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Campus & Community
Mounting evidence indicts passive smoking
The exposure of bar and restaurant staff to tobacco smoke from patrons can be as high as the exposure of active smokers, according to a study in the March 9 issue of the New Zealand Medical Journal. Wael Al-Delaimy, the studys principal author, is currently a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health…
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Campus & Community
Be hopeful, be wary, energy experts tell Mass.
It probably wont, but it can happen here.
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Campus & Community
New grading system is announced
While University administrators met with leaders of Harvards largest union, HUCTW, to work out terms of a new contract due to go to union members for a ratification vote on May 1, another set of negotiations produced revisions to the job classification grid for HUCTW members. The new contract, if ratified, will not go into…
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Campus & Community
NewsMakers
Harvard Magazine names Cohen and Levenson fellows Arianne Cohen and Eugenia (Jane) V. Levenson have been named Harvard Magazine’s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2001-02 academic year, when…
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Campus & Community
Public service gets spotlight
Engaging in electoral politics is an exciting and rewarding way to try to heal the ills of the world, but its not the only way – that was the consensus of a distinguished forum Monday, April 9, at the Kennedy Schools Institute of Politics.
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe Culinary Friends fetes the food life
The Radcliffe Culinary Friends presents its spring culinary event, The Life Around Food, on Thursday, May 3, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Meridian Hotel, 250 Franklin St., Boston.
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Campus & Community
The Big Picture: Jesse Armstrong
Good morning, folks. Cmon right in. How ya doing, Marie! Jodi, hows that thesis coming? Wheres Ethel today? Step right up, ladies. How are you, sir? What a glorious day!
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Campus & Community
The ‘bilingual effect’ says that when it comes to language, more is more
To some, a foreign language is exotic. To others, its strange and unwelcome.
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Campus & Community
Center for the Environment is established
Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced the establishment of a University Center for the Environment. The new center will draw on the strengths of and serve all of Harvards faculties and will support the development of multidisciplinary approaches to the solution of complex environmental problems. It is our hope that this center will become the…
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Campus & Community
Police reports
The following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 7. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…
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Campus & Community
Anderson Imbert, Victor Thomas Professor of Latin American Literature, dies at 90
Enrique Anderson Imbert, the Victor Thomas Professor of Latin American Literature at Harvard University from 1965 until his retirement in 1980, died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 6, 2000. He…
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
April 17, 1893 – The first Blaschka glass flowers are formally presented to the Botanical Museum as a memorial to Dr. Charles Eliot Ware, Class of 1834, by his widow…
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Campus & Community
Commencement notice
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…
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Campus & Community
KSG forum proves TV viewers can call the shots
Keep those cards and letters coming.
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Campus & Community
Scientists look people in the ‘I
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.
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Health
Scientists look people in the ‘I’
Harvard researchers seek a scientific answer to a question posed by 16th century philosopher René Descartes: “What is this ‘I’ that I know?” “Understanding the brain essence of self-awareness helps…
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Science & Tech
Bolstering private environmental management
How can government agencies best regulate private firms’ impact on the environment? One popular new approach — advocated by state agencies and by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — is…
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Health
Accomplice fingered in cholera toxicity
A study published in March 2001 revealed one of the ways that cholera toxin hijacks some of the cell’s own machinery. In uncovering part of the toxin’s trail, a team…
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Health
Pain promoter plays unexpected role in central nervous system
Despite all the attention it draws in patients, pain has only in recent years been deemed a subject worthy of scientific scrutiny.
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Campus & Community
A very good year
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.
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Campus & Community
Shedding light on science
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.
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Campus & Community
Eleven affiliates win Soros Fellowship for New Americans
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.
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Campus & Community
Chemistry and Chemical Biology fellowships awarded
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.
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Campus & Community
In Brief
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…
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Campus & Community
John E. Dowling receives Gund Award
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.
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Campus & Community
Morrison talks race and gender
Relationships between black and white women in literature have provided a sometimes painful mirror of racial stereotypes in the real world, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison said Tuesday, concluding, however, that literature today has gotten beyond stereotypes, no longer mirroring reality but running ahead of it.
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Campus & Community
Harvard calls on former Secretary of Treasury
Robert E. Rubin will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Exercises of Harvards 350th Commencement on Thursday, June 7.
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Campus & Community
Joint Center Housing Studies fellowships and opportunities
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.…