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August 19, 1999Wasserstein Public Interest Fellows Appointed To Advise HLS StudentsTen public interest lawyers have been named Wasserstein Public Interest Fellows at the Law School (HLS). Harvard Happenings This summer Harvard is buzzing -- with celebration, renovation, education, and, of course, baseball. Harvard Names Satinder Bajwa Men’s and Women’s Squash Coach Bajwa is an American citizen born in India and schooled in the United Kingdom. From 1982 to 1985, he played on the World Professional Squash Association (WPSA) tour, which is now known as the Professional Squash Association. During that time, Bajwa reached a professional ranking as high as 32. Environmental Law Addresses Romanian Challenges A piece of landmark legislation that puts environmental protection on a sound financial basis was passed this June by the parliament of Romania. Obituaries Gates, Former Professor of Pathology, Dies at 98 Bate, Professor of English, dies at 81 Walter Jackson Bate, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Emeritus and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, died July 26 of cardiac arrest at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He was 81. Moriarty Named Ass't Provost for Info. Tech., Chief Information Officer for University Daniel Moriarty has been named assistant provost for information technology and chief information officer (CIO) for the University. Moriarty is currently dean for information technology at the Medical School. He will assume his new post Sept. 1. Scientists Shed Light on Fatal Skin Tumors Researchers have discovered how to choke off the survival of melanoma tumors, the deadliest form of skin cancer. The experiments were done in mice, but the animals carried a human gene, mutations of which cause a malignancy that is the top cancer killer of white women between 25 and 30 years old. Magical Stones and Imperial Bones In 1898, Dr. H.H. Horne, a practitioner of the recently invented art of X-ray photography, brought his equipment to the winter palace in St. Petersburg at the request of Czar Nicholas II. Summer Camp Raises Crop of Future Einsteins A new collaboration between the Medical School and the Boston Public Schools aims to encourage minority students to pursue careers in science. The Summer Math and Science Mentoring Program gives middle school students a chance to do hands-on science, to look at the many career opportunities available, and to gain a head start on academic preparation. Daniel H.H. Ingalls, Sanskrit Scholar, Dies at 83 Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls Sr., the Wales Professor of Sanskrit Emeritus and former chairman of the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, died of heart failure July 17 at Bath Community County Hospital in Virginia. He was 83 and a resident of Hot Springs. J. Bryan Hehir To Assume Leadership Of Divinity School Following a nationwide search that began in January, President Neil L. Rudenstine announced that he is appointing Father J. Bryan Hehir to lead the Divinity School. Hehir will serve as chair of an Executive Committee consisting of himself and other senior administrators. Harshbarger Named Visiting Professor at Law School Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger has been appointed Visiting Professor of Law from Practice at the Law School for the fall semester. Global Warming Is Hazardous to Your Health Heat waves and droughts, floods and mosquitoes, warmer winters and more bugs; they all tell the same story. Earth is heating up, bad weather is increasing and so are infectious diseases. Old World Views of The New If you’ve ever been in a situation where you cannot figure out how to operate the faucet in the shower or need help opening a door because you are not used to the handles, then you know a little bit about what the first days of the summer were like for international students. El Niño Found To Be 124,000 Years Old El Niño, the enfant terrible of weather, was causing droughts and floods as long ago as 124,000 years, Harvard researchers have discovered. Loeb Music Library Lands Scholar of Note Virginia Danielson has performed on the piano, she’s taught madrigals to junior high school boys, and spent years working at Harvard’s music libraries. Summer River Through the summer’s bright, steamy days, a cool ribbon of water calls to nearby Harvard, drawing people from blazing concrete sidewalks and the steaming asphalt streets. Bach Again The musical estate of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, second son of Johann Sebastian Bach, has been rediscovered in Kiev, Ukraine, by scholars from Harvard and the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Keep Your Eyes on the Skies The telescope was ready, the observatory's dome was open, but the sky was closed for business on top of the Science Center one recent Thursday.
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