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Morning Exercises, Thursday, June 7 To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on…

Keep those cards and letters coming.

If you train a monkey to look in a mirror, then put a dab of odorless red dye on its eyebrow, the monkey will try to rub the dye off the mirror. If you do the same with a chimpanzee, this more advanced ape will wipe its own eyebrow.

After last months 3-1 loss against Ivy rival Dartmouth in the ECAC Championship game, and a 6-3 upset in the first ever NCAA Womens Championship Semifinal in Minneapolis versus the eventual national champion Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs, this seasons brilliant Crimson squad found its post-season solace wherever it could, and not surprisingly, in a number of ways.

There were cockroaches perched on little kids fingers, cockroaches cupped in kids hands, cockroaches crawling on the table – and 9-year-old faces screwed up in an odd mixture of excitement, disgust, and delight.

Eleven Harvard University students and graduates are among the 30 recipients for the 2001 Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship. Fellows receive up to a $20,000 stipend plus half tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the U.S.

Each year, the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology receives a number of corporate fellowships instrumental in the training of graduate students in organic chemistry. The 2000-01 research fellowships are sponsored by Eli Lilly Research Laboratories, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., and Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research. Ten graduate students have been awarded the fellowships this year.

Veritas Forum returns to Harvard After a two-year hiatus, the Veritas Forum returned to Harvard yesterday (Wednesday, April 4), and will run through Monday, April 9. Through lectures, panels, and…

John E. Dowling, the Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard University, was recently awarded the prestigious Llura Liggett Gund Award from The Foundation Fighting Blindness.

Robert E. Rubin will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvards 350th Commencement on Thursday, June 7.

The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering a fellowship award for the 2001-02 academic year for doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic consistent with the centers research agenda. The award will provide a stipend of $10,000. The Meyer Dissertation Fellowship is named in honor of John R.…

How are women faring in the information technology (IT) industry? Researchers from the Radcliffe Public Policy Center (RPPC) will address that question during a three-year study – funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) – of women working in IT. RPPC will partner with the Massachusetts Software and Internet Council (MSIC) to study employees in…

Harvard collected a record $34,101 for the American Cancer Societys annual Daffodil Days fundraiser this year, topping last years total by 2.2 percent and helping fund the Cancer Society programs, including research seeking a cure for the disease. This years results come just months after the University was recognized in February for being the top…

Associate Vice President for Human Resources Polly Price has announced the appointment of Henry Ryan as director of Workforce Initiatives for Harvard University. Ryan joined the University on Monday, April 2.

Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs Paul Grogan will leave Harvard July 1 to take the helm of The Boston Foundation, a philanthropy dedicated to building community in Boston and helping the citys poor.

Making government work better, both at home and abroad, is the goal behind a $50 million endowment grant awarded today by the Ford Foundation to the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). It is the largest single donation KSG has ever received and the largest single endowment ever made by the Ford Foundation.

University Health Services (UHS) has achieved its highest accreditation score ever from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Heathcare Organizations, earning 99 points out of 100 after a rigorous three-day inspection.

Eric Lander was riding in a taxi during the week in February when government and private scientists published a nearly complete sequence of human genes. Not knowing that Lander, of the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, played a major role in that effort, the driver explained that the first map of all our genes – the…

Botterill named 2001 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award winner Crimson women’s hockey forward, Jennifer Botterill, has been selected as this year’s Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award recipient. Presented by Texaco, the award…

When he was 17 years old, Wolfgang Rueckner did not build a go-cart for the science fair. He decided to build an ion rocket engine instead – the ones that can propel a rocket in the vacuum of space. So, he wrote NASA and they sent him some research papers, and young Wolfgang obtained a…

As an idealistic young student in Paris, Philippe Aghion dreamed of making the world a better place, of reducing inequality and environmental damage, and of taking better advantage of technological progress to reduce poverty and illiteracy and increase social well-being.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 31. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

April 25, 1674 – The Harvard Corporation orders that “freshmen of the Colledg shall not at any time be compelled by any Senior students to goe on errands or doe…

The Harvard University Choir and the Mozart Society Orchestra join together in a performance of The Creation, composed by Franz Joseph Haydn, under the direction of conductor Robert Lehmann. The concert features soloists Jean Danton as Gabriel, Mark Risinger as Raphael, and Thomas Gregg as Uriel. The performance takes place at 8 p.m. on Sunday,…