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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,…

At its 12th meeting of the year, the Council met with Dean Bruce Donoff (Dental Medicine) and Professor Bjorn Olsen (Oral Biology) to discuss a proposed joint FAS/Dental School Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine. Deans Peter Ellison (Graduate School) and Margot Gill (Administrative Dean), and Professor David Pilbeam (Associate Dean of the Faculty)…

Beginning to plan his post-presidential pursuits, President Neil L. Rudenstine has agreed to serve as chairman of a major new nonprofit organization that will develop, maintain, and distribute digital resources for the study of art, architecture, design, and related fields in the humanities.

Letters of acceptance to the Class of 2005 have been mailed to 2,041 applicants from a record pool of 19,009. For the 10th time in the past 11 years, applications for admission to Harvard have risen. Last year, 18,693 students applied for the 1,650 places in the entering class. The percentage of admitted students was…

It doesnt have a pull-out keyboard drawer, full-extension hanging files, or a built-in surge protector, but theres probably no other desk like it in all of Harvard.

Helaine Daniels, formerly of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Oxfam, Mobil Oil Africa, and the Boston Globe, has been named director of international student programs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Associate Dean Joseph McCarthy announced.

Dear Colleagues and Friends, I am writing to let you know that I will be concluding my service as Provost as of June 30, 2001. Serving in this role these…

March 21, 1953 – Responding to the death of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, educational radio station WGBH-FM broadcasts two and a half hours of taped reflections from 12 Harvard professors…

Back in the mid-20th century, kids came streaming out of school at 3 p.m. into the gloriously unstructured portion of their day, the part between sitting upright at their desks and sitting upright at the dinner table. It was a time for stickball, tag, ringalevio, for riding a bike, strapping on roller skates, or earning…

During some of the nastier months of a New England winter, junior Amy Chang – the director and instructor of Harvards recreational ice skating classes – leads a group metamorphosis in the quiet confines of the Bright Hockey Center. From early February through March, this veteran skater of nearly 10 years eases novice students into…

His warm and enthusiastic teaching style endeared him to generations of undergraduates, and he firmly guided over twenty graduate students as they began their physics careers.

The mayor was vacillating. The police were posturing. The ACLU was pontificating. And hip-hop star Big X, having been stopped by police for a tilted license plate and detained for three hours, said his actual crime was DWB – driving while black. It was a press conference from the front lines of the urban American…