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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Scott M. Black Professorship Established at Kennedy School
The Kennedy School of Government has established a new chair in government, the Scott M. Black Professorship of Government. The chair, made possible by a gift from Scott M. Black…
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First Report in a Decade Quantifies Healthcare for U.S. Children
Taking a comprehensive look at healthcare delivery to children for the first time in more than a decade, a report by the Harvard School of Public Healths Center for Children’s…
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Harvard College Names Donahue As New Financial Aid Director
Sarah Clark Donahue has been appointed director of financial aid for Harvard College. Donahue served for over a decade as director of financial aid at Harvard Law School, where she…
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Notes
Lottery to be held for Harvard Conference on Internet & Society Registration Spaces The Third International Harvard Conference on Internet & Society, to be held May 31-June 2, 2000, will…
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Intensely Technical — Ariel Pakes Has Followed His Head and Heart to Prominence in Economics
After three months writing a novel on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Ariel Pakes learned he had a scholarship to Harvard to do graduate work in economics. An aspiring journalist…
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Phillips Brooks House Celebrates 100th Anniversary
100 Years of Encouraging and Supporting Volunteerism 1917 1922 1940’s 1958 Its elegant meeting rooms have seen the likes of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lani Guinier, and ACLU founder Roger Baldwin.…
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Harvard Workers Respond As a Team to Peabody Terrace Emergency
Cambridge Emergency Management Director David OConnor was on the scene as an underground electrical fire forced hundreds of Harvard graduate students and their families to evacuate from Peabody Terrace on…
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Police Log
The following are some of the incidents reported to the HUPD for the week ending Jan. 22. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Jan. 16:…
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Modus Operandi of Polio Virus Revealed
The first images of a polio virus as it infects a human cell have been captured by researchers at Harvard Medical School. The paralyzing disease has been eradicated from Western…
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Men’s Squash co-captain Wyant ’00 Has a Sense of History
When men’s squash co-captain, senior Tim Wyant, speaks of being a part of the Harvard program, his pride is evident. Thirty-one national team championships. Twenty-four Potter Trophies. Thirty-three Ivy League…
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‘Voices of Public Intellectuals’ Lecture Series Kicks Off
Following a successful run last fall, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will again host its “Voices of Public Intellectuals” lecture series this spring with a focus on “Feminisms and…
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Kokkalis Program Offers Travel Grants, Seeks Scholars
The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe will award travel grants to students seeking to work or pursue research in the region of its focus during the summer of…
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Artist To Discuss His Work at Free Illustrated Lecture
Painter, sculptor and printmaker Oliver Jackson will discuss his work and career in an illustrated lecture at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 22, at the Sackler lecture hall, Arthur M.…
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Campaign Raises Record $2.6 Billion For Teaching, Research
In a letter being sent this week to all contributors to Harvards University Campaign, which ended on December 31, President Neil L. Rudenstine thanked them for advancing the Universitys teaching…
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Christopher Named Director Of KSG’s Innovations Program
Gail C. Christopher, director of the Alliance for Redesigning Government and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, has been named executive director of the Innovations in American…
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Faculty Council Notice
January 27, 2000 At its eighth meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed the recent Report of the Provosts Committee on Student Mental Health Services. Members of the Committee…
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Prize Allows FAS Administrators To Recharge Batteries
Susan Vacca calls it her “odyssey.” In July of 1998, Vacca, associate director and librarian in the Office of Career Services, flew from Boston to Genoa, Italy; from Genoa to…
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Faculty Task Force Recommendation To Close HIID Approved
Harvard Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has accepted the recommendation of a faculty task force to close the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) after integrating some of its programs and…
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin Named Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow
Tomiko Brown-Nagin has been appointed a Harvard Law School Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow. The Houston Fellowship was established in 1992 by Dean Robert Clark to promote new channels of entry…
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Harvard Planning and Real Estate Proposes Increase for 2000-2001
Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE) has proposed a 2.5 percent rent increase for current affiliated housing residents who live in the approximately 2,300 Harvard Affiliated Housing apartments. The proposed…
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Children Treated for Lead Poisoning
The man brought his 9-year-old son into the makeshift clinic to test the boys brain. There was no point in doing even the simplest test, the nurse noted. The boy…
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Hidden Tolls of Intimate Partner Violence Brought to Light
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person,” and that “no one shall be subjected to torture, inhuman, or…
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Hospitals Could Dramatically Cut Mistakes
One out of every 25 hospital patients suffers complications related not to illness, but to treatment. And more than any other single cause, that treatment involves drugs. A study by…
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Three Students To Study in Ireland As Mitchell Scholars
Three Harvard students two undergraduates and a Medical School student will be studying in Ireland for a year as part of the inaugural cohort of George J. Mitchell…
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Newsmakers
Gingerich wins LeRoy Doggett Prize in Astronomy Owen Gingerich, professor of astronomy and the history of science, received the LeRoy E. Doggett Prize from the Historical Astronomy Division of the…
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A Letter from President Rudenstine
January 21, 2000 Dear Alumni, Alumnae, and Friends, I write with a simple purpose: to thank you, on behalf of the entire Harvard community, for taking part in the most…
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Phillips Brooks House To Celebrate Centennial
The Phillips Brooks House Association Inc. (PBHA), the oldest and largest volunteer public service organization at Harvard College, is rededicating its home, the historic Phillips Brooks House, on the centennial…
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2000-01 Fellowships at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced the following opportunities for fellowships during the 2000-01 academic year: Graduate Student Associate Positions The Graduate Student Associate Program provides a supportive…
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Young Scholars Find Challenges, Acceptance at Extension School
Extension School students David Colt and Amos Lichtman strolled into Sever Hall on their way to their College Algebra class. A little early, they plunked themselves down on the wooden…
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Healthy Lifestyles, Regular Screenings Would Cut U.S. Colon Cancer Morbidity in Half
The bad news: colon cancer is a killer. The disease is responsible for approximately 48,000 deaths in the United States each year, making it the second leading cause of cancer death in the country.