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  • Campus & Community

    HLS receives grant

    Harvard Law School’s Program on International Financial Systems has received a grant to study worldwide capital adequacy regulation of financial institutions. The project, supported by Swiss Reinsurance Co., will involve…

  • Campus & Community

    KSG professor named Carnegie scholar

    Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, has been named among the class of 2001 Carnegie Scholars by the Carnegie Corporation of…

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    The generous voice of a humanist

    Barry Mosers delicate pen-and-ink rendition of the restored Memorial Hall tower on the dust jacket of Neil L. Rudenstines new book Pointing Our Thoughts: Reflections on Harvard and Higher Education, 1991-2001 stands as an appropriate symbol of its authors achievement as Harvards 26th president.

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    HLS forgiveness eligibility expands

    Harvard Law School Dean Robert C. Clark has announced that students and alumni who take jobs in fields not traditionally considered “law-related” will be eligible for the school’s loan forgiveness…

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    The Big Picture: Cathy Craddock

    For 26 years, Cathy Craddock has taught some of the youngest scholars in the Harvard community: preschoolers who attend the Oxford Street Day Care Cooperative, one of six Harvard-affiliated day-care centers.

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    NewsMakers

    Shavell assumes presidency of law association Steven Shavell, the Samuel R. Rosenthal Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS), has assumed the presidency of the American Law and Economics…

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    Keillor will give PBK speech

    Garrison Keillor, creator and host of Minnesota Public Radios A Prairie Home Companion, will be the orator at next weeks Harvard Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Literary Exercises. The first academic event of Commencement Week, the exercises will take place at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, June 5, following the induction of about 100 seniors into the…

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    CNN analyst to speak at HLS Class Day

    On June 6, Greta Van Susteren, CNN legal analyst and host of The Point With Greta Van Susteren, will deliver Harvard Law Schools 2001 Class Day address. The speech will begin at 2:30 p.m. on the steps of Langdell Hall on the Law School campus.

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    Bells chime for Cambridge and Commencement

    A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on Thursday, June 7. For the 13th consecutive year a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvards 350th Commencement Exercises.

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    Police Reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, May 26. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

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    Three faculty honored with PBK prize

    Harvard’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) has announced the three faculty members who will receive this year’s PBK Teaching Prize. The prize, now in its 20th year, will be…

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    May 6, 1951 – The new Eliot Bridge across the Charles River at Gerry’s Landing is dedicated to the memory of President Charles W. Eliot and his son Charles Eliot,…

  • Campus & Community

    Opportunity to donate is at hand

    With spring cleaning in full swing, Harvard’s Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) provides members of the Harvard community a list of charitable organizations throughout Greater Boston that would make…

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    Important step in teaching with technology

    You eat a wonderful meal in an Italian restaurant and ask the chef for the recipe. But by the way, you say, I cant afford veal so I ordinarily use ground beef. I cook for 50 instead of for two, and I dont like broccoli. But please tell me the recipe.

  • Campus & Community

    Alum study extols exercise

    After tracking the health of Harvard alumni for 41 years, researchers offer this advice for a longer life: exercise, exercise, exercise, and quit smoking.

  • Science & Tech

    A quasar’s identity may simply be in eye of beholder

    A quasar is a super-massive black hole; quasars are among the most energetic objects in the Universe. Most quasars are extremely bright in optical light, but about 10 percent of…

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    She’s reforming school

    When Katherine Merseth fills out a form that asks for her profession, she always writes teacher.

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    Library joins publishers to archive electronic journals

    The Harvard University Library and three major publishers of scholarly journals – Blackwell Publishing, John Wiley &amp Sons, and the University of Chicago Press – have agreed to work together in developing an experimental archive for electronic journals. The preservation and the archiving of electronic journals – which are increasingly born digital and for which,…

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    Managers create action plans for diversity

    If any of the 120 Harvard managers attending the Sixth Workforce Management Conference on Friday, May 18, were hoping for a free lunch and an easy day out of the office, they were sorely disappointed.

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    HFA curatorship is named for Cavell

    For many years, Stanley Cavell, Ph.D. 61, has been at the forefront of combining philosophical inquiry with the study of film. Thanks to the generosity of retired Harvard faculty member and filmmaker Robert G. Gardner 48, A.M. 58, Cavells contributions to the area of film studies have been permanently honored with the creation of the…

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    Nieman Foundation announces fellows for 2001-02

    Thirteen U.S. journalists and 12 international journalists were appointed Monday to the 64th class of Nieman Fellows.

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    Imagitas Fellows named at KSG

    The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the winners of a fellowship created for the schools top students by Imagitas, a Waltham, Mass.-based government-solutions company. The Imagitas Fellows Program is designed to encourage public service and explore new ways of using private sector resources to solve public sector challenges. Maxwell Kennedy, chairman of the…

  • Campus & Community

    Looking behind headlines on preschools

    Study links child care to aggression. This recent headline, and others like it, has some parents wondering if preschool might be the first step to reform school.

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    Harvard and Cambridge form a summer school partnership

    Harvard University and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) announced today a new partnership to create The Cambridge-Harvard Summer Academy, a summer school program for Cambridge students.

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    American Academy of Arts and Sciences announces fellows

    The American Academy of Arts and Sciences recently announced the names of 209 distinguished scholars, scientists, artists, business executives, educators, and public officials who have been elected to membership in…

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    The Big Picture: Lama Migmar Tseten

    At first glance, Lama Migmar Tseten seems out of place in Cambridge, his maroon robes and tranquil demeanor a sharp contrast to the bustling chic and intellectual tweeds of Harvard Square.

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    Megan named director of Office for the Arts

    Megan named director of Office for the Arts

  • Campus & Community

    Rudenstine at Harvard

    After three years as a Rhodes Scholar and six months fulfilling his ROTC obligations as an artillery lieutenant at Fort Sill, Okla., Neil Rudenstine came to Harvard as a graduate student in English literature.

  • Campus & Community

    Newsmakers

    Holloway to meet with Nobel Laureates The Department of Energy has selected Ayana Holloway, GSAS, as one of 31 outstanding research participants to attend the 51st convention of Nobel laureates…

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    FMO ready to recycle during move-out

    Thanks to the cooperative efforts of the University community and Harvard Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO), a record 1,590 tons of paper have been recycled through the 2001 fiscal year. Now, with student move-out and Commencement just around the corner, FMO will be sponsoring several different efforts over the next few weeks to reduce the amount…