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The Harvard-Yenching Institute recently announced the following visiting scholars and fellows for the academic year. Based at the institutes office in Vanserg Hall, the fellows and scholars represent more than 20 institutions in East Asia.

The Real Estate Academic Initiative (REAI) at Harvard is now offering grants to support research in both domestic and international urban development. The REAI research committee will review applications for grants on a rolling basis and will give priority to interdisciplinary and interfaculty collaborative research efforts.

Third-party candidates who never win national elections have played a crucial role throughout the history of U.S. electoral politics, Ralph Nader told an overflow crowd of students Monday night (Oct. 4) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.

Hanna Holborn Gray, Ph.D. 57, president emerita and Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of History at the University of Chicago, plans to step down from the Harvard Corporation at the end of the 2004-05 academic year, following eight years as a member of Harvards executive governing board and six years previously as a…

The orchestra of Bostons medical community – the Longwood Symphony Orchestra – will present its first concert of the season at Jordan Hall on Oct. 30 at 8 p.m. The performance will pay tribute to Daniel D. Federman, senior dean for alumni relations and clinical teaching at Harvard Medical School (HMS).

Earths first life appeared early in the planets history, nearly 4 billion years ago, when primitive bacteria appeared in sulfurous oceans under poisonous skies.

Between the settling of construction dust and the glitter of black-tie celebrations, the Widener Library rededication and ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday afternoon (Oct. 1) struck a distinctly populist balance. As students, faculty, and administrators from around the University gathered on Wideners gracious steps and spilled into the autumn sunshine of Tercentenary Theatre, Harvards leaders applauded the…

Chemical synthesis is practiced entirely differently by chemists and by cells – and by many measures, cells come out on top. Chemists use something of a brute-force approach, generating vats of superconcentrated chemicals that react through random molecular collisions. Biomolecules are found within cells at concentrations a million times lower, their interactions directed by enzymes…

The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $2.4 million grant to the Science Education Department (SED) of the

Time and money. Few professions offer such a scarcity of both as the early careers of academics and researchers.

Sam has a lot of people rooting for him. His mother has built a shrine out of his gymnastics trophies, and when he competes, his girlfriend brandishes a poster that says Ghetto Superstar.

James S. Reid Jr. of Cleveland has made a gift to Harvard Law School (HLS) to endow a professorship dedicated to the teaching of accounting, statistics, and related subjects. Income generated from the gift – which totals $3 million and includes funds given by Reid and others – will support the salary, benefits, and research…

Many of us save too little, but that seems to be a character flaw we can live with.

Theater began as religious ritual – that much is familiar to anyone who has ever taken a theatrical survey course. But Robert Brustein, in a lecture titled The Drama as a Secular Faith, showed how the theaters relationship to religion has evolved from ancient Greece to the present, changing from one of cooperation, to hostility,…

On Sept. 29, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of philosophy and linguistics and longtime activist Noam Chomsky makes brief remarks in Harvard Yard prior to the weekly Wednesday at Noon Peace Walk that circles the Yard. On previous occasions, other notable speakers appearing at the gathering have included historian Howard Zinn and singer-songwriter Catie Curtis.

REAI to hold upcoming symposium The Real Estate Academic Initiative (REAI) at Harvard will hold its fall symposium, “What Makes Place? Envisioning the Future of Urban Development,” on Oct. 13-15.…

Zhuang named top innovator Xiaowei Zhuang, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, and of physics, was recently named one of 100 leading young researchers in the world by Technology…

Mahon named rookie of the week Freshman volleyballer Laura Mahon earned rookie of the week accolades from the Ivy League for her match-high 16 kills in Harvard’s 3-0 win over…

The host Harvard mens and womens soccer teams landed on separate sides of the win/loss column this past Saturday (Oct. 2) in a pair of taut, low-scoring affairs against Yale. The Harvard women managed a lone-goal win in the afternoons opening match-up, before the male Bulldogs prevented the Crimson sweep under black clouds with their…

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has opened two Humanities Faculty Services (HFS) centers to assist scholars in the humanities with routine tasks such as photocopying, obtaining and returning library books, mailing packages, shredding documents, and preparing letters of reference. The centers are located on the mezzanine level of Boylston Hall, open 8:30 a.m.…

FAS Communications A new version of the my.harvard Web portal has been unveiled for use by all faculty, staff, and students in the University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS).…

At the Harvard Museum of Natural History, a backlit wall display of minerals in the exhibit ‘Romancing the Stone: The Many Facets of Tourmaline’ is brought nicely into scale by…

Faculty member and researcher in the Harvard Medical School (HMS) from 1991 until 2002, Linda Buck is this years co-winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (along with Richard Axel of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute). Buck, who was in HMSs Department of Neurobiology, won the Nobel for discoveries in odorant receptors…

The Committee to Address Alcohol and Health at Harvard, formed in November 2003, has presented its report to Provost Steven E. Hyman and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross, recommending a broad series of initiatives – many of them calling for extensive involvement of students – aimed at both reducing dangerous drinking at Harvard…

The 2004 Ig Nobel Prizes went off in traditionally wacky fashion Thursday night (Sept. 30), honoring unusual science and questionable social advances and taking a poke at Coke for adding its own pollution to bottled river water.

Carter J. Eckert, a longtime faculty member in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, has been named Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History.

Senior fellow Juliette Kayyem has assumed the role of executive director for research at the Kennedy School of Governments (KSG) Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. For the past three years, Kayyem has been a lecturer and resident scholar at the center, serving both as executive director of the Schools Executive Session on Domestic…

Marilyn Hausammann, a human resources professional with a background in the consulting, financial services, and banking fields, is Harvard Universitys first vice president for human resources, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers announced Tuesday (Oct. 5).

For most academics, scholarship means drilling deep into an area of inquiry that is often tightly focused and highly specific.

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