Campus & Community
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Why row from Boston to London? Because it’s there.
Spaulding Rehabilitation physiatrist, team taking new route, aim to set records
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Next up for House renewal: Eliot
Building refresh aims to boost accessibility, preserve historic character
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FAS receives gift to bolster arts, humanities, and strengthen financial aid
Business leader Joseph Y. Bae ’94 and novelist Janice Y. K. Lee ’94 expand upon three decades of supporting academic excellence, opportunity at Harvard
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Dean’s legacy honored
Hoekstra, Faust, colleagues laud Robin Kelsey, who will step down from his arts and humanities deanship
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Tested most by game he didn’t play
Portrait honors Harvard’s first Black lacrosse player, whose 1941 benching in the South sparked outcry
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‘Shed the tears … get up and fight some more’
Justice Sonia Sotomayor on importance of civic engagement, youth involvement, giving back
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Metaphors That Open Doors
“Is the brain shaped and even changed by its experiences with language?” wonders Mary Helen Immordino-Yang. “Does language change the way people think?” A former seventh-grade science teacher, Immordino-Yang is…
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Portrait of an Artist’s Mind
Melding the tools of cognitive development, developmental psychology, art, brain-imaging technology, and education, Kim Sheridan is trying to unlock the mystery of artistic taste. It has taken years for Sheridan…
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Looking Inside of Learning
Michael Connells fascination with “neural networks”computer programs that simulate the activity of brain cells or neurons and actually learn over timestems in no small part from a “crystallizing moment” he…
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Shifting Ground: Busing through the Eyes of a Southie Schoolboy
In his book All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, Michael MacDonald chronicles his childhood in a predominantly poor, Irish-American neighborhood in Boston during the antibusing riots of the 1970s.…
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Envisioning the Ideal Education President
In this season of presidential primaries, education has at long last become a critical component of the stump speech, superceding even crime and foreign affairs. Every candidate is eager to…
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Faculty Council Notice – March 8
At its 10th meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed with Anne Taylor, Vice President and General Counsel, and University Attorneys Robert Iuliano and Allan Ryan, the present status…
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Geospatial Data and Information System Will Open Up New Avenues for Researchers
Once the province of astronomers, land planners, and geoscientists, in the past several years, geospatial data and the tools to analyze it have become increasingly available and valuable …
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Composer Harbison To Receive 2000 Harvard Arts Medal
Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Harbison 60 (AM 68) will receive the 2000 Harvard Arts Medal on May 6 as part of ARTS FIRST 2000, the eighth annual celebration of…
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Helping a Student-Run Homeless Shelter
President Neil L. Rudenstine (left) shakes hands with Alina Das ’01, student director of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter at the University Lutheran Church, on Tuesday while Joanne Engquist, a…
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Housing Studies Fellowship Offered
The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering a fellowship award for the academic year 2000-01 for doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic…
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HRO To Host Outreach Concert for 1,000 Cambridge Schoolchildren
The Harvard Gazette
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Internet Conference Lottery Deadline Is March 17
The Third International Harvard Conference on Internet & Society, to be held May 31-June 2, will explore the impact and implications of the Internet in transforming industry, government, and individual…
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Memorial Service Set for Kaplan
A memorial service for Felicia Lamport Kaplan will be held on Monday, March 13, 2000 at 3 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, 1515 Massachusetts Ave.,…
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Kovach Receives Goldsmith Award At KSG Tonight
Bill Kovach will receive this years Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at an award ceremony tonight (March 9) at 8:00 p.m. at the Kennedy School of Government. Kovach,…
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Laser Lights Way To Treating Advanced Lung Cancer
The womans left lung had collapsed because a tumor blocked the airway leading to it. She could only survive in a hospital with the help of a machine that forced…
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Of Masks and Mirrors
Erin Curran, 6, a 1st-grader from the Martha Jones School in Westwood, Mass., practices a wrathful roar while looking in a hand mirror after having her face painted inside the…
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Newsmakers
Callbacks Win A Cappella Semifinals The Callbacks, one of Harvards coed undergraduate a cappella singing groups, placed first in the Northeast Regional Final of the National Championship of Collegiate A…
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Notes
Vacation Houses For Rent Harvards vacation houses on Sutton Island and Kittery Point, Maine, are available for rent to salaried faculty and officers of the University. Applications for weekly rentals…
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Provost Announces New Round of Grants To Promote Interfaculty Collaboration
Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced a new round of grants under the Provosts Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration. These grants are designed to promote intellectual interchange across Faculties of the…
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Four Seniors Are Off to England as Harvard-Cambridge Scholars
Its not often opportunities like this one come knocking on a dormitory room door. So you can just imagine the reaction when 20 members of the Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships selection committee…
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Ben Shahn’s New York
The moment I stepped into the Ben Shahn exhibition currently at the Sackler Museum, I had the feeling that I was in the presence of something uncannily familiar, a world…
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Honoring Two Former Cambridge Mayors
President Neil L. Rudenstine hosted a lunch Tuesday, March 7, in honor of recently retired Cambridge mayors Frank Duehay (left) and Sheila Russell. The mayors and other guests were also…
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Players Make Cancer Battle a Team Effort Student-athletes respond to Delaney-Smith’s openness in her fight with breast cancer
Courtney Egelhoff leaned in close, her face just inches from her coachs blonde, shoulder-length hair. Intent with concentration, Egelhoff combed and snipped. Combed and snipped some more. The scene was…
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Major Bach Exhibition Mounted by Students at Houghton, Loeb Libraries
The life of Johann Sebastian Bach, from his music to his personal relationships with sons, students, and other contemporaries, is documented with selected original materials in an exhibition called “The…
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Bott Wins Israel’s Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics
The Wolf Foundation, an Israel-based organization dedicated to the promotion of science and art, has named Raoul Bott, the William Caspar Graustein Research Professor of Mathematics, winner of the 2000…
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Dropping Dyslexia’s Baggage
Juliana Paré-Blagoev believes that brain scan studies will not only yield scientific clues for furthering treatment of dyslexia, but also subtle, easily overlooked benefitssuch as a sense of hope, that…
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Police Log
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 4. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden…
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Harvard Wins Ivy Honors for Player of Week and Rookie of Week
Harvard basketball senior captain Damian Long of Spokane, Wash., has been named Ivy League Player of the Week for the period ending March 5, while freshman guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman of…
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2000-01 Undergraduate Tuition and Fees Are Set
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles has announced that for the 2000-01 academic year, Harvards package of undergraduate tuition, room and board, and student fees…