Year: 2001

Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers have discovered nearly all the genes responsible for vision, which could help in diagnosing and treating blinding diseases. Macular degeneration alone affects 25 percent of people over age 75. The discovery in mice of the full set of photoreceptor genes expressed in the retinal cells could also lead to new…

Susan L. Graham, a computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, will speak on Improving Software Productivity today (Nov. 29) at 4 p.m., as part of the Deans Lecture Series at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The talk will be held in the Robert and Naida Lessin Forum in the Maxwell Dworkin…

German President Johannes Rau (right) shakes hands with Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers during a visit by the German leader Nov. 15. Rau met with Summers after touring Harvard Yard with University Marshal Rick Hunt. Rau also visited the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, where he presented Abigail Collins, the centers associate director,…

n Nov. 1, 1924 – The Harvard-Boston (Egyptian) Expedition begins excavation of the royal cemetery of King Cheops (Khufu) near the Great Pyramid and soon identifies the tombs of Prince Kawaab (Cheopss eldest son), four other princes, Princess Meresankh II, and two pyramid priests.

SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE 12/3/01 They are the hard-boiled scribes, the muckrakers, the first on the scene, the late-night newsroom hounds who put a humanistic spin on the tragic. In…

The head of the Worcester biotech company that claims to have cloned the first human embryo ‘searched his soul’ before embarking on the research, he said during a lively discussion on the ethics of cloning and stem cell research Monday (Dec. 3) at Harvard Medical School (HMS).

The Harvard Cancer Society and the Asian American Brotherhood are working with the National Marrow Donor Program to recruit minorities for the National Marrow Donor Registry. Each year more than 30,000 children and adults in the United States are diagnosed with life-threatening blood diseases such as leukemia. For many of these patients, a marrow or…

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) is the hub of the Kennedy School of Governments (KSGs) research, teaching, and training in international security affairs, environmental and resource issues, science and technology policy, and conflict studies.

Sept. 22 Harvard 27, Brown 20 In the season opener, the Crimson unveiled a new weapon in tailback convert Josh Staph ’02. Down 17-7, the former fullback scored two of…

With the hoisting of the Ivy cup, the Harvard football teams dream season suddenly became very real on Saturday, Nov. 17. In beating rival Yale, 35-23, in the 118th playing of the Game, the Crimson won its 10th Ivy League Championship and fourth outright crown, while extending its perfect season to 9-0. Not since 1913…

Skeletons of conjoined twins and legs corkscrewed with rickets. Kidney stones the size of golf balls. The skull of a man who survived a crowbar shot through his head.

Museums by definition preserve and display the past, but the new exhibition at the Sackler goes beyond the mere presentation of venerable objects.

Nathan Jackson, a Tlingit carver from Ketchikan, Alaska, performs a ceremonial dance Nov. 19 during the installation of a totem pole he created especially for the Peabody Museum. Last May, as mandated by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the museum returned a Tlingit totem pole which had been acquired 100 years…

After several months of close study, Jeremy R. Knowles, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), has decided to provide an additional $4 million in graduate student scholarships and fellowships, beginning in the next academic year.

The role of the United States on the world stage remained the top concern of students who met with former President William Jefferson Clinton at the ARCO Forum immediately following his address at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center Monday afternoon (Nov. 19). The question-and-answer session was open to approximately 400 students, faculty, and staff…

The sound check went on, sounding like a monastic chant as it echoed off Gordon Track and Tennis Centers high metal ceiling. Ignoring the droned 1, 2, 3, 4s, 24 Harvard undergraduates rested on newly-erected risers Sunday (Nov. 18) as they gobbled pizza and prepared for the next phase of the operation.

The fight against terrorism is a battle to determine the course of the next century, former U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton told a crowd of about 5,600 in Harvard Universitys Albert H. Gordon Track and Tennis Center Monday, Nov. 19.

Astronomers have made the first direct detection of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a star outside our solar system and have obtained the first information about its chemical composition. Their unique observations demonstrate that it is possible to measure the chemical makeup of extrasolar planet atmospheres and potentially to search for chemical markers of…