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At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 15, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

According to legend, spirits of the dead are drawn to the smell of marigolds. Since ancient times, the flowers have been scattered in villages throughout Mesoamerica on Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, to lure the souls of departed family members and friends.

Ms. Magazine co-founder Letty Cottin Pogrebin remembers attending a Women and Identity conference in the 1970s and being asked, with all the conferees, to stand beneath a sign – black, Latina, woman, Jew – that best identified her.

Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union, will speak on Looking Back on Perestroika at Sanders Theatre on Monday (Nov. 11).

Professor Robert Stavins stepped down last month after five years at the helm of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) top economic advisory board, during which time he helped to raise the profile of economic thinking about environmental problems and to standardize economic analysis in EPA decisions.

At its fifth meeting of the year the Faculty Council heard a report from Professor Cynthia Friend (chemistry and chemical biology), associate dean of the faculty, on the plans of the committee which she chairs to review the appointments processes in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Deans Vincent Tompkins and Rebecca Wasserman (Academic Affairs)…

When Katya Fels 93 was a Harvard student, she discovered that the undergraduate women she counseled on the Response hotline for survivors of sexual assault had a lot in common with the homeless women she met as co-director of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter.

Echoes of the reforms that ended the former Soviet Union are still reverberating in Russia and other former Soviet Republics, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union’s last leader and the man who implemented those world-altering changes, told a packed Sanders Theatre Monday (Nov. 11).

Standing on a damp floor of yellow pine needles in a misty rain, a group of about 20 people were gathered in front of Andover Hall on Monday evening (Nov. 4) to pray for a peaceful community and a peaceful world. As Belva Brown Jordan, assistant dean of student life at the Divinity School, spoke…

The Memorial Church is set to mark its 70th anniversary Sunday (Nov. 10) during its annual Commemoration of Benefactors and of the War Dead.

The Students and Faculty Advisory Committee of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations recently approved grants totaling more than $25,000 for Harvard College student groups to support programs that focus on culture, ethnicity, and race. These grants will support speakers, panel discussions, workshops, performances, publications, banquets, and other activities proposed by student organizations.

Twelve new fellows have been selected for the 2002-03 Administrative Fellowship Program. Of the new fellows, eight 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 minority professionals currently working at Harvard who are identified by their…

Since Kyoto does not have its own airport, most visitors arrive by rail, disembarking in the citys new railway station, designed by Japanese architect Hiroshi Hara and completed in 1999 at a cost of more than $1 billion. The station is huge, comprising a theater, a hotel, a department store, and colossal public spaces defined…

Summers addresses school superintendents

Department of Social Medicine welcomes fellows

Harvards Geographic Information Science (GIS) User Group will celebrate GIS Day by holding its first symposium – GIS at Harvard and Beyond – at the Science Centers Lecture Hall D on Nov. 20. The symposium will include demonstrations, poster presentations, and panel discussions from noon to 7 p.m.

In an effort to combat the flu across campus this season, University Health Services (UHS) will be providing free flu vaccines to all members of the Harvard community. The walk-in clinics are being held at the following locations:

Wondering whether to choose a bridge or an implant to fill that unsightly gap in your pearly whites? If youre willing to wait a few years, you may have another option – growing your own.

Imagine easing the blues of people who suffer from depression, the most common mental illness in the world, with a simple skin patch. Alexander Bodkin, a Harvard psychiatrist, did. Now, after years of setbacks, he and his colleagues have successfully tested an antidepressant patch that works without the side effects of the most popular pill…

Listeria and certain strains of E. coli are the scourge of picnics, but researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Londons Hammersmith Hospital show in the November Gene Therapy that combining bacterial components of these bad bugs can create a powerful vector against melanoma-challenged mice. A vector is a kind of delivery vehicle that can…

Its been almost 30 years since buses of black students were pelted with rocks and tomatoes in South Boston. More than a decade has lapsed since Charles Stuart shot his wife in Mission Hill and sparked a veritable witch hunt for a black killer who never existed.

Following a string of nine straight wins, including seven road victories, Harvard mens water polo team dropped a heartbreaking 7-6 decision in their own backyard to Brown on Nov. 2. At the opening round of the Northern Championships this past weekend at Blodgett Pool, the defeat couldnt have been more costly for the No. 15…

Symposium to explore curriculum As part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences curricular review, the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education will be sponsoring its second symposium –…

Italian government honors Wilson E.O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Research Professor Emeritus, was one of nine scholars given the Presidential Medal of the Republic of Italy at the annual conference…

Despite some heavy-duty protection by the aptly named Katie Shields 06, Dartmouth womens soccer (15-2-1, 5-1 Ivy) slipped by a visiting Harvard team this past weekend to take a 1-0 victory. The win marked a league-leading 11 straight for the Big Green, which can secure a share of the championship with a win over Pennsylvania…

When simply breaking school records no longer cut it, senior quarterback Neil Rose and Payton Award candidate Carl Morris 03 took to shattering them this past weekend in Hanover. And against a tenacious Dartmouth team – extra fiery from a three-game win streak (not to mention the previous evenings homecoming bonfire and rally) – the…

The 400th anniversary of the refounding of the University of Oxfords Bodleian Library was a moment in history that colleagues across the sea at Harvard could not let pass unrecognized. Finding a gift that was both a meaningful addition to the Bodleians collection and a symbol of the relationship between the scholarly communities of the…

Holly Neufer knew working with clay was the thing for her the first time she tried it. She walked through the door of the Radcliffe Ceramics Program in 1984 and liked the feel of the place. She liked the dustiness, the studios airy, garagelike space.