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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.

The coldest place in the universe is not millions of miles away in a dark corner of outer space but in an exotic laboratory in Cambridge, Mass. It’s a place where Harvard University researchers are slowing and compressing light and probing exotic states of matter.

The Davis Center for Russian Studies has announced the recipients of fellowship, dissertation, and research travel awards for 2001-02.

After finishing high school in her native Greece, Marina Gerolimatos spent several years studying cosmetology near Athens, then earning a scholarship to study the profession in Paris. While her siblings left for the United States, she finished her studies in Paris and went back to Greece, near her mother, to open what became a successful…

Under the auspices of the Alumni Association of Phillips Brooks House Association, nine students are interning this summer at not-for-profit organizations and one government agency. The host agency is paying each intern’s salary, except for two students who are receiving work study funding.

As a 10-year-old child visiting a historical society in Cabot, Vt., Sarah Anne Carter was fascinated by two small dolls dressed in plain black, lying in wooden coffins. Carter has…

The University has announced this year’s Harvard Housing Innovations Program (HHIP) grant winners. The awards ceremony took place on Friday, June 8, at the Business School. These awards are the…

Institute for Advanced Theatre Training names new director The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) has announced that Hungarian theater and film director János Szász has been appointed director of the A.R.T…

James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, has been elected president of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD).

Center for Ethics accepting fellowship applications The Center for Ethics and the Professions is accepting applications for 2002-03 residential faculty fellowships in ethics. Fellows will participate in the center’s weekly…

Harvard University announced yesterday (June 13) that the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, professor in religion and society and chair of the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Divinity, will resign as head of Harvard Divinity School (HDS) at the end of 2001 to become president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, a network of more…

Paul Bénichou, a critic recognized by students of French literature as one of the premier scholars of the 20th century, died in a Paris hospital on Monday, May 14. He…

On Friday, June 8, at approximately 4:50 a.m., an assault and battery was reported inside the entry gate to the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Bryant and Scott Streets.…

Former Harvard coach Robert L. Scalise has been named Harvard’s Nichols Family Director of Athletics, announced Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, at a press conference on Monday, July 16.

One week he dodged grizzly bears another time it was an attack by raccoons on yet another day he found evidence of wild bobcats inside the Chicago city limits. That all happened to Richard Forman as part of a project to visit the most remote areas in the contiguous United States.

The President of the Harvard Alumni Association announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers last week. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the Universitys 350th Commencement. The five newly elected Overseers, in order of their finish, are Harold Hongju Koh,…

Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright will receive the Radcliffe Medal from the Radcliffe Association on Friday, June 8, during the associations annual luncheon in Cambridge. The Radcliffe Medal is awarded yearly to an individual whose life and work has had a significant impact on society.

Hundreds of Harvard Law School alumni will convene in Paris later this month to take part in the schools second Worldwide Alumni Congress – an international gathering of the Law School community featuring both intellectual and social activities.

Staff photos by Jon Chase Following is the text that Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., used to introduce the gift of Nok sculptures to the Rudenstines on May 12: In…

Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright will receive the Radcliffe Medal from the Radcliffe Association on Friday, June 8, during the associations annual luncheon in Cambridge. The Radcliffe Medal is awarded yearly to an individual whose life and work has had a significant impact on society.

Twelve students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) are recipients of Fulbright Grants that will allow them to conduct dissertation or other advanced research abroad next year.…

For Kathleen Dawson, spending a year at the Harvard Graduate School of Education was as much catharsis as it was education, the final marker of a 26-year journey in search of family, purpose, and excellence.

The snow was compact and the toboggan glided to the snowmobile trail head more easily than I had expected. I had a plastic sled with an unwaxed snowboard mounted on the bottom, and over 120 pounds in gear and supplies, enclosed by a brown tarp tied to the device with a thin nylon cord. The…

The accolades keep rolling in for Womens Track and Field Team co-captain and Harvard senior Brenda Taylor.

Alexis Craig ’02, of Lowell House, will intern at the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit at the District Attorney’s Office in Austin, Texas. Roopal Patel ’03, of Lowell House, will intern…

The Institute of Politics (IOP) has awarded more than $100,000 to Harvard students for summer internships in the public sector. As part of three separate programs offered by the Institute,…

Two historians, a composer, and a physicist received Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) medals at a ceremony on Wednesday, June 6, at the Faculty Club. The 2001 Centennial Medalists are Bernard Bailyn Ph.d. 53 Caroline Walker Bynum, 62, Ph.D. 69 Elliott Carter, A.B. 30, A.M. 32 and Walter Kohn, Ph.D. 48.