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William Lambert Moran, esteemed Assyriologist and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities Emeritus, died on Dec. 19, 2000. He was 79.

Six finalists have been named for the Goldsmith Prize for investigative reporting. The winner will be announced at the Goldsmith Prize Awards Ceremony on March 15 at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The annual award of $25,000 recognizes superb investigative reporting that, according to the Prizes charter, discloses excessive secrecy, impropriety, mismanagement or…

Willard Van Orman Quine, one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, died on Christmas Day at the age of 92.

Thomas Kennedy, long a renowned professor and authority on labor relations at Harvard Business School (HBS) as well as a highly respected arbitrator in disputes between unions and management, died on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2000, at a retirement community in Kennett Square, Pa. He was 88 years old.

Harvard students and officials joined representatives of the University Lutheran Church, the city of Cambridge, and a community development organization at a ceremony in the church basement on Wednesday, Jan. 10, to mark the end of renovations to the student-run homeless shelter there.

Alexandra Adler, authority on schizophrenia, pioneer in the study of post-traumatic stress disorder, and one of the first women neurologists at Harvard, died in New York City on Jan. 4. She was 99.

On Jan. 16, University Hall re-opened for business after extensive renovations that began last June. Its occupants, returning from temporary offices at 1033 Massachusetts Ave. and the Engineering Science Lab on Oxford Street, include Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Jeremy R. Knowles, College Dean Harry Lewis, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts…

While a record 6,095 students applied for admission to the Class of 2005 under the Colleges Early Action program this year, applications rose only 1.2 percent compared with last years increase of more than 30 percent. The number of students admitted declined for the second year in a row to 1,105, down from 1,135 last…

When curator Joe Hickey found the original 1909 architectural plans for the Harvard Lampoon building where he works he rolled up his sleeves and got down to business.

Classical concert on Jan 28 is free for students

Bebchuk named AAAS Fellow

From an early age, Wai-yee Li has been a frequent visitor to the world of the imagination, at times preferring it to the world of the here and now.

Cambridge School Volunteers Inc. (CSV), is a private, nonprofit organization that recruits, trains, places, and provides support services for volunteers in kindergarten through grade 12 in the Cambridge Public School system. CSV needs people of all ages and backgrounds to serve as tutors, classroom aides, and library assistants.

On Monday, Jan. 8, at approximately 2:19 p.m., the victim of an indecent assault and battery incident came to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) headquarters to report that she had just been attacked while walking along Berkeley Street near Phillips Street in Cambridge. The suspect approached the victim from behind and grabbed her in…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 13. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

January 1659 – President Charles Chauncy describes a recent “great disorder at Cambridge” involving nighttime fighting “betweene the schollars and some of the toune.” Cambridge and Harvard thus chalk up…

At its eighth meeting of the year the Council heard a report from Paul Bergen, the Facultys Instructional Computing Group Manager, on the development of instructional computing in the Faculty. Dean Paul Martin, chair of the Standing Committee on Information Technology, and Frank Steen, director of Computer Services, were present for this discussion.

Gennadii Boriak of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences presented a guide to the Central State Archive of Public Organizations of Ukraine to Harvard University in December. Sidney Verba (above), director…

A number of questions have been asked in recent days about the University’s position and my own views on diversity. I thought a brief statement might be helpful in this regard.