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Lord Byron in America
The English poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), was a great fan of the United States. A lifelong admirer of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, he once said that he envied the explorers Lewis and Clark and wished that he could see American Indians.
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Science has its day in D.C.
Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers led a contingent of University faculty and officials to Washington, D.C., July 11 and 12 for a day-and-a-half effort to call attention to the importance of federal funding for basic scientific research.
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ELP is accepting fellowship applicants
The Environmental Leadership Program (ELP), a nonprofit organization that seeks to transform public understanding of environmental issues by training and supporting visionary, action-oriented leaders, is accepting applications for the ELP Fellowship Class of 2002-04. The program provides training and project support to 25 talented individuals each year from nonprofits, business, government, and higher education.
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Carrasco to join Divinity School
Davíd Carrasco will join the Faculty of Divinity in September as the inaugural Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America. Carrasco, who has been professor of the…
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National Order of Benin honors Gates with degree
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, was made commander of the National Order of Benin by the president of Benin, Mathieu Kerekou, in a June ceremony in Cotonou. President Kerekou also conferred honorary citizenship upon Gates. These honors recognized his work in editing the Encarta Africana CD-ROM and The…
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Undergrad discovers novel atomic cluster
This September, Kevin Chan 04 will have an interesting answer to the essay question, What did you do on your summer vacation? While working on a summer project at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), 18-year-old Chan used one of the centers supercomputers to discover a novel arrangement of atoms that had been missed by…
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Nafha Salman, food cart operator
Nafha – its you! exclaims Ali Bustamante, a Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School senior who is also, this summer, a photography intern at the News Office.
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Newsmakers
Fun works at HUDS Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS), the nation’s oldest collegiate food-service operation, is featured in best-selling author Leslie Yerkes’ latest book, “Fun Works.” In the book and…
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Police Reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for July 16 through Aug. 11. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…
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In Memoriam
Burns, served Harvard for 43 years, dies at 79 Robert Burns, retired Harvard parking director, died July 30 in Boston. He was 79. Burns began his career at the University…
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This month in Harvard history
Aug. 11, 1637 – John Harvard formally becomes a “Townsman” of Charlestown. He and his wife are given land on Gravel Lane. The town contains about 150 houses. August 1819…
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‘Lost Boys’ find their way to Harvard
Fata Nhail reaches up and hooks his fingers around a water pipe near the ceiling of the basement room in Grays Hall, one of those being used for evening classes by the Refugee Youth Summer Enrichment Program (RYSE).
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Why antimatter matters so much
In 1995, experimenters made nine or 10 atoms of antihydrogen at the Center for European Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. Since then, researchers have sought a method for making more…
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Harvard undergraduate discovers novel atomic cluster
Eighteen-year-old Kevin Chan, a member of the Harvard College Class of 2004, used a supercomputer to discover a novel arrangement of atoms that had been missed by other scientists studying…
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Study suggests pacemaker and defibrillator recalls on the rise
As more heart patients receive pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) generators, more recalls are being issued for the devices, according to a study led by a Harvard Medical School instructor…
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Snack foods may increase risk of age-related sight loss
Macular degeneration results from the malfunctioning or loss of function of photo-sensitive cells in the retina. According to the Macular Degeneration Foundation, more than 13 million people in the United…
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Time Magazine names four Harvard scientists among “America’s Best”
Four from Harvard are included in Time magazine’s select list of America’s Best in science and medicine.
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Will vaccine defense help polish off tooth decay?
The key to preventing cavities in teeth lies in controlling an acid-secreting bacterium known as Streptococcus mutans that lives in the mouth. Researchers at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine…
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Walking rhythm offers gait-way to reduce falls
Over the past 10 years, Jeffrey Hausdorff has studied thousands of steps from hundreds of feet. The Harvard Medical School assistant professor says that complex patterns hidden in an ordinary…
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Inflammatory villain turns do-gooder
Many drugs try to tame inflammation by inhibiting molecular events occurring at the beginning of the body’s own immune response. But that may thwart the body’s attempt to heal. A…
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Amniotic cells may be source of new tissue
Babies born with congenital defects often require surgery. Surgeons face a problem, however — in adults, tissue for repair is borrowed from other areas of the body, but babies don’t…
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Study examines hazardous seating of children in fatal motor vehicle crashes
A recent study by Harvard School of Public Health scientists examined how often adults placed children in the rear of vehicles, and what factors affected that placement. The study, led…
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Diet and exercise dramatically delay type 2 diabetes
Diabetes afflicts more than 16 million people in the United States; type 2 diabetes accounts for up to 95 percent of all diabetes cases. New findings from the Diabetes Prevention…
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In Dayton, parents’ satisfaction increased by moving children to private schools
Parents in Dayton, Ohio, reported increased satisfaction after they moved their children to private schools. A private scholarship program sponsored by Parents Advancing Choice in Education (PACE), a non-profit organization in Dayton, helps low-income families afford private education.
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Are you an ‘early bird’ or a ‘night owl’?
Harvard researchers working at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have found that whether someone is a morning person or an evening person depends on a basic aspect of the circadian timing…
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Study finds parents of chronically ill children avoid switching to HMOs
The incentive to switch health plans is usually a lower cost to the patient. So if parents of chronically ill children want to retain their old health plans instead of…
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Some video games contain more violence than parents expect
If a video game is rated “E” for “suitable for everyone,” that is supposed to be a signal to parents that the game is acceptable for their children. But a…
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New way to “see” DNA
Extraordinarily tiny holes are behind a whole new way to make structures only a few dozen atoms in size.
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Stellar apocalypse yields first evidence of water-bearing worlds beyond our solar system
The first evidence that planetary systems beyond our own contain water, a molecule that is an essential ingredient for known forms of life, was discovered recently by using the Submillimeter…
