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George Lauder hits a few keys on his laptop, and a moving image appears on the screen. “That’s the fish’s pectoral fin,” he says, pointing to the grainy, black-and white-picture.…

At its 11th meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed the annual Affirmative Action Report with Professor Marjorie Garber, Associate Dean for Affirmative Action, and Elizabeth Doherty, Assistant Dean…

Professor Emeritus Bertrand Fox, an economist and investment banking expert who had a lasting impact on Harvard Business School as director of its Division of Research, died on March 14…

For about $20 you can determine your risk of a future heart attack, according to a new study from Harvard Medical School. The test measures levels of a protein that…

Harvard College has selected Sameera Fazili ’00 as the winner of the Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award. Also, Emmy Award-winning senior correspondent for ABC Carole Simpson, has been named the…

Jane Fountain, associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and member of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, has been appointed to a three-year term as a…

Hauser to speak on his books at M.I.T. Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser will give a talk about his two books, The Design of Animal Communications (M.I.T. Press, 2000)…

“Witchdoctors and Biotechnology” is the subject of the annual Lowell Lecture, which will be delivered this year by ethnobiologist Mark Plotkin. The talk will take place on Friday, April 7,…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 18. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden…

Although the 1999-2000 women’s hockey season came to a disappointing end when the Crimson was not chosen for the AWCHA National Championship Tournament, the year was filled with many high…

It was a crowded room, but the eyes of Ana Tavares and Fidencio Saldana did not meet across it. That is because Saldana is 6-foot-5 and Tavares is about a…

Environmental scholars at Harvard will soon have access to the personal papers of Maurice Strong, one of the central figures in international environmental politics for the past 30 years. Strong’s…

The hands of time will begin turning again today on Busch Hall. It has been more than four months since the circa 1930 tower clock was disassembled, removed, and then…

The Harvard Outward Bound Project and the Experiential Educators’ Network are planning a conference for those interested in learning more about experiential or experience-based education. The conference, called “The Common…

The class started off easily enough. Graduate School of Education Lecturer Meg Campbell said it was to be student-directed, following the principles of experience-based education. She had given the assignment…

The Harvard Law School Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) is providing free, confidential assistance in preparing state and federal tax returns to low-income, elderly, and handicapped residents of Boston,…

Facing a state court deadline last week to respond to the Attorney General’s lawsuit about Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s use of the Harvard name, the University has responded by requesting…

The Kennedy School of Government will participate via satellite in the global “Women.Future Conference” to be held on Wednesday, April 5, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The conference will…

Every Tuesday afternoon for the past eight weeks, kids in the Young Scientists’ Club turned the Harvard Museum of Natural History into their own research lab to learn about light.…

According to Joel Schwartz, associate professor of environmental health at the School of Public Health, “Air pollution kills about 70,000 Americans each year. That’s more people than die from breast…

College students are drinking more and college administrators are enjoying it less, according to a nationwide study of binge drinking. Approximately one in four (23 percent) of more than 14,000…

The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to journalists from Time Magazine by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy…

The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations is sponsoring the Seventh Annual Science Conference, titled “Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics” Friday and Saturday, March 17…

Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet Seamus Heaney will give the inaugural Stratis Haviaras Lecture, titled “Room to Rhyme,” in the Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland St., on Thursday, April 6,…

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