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The Kuwait Program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) held its first Executive Program in Kuwait on Global Challenges and Security in the Gulf from June 11-13. The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, the sponsor of KSGs Kuwait Program, hosted the three-day seminar. Twenty-nine senior executives from the government, military, and private…

In an effort to encourage fairness in newspaper journalism and honor an exemplary example of fairness in news coverage, the former managers of The Boston Globe have announced the establishment of the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard will administer the award.

Harvard Law School (HLS) has received a $500,000 gift to establish the Bob Barker Endowment Fund for the Study of Animal Rights. The fund will support teaching and research at HLS in the emerging field of animal rights law. The income generated by the gift will fund periodic courses and seminars at HLS on animal…

Last Thursday, on a day as beautiful as any this summer has offered, 14 Boston-area high school science teachers sat in the dark learning about mechanisms of cholesterol homeostasis. Later that day, they watched blood clot.

The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology welcomed the Kush Club Summer Program on Tuesday, July 10. A youth organization established in 1989, the Kush Club is dedicated to studying and promoting public awareness about the history, culture, and artistic achievements of Africa in antiquity.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) has announced a $3.6 million dollar grant to LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas to administer a new program – the Leadership Fellowship Program for Latin America and the Caribbean. The five-year grant is designed to train up to 50 fellows through short-term, masters, and doctoral degree programs…

Carl Hagen regretted that he had but one life to give for his – butterfly. George Washington regretted that his pheasants didnt last longer, and Mugger, well, Mugger was an enormous saltwater crocodile and if he regretted anything at all, it was probably eating the horse that brought about his doom.

In preparation for Phase 2 of the Widener Library renovation project, scheduled to begin this fall, scaffolding has been erected temporarily in the librarys lobby to aid architects in gathering preliminary information pertaining to the original structure of the building.

The State of the Nations Housing: 2001, released last month by Harvards Joint Center for Housing Studies, found that despite the weakening economy, home sales entered the year at near record levels prices and rents continued to climb and residential fixed investment in 2000 was off a mere half percent.

Almost a half century after the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that Southern school segregation was unconstitutional and inherently unequal, a new study from The Civil Rights Project at Harvard shows that segregation continued to intensify throughout the 1990s. The study, Schools More Separate: Consequences of a Decade of Resegregation, by Professor of Education and Social…

Richard P. Rogers, director of the Film Study Center and senior lecturer in Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), died Saturday, July 14, in his home in Wainscott, N.Y. The cause of death was metastasized melanoma. Rogers was 57.

Five students in the Graduate School of Design (GSD) received Fulbright Cultural Exchange Grants. The 2000-01 winners were announced at the GSD Commencement in June. The following list of grant recipients, which includes their nation of study and project title, reflects this years diversity of interests, skills, and backgrounds.

The crimson Veritas banner flew alongside the black, gold, and red German flag when summer arrived in downtown Dresden this June, as more than 150 U.S. and German scholars celebrated 35 years of the study of Germany and Europe at Harvards Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES).

The NCAA Division I Womens Basketball Committee has selected Indianapolis, Boston, and Cleveland as the sites for the 2005, 2006, and 2007 NCAA Womens Final Fours, respectively.

They stand in mammoth clusters along the streets of nearly every major city they loom like glistening monoliths at the edge of suburban highways they are omnipresent – the huge glass boxes in which the worlds business is transacted.

Harvard Law Schools Berkman Center for Internet &amp Society has announced a new project to create public policies that support digital entrepreneurship. The project, Open Economies, will support developing nations seeking to embrace digital technology and digitally enabled entrepreneurship as a means to economic development.

Political scientist Louise Richardson, an associate professor of government at Harvard University and the head tutor in the Universitys department of government, has been appointed executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Richardson assumed her new responsibilities on July 2.

With barely a week of summer vacation behind them, about 40 Boston Public School teachers and administrators returned to work, rolling up their sleeves June 28 and 29 at the Boston-Harvard Leadership Development Initiative summer institute at the Faculty Club.

For 44 years a small disc-shaped metal canister rested in a closet at the Comparative Literature Departments office in Boylston Hall. Nobody opened it. Nobody knew what it was.

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With a trumpets fanfare, a custom-made video, the gracious words of outgoing President Neil L. Rudenstine, and a catered bash with a live band, Harvard honored its heroes on June 13 in Sanders Theatre.

If you watch carefully, you can see the Earth move, says Albert Szabo, pointing to a rainbow sparkling on the back of a black leather chair. As the Earth rotates, he explains, sunlight shining through the prisms he has fastened to the window cause bands of colored light to migrate around the room.

On Oct. 4, 1951, Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore.

July 2, Lawrence H. Summers first full day on the job, greeted Harvards 27th president with a mix of ordinary tasks, celebratory events, and plenty of hard work.

One of nature’s best shows features the signals that fireflies exchange as they search for mates on warm summer nights. Few people can watch it without wondering how the little bugs turn their belly lanterns on and off so quickly.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks ending June 16, June 23, June 30, July 7, and July 14. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

On Monday, July 16, Associate Vice President for Human Resources Polly Price and Vice President and General Counsel Anne Taylor released a statement to the University Community concerning the reclassification of certain jobs in beginning administrative and professional grades that would make the positions eligible for overtime pay. The statement explains why the reclassification is…

The permanent reversal of Type 1 diabetes in mice may end the wrenching debate over harvesting stem cells from the unborn to treat adult diseases. Researchers at Harvard Medical School killed cells responsible for the diabetes, then the animals’ adult stem cells took over and regenerated missing cells needed to produce insulin and eliminate the…