Year: 2004

  • Nation & World

    Prominent figure in health care Francis H. Burr, 90

    Francis H. (Hooks) Burr, 90, who earned his living as a lawyer and devoted his considerable energies to improving higher education and health care, died November 25, 2004, in Boston. He was a resident of Beverly, Mass., and Islesboro, Maine.

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    Student Internship Fund holds auction

    A weeklong vacation in Mexico, box-seat tickets for the Red Sox, and an Apple iPod are just a handful of the items up for bid at this years Student Internship Fund (SIF) auction at the Kennedy School of Government. The event will be held today (Dec. 2) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum (79…

    1 minute
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    Gift launches Hefner China Fund

    Kennedy School of Government Dean David Ellwood has announced the establishment of the Hefner China Fund to support the work of the China Public Policy Program at the School. Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Hefner III are giving $1 million to expand and enhance the Schools China-related endeavors, under the direction of the China Public…

    4 minutes
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    ‘We love ya, now get outta here’

    At an open house at the Office of International Programs, Jay Bacrania 05 reintroduces himself to a University administrator. She is embarrassed shes met Bacrania many times before but doesnt recognize him after his year in Banaras, India. Certainly, the beard hes sprouted disguises him, but Bacrania himself admits the change goes beyond the tonsorial.

    6 minutes
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    Community Gifts celebrates the giving season

    Tis just weeks before Christmas and all thru the office

    1 minute
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    Suspense, thrills, chills from KSG scribbler

    Literary quiz. Name the author of this Chandler-like excerpt from a recent thriller: I changed the channel. PBS had a special on nuclear terrorism. Some expert from Harvards Kennedy School was droning on …

    1 minute
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    HAA fetes alums with awards for service

    The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to Harvard University through alumni activities. These six recipients were honored Oct. 14 during the HAA board of directors fall meeting.

    5 minutes
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    Eternal student

    Martina Schinke-Braun shows Summers a DNA microarray, containing several thousand oligonucleotides printed onto a coated glass slide. A magnifying glass is necessary to see the individual DNA spots on the slide. Later in the day (Nov. 29), the Bauer Center held an open house that included guided tours of the facilities and live demonstrations.

    1 minute
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    Marshall Scholarship awarded

    A Harvard senior has been named a Marshall Scholar, allowing him to study for the next two years in the United Kingdom at the university of his choice.

    2 minutes
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    Designer genetics not in near future

    The genetic revolution has created tremendous excitement, but also considerable fear. As scientists identify the genes responsible for various traits and behaviors, and become more adept at transferring genetic material from one organism to another, there is growing anxiety that we are heading for a disturbingly unnatural and ill-considered future in which parents eager for…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Newsmakers

    ‘Cosmic Evolution’ Web site wins two awards “Cosmic Evolution,” the Web site based on the Harvard Extension School course Astronomy E8: “Cosmic Evolution: The Origins of Matter and Life,” was…

    3 minutes
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    Debate over Kyoto climate treaty heats up at KSG

    A top economic adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the Kyoto global warming treaty as bad for the economy, for the environment, and for public health.

    5 minutes
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    PBH collects gifts for kids, sets goal at 1,000

    Phillips Brooks House (PBH) will launch its annual holiday gift drive on Friday (Dec. 3). Organizers hope to collect more than 1,000 gifts for children throughout Greater Boston, many of whom have impoverished, homeless, or incarcerated parents.

    1 minute
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    Pathbreaking researcher in proteomics

    Erin K. OShea, whose pathbreaking research has given her fellow scientists unprecedented glimpses into the full complement of proteins at work in living organisms, has been named professor of molecular and cellular biology and co-director of the Bauer Center for Genomics Research at Harvard University, effective Aug. 1, 2005.

    3 minutes
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    Leapin’ lizards!

    Its one of the strangest sights in nature: lizards running upright across water. Watching their thin hind feet dip into the liquid, you expect them to sink or fall over, but they just keep going like a human sprinting for a bus.

    4 minutes
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    ‘How do people write themselves?’

    As professor of the practice of Romance languages and literatures and director of the languages programs, Kimberlee Campbells unusual titles bespeak her unusual place in the halls of academia. Campbell, who joined Harvards Romance Languages and Literatures Department this fall after a long career at New York University, describes her work as a sort of…

    6 minutes
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    Harvard police offer tips on playing it safe

    In response to a peeping incident report involving an unknown male looking into the shower stall at Dane Hall taken by the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) on Nov. 29, HUPD would like to remind members of the University community to take the following precautions to keep yourself and your valuables safe:

    1 minute
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    Siever memorial upcoming

    A remembrance gathering for friends and family of Professor of Geology Emeritus Raymond Siever will be held in the Hoffman Laboratory (20 Oxford St.), fourth-floor faculty lounge, on Dec. 4 at 2 p.m.

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    President’s office hours on Dec. 9

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

    1 minute
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    This month in Harvard history

    Dec. 29, 1627 – John Harvard enters Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England. Dec. 20, 1672 – Leonard Hoar, Class of 1650, is formally installed as Harvard’s third President and the…

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    Rhodes Scholars announced

    Four Harvard undergraduates, a recent graduate, and a graduate student have been named Rhodes Scholars this year. The scholarship trust made the announcement on Nov. 21. The winners of this prestigious award are Peter Buttigieg 04, South Bend, Ind. seniors Melissa L. Dell, Enid, Okla., and Sarah J. Hill, Bismarck, N.D. graduate student Rachel Y.…

    7 minutes
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    Harvard’s economic benefits include jobs and stability

    A new report titled Innovation and Opportunity: Harvard Universitys Impact on the Boston Area Economy describes Harvards broad economic impact, generating more than 48,000 jobs at many levels, from the service industry to construction to highly skilled scientific research positions.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Darkness falls

    As an early autumn dusk approaches, the Memorial Church glows warmly in Tercentenary Theatre.

    1 minute
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    Alien treasures in our backyard

    Astronomers have gained an important clue to guide their hunt for extrasolar worlds. And that clue points to the unlikeliest of places — our own backyard. “It’s possible that some…

    1 minute
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    Elevated BMI may not increase risk of death among men with heart attack or stroke

    “This study does not eliminate a small amount of risk for being overweight or obese,” said author Howard D. Sesso, Sc.D., M.P.H., of BWH. “However, it does tell physicians that…

    1 minute
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    Drugs are effective against eye disease

    Results of two large international clinical trials have shown positive results using Macugen, an experimental treatment that targets the abnormal blood vessels found in the “wet” form of macular degeneration.…

    1 minute
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    Environment panel not all gloom

    The ivory-billed woodpecker could be the poster child for the worlds dwindling biodiversity: Found across the South in the 1800s, its American habitat shrank steadily to a single tract in Louisiana and eventually one last individual, a female killed when her nest was blown apart in a 1944 storm. Small numbers of the birds hobbled…

    6 minutes
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    Right of ’eminent domain’ challenged

    Susette Kelo is about to get her day in court.

    5 minutes
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    ‘Polar Express’ author makes HUAM stop

    The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) will welcome Chris Van Allsburg, author and illustrator of The Polar Express, on Dec. 4 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Fogg Art Museum. The focus of the event, held in collaboration with the Cambridge Public Library and students and teachers of the Cambridge Public School District,…

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    Business School dedicates Greenhill House

    Dean Kim B. Clark presided over ceremonies on campus recently celebrating Gayle and Robert F. Greenhill M.B.A 62, and their family, who established a $15 million endowment last June supporting the Schools extensive global research efforts.

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