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  • Arts & Culture

    BMF to honor actress Allen as Woman of the Year

    The Harvard Black Men’s Forum (BMF) will present the 2007 Woman of the Year award to acclaimed actress, producer, director, and choreographer Debbie Allen. The presentation of the 2007 award — scheduled for March 10 at the Boston Fairmount Copley Hotel — will be the highlight of the 13th annual “Celebration of Black Women: Honoring…

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    Music, words to honor Longfellow on poet’s 200th birthday

    The Boston Landmarks Orchestra will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) with a March 25 tribute at Sanders Theatre.

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    The Fromm Players present!

    Music lovers will soon have a chance to hear pieces by some of the most influential classical composers working today performed by one of the most honored groups of players specializing in new music. And it’s all free!

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    Is democracy merry?

    An enlarged news photo, flaunting its rough pattern of halftone dots, shows a man in jeans, a military overcoat, and a fedora striding toward the camera. Judging by his wide grin he seems to be enjoying himself hugely, but his downcast eyes convey that it is a private enjoyment, not shared by the uniformed police…

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    March 5, 1954 — The Faculty of Arts and Sciences approves the Special Standing Program recently proposed by the Educational Policy Committee. The program allows specially qualified high-school students who have completed 11th grade to enter as freshmen, specially qualified freshmen to enter as advanced-standing sophomores, and honors candidates to have one or two required…

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 5. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

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    Deadline for HMS grant

    Each year more than 50 postdoctoral and faculty fellowships/grants are available to the Harvard medical community by invitation only. The private foundations that fund these grants permit a limited number of individuals to be nominated for these awards. In order to choose candidates that will represent the Harvard medical community in the national competitions, the…

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    Center for Health spoof takes on serious subject

    The Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School recently launched “The (Bio)DaVersity Code” — a short, Flash-animated spoof of “The Da Vinci Code” that illustrates the importance of biodiversity to the planet’s health. Free Range Graphics, creators of the award-winning “The Meatrix,” produced the short.

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    MAC moves equipment to QRAC and Gordon

    Following the closing of the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) the week of March 19, MAC equipment will be made available to recreational users at the QRAC (66 Garden St.) and the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis facility (65 N. Harvard St.).

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    Practical ethics grants available to undergraduates, application deadline approaching

    The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics invites Harvard College students to apply for Lester Kissel Grants in Practical Ethics to support research and writing that makes contributions to the understanding of practical ethics. A number of grants will be awarded on a competitive basis for projects to be conducted during the summer of…

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    Take a lunch break to ancient Israel

    The Semitic Museum is sponsoring a free, docent-led tour of “The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine” today (March 8) at 12:15 p.m.

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    Seminar on gender history seeks participants

    The March 15 application deadline for “Writing Past Lives: Biography as History” — the Schlesinger Library’s summer seminar on gender history — is fast approaching. Established scholars, writers, and advanced graduate students in U.S. history and gender studies are invited to apply.

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    MIND recognizes Cure Alzheimer’s Fund with first philanthropic award

    Established in 2001 by members of the Harvard Medical School faculty, the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND) recently recognized the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund with its first Philanthropic Innovation and Investment Award. The award recognizes donors who have made substantial commitments to visionary work that cannot be funded through other sources but has the potential…

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    KSG student awarded prestigious press award

    Kennedy School of Government (KSG) student Sareena Dalla was recently awarded a $2,000 Overseas Press Club (OPC) Foundation scholarship at the foundation’s annual scholarship luncheon in New York City. A panel of leading journalists selected Dalla (and 11 others) from a pool of applicants representing 65 colleges and universities.

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    Fryer awarded Sloan Award

    Assistant Professor of Economics Roland Fryer Jr. recently received the prestigious Sloan Award in the field of economics.

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    Hart honored for research on entrepreneurship

    M.B.A. Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice Emerita Myra Hart has been named a recipient of the 2007 FSF-NUTEK Award, an international prize for research on entrepreneurship and small business.

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    ‘Redefining Health Care’ collects Hamilton Award

    “Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results,” by Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, a senior institute associate at Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, has been awarded the 2007 James A.…

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    Engell wins Ness Book Award

    The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has awarded its Frederic W. Ness Book Award to James Engell, the Gurney Professor of English Literature and professor of comparative literature, for his book with Anthony Dangerfield, “Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money.”

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    HBS-affiliated work named top management book

    “From Resource Allocation to Strategy” (Oxford University Press), co-edited by Joseph L. Bower, the Donald Kirk David Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has been named the best management book of 2006 by Strategy + Business magazine.

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    Faculty Council

    At its 11th meeting of the year on March 7, the Faculty Council considered support of study abroad programs and a motion concerning scholarly publishing licensing, and discussed Dean Jeremy R. Knowles’ upcoming “Letter on Growth and Renewal of the Faculty.”

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    Faculty of Arts and Sciences – Memorial Minute

    On October 12, 1997, when Isadore Twersky died, Jewish studies lost one of its giants, and a remarkable chapter in the history of the field came to a close.

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    Dunlop Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Business and Government established

    The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at the Kennedy School of Government has established a thesis prize for a graduating Harvard College senior. The deadline to apply is May 24.

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    Nine Harvard affiliates named Soros Fellows

    Nine Harvard-affiliated students are among the 31 recipients recently named Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellows. Soros Fellows receive half-tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States, as well as a maintenance grant of $20,000 per year.

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    Attempted armed robbery reported on Memorial Drive

    On March 2, at approximately 9:45 p.m., a male graduate student reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) that he was the victim of an attempted armed robbery along Memorial Drive. While walking in the vicinity of Plympton Street, the victim was grabbed from behind by an unidentified male, who, while holding a knife,…

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    Broad receives $100M gift to launch research center

    The Stanley Medical Research Institute today announced a $100 million gift to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to launch a new research center that will combine the strengths of genomics and chemical biology to advance the understanding and treatment of severe mental illnesses.

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    HRES approves 2007-08 Affiliated Housing rents

    Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) has announced the approval of the new rent schedule for approximately 2,800 Harvard-owned apartments rented by graduate students and other University affiliates. The new rents will take effect July 1, when the 2007-08 rental season begins.

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    Betensky named HSPH professor of biostatistics

    Rebecca Betensky has been promoted to professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). She is also an associate biostatistician at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.

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    Lipsitch promoted professor of epidemiology at HSPH

    Marc Lipsitch has been promoted to professor of epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). He first joined the School’s faculty as an assistant professor in 1999, becoming an associate professor in 2004.

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    Whirl domination

    Moments after guiding the Harvard women’s basketball team to a March 2 victory over visiting Cornell to snatch up the 2007 Ivy League championship — the program’s 10th — coach Kathy Delaney-Smith was already looking ahead to the Crimson’s two remaining games of the season. The Crimson mentor may have been pleased with Harvard’s 64-48…

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    Tian loves poetry – from Plath to Yuanming

    Xiaofei Tian, a youthful looking Harvard scholar of Chinese poetry, could easily be mistaken for an undergraduate in the halls of 2 Divinity Ave., where she works in a book-lined office. Last September, at age 34, Tian got word of her tenure in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. To celebrate, she and…