Activities with three members of the Committee that drafted the document: Professor Dennis Thompson…