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Contrary to expectation, a startling number of large variations have been found in the human genome. The genetic blueprints for humans were thought to be 99.9 percent similar, but researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of Toronto in Canada have accidentally discovered large chunks of missing or added DNA in normal, healthy people.

When it comes to people, programs, and policies in education, Mica Pollock thinks we should talk about race more.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Medicine May 26, 2004, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 18, 2004, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Four innovative leaders from Latin America will be welcomed into the Harvard University faculty this academic year as Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Visiting Professors by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS).

Harvards Program on U.S.-Japan Relations has recently selected 15 fellows for the 2004-05 academic year. Founded in 1980, the program enables outstanding scholars and practitioners to come together to conduct independent research and participate in an ongoing dialogue with other members of the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.

The Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences (CBRSS) and the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School (HMS) have announced the arrival of four new visiting scholars, as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program. This two-year postdoctoral fellowship program is for new Ph.D.s in…

The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics (formerly the Center for Ethics and the Professions) recently announced its Faculty Fellows in Ethics for the 2004-05 academic year. The fellows, who study ethical problems in business, government, law, medicine, and public policy, were selected from a pool of applicants from universities and professional institutions throughout…

Leaders of American Indian nations from across the country came to Harvard University last week to share their best ideas of how to spur economic development, guard resources, and promote the well-being of their people.

Selling stuff for homes on campus and afar Cast-off sofas and retired wastebaskets not only found new life in frugal students’ dorm rooms and suites, they also help families in…

A group of Harvard students is teaming up with the United Nations and leading an effort to identify promising small entrepreneurs in developing countries to highlight the United Nations coming International Year of Microcredit.

Paul A. Zizzo of Arlington, Mass., benefits manager for Harvard University, died on Aug. 15 of complications from back surgery. He was 58.

Fred Lawrence Whipple, whose work on comets revolutionized our understanding of these once enigmatic visitors, died Aug. 30 at the age of 97 following a prolonged illness. He was the Phillips Professor of Astronomy Emeritus at Harvard and a senior physicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO).

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) recently announced the seventh funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, a KSG faculty committee will consider applications for small one-year grants (up to $30,000) to support advanced research by Harvard faculty members on issues of critical…

Rugby club seeks grad student players The Harvard M.B.A./Grad Rugby Club seeks graduate student players of all experience levels for training, matches, tours, or tournaments. Trainings are held Tuesday and…

The third annual Its Movie Time at Harvard – a free outdoor film screening presented by President Lawrence H. Summers – will be held Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. in Tercentenary Theatre. The event is open to the entire University community and their families.

Former Harvard hockey captain, Olympian, and NHL player Ted Donato was named head coach of the Harvard mens ice hockey team on July 2. A 1991 graduate of Harvard who captured an NCAA championship as a sophomore, Donato becomes just the sixth person to serve as Harvards head coach since 1950. The appointment is Donatos…

When Julia Ashmun was a teenager, she told her mother she wanted to be proficient on the water, in the water, and under the water. Given Ashmuns coastal upbringing, which included stints in California, Florida, the Caribbean, and a year on a 27-foot sailboat, such a goal was not far-fetched. By age 15, Ashmun taught…

Karen L. Mapp, an expert on families and communities in education, will join the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) as a lecturer on education beginning Jan. 1, 2005, for a multiyear term.

In addition to a number of other improvements, renovations currently being completed at the Malkin Athletic Center include enclosure of the north mezzanine to provide additional areas for cardiovascular equipment. Al LeBlanc (left) and Sal Fazio of Fazio Construction in Malden work on the ceiling of this area.

CHA elects new chair, vice chair Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) recently announced that Francis H. Duehay, community leader, educator, and former elected official, has been elected to chair CHA’s board…

Kathleen McCartney named academic dean Professor of Education Kathleen McCartney began serving as academic dean McCartney of the Graduate School of Education on July 1. An early-childhood education expert, McCartney…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning Aug. 25 and ending Sept. 13. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Evon Z. Vogt memorial service to be held at Memorial Church A memorial service for Evon Z. Vogt, professor of social anthropology, emeritus, will be held Friday (Sept. 17) at…

The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is committed to assisting all members of the Harvard community in providing for their own safety and security. Harvards annual security report, prepared in compliance with The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the Clery Act), is titled Playing It Safe, and can…

Sept. 19, 1639 – Accused of neglecting and physically mistreating students, Nathaniel Eaton is fined and discharged as Master of the College by the Great and General Court of Massachusetts…

Theres an industry in the United States where costs are skyrocketing and quality is slipping dangerously. Despite astonishing technological advances, customers are generally dissatisfied and the workforce is grumbling louder than ever. The product is unavailable to a growing segment of Americans, and those who can access it must often wait up to six months…

It was quiet in Boylston Halls Ticknor Lounge one early August afternoon. But the silence masked the concentration of 30 academically talented, financially disadvantaged Boston and Cambridge youths as they imagined their futures – and plotted their paths to get there.