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While a record 6,128 students applied for admission under the Colleges early action program this year, applications have remained just over the 6,000 level for the third year in a row. Last year, 6,096 applied early, while the previous year saw 6,026 applicants.

Kindergarten teacher Maurice Rabb spends his evenings coordinating speech therapy for a student. Joy Kraft, a high school social studies teacher, wheels her teaching materials from classroom to classroom in a suitcase. Nate Monley takes a student fishing to gain his trust. Georgene Acosta rallies her English as a Second Language students to testify before…

Find a nanny. Have a Plan B. Redefine success. Keep your priorities clear. Be flexible. Be creative. Laugh.

Jack Megan, the new director of the Office of the Arts (OFA), is a multitalented artist in his own right. A jazz pianist, composer, actor, and playwright, he has been a passionate devotee of the arts since childhood.

Francis Daniels Moore, former surgeon-in-chief at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) and the Moseley Professor of Surgery Emeritus at Harvard Medical School (HMS), died on Nov. 24 at the age of 88. In 1954, Moore was a member of the surgical team that performed the worlds first successful human organ transplant – the transference of…

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, or Mad Cow disease) has not been detected in the United States. The first major analysis of what would happen if BSE were introduced into the United States finds that there is little chance that the disease will be a serious threat either to the American cattle herd or to public…

Make no bones about it: Charles Schaff loves his job.

SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE 12/10/01 Five Harvard University students were selected as Rhodes Scholars, giving Harvard the most scholars in the nation, the scholarship trust announced Sunday, Dec. 9. The…

SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE 12/6/01 Lauren Baer and Sarah Moss, both Harvard College seniors, have won Marshall Scholarships. The prestigious scholarships allow young American leaders to study at a university…

SPECIAL TO THE GAZETTE 12/12/01 Lithium drugs may reduce the risk of suicide among people with severe recurrent depression by as much as 82 percent, according to a new Harvard…

If you asked most college students at most colleges to name their favorite class, chances are the words “freshman chemistry” wouldn’t come up all that often. On the other hand,…

Michele Shirasu-Hiza sits in what looks like a phone booth with the lights on, talking to herself.

Laying the groundwork for an effective new national governmental infrastructure in Afghanistan will require a thoughtful, sustained, and integrated international effort.

The toughest problem facing the U.S.-led operation in Afghanistan is not bombs, bunkers, or refugees, but the depth of its own resolve, according to former Institute of Politics Director and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jonathan Moore.

When Harvard’s founders committed themselves to a “learned ministry” for the New World, they could hardly have imagined study carrels with dataports or periodicals like Syzygy: Journal of Alternative Religion…

While the rarity and beauty of Harvard’s Glass Flowers have won them fame and made them the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s (HMNH) most popular exhibit, the glass animals exist…

As the academic year began this fall, the annual rites of passage from high school to college, from vacation back to school, were rendered indelible by the events of Sept.…

Whitney Espich, a former manager at Citigate Cunningham and the former communications officer at Monticello, has been appointed director of communications at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

At Harvard Law School (HLS), where many students are training for careers that will put astonishing demands on their time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith moderated a discussion Thursday evening (Nov. 29) that focused tightly on the demands of law careers. Smiths latest public television documentary, Juggling Work and Family With Hedrick Smith, devotes a…

Tara McAllister, this years winner of the Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize, sits in the Japanese Tea House at 5 Bryant St. The prize is awarded each year to an outstanding student of Japanese who has completed at least two years of Japanese language study at Harvard. McAllister will be honored at a private reception on…

The next Silicon Valley could well be in Boston, but it is likely to be heading a biomedical rather than a computer revolution, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers predicted Thursday (Nov. 29) in a speech before about 300 doctors, researchers, and other medical personnel at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

In the first prospective study in the United States to look at the effect of combination therapy that includes protease inhibitors on HIV-1 infected children and adolescents, researchers from the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (PACTG) and the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) found that mortality rates among the study participants were dramatically reduced.…

Coach Tim Murphy, who guided the Ivy League Champion Harvard football team to its first undefeated, untied season since 1913, has been named New England Division I-AA Coach of the Year by the New England Sportswriters Association. This is Murphys third selection as Coach of the Year and is his second honor as the Crimson…

Hill selected for New Century program Allan G. Hill, Andelot Professor of Demography at the School of Public Health (SPH), was recently selected for the newly created Fulbright New Century…

If Theodore Bestor had gotten his way when he was 15, he wouldnt be where he is today.

Edmund Spevack, a former Harvard lecturer on history and literature, passed away in his native Muenster, Germany, on July 2, 2001, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 38.

Miranda Worthen 01 joins a Nov. 30 rally organized by the national organization Justice for Janitors. The group has held periodic demonstrations in the area. Staff photo by Justin Ide