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Campus & Community
Pearson Hunt, authority on corporate finance, dies
Former Harvard Business School (HBS) Professor Pearson Hunt, an authority on corporate finance whose research helped shape modern financial management practices, died June 30 at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. Hunt was 93.
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Campus & Community
2002 Board of Overseers and HAA Directors announced
The President of the Harvard Alumni Association announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and the HAA Elected Directors. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the Universitys 351st Commencement. The five newly elected Overseers, in order of their finish, are:…
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Campus & Community
Connecting children to resources
The Harvard Childrens Initiative and the Institute for Community Health in Cambridge released a report last month on the gap-s in Cambridges current child mental health system in hopes of making Cambridge a model community in its handling of child mental health issues.
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Campus & Community
Former Dining Services director, Frank Weissbecker, dies at 80
Frank J. Weissbecker, director of Harvard Dining Services for nearly three decades, died of lung cancer June 27 at his home in Weston. He was 80.
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Campus & Community
Police Reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning June 9 and ending July 13. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
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Campus & Community
New tenure
Ellen Condliffe Lagemann (right), in her second day as dean of the Graduate School of Education, visited the Cambridge Harvard Summer Academy at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Tuesday (July 16) with Professor Kay Merseth, director of the Teacher Education Program at the GSE (left). After visiting math, social studies, and literature classes, Lagemann…
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
July 17, 1810 – President Samuel Webber dies in office.
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Campus & Community
Ring around the city
Imagine taking public transportation from Harvard Medical School to East Cambridge and never passing through Downtown Crossing – for the local inhabitant, a miraculous feat.
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Campus & Community
New MS drugs are found
Multiple sclerosis is an unnerving disease. White blood cells, which usually protect the body against illness, launch attacks on the central nervous system. These rebellious cells destroy fatty sheaths that surround and protect nerve cells, interfering with conduction of nerve impulses in the brain and spinal cord. Movement, coordination, and sensation become impaired, leading to…
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Health
New multiple sclerosis drugs are found
Five years ago, scientists at Harvard University began to take a close look at Copolymer 1, a treatment for multiple sclerosis, that is put together from a string of amino…
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Health
Diabetes treatment linked to increased blood pressure
Type II diabetes accounts for the majority of cases of the disease, and is a huge public health problem: As many as 16 million individuals in the United States have…
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Science & Tech
What students know best
A research project called Pathways for Student Success has taken a unique approach to finding ways to help high school students achieve at a high rate. Rather than focusing on…
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Health
Early administration of clot-buster drug may improve outcome for heart attack patients
The immediate goal of the treatment of heart attack patients is reperfusion, or the swift opening of the blocked artery and the restoration of blood flow to the heart muscle.…
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Health
Practice makes perfect
Harvard Medical School researchers conducted a study in which people were taught to type a sequence of keys on a computer keyboard as quickly and accurately as possible. A group…
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Science & Tech
Building difference, breaking it down
Mica Pollock, an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, taught and did dissertation research in a California high school where she observed students “bending” racial categories. “What…
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Health
Maternal bone lead levels pose toxic prenatal risk
Although much attention has been paid to public health efforts to reduce lead exposure in children between the ages of six months and five years, when environmental lead exposures (such…
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Health
Statistical work helps calm worries about anti-AIDS drugs and pregnancy
For years, physicians have prescribed antiretroviral therapies for HIV-positive, pregnant women to reduce the risk of babies being born with the AIDS virus. About 6,000 HIV-infected women give birth each…
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Science & Tech
Neither Rome nor universe built in a day
Theoretical astrophysicists Stuart B. Wyithe and Abraham Loeb at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have explained a paradox that has troubled scientists for years. Observations seem to show that…
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Science & Tech
Structuring 21st century government for homeland defense
A report by Kennedy School of Government lecturer Elaine C. Kamarck, “Applying 21st Century Government to the Challenge of Homeland Security,” offers some specific recommendations: — Create a National Terrorism…
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Science & Tech
Religious private schools most segregated in U.S.
Black-white segregation is greater among private schools than among public schools, according to a research report from the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. Although 78 percent of the private…
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Science & Tech
Study shows maintaining homeownership gains is key to strong economy
A June 2002 report by The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University documents the strong demographic foundation of current and projected future housing market activity. According to the…
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Health
Researchers identify protein linked to tumor invasion
Metastasis occurs when cancer cells penetrate the boundaries of the tumor’s tissue and infiltrate the walls of blood vessels or lymph vessels, gaining a means of transport to other parts…
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Health
Investigators discover method to stimulate brain rewiring after stroke
After a stroke, brain cells die and their connections to other parts of the brain are lost. In a study with rats conducted at Children’s Hospital in Boston, a naturally…
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Science & Tech
RNA technology thwarts HIV
RNA interference (RNAi) is a naturally occurring phenomenon by which cells guard themselves against viruses. The process involves post-transcriptional gene silencing in which specific RNA sequences get chopped into small…
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Campus & Community
2002 Harvard Board of Overseers and HAA Elected Directors are announced
The President of the Harvard Alumni Association announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers and the HAA Elected Directors.
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Campus & Community
Harvard scientists contribute to National Academy terrorism report
Harvard scientists contribute to National Academy terrorism report
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Campus & Community
2002 Harvard Board of Overseers and HAA Elected Directors are announced
2002 Harvard Board of Overseers and HAA Elected Directors are announced