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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Cultural Transplant — Sophomore Jesus Aleman moves between two worlds
When he was 5 years old, Jesus Aleman 02 began working in the fields with his family in northern Mexico. He picked cotton and helped grow watermelons, and he learned…
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Immersed in Words: Connie Juel Plans to Take Harvard into Schools
Newly appointed professor of education and incoming director of the Harvard Literacy Laboratory Connie Juel is moving some of the services of the renowned lab into public schools. This is…
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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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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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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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Undergraduate Witnesses Birth of a Goddess
Anna Portnoy had come halfway around the world to witness the birth of a goddess. It was a difficult delivery. As a junior concentrating in the Study of Religion, Portnoy…
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Hindu Monk and Swami To Give Lecture Friday
His Holiness Bhakti Bhavana Vishnu Maharaj, a Hindu monk and swami of the Gaudiya Vaishnava lineage, will give a lecture titled “Gaudiya Vaishnavism: The Spiritual Science of Vedic India” on…
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Art Museums Celebrate a Decade of Collecting
Beginning in March, the Harvard University Art Museums will present the first in a series of exhibitions showcasing a decade of additions to their collections. More than 475 works will…
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Design Students Envision Future in Middle East Border Cities
Mention the word “studio,” and one generally thinks of an artists garret, preferably one with northern light. At the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), however, a studio has no…
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Crystal Sparkles
When the quintessential master of ceremonies took the stage to accept the Pudding Pot at the Hasty Pudding Theatre on Thursday night, he got exactly what he bargained for. Six-time…
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Harvard Hosts Sixth National Girls and Women in Sports Day
Young athletes from all over Boston converged on Harvard on a chilly Saturday in February. They took instruction from Harvard coaches and student-athletes. They labored and sweated, pushing themselves to…
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SPH Researchers Teach Russians ‘Germ Warfare’
In the summer of 1993, an outbreak of a waterborne disease in Milwaukee killed more than 100 people and sickened 400,000 others. The crisis could have been ripped from the…
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Education Students To Present Research on Range of Topics at Conference
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) will hold its fifth annual Student Research Conference and International Forum on Feb. 25, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Gutman…
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Living Longer Presents Housing Challenges, According to New Report
A growing population of seniors living longer, healthier lives will present new challenges and opportunities to the housing market, states a new report by Harvards Joint Center for Housing Studies.…
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Migration Washes Over Ambivalent America
Make up your mind, America. Thats the message of Kennedy School of Government economist George Borjas, a specialist in immigration who believes the United States is of two minds about…
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Helping Refugees of Gender-Based Persecution
She was pistol-whipped, raped, beaten unconscious, and kicked until she bled. He used her head to break windows. He threatened her with a machete. When she pleaded with local authorities…
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Rockefeller Center Conference Focuses on Latino Immigration
Americas Latino population is more than 30 million and growing. Yet, as the nation absorbs one of the largest waves of immigration in its history, knowledge about the Latino population…
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Suarez-Orozcos Focus on the Youngest Immigrants
Most Americans think that we are “Garbage” was the response of a 14-year-old Dominican boy when asked to complete a survey sentence by Harvard immigration experts Marcelo and Carola Suarez-Orozco.…
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Waters Brings the ‘Invisible Immigrants’ to Light
A young woman from the West Indies one of hundreds of people Mary Waters interviewed for her new book on West Indian immigration told Waters that she had…
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Women’s Leadership Conference Now Accepting Applications
The Womens Leadership Project (WLP) is currently accepting applications from Harvard undergraduates for its 13th annual Harvard Womens Leadership Conference, to be held Sept. 4-9, 2000. The weeklong conference brings…
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Newsmakers
Stanbridge is Architect of Distinction at GSD Harvard Graduate School of Design student Paul Stanbridge 00 has received both the Autodesk Architect of Distinction Award and the ALEX Award for…
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Scientists Probe Northern Hemisphere Ozone Loss — ‘Spy’ planes fly over Russia for the first time in 40 years
As you read this, frigid air spirals slowly downward from the stratosphere into the winter darkness of the arctic, part of a complex process destroying the ozone layer that shields…
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Police Log
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 19. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden…
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Priceline.com Founder To Speak at Business School
Jay Walker, founder and vice chairman of Priceline.com, will speak about “The Future of the Internet” on Thursday, March 2, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at Burden Auditorium on the…
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Notes
Cultural Rhythms Festival Feb. 26 The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural & Race Relations will present its annual Cultural Rhythms Festival on Saturday, Feb. 26, at 3 p.m. in Sanders Theatre…
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A Quarter Century of Pitching In for All-Female A Cappellas
The sweet rhythms of the Radcliffe Pitches will fill the air at the Sanders Theatre on Friday, Feb. 25, when Harvards oldest all-female a cappella group marks a major milestone…
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Community Leaders Trumpet the Rise of Social Enterprises
Approximately 100 student leaders in public service from Harvard, Wellesley, Columbia, the University of North Carolina, and several other universities gathered at the Kennedy School of Government last Saturday for…