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Campus & Community
Harvard Board of Overseers election results
The president of the Harvard Alumni Association on June 4 announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the University’s 358th Commencement. The six newly elected Overseers follow:
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Campus & Community
O’Connor marks women’s progress in legal profession
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, turns 80 years old next year. O’Connor — chipper, funny, and precise — spoke at a luncheon sponsored annually by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, which awarded the former justice its Radcliffe Medal.
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Campus & Community
Martha Minow named dean of Harvard Law School
Martha Minow, the Jeremiah Smith Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will become the dean of the Faculty of Law on July 1, President Drew Faust announced today (June 11).
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Campus & Community
Harvard University Year in Pictures: 2008-2009
2008-09 was a year of unprecedented challenges and undaunted spirit. Members of the University welcomed the Dalai Lama and Al Gore, honored Ted Kennedy, advanced the arts, and worked to better the world, locally, nationally, and internationally.
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Health
Researchers learn how mutations extend life span
In the sense that organisms existing today are connected through a chain of life – through their parents, grandparents, and other ancestors – almost a billion years back to the…
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Health
AML patients benefit from stem cell transplants
A stem cell transplant (SCT) from a compatible donor early in the course of disease is the best approach for the majority of young and middle-aged adult patients with acute…
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Health
After a century, link between chromosomal instability and centrosome defects in cancer cells is unraveled
In a new study, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists disprove a century-old theory about why cancer cells often have too many or too few chromosomes, and show that the actual reason…
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Science & Tech
Geology is destiny
As a teenager in Toronto in the 1950s, Paul Hoffman would spend hours in the Royal Ontario Museum studying its collection of rocks and minerals. He became a passionate collector, trading rocks with friends and exploring abandoned mines in search of crystals.
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Campus & Community
Mohan Sundararaj of HSPH harnesses the power of music to heal
It was 1998 and Mohan Sundararaj was frustrated. A medical student at India’s Sri Ramachandra Medical College and the child of two physicians, Sundararaj was committed to his medical education but frustrated by the demands that kept him from his other passion: the piano.
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Nation & World
Some HBS students adopt ethical code
Approximately half of the 886 graduating HBS students took the professors’ comments seriously enough to sign a managerial version of the Hippocratic oath.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Commencement 2009
As a hazy sky transformed into brilliant sunshine, centuries’ old traditions played out in Harvard Yard: Degrees conferred, parents cheering, and inspiring words from many, including President Drew Faust and Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
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Campus & Community
Mentoring: a two-way education
The Harvard Allston Ed Portal is an academic collaboration that connects families in Allston and Brighton with Harvard’s vast intellectual resources. The result is often a two-way education.
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Campus & Community
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s address at Harvard’s Afternoon Exercises
United States Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s commencement speech at Harvard’s Afternoon Exercises on June 4, 2009.
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Campus & Community
Chu calls for global warming action
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu expressed optimism Thursday (June 4) that the world will avoid catastrophic climate change, saying the crisis presents an opportunity to bring about a sustainable energy…
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Campus & Community
Athlete, scholar, humanitarian
The jersey, the helmet, the pads, the cleats — at a glance it’s easy for Andrew Berry to blend in with the rest of his teammates. But take a look at the Bel Air, Md., native after he’s left the stadium and you’ll realize that it isn’t just football that makes him special.
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Campus & Community
Calla Videt explores ‘the space between’
During a recent visit to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, film director Mike Nichols told students that professional training begins in youth when a person does what he or she loves 10,000 times before even thinking about the arc of a career.
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Campus & Community
‘My ministry is in the birthing rooms’
To Cemelli de Aztlan, the U.S.-Mexico border region is not just a line on a map dividing two nations and two cultures, it’s a place of its own, different from the countries whose edges define it; and it has its own culture of transition, of blending, and sometimes of violence.
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Campus & Community
GSE dancer Stewart tangos with art, academics
Robert Stewart knows he doesn’t exactly measure up in his chosen line of work. He is small by the standards used to judge a man in his profession.
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Campus & Community
Jane Cheng ’09: Preserving art, making it public, passing it on
Talk about a grand entrance — on her first day of work at the Herzog August Bibliothek, the famed medieval studies library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, Jane Cheng ’09 powered up her laptop and promptly shorted out the entire reading room.
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
June 1913 — Having proved itself during a five-year experimental period, the Business School emerges from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to become an independent graduate school.
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending June 1. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online athttp://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
In brief
@HARVARDRESEARCH debuts on Twitter; Live Webcast information for Commencement and HAA Meeting; Harvard Extension School to host information session
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Campus & Community
Barnard College honors Winter
Irene Winter, the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard, was honored on May 20 with a medal of distinction from Barnard College at commencement.
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Campus & Community
H1N1 influenza advice for Commencement week visitors
While at Harvard, should you experience any symptoms consistent with H1N1 flu, you should contact Harvard University Health Services (HUHS).
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Campus & Community
Changes ahead for Gazette print and online
Back in February, we asked you to participate in a readership survey to gauge the Gazette’s place in the Harvard community. We were overwhelmed by the response.
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Arts & Culture
Harvard Department of Music announces $226,000 in fellowships
The Music Department’s Oscar S. Schafer Award is given to students “who have demonstrated unusual ability and enthusiasm in their teaching of introductory courses, which are designed to lead students to a growing and lifelong love of music.” This year’s recipients are David Sullivan and Karola Obermüller.
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Campus & Community
Weatherhead Center presents doctoral candidates with research grants
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has selected 11 Harvard doctoral candidates to receive pre- and mid-dissertation grants to conduct research on projects related to international, transnational, global, and comparative studies. In addition, the center is awarding four foreign language grants to doctoral students to assist them in their field research. The recipients, along with…
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Campus & Community
Certificates awarded by DRCLAS
The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded nearly 20 certificates in Latin American Studies in 2009.Undergraduates from multiple academic departments and doctoral students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences received certificates. To be eligible, students must complete an approved course of study as a part of their work toward…
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Campus & Community
CES awards travel grants for research
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) continues its long tradition of promoting and funding student research on Europe. Nearly 30 undergraduates will pursue thesis research and internships in Europe this summer, while 18 graduate students have been awarded support for their dissertations over the coming year.
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Campus & Community
GSAS awards medal to four for service, scholarship
For 20 years now, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) has awarded its Centennial Medal to a select group of graduates who have made significant contributions to society and scholarship. This year’s recipients: an art historian who encouraged viewers to simply look; a historian who explored the worldwide impact of slavery; an economist…