Year: 2004

  • Nation & World

    Cumulus cathedral

    The interplay of architectonic clouds and glowing sunlight produces a magnificent background to a modest-looking skyline consisting most noticeably of the Memorial Church tower and the Cambridge Fire Department tower.

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    Rod Paige offers high praise for No Child Left Behind

    Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education officially opened the door to racial equality in the United States, education is still the best place to continue pushing for change, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige told a packed audience at the Kennedy School of Government Thursday (April 22).

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    Summers encourages fortunate to help others

    In a meeting of the United Ways of New England in Boston, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers noted to an audience of 200 Boston industry leaders and executives that at a time when the United States is at its most powerful and incomes are at a historic high, there is a growing gap between this…

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    Technique can ID ‘sick-making’ genes

    Scientists have developed a new type of DNA sequence analysis that pinpoints rapidly evolving pathogenic genes and have used the technique to identify hundreds of quickly evolving tubercular and malarial genes believed to represent key points of contact with the human immune system. The work sheds new light on the interaction of lethal organisms with…

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    Studying al fresco

    Freshman Morgan Potts hits the books in style at the improvised patio outside of Dudley House and the Gato Rojo Caf&eacute. (Staff photo Kris Snibbe/

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    The Big Picture

    The joke is be back by sunset, Sarah Freeman said of her favorite long-distance race: the annual Nunavut Midnight Sun Marathon.

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    Newsmakers

    Goroff named FDD Fellow Professor of the Practice of Mathematics Daniel Goroff has been accepted as a 2004-05 Academic Fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) in…

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    Installation of rare bear claw necklace at Peabody

    A special reception commemorating the installation of the recently rediscovered grizzly bear claw necklace at the Peabody Museum will be held May 13 – the day the artifact goes on public display – from 5 to 7 p.m. at the museum. Provost Steven E. Hyman and William Fash, Howells Director of the Peabody Museum, will…

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    Undergrads set the STAGE for social, academic success

    Just before 3 oclock on a recent Thursday, Kate Johnsen wrestles with the lock on the door to the Mary Ellen McCormack Youth Center. Moments after she gets the entry to the basement room open, children steadily trickle in. The center is strewn with evidence of spirited use: Checkers are scattered on the floor, homework…

    7 minutes
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    How to price the priceless

    Amid the fuss over Democratic front-runner John Kerrys latest 10-year plan to expand health-care coverage to the tune (according to some Republicans) of $900 billion, and renewed allegations that the Bush administration has suppressed Medicare costs predictions, Harvard Business Schools Regina E. Herzlinger shrugs her shoulders, and smiles. Shes not surprised by the continued political…

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    Eleven undergrads selected for study abroad grants

    Five Harvard students have been awarded grants by the National Security Education Program (NSEP), and another six have received grants from the Freeman-Asia Program. The Institute of International Education administers both grants.

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    PBHA auction supports summer camps

    Red Sox VIP tickets, a flight with singer/songwriter and pilot Livingston Taylor, and a movie date with New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell are among the items on the auction block tonight (April 29) at Phillips Brooks House Associations Spring Auction and Raffle to benefit its Summer Urban Program, which runs 12 low-cost day…

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    Office for the Arts names grant recipients

    The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) has announced its support of 22 art projects and performances that will take place during Arts First weekend (May 6-9). Sponsored by the OFA grants program and selected by the Council on the Arts, the projects range from music and the visual arts to theater and the…

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    Mann to receive Vosgerchian Teaching Award

    Robert Mann, founder and first violinist of the Julliard String Quartet and a member of the Julliard School Music Division faculty since 1946, has been named the recipient of the 2004 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award.

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    Gates, Marton receive Wharton Awards

    W.E.B Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and journalist and human rights advocate Kati Marton have been honored with the ninth annual Edith Wharton Women of Achievement Awards. The awards were presented at an April 7 ceremony by Edith Wharton Restoration, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the restoration of The Mount…

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    Biomarker identifies diabetes risk in women

    Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found that elevated levels of a biomarker that corresponds to a condition in which arteries do not dilate properly can be an indicator of type 2 diabetes risk in women. In addition, endothelial dysfunction – the inflammatory condition in which arteries do not dilate properly – is…

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    Loeb physics lecturer explains string theory

    String theory – the idea that the universe is made up not of particles but of tiny vibrating strings – is in the midst of a second revolution that some physicists hope will lead to the long-sought single theory that explains how the universe functions, according to Columbia University Professor Brian Greene.

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    Dangerous silences

    Within the past several years, articles in the mainstream media have sounded an alarm about a widening black gender gap. In African-American communities, women are outpacing men in professional and educational achievement, while incarceration and unemployment rates for black men far exceed those for black women. Some charge that this phenomenon is affecting marriage possibilities…

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    Scientists discuss experiments on self

    Yes, self-experimentation is exactly what it sounds like. Its when a researcher uses him- or herself as the (or one of the) subjects of an experiment. A recent gathering at the School of Public Health (HSPH) looked into the practice in a discussion titled Self-Experimentation by Investigators: Panel and Case Discussion. The exchange produced a…

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    Students visit ‘Harvard of China’

    Harvard College, striving to increase international experiences for its students, may now have one more arrow in its quiver, thanks to the student-initiated Harvard in Asia Project (HIAP). Chaired by David Yuan 06 and Silas Xu 05, HIAP returned triumphant from its first-ever exchange with Peking University, or Beida, in Beijing earlier this month. During…

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    Little Foundation sponsors DEAS program

    The Altran/Arthur D. Little Foundation for Innovation will provide $500,000 in the form of money, professional expertise, and consulting to the Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) during the next five years to help support a broad-based program on innovation in science and technology.

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    Institute kicks off collaborative effort

    The Harvard Stem Cell Institutes inaugural symposium kicked off in interdisciplinary fashion Friday (April 23) with discussions that explored the business, ethics, and science of stem cell research.

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    Dean Shinagel receives Nolte Award

    Dean of Continuing Education and University Extension Michael Shinagel received the Julius M. Nolte Award for Extraordinary Leadership at the annual conference of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) April 16 in San Antonio. Established in 1965, the Nolte Award is the most prestigious of all UCEA awards and is given to an individual in…

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    Sports briefs

    Heavy-hitting frosh lands league nod, again For the second time this season, freshman softballer Virginia Fritsch has been named Ivy League Rookie of the Week. In the Crimson’s last six…

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    Crimson drowns Navy

    Harvard mens heavyweight crew further expanded its trophy collection this past Saturday (April 24) with a nine-second triumph over visiting Navy in the 69th rowing of the Adams Cup. Earlier this month, the defending national champion Crimson (ranked No. 1 in the national polls by USRowing) captured the Stein Trophy in Providence and the Compton…

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    Time names Lander one of world’s most influential people

    In the April 26 special issue of Time magazine, Professor of Systems Biology Eric Lander, founder and director of the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, is featured as one of the worlds 100 most influential people.

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    Awards honor women leaders, present and future

    When Hanna Holborn Gray, president emerita of the University of Chicago and Fellow of Harvard College, was pursuing a Ph.D. in history at Harvard in the 1950s, female role models in academia were scarce. At the time, Harvards Faculty of Arts and Sciences boasted exactly one female with tenure – Helen Maud Cam – and…

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    Clarke says Patriot Act preserves civil liberties

    People who care about civil liberties in the United States should embrace rather than fight the USA Patriot Act, former Bush administration anti-terrorism coordinator Robert Clarke told a standing-room-only audience at the John F. Kennedy School of Government April 21.

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    President Summers has May office hours

    President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending April 24. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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