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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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 Harvard’s oldest all-female a cappella group marks a major milestone…

  • 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…

  • Study: Most Still Undecided On Presidential Candidate

    The front-runner in this year’s presidential campaign is no one at all, says a new survey conducted by the Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and…

  • Kennedy School Executive Dean Burke Accepts Post at Smithsonian Institution

    Sheila Burke, executive dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, has accepted a post as Undersecretary for American Museums, Programs and National Outreach at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.…

  • Queen For A Day

  • Harvard AIDS Institute Opens HIV Laboratory in Botswana

    A southern African nation that has been decimated by a quick-spreading subtype of the AIDS virus is now ground zero in the battle against it. Dedication ceremonies for the new…

  • Arts Event Set at HMS

    Black students at Harvard Medical School, in conjunction with the Office of Human Resources, Student Affairs, the Joint Committee on the Status of Women and other student groups, invite all…

  • Imagitas Fellowship Established at KSG

    The Newton-based company, Imagitas, has established a new summer fellowship program at the Kennedy School of Government. The program will pay a stipend of $7,000 each to ten to fifteen…

  • Making the World Feel at Home

    In 1979, Harvard’s 40 Iranian students underwent an overnight transformation. From being nationals of a “friendly” country, under the Shah, they became suddenly suspect when an Islamic fundamentalist regime swept…

  • Memorial Service Planned for Perry Townsend Rathbone

    A memorial service for Perry Townsend Rathbone ’33, will be held Friday, Feb. 25, at 4:00 pm in Memorial Church, the Reverend Peter Gomes presiding. Rathbone was the director of…

  • More Than 2,000 To Convene in Boston for Harvard Model United Nations Conference

    Hoping to foster international good will and peacekeeping, more than 2,000 college students from all over the world will gather in Boston this week to participate in Harvard’s National Model…

  • Newsmakers

    Rev. Gomes Delivers Sermon at University of Cambridge The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes delivered one of six formal “University Sermons” in the Church of St. Mary the Great at…

  • Spong To Give Noble Lectures At Memorial Church

    Harvard’s Memorial Church will host the 101st annual William Beldon Noble Lectures, which will be given by the Right Rev. John S. Spong, on March 6, 7, and 8 at…

  • Notes

    Journalist Helen Thomas to Speak at Law School The Harvard Law School Forum will present speaker Helen Thomas, “dean” of the White House Press Corps and UPI-Washington Bureau chief, on…

  • Police Log

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 12. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden…

  • From Our Hearts To Yours

    It¹s a yearly tradition for members of the Harvard Neighbors Quilting Group to make quilts for the children’s ward of Cambridge City Hospital and present them on Valentine’s Day.

  • What’s It Like To Be President of Harvard? Inquiring seventh-graders want to know

    At noon on a very wet Valentine’s Day, a lively group of seventh graders from the Grover Cleveland Middle School in Dorchester entered a lecture hall in Byerly Hall to…

  • Crimson Women Bring Home the Beanpot

    Harvard sophomore Jennifer Botterill’s overtime goal gave Harvard (15-4-3) a 4-3 win over Northeastern in the championship game of the 22nd-annual women’s Beanpot Tournament at the Bright Hockey Center. Botterill,…

  • Truckin’ Toward a Degree in Natural Sciences

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  • Sounding Your Os and Rs

    One of the grand mysteries of language concerns the nature of vowels and consonants. Are they really different entities processed separately by the brain, or just artificial labels developed for…

  • Artist Melanie Yazzie To Lecture at GSE

    The Harvard Native American Program and the Askwith Education Forum at the Graduate School of Education will present artist Melanie Yazzie in a lecture and slide show titled “Holding the…

  • Alleged Harvard Burglar Captured At UCLA, Returned to Cambridge

    A alleged campus thief and convicted trespasser was back in Cambridge District Court this week, after attempting to elude Harvard University Police by fleeing cross-country. Andre Stuckey was led off…

  • Faculty Council — Feb. 9

    At its ninth meeting of the year the Faculty Council received a report from Nancy Maull, Administrative Dean; David Zewinski, Associate Dean for Physical Resources and Planning; and Vincent Tompkins,…

  • Holdren Wins Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

    John P. Holdren, the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, has won the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for his work to…

  • Researchers Switch Cancer Off and On — In Mice

    Claudia Huettner can switch off deadly leukemia in mice simply by putting an antibiotic in their drinking water. Her system even causes regression of advanced stages of the cancer. When…