Campus & Community
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FAS creates new professorships in civil discourse and AI
Gift from business leader Alfred Lin ’94 and artist Rebecca Lin ’94, part of record 30th reunion giving, builds on critical new efforts on dialogue and generative AI
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Significant decline in sexual misconduct at Harvard, survey finds
Most students are aware of reporting mechanisms and support services, but many do not use them
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Ukraine’s first lady shares history with Harvard
Olena Zelenska presents Harvard Library with books, shows appreciation for its contribution to Ukrainian studies
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Seeing them as current events and not really new
Jill Lepore, Maya Jasanoff, Kirsten Weld launch course that views present as wholly connected to the past
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University cites careful planning, stewardship for solid financial position, endowment performance
Finance leaders note investments in key academic, community priorities
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Daniel Albright, 69
Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Art Museums Celebrate a Decade of Collecting
Beginning in March, the Harvard University Art Museums will present the first in a series of exhibitions showcasing a decade of additions to their collections. More than 475 works will…
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Design Students Envision Future in Middle East Border Cities
Mention the word “studio,” and one generally thinks of an artists garret, preferably one with northern light. At the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), however, a studio has no…
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Crystal Sparkles
When the quintessential master of ceremonies took the stage to accept the Pudding Pot at the Hasty Pudding Theatre on Thursday night, he got exactly what he bargained for. Six-time…
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Harvard Hosts Sixth National Girls and Women in Sports Day
Young athletes from all over Boston converged on Harvard on a chilly Saturday in February. They took instruction from Harvard coaches and student-athletes. They labored and sweated, pushing themselves to…
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SPH Researchers Teach Russians ‘Germ Warfare’
In the summer of 1993, an outbreak of a waterborne disease in Milwaukee killed more than 100 people and sickened 400,000 others. The crisis could have been ripped from the…
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Education Students To Present Research on Range of Topics at Conference
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) will hold its fifth annual Student Research Conference and International Forum on Feb. 25, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Gutman…
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Living Longer Presents Housing Challenges, According to New Report
A growing population of seniors living longer, healthier lives will present new challenges and opportunities to the housing market, states a new report by Harvards Joint Center for Housing Studies.…
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Migration Washes Over Ambivalent America
Make up your mind, America. Thats the message of Kennedy School of Government economist George Borjas, a specialist in immigration who believes the United States is of two minds about…
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Helping Refugees of Gender-Based Persecution
She was pistol-whipped, raped, beaten unconscious, and kicked until she bled. He used her head to break windows. He threatened her with a machete. When she pleaded with local authorities…
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Rockefeller Center Conference Focuses on Latino Immigration
Americas Latino population is more than 30 million and growing. Yet, as the nation absorbs one of the largest waves of immigration in its history, knowledge about the Latino population…
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Suarez-Orozcos Focus on the Youngest Immigrants
Most Americans think that we are “Garbage” was the response of a 14-year-old Dominican boy when asked to complete a survey sentence by Harvard immigration experts Marcelo and Carola Suarez-Orozco.…
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Waters Brings the ‘Invisible Immigrants’ to Light
A young woman from the West Indies one of hundreds of people Mary Waters interviewed for her new book on West Indian immigration told Waters that she had…
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Women’s Leadership Conference Now Accepting Applications
The Womens Leadership Project (WLP) is currently accepting applications from Harvard undergraduates for its 13th annual Harvard Womens Leadership Conference, to be held Sept. 4-9, 2000. The weeklong conference brings…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 Harvards oldest all-female a cappella group marks a major milestone…
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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…
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Study: Most Still Undecided On Presidential Candidate
The front-runner in this years presidential campaign is no one at all, says a new survey conducted by the Kennedy School of Governments Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and…
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Kennedy School Executive Dean Burke Accepts Post at Smithsonian Institution
Sheila Burke, executive dean of Harvards 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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Making the World Feel at Home
In 1979, Harvards 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…
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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…
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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 Harvards National Model…
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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…