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Campus & Community
Over in overtime
Cornell’s Adam Skumawitz took a pass from teammate Colin Nevison and fired it past Harvard keeper, junior Dan Mejias, with just under six minutes remaining in the second overtime to…
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Campus & Community
Leadership Forum examines health disparities
“When you hear that there is a disparity between minorities and the rest of the population, believe it,” says John Ruffin, the first associate director of research on minority health,…
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council Notice
At its third meeting of the year, the Faculty Council reviewed with Administrative Dean of the Faculty Nancy L. Maull all of the faculty’s current building projects and plans. Associate…
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Campus & Community
Ig Nobel winners
The Biology Prize, awarded for a report “On the Palatability of Some Dry-Season Tadpoles From Costa Rica.” Winner Richard Wassersug of Dalhousie University clarified that while the tadpoles were eaten…
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Campus & Community
Ig Nobels flush out the world’s top brains :Bad science gets good reputation at 10th annual prize ceremony
While more informed minds awaited this week’s Nobel Prize awards, the Sanders Theatre crowd cheered the Tenth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, honoring “achievements that cannot, or should not,…
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Campus & Community
Arts-to-smarts link overblown: Researchers sing a new tune for the Mozart effect
Listening to Mozart won’t raise a child’s IQ, but music classes could help her or him to understand directions and diagrams. For enhancing a student’s ability to speak, read, and…
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Campus & Community
Student’s legacy is tool from which others learn
A memorial service will be held this coming Saturday (Oct. 14) for a Harvard graduate student who found an opportunity to serve others under the most challenging of personal circumstances.…
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Campus & Community
Belfer Center associate holds ground in genocide debate
It was labeled “the greatest, most pathetic, and most arbitrary tragedy in history” in a statement published in the New York Times on Nov. 1, 1915. The American Committee on…
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Health
Arts-to-smarts link overblown, researchers say
“Arts advocates need to stop making sweeping claims about the arts as a magic pill for turning students around academically,” says Lois Hetland, project manager of the largest, most comprehensive…
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Science & Tech
Business professor works to unlock the mysteries of television viewing habits
Media consultants have spent years studying what convinces viewers to watch certain programs. While there are no purely empirical answers why certain programs are more popular than others, a new…
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Health
Researchers identify genes that control development of fat tissues
Until now, no one knew the specific trigger that controls the extent to which cells called preadipocytes turn into fat cells. Harvard researchers have identified the genes GATA-2 and GATA-3…
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Health
Shorter treatment as effective, less costly in preventing HIV in babies
Of the more than 1,500 infants who get HIV from their infected mothers every day, 95 percent live in developing countries where the poverty level is high. Many mothers in…
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Campus & Community
JFK’s Carr Center names 2000-01 fellows
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) announced the 2000-01 Carr Center visiting faculty and fellows. The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy…
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Campus & Community
20/20/2000 helps Cambridge purchase apartment units
Celebrating the acquisition of a stately 1920’s-era apartment building using funds from Harvard’s 20/20/2000 initiative, Cambridge City officials hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday at the site of its latest…
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Campus & Community
Art Museums make Cambridge residents welcome
James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, and Susan Flannery, director of the Cambridge Public Library (CPL), recently agreed to forge “a…
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Campus & Community
Armini gets new post at HLS
Michael Armini has been appointed director of communications at Harvard Law School, a newly created position designed to support the Law School’s current strategic planning initiative. Armini served most recently…
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Campus & Community
Alumni Association recognizes 6: Awards given for outstanding volunteer service
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards were established in 1990 to recognize alumni who provide outstanding volunteer service to Harvard through alumni activities. This year’s recipients will be honored on…
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Campus & Community
Working their way to top
Rising to 265 feet, the church has the honor of being the tallest in New England. Its height includes the metal spire, culminating in a weather vane in the form…
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Campus & Community
Wasserstein fellows named at Law School
Eight visting Wasserstein Fellows and one fellow-in-residence have been named at Harvard Law School. The program brings outstanding public interest attorneys from across the country to campus for one or…
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Campus & Community
Students give Gore the edge in debate
More than 300 students and community members attended a big-screen showing of the presidential debate Tuesday night at the ARCO Forum at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Although…
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Campus & Community
‘Of Reflections and Ceremonies: Meeting With a Mazatec Shaman’
The Rockefeller Center exhibit “Of Reflections and Ceremonies: Meeting With a Mazatec Shaman” features a collection of photographs by Montreal-based artist Dominique Pepin that is the result of three years…
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Campus & Community
Police Log
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Sept. 30. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…
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Campus & Community
Notes
George Buckley to deliver coral reef lecture The Harvard Extension Alumni Association is sponsoring a lecture on coral reef ecology by underwater photographer, biologist, and Extension School lecturer George Buckley…
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Campus & Community
It’s Harvard vs. Cornell this weekend
It’s only early October, but we have what must be considered a key Ivy League showdown as Harvard hosts Cornell Saturday, Oct. 7, with first place on the line. The…
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Campus & Community
Redesign is approved for the Center for Government and International Studies
On Sept. 18, the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Commission approved the redesign of Harvard’s new Center for Government and International Studies. Project architect Henry N. Cobb ’47, MAR ’49 created…
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Campus & Community
Belfer Center announces 2000-01 fellows
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is the hub of research, teaching, and training in international security affairs; environmental and…
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Campus & Community
At Law School, Ralph Nader gets a chance to speak his mind… and more
Introduced by economist and Women’s Studies director Juliet Schor, Nader strode to the podium amid thunderous applause from the largely student audience, their enthusiasm stirred perhaps by the knowledge that…
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe alums sponsor Women on Web conference
Recent statistics reveal that more women than men use the Internet. At a time when the exploding Web culture is changing the face of society, this datum is significant. Some…
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Campus & Community
Feature photo
Dave Rennard ’03 looks comfortable enough on the floor of the Science Center as he finishes up some homework prior to class. Staff photo by Justin Ide
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Campus & Community
Committee on Honorary Degrees to meet
The Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees will be meeting during the fall and spring to consider nominees for honorary degrees in 2002. Members of the Harvard community are invited to…