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The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) recently announced the appointment of Helen Molesworth as its new curator of contemporary art, effective Feb. 5, 2007. Molesworth becomes the first full curator of contemporary art since HUAM established the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art in 1997.

Laurie Glimcher remembers going into her father’s laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as a child, seeing beakers full of liquids being stirred automatically, and wondering not just what was in them, but what her father would learn from them.

Questions surrounding North Korea and its nascent nuclear weapons program took center stage Monday night (Oct. 30) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. Just hours before the North Koreans announced they would return to the six-party talks, a panel of defense experts and analysts discussed the range of policy options available to the United…

As political and social repression of blacks raged across the Jim Crow South of the early 1900s, black merchants and entrepreneurs quietly prospered in business, cracking the door to future civil rights.

With the Bay of Bengal in sight, they’re retyping 18th-century letters from the Adams family, which begot two American presidents. And they’re keying in diary entries written almost 400 years ago by John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. For both Harvard and the historical society, the joint digitization project is the…

The Joseph H. Flom Global Health and Human Rights Initiative at Harvard Law School (HLS) is a new partnership between the School’s Human Rights Program and its Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Promoting academic research (as well as engagement in practical measures related to that research) for the purpose of bringing…

Football bounces Big Green, stays alive in title hunt The Harvard football team earned its first shutout since the 2004 season this past Saturday (Oct. 28) with a 28-0 blanking…

Community Gifts kicks off season of giving November marks the beginning of the monthlong Community Gifts through Harvard campaign – the University’s workplace charitable giving campaign. The goal for this…

In a series of three talks last week (Oct. 24-26), novelist Walter Mosley explored the themes of redemption, forgiveness, and identity through his character, street philosopher Socrates Fortlow. The occasion was the annual Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures.

Nancy Brigham Cyr recently joined the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research as the new institute administrator. She comes to the Du Bois Institute from Harvard University Health Services, where she served as budget director for seven years. Cyr has held several administrative positions at Harvard including department administrator at the…

Wendell Vernon Clausen, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus at Harvard University, died on Oct. 12, 2006, in Belmont, Mass. He was 83 years old, and had been in declining health after suffering a stroke in August 2005.

Emerson Hall was the scene recently of what Emerson himself always liked: a good conversation.

Highlighting her leadership in opposing marketing to children, the American Psychological Association (APA) has awarded Susan Linn, instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS), its prestigious Presidential Citation. The award was presented Oct. 28 in Boston at the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood’s fifth annual summit, “Consuming Kids: Marketing in Schools and Beyond.”

Interim President Derek Bok will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 11. Sign-up begins at 2:30 p.m., unless otherwise…

Dunn memorial on Nov. 3 at the Memorial Church A memorial service for Charles W. Dunn, the Margaret Brooks Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures Emeritus, will be held…

Free flu shots are now available for high-risk adults every Monday and Tuesday from noon to 3 p.m. at Harvard University Health Services at Holyoke Center.

Reflections on terror, imagined and real, are making a visit to Boston this month, during an intentional confluence of events that explore the Soviet-era gulag.

In 2004, German police captured a man they believed had kidnapped a young boy. They questioned him for two days, and then, fearing for the child’s safety, a senior officer authorized an interrogator to use pain, if necessary, to get information.

For at least the past five years, the primary message of those seeking political and financial support for stem cell science has been that the research offers enormous hope of leading to treatments and cures for a myriad of diseases, including diabetes, cancer, heart disease, Parkinson’s, and even paralysis following spinal cord injury.

Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has awarded its highest honor for the promotion of high public health standards among vulnerable populations to William H. Foege, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

Balancing work and family life requires compromise between caring spouses, as well as flexibility and clarity about life, career, and family goals.

With winter around the corner, the recent digitization of Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra’s (HRO) recorded oeuvre ought to make fans of Verdi and viola players alike quite content over the dark, cold, long haul. Going back over 30 years, the newly completed archive – spearheaded by longtime HRO conductor James Yannatos – includes every available performance by…

From the looks of Brown’s dominating 9-4 win in the first day of action at this past weekend’s Northern Championships (Oct. 28-29) at Blodgett Pool, it appears the Bears were taking no chances against the host water polo club. It was the Crimson, after all, who edged Brown, 8-7, with 54 seconds remaining in triple…

Ash Institute receives Mexican Presidential Award President Vicente Fox of Mexico presented the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) with a Presidential…

Eight new fellows have been selected for the 2006-07 Administrative Fellowship Program. Of the eight fellows, four are visiting fellows and four are resident fellows. Visiting fellows are talented professionals drawn from business, education, and the professions outside the University, while resident fellows are professionals currently working at Harvard who are identified by their department…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 30. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

Nov. 13, 1875 – New Haven, Conn., hosts the first Harvard-Yale football game, which Harvard wins, to the delight of some 150 student boosters from Cambridge. November 1903 – After…

You would not expect someone being honored with an award named for the first woman tenured in the Harvard Faculty of Education to be even a bit down on education for women.