Campus & Community
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A blueprint for better conversations
After months of listening and learning, open inquiry co-chairs detail working group’s recommendations
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Celebrating 25th anniversary of Radcliffe Institute
Three Harvard presidents, two Nobel laureates gather to mark ‘unique legacy and remarkable impact’
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Scruggs describes ‘super surreal moment’ when she made Olympics history
Harvard fencer reflects on path to silver and gold — including facing a childhood idol — and what keeps her balanced, focused
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Why are you so offended?
It’s about status, not hurt feelings, philosopher argues
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Goodheart to step down as University secretary in May
Will continue to advise Garber and other campus leaders
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A snapshot of belonging at Harvard
University launches Pulse survey
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Notes
Summer School musical opportunities The Harvard Summer School Orchestra will hold auditions for full brass, including both cornets and trumpets, harp, English horn, and piccolo on Tuesday, June 27, through…
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Transforming Boyz II Men
Presiding over the classroom, Kevin Fuller, Ed.M. 00, looks like a missionary a free-spirited, high-stye preacher, dressed in a long, raspberry, collarless jacket, pressed black dress shirt and pants,…
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Volunteers honored for work in Cambridge schools
Cambridge School Volunteers, Inc., recently presented the 1999-00 Mack Davis Award to eight volunteers for their outstanding service to Cambridge public schools. The award is named for the late Mack…
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At 80, Radcliffe graduate comes back for diploma
Her memories are faded by the years, but also sweetened, perhaps, by the romanticism of times gone by. It was the fall of 1943, in the midst of World War…
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Memorial gathering for Vosgerchian
A memorial gathering with music in remembrance of Luise Vosgerchian will take place on Sept. 7, 2000, at 7:30 p.m., in Sanders Theatre. There will be a special performance by…
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The whys and woes of beauty pageants
They wore the latest colors of lipstick and matching eyeliner. Some had fake hair and even fake teeth. They pranced on stage in sequined gowns and rhinestone-studded jeans. Occasionally there…
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Tintinnabulation will reign over Cambridge
June 08, 2000 In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university and of our earlier history when bells of varying tones summoned us from…
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Graduates cross bridge to learning
Thirty-eight Harvard Faculty Club workers graduated from the University’s first “Bridge” program at ceremonies at the Faculty Club on June 4. The pilot program, which provides basic literacy and language…
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Law professor Clark Byse honored for 60 years of service
Harvard Law School Byrne Professor of Administrative Law Emeritus Clark Byse will receive the Harvard Law School Association (HLSA) Award in honor of his 60-year teaching career. Law School Dean…
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Harvard Employment Office hosting Career Forum on June 13
Harvard’s Employment Office, in consultation with a University-wide organizing committee, is hosting Career Forum 2000 on Tuesday, June 13. This year’s event will be held from noon to 7 p.m.…
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Class Day speakers touch all with spirit, humor
Like the enthusiastic reviewer of the proverbial blockbuster novel, audience members of Wednesdays Senior Class Day program might have come away exclaiming, “I laughed, I cried.” From Jason Stevensons exhortation…
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Late Night humor on Class Day
It was almost as if someone dropped laughing gas on Harvard Yard. Following a series of emotional and inspiring student speakers on Class Day, Conan OBrien 85, a two-time president…
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Printers get ready by degrees
It is 11 on a balmy spring night. Kathy Pendrak and Brenda Waldron, prepress operators at Harvard Printing and Publications Services (HPPS), sit at computer terminals massaging mountains of data.…
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Divinity School presents three with annual awards
Harvard Divinity School has announced three recipients of the awards that are presented each June on its Alumni/ae Day. This year, on June 7, the First Decade Award was given…
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Harvard Senior Sounds Out Future With Rare Combined Degree
A certain chord will strike a certain reaction in certain people. The dynamic underlying that reaction is something Aaron Einbond may spend the rest of his life pursuing. The Crestwood,…
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Profile in courage (and loyalty)
It is indicative of Brooke Ellisons perspective on life that when she talks about the worst thing that ever happened to her, she emphasizes what went right rather than what…
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Edington named first Epps Fellow and Chaplain to Harvard College
The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in The Memorial Church, has announced the appointment of The Reverend Mark D. W. Edington as…
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Faculty fellows in ethics named
The Center for Ethics and the Professions has selected the Faculty Fellows in Ethics for the 2000-01 academic year. Six scholars who study ethical problems in government, law, medicine, and…
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Group looking for a few good fellows
Harvard graduate students who are writing dissertations or engaged in major research on topics in practical ethics are invited to apply for 2001-02 Graduate Fellowships in Ethics. The deadline is…
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Extension School names winners of student prizes, faculty awards
This year, the Extension Schools Commencement Speaker award will go to Kimberly Parke, A.L.M. 00, assistant director for undergraduate degree programs at Harvard Extension School. The title of her talk…
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Gagnon elected president of Board of Overseers
Sharon Elliott Gagnon, A.M. ’65, Ph.D. ’72, has been elected President of the University’s Board of Overseers for 2000-01. She will assume the post after Commencement, succeeding Joan Hutchins ’61.…
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Grad Grozier motors toward career in journalism
It should be quite a scene next week in the small bayou town of Pass Christian, Miss., when Ted Grozier arrives.
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Three honored with GSAS Centennial Medals
A medical educator, a philosopher, and an historian received Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Centennial Medals at a ceremony on Wednesday, June 7, at the Faculty Club. The…
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Business School breaks ground for Hawes Hall
The Business School (HBS) held a groundbreaking ceremony on June 1 for Hawes Hall. Hawes Hall will provide the Business School with a critical resource to continue its core mission…
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Newsman Kellogg’s beat is the African continent
When Harvard senior Alex Kellogg finished his semester abroad in the spring of 1998, he went to the Nairobi airport with the rest of his class. But while they were…
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Lumry Gift Sparks New Investments in Information Technology
The University will make significant new investments in the field of information technology, especially as it relates to the Internet and entrepreneurial studies. Income from a recent $7 million gift…
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Honoring history
Destroyed by fire in 1956, and restored to its original design in 1999, the spire on top of Memorial Hall was rededicated at a ceremony on May 11. Cambridge Historical…
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Newsmakers
Glazer honored by CCNY Nathan Glazer, professor of education and social structure emeritus, was awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the City College of New York (CCNY), one…
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Notes
Glazer honored by CCNY Nathan Glazer, professor of education and social structure emeritus, was awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the City College of New York (CCNY), one…
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Dont Look Back — Senior Filmmaker Randy Bell Has Much to Look Forward to
In Randy Bell’s ’00 Eliot House dorm room (above), the young filmmaker stands in front of a dartboard, which seems dangerously close to Bob Dylan, the subject of Rice and…