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Send resumes online Beginning this month, resumes and applications for positions at the University will only be accepted online. In order to be considered for any position(s), applicants must apply…

When Joel Richard finishes his day as a staff assistant in Harvards Freshman Deans Office, he hops on his bike, pedals through the crowded streets of Cambridge, Somerville, and Medford, then turns into his driveway. There, smooth pavement gives way to weeds and potholes, and the landscape turns from three-deckers and storefronts to deep woods,…

I wrote your name in the sky, but the wind took it away.

Blood is vital for human survival, but getting it to people who need it involves thorny problems.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning Aug. 18 and ending Sept. 13. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

The animated blockbuster Shrek has been chosen as the feature presentation for this years Movie Time at Harvard. After two days of voting during registration week, Shrek edged out runner-up Ferris Buellers Day Off – last years winner – to win a place on Harvards outdoor silver screen.

Sept. 7, 1775 – The “New-England Chronicle or Essex Gazette” advertises that the Harvard Corporation and Overseers have chosen the Town of Concord as “a proper place for convening the…

The Faculty Council of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at its first meeting of the year Wednesday (Sept. 17) heard several reports on developments since the council adjourned in May. Dean William C. Kirby (FAS and history) spoke on the year ahead. He also briefed council members on new appointments to tenure, on new…

Harvard workers will take center stage today (Sept. 18) when Robert Putnam, the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, will discuss his new book, Better Together: Restoring the American Community, (Simon & Schuster, 2003) with co-author Lewis Feldstein, at 6 p.m. at Askwith Hall.

Tibetan Buddhism, with its pantheon of gods and demons, its elaborate rituals, colorful costumes, and esoteric meditation techniques, seems, to Westerners at least, to be the most exotic manifestation of the religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama 2,500 years ago.

If your goal is to go home with a nice picture of an earthenware pitcher and a bowl of apples that you can frame and give to your Aunt Ida, better go somewhere else. Here its all about process, not product.

Benedict H. Gross, dean of Harvard College, has assembled his senior staff for the Office of the Dean of Harvard College and completed the consolidation of this office with the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education, as begun this spring.

Head coach of W’s lax named Two-time All-American Sarah (Downing) Nelson ’94 has been named head coach of the Harvard women’s lacrosse team. After starring on three Ivy championship teams…

The Harvard Business School (HBS) rugby team will open its fall 2003 season with a pair of home matches against the Boston Irish Wolfhounds Rugby Club on Sept. 13. The teams pitch is located next to Harvard Stadium and the action kicks off at noon. For more information, visit the squads Web site at http://sa.hbs.edu/rugby/.

Despite forecasts to the contrary, weather held a tentative truce with Harvards 28th annual Senior Picnic on Aug. 6, treating the 1,100 Cambridge senior citizens to a rain-free, albeit humid, celebration of friendship and community.

Roaming the stacks of Widener Library as a selector for the HD Push Project – which processed books for transfer to the Harvard Depository – Matthew Battles, mesmerized by rows and rows and rows of volumes, began to ponder his surroundings – the library. With Widener as an ever-present muse and a valuable resource, Battles…

A former boss of mine once called me a scissor-bill. I concluded that it was not a term of endearment, but I didnt know what it meant.

The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health named Wayne A. Fuller, professor in liberal arts and sciences at Iowa State University, the recipient of the 2003 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science. Fuller delivered a lecture at Harvard titled Analytic Studies with Complex Survey Data this past May.

Robert C. Orr, a leading authority on nation building and peace operations, has been named executive director for Research of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

You wouldnt expect a collection of crumbling documents from a trial that occurred more than half a century ago to still have power to shock, but Harry S. Martin, director of the Law School Library, knows better.