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Scientists know that stem cells from embryos have the potential to develop into brain, bone, or any other type cell, but getting them to actually do this in a laboratory is a different thing. Now, for the first time, researchers have crossed this bridge by coaxing uncommitted stem cells to grow into sperm cells in…

They packed Ticknor Lecture Room in Boylston Hall, some wearing pajamas, some snuggling beneath blankets. They drank warm milk and ate cookies. They listened to soothing music.

Harvards Community Gifts Campaign is a way for Harvard employees to help the city of Boston meet a critical need for food donations.

An aerial view of Eliot Tower as seen from Lowell House. The Yard and its environs look all spiffed up by the regions first snow, a mighty storm that hit the East Coast well in advance of the official beginning of winter.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Dec. 6. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

The 2003 Annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a subcommittee of the President and Fellows, is now available upon request from the Office for the Committees on Shareholder Responsibility. Please call (617) 495-0985 to request copies.

Capping his first-ever visit to the United States with a talk at Harvard University yesterday (Dec. 10), Wen Jiabao, premier of the Peoples Republic of China, drew upon Chinas rich cultural past and current atmosphere of openness to predict a bright future of development, economic wealth, and democracy.

Faculty task forces with representation from across the University will help shape the next phase of planning for a future campus in Allston. The four task forces are charged with discussing, and ultimately sharpening, the preliminary academic framework outlined in President Lawrence H. Summers October letter to the Harvard community.

The following Harvard seniors were elected to Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, the Harvard College Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK). The students, listed below with their Houses and concentrations, were elected in November.

Dec. 1, AIDS Awareness Day, is commemorated on the Science Center lawn with rows of red ribbons. (Staff photo Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office)

For six hours on Sunday (Nov. 23), approximately 60 faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates shared their thoughts about the ongoing review of the Harvard College curriculum.

In the Boston area, the average commuter will spend 58 maddening hours this year stuck in traffic. Even NPR isnt that good.

Professor of Chinese Literature Wilt Idema, director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, has announced the centers fellows and visiting scholars who are spending the 2003-04 academic year at Harvard. Each of these scholars specializes in some aspect of China, Idema said, and each is contributing new insights to their field of inquiry.…

You wont find brooms like these at Home Depot. Made to order in the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) scene shop, they feature Plexiglas handles and fiber-optic bristles whose tips are bobbing pinpoints of white light.

Gore Vidal, the outspoken and prolific writer of novels, essays, screenplays, and history, visited the Graduate School of Educations Askwith Forum on Nov. 20, ostensibly to promote his new book Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson.

A certain slant of November afternoon light haunts a stairway in Paine Hall. (Staff photo Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office)

Its like some brain-teasing riddle – How can a baby have five parents, none of whom are recognized by law?

Nov. 20 was a good day in South Africa, according to U.S. Ambassador to South Africa Cameron Hume.

Twice this year, delegations representing the Dalai Lama have gone to Beijing to hold talks with officials of the Chinese government. Many have interpreted these discussions as a sign that tensions between Beijing and the Tibetan religious leader are easing, and that the next step may be a visit to China by the Dalai Lama…

Joan Larrabee, instructor in medicine at Joslin Diabetes Center, hopes to discover whether there is a distinct subtype of neuropathy in patients with diabetes.