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Ilene K. Gipson, senior scientist and ocular surface scholar at The Schepens Eye Research Institute, and professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, has received a $65,000 Senior Scientific Investigator Award from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB).

Last month, William P. Alford, the Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law and director of East Asian Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, was the guest of President and Mrs. Clinton at a White House dinner honoring the Special Olympics. Alford was invited in recognition of his work on behalf of the Special Olympics in…

As a successful midcareer professional, Janine Clifford last year confronted an intriguing dilemma – whether to return to her Honolulu architectural firm or continue her ascent toward a doctorate degree at the Graduate School of Design (GSD). After careful consideration she chose to do both.

Energy Secretary to teach at Kennedy School U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson will teach a course at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) this semester, announced Dean Joseph S.…

The Ford Motor Co., through the Ford Motor Company Fund, plans to add $1 million to an existing five-year award of $1.5 million to Harvard. The new funds will support a University Committee on Environment study of the long-term environmental and economic consequences of transportation choices in developing countries, taking a multidisciplinary systems perspective. The…

It requires only a cursory glance at the classified ads to determine just how exorbitant the cost of living has become in and around Boston.

Thanks to a generous contribution from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), the Kennedy School of Government has launched a new program to expand teaching and research on the critical issues facing Kuwait and the Gulf region, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced.

In sports, as in much of life, it is the small, imperceptible things that happen in the background, behind the scenes, that separate the good from the very good and make the best that much better.

The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships Administrative Board has announced the selection of five graduating seniors for its 2001-02 fellowship.

Stephanie Sandler wears a deep blue stone on one hand and a wide gold wedding band on the other. These are idiosyncratic pieces – large for her fingers, a little irregular in shape, strong statements for such a slight and self-contained woman. She has something of the ballerinas mien about her – erect, watchful -…

Harvard University Police officers escort Kenneth Leong from the Science Center following his arrest on Jan. 18. Leong is accused of bursting into an auditorium filled with more than 250 students as the students were beginning work on a final exam. Witnesses say Leong hurled a brick against a blackboard and threatened to detonate a…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Jan. 20. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

Jan. 24, 1873 – The first issue of the weekly Magenta – predecessor of The Harvard Crimson – appears as a two-column booklet that contains reviews, essays, and poems. The…

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino hosts a breakfast and ceremony at City Hall this morning (Jan. 25), conferring the 2000 Award for Excellence in Childrens Health. The award honors The Horizons Initiative for the range of comprehensive services it offers at its Community Childrens Centers.

Orientation teaches teachers The Derek Bok Center’s Winter Teaching Orientation for faculty and teaching fellows will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 30, from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. on the…

Scott Sandberg knew that folks at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study were finally on board for his recycling program last March when they threw him a surprise 30th birthday party. The cake had Happy Anniversary written on it.

Two years ago we slowed it down to 38 miles an hour now weve been able to park it then bring it back up to full speed. Lene Hau isnt talking about a used motorbike, but about light &mdash that ethereal, life-sustaining stuff that normally travels 93 million miles from the sun in about eight…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 17, 2000, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

The Center for Business and Government (CBG) at Harvards Kennedy School announced a full roster of fellows for 2000-01. The largest complement of fellows in the history of the Center, this global gathering of business leaders, scholars, industry representatives, and policy-makers from around the world will study subjects ranging from business reform to resource regulation…

It is a standard albumen print, labeled Palmyre, Sculpture dun chapiteau, Syrie, and signed in the lower right by the Bonfils studio. The caption refers to the capital of a fallen column that dominates the foreground, and locates it at a tourist site in Palmyra, Syria. Except for a child apparently sleeping on the capital,…

Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Associations (HAA) nominations for this years election to the Universitys Board of Overseers and the HAA Board of Directors. The election this spring will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA Elected Directors. Ballots will be mailed by April 15 and results of the election will be announced…

Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Associations (HAA) nominations for this years election to the University’s Board of Overseers and the HAA Board of Directors. The election this spring will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA Elected Directors. Ballots will be mailed by April 15 and results of the election will be announced…

Having left their farms and businesses and state legislatures to head to Washington, 18 newly elected members of Congress took a detour to the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) last month for a crash course in federal governance just weeks before being sworn into office.

James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, and Maxwell L. Anderson, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, announced their joint appointment of Carol Mancusi-Ungaro as director of the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art at Harvard University and director of Conservation of the…

Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren, the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, has been named the second vice president of the American Law Institute (ALI), a 77-year-old scholarly institution dedicated to clarifying and adapting the law to better suit societys needs.

A memorial service is planned for a Harvard undergraduate student who died in December. Twenty-year-old Shira Palmer-Sherman 02 suffered irreversible brain damage after being struck by an automobile while crossing a street in Harvard Square.

Five Harvard seniors are among the latest group of American college students named Marshall Scholars by the British government in thanks for American help rebuilding their country after World War II.

George Huntston Williams A memorial service was held for George Huntston Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus, on Jan. 12 at the Memorial Church. Christopher McEvoy A memorial service was…

As she carefully maneuvered her way around stacks of cardboard boxes and piles of books in her temporary office at Fay Hall, Drew Gilpin Faust, the founding Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study who is assuming her full-time duties this month, didnt appear in the least bit flustered. It seems only natural for…