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Campus & Community
Suspect sought for indecent assault
According to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), a freshman student was assaulted while standing in Annenberg Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 26, at approximately 9:30 in the morning. The affiliate…
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Science & Tech
Astronomers resolve visible blast wave from gamma-ray burst
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are mysterious flashes of high-energy light that are detected about once a day somewhere in the sky. However, their origin remains unknown to astronomers, most of whom…
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Science & Tech
Examining differing reproductive desires in Gambia
For men in rural Gambia, more than 15 kids are desirable. That’s double the number of children that women are actually delivering. The number may seem high to people in…
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Campus & Community
Summer workers are recognized for efforts
Workers from the 2000 Summer Youth Employment Program were honored at an with a pizza party in August to recognize their efforts. In addition to lunch, the students were given…
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Campus & Community
Society of Fellows welcomes its Junior Fellows
Nine doctoral candidates of exceptional promise have joined the Society of Fellows as Junior Fellows. The Society gives scholars at early stages of their careers an opportunity to pursue their…
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Campus & Community
A message from the Presidential search committee
More information can be found on the web site: http://presidentialsearch.harvard.edu/
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Campus & Community
Police Log
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Sept. 16. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…
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Campus & Community
When canoes fly: move puts crafts in suitable environment
It was a modest armada. Last week, Peabody Museum staff removed 28 canoes, kayaks, outriggers, and dugouts from the sixth floor of the Herbarium and Botanical Museum where they had…
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Campus & Community
Giles named new Nieman curator
Robert H. Giles has been selected as the next curator of the University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, President Neil L. Rudenstine announced last month. Before coming to Harvard, Giles, 67,…
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Georgi wins Dirac Medal for contributions to physics Howard Georgi, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, has been awarded the Dirac Medal for his pioneering work in theoretical physics. Georgi shares the…
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Campus & Community
Suspect wanted for assault near Leverett
According to Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), a woman affiliated with the University was assaulted while walking on the pathway behind Leverett Towers on Saturday, Sept. 16, between 10:45 and…
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Campus & Community
HLS students honored for community service
Sixteen members of the Harvard Law School (HLS) Class of 2000 have received the inaugural HLS Student Community Service Awards in recognition of their service to the Harvard Law School…
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Campus & Community
Police call beating of Harvard student a ‘hate crime’
In what they are calling a “hate crime,” Cambridge Police are looking for two men who assaulted a Harvard undergraduate on Tuesday, Sept. 19. The assault occurred at approximately 8:35…
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Campus & Community
GSE leadership program gets $3.6 million Gates grant
Giving many cause to celebrate the first day back to school in Boston, on Sept. 5 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $3.6 million grant to the Harvard…
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Campus & Community
Black alumni will gather at HLS celebration
More than 80 years after Harvard Law School (HLS) awarded a degree to the nation’s first black law school graduate, a group of defiant attorneys led by Harvard’s own Charles…
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Campus & Community
Laying down the law: Zittrain wants to bring order to the Wild Wild Web
You might say Jonathan Zittrain was way ahead of his time. When the recently appointed assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School (HLS) was all of 12 years old…
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Campus & Community
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs names 2000-01 fellows
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has named 21 international affairs practitioners from around the world as fellows for 2000-01. Established in 1958, with the founding of the Center, the…
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Campus & Community
Increase in criminal vehicle incidents in Allston area
Criminal incidents involving motor vehicles in the area in and around the Business School campus and athletic facilities have increased in the last few months, according to the Harvard University…
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Campus & Community
Partial ceiling collapse at Stoughton Hall spurs inspection
All’s well at Stoughton Hall following a partial ceiling collapse last week. One freshman student suffered minor scratches when a portion of drywall and insulation came tumbling down from above…
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Campus & Community
Shorenstein announces fellows
The Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government has selected five distinguished journalists and scholars as the 2000 Fall Fellows. Among the…
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Campus & Community
Raise high the roof beam
Workers repaired the building’s leaky roof in work that began this summer and is slated to be completed in October.
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Campus & Community
Provost grants to promote interchange
Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced a new round of grants under the Provost’s Fund for Student Collaboration. These grants are designed to promote intellectual interchange across faculties of the…
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Campus & Community
Grants help Pluralism Project cultivate ‘national conversation
The Ford Foundation recently awarded a grant of $641,000 in supplemental support to the Pluralism Project for “development of a project that serves as a national research and policy resource…
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Campus & Community
PBHA brings Harmony to the children
The four boys clustered around the drum pounded it rhythmically — almost — filling the small gymnasium with sound and sending tobacco bits ritually sprinkled on the drum’s skin bouncing…
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Campus & Community
Location of Oxford Street barricades changed
With the completion of the city’s pipeline investigations, DPW has concluded that the portion of Oxford Street north of the Dworkin Driveway is in the poorest condition and must be…
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Campus & Community
Notes
President, provost offer office hoursHarvard President Neil L. Rudenstine will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 3. Provost…
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Campus & Community
Carbon bits to revolutionize computer construction
A new way of building computers involves the world’s strongest material in the form of exotic tubes 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. Called nanotubes, they are a hundred…
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Campus & Community
‘Stag’ faces changing times
Thomas Derrah doesn’t look much like a king. Wearing a Hawaiian shirt and baseball cap, he sits scrunched up in a front-row seat at the Loeb Drama Center, scribbling notes…
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Campus & Community
Greenblatt named University Professor of the Humanities
President Neil L. Rudenstine has announced that Stephen Greenblatt, a world-renowned scholar of Renaissance literature, has been named John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities. With this appointment, Greenblatt joins…
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Campus & Community
Rounding up the ‘Horses’: First U.S. exhibition devoted to Franz Marc’s ‘Horses’ opens at Busch-Reisinger
Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum will present an exhibition offering an intimate look at Franz Marc’s (1880-1916) paintings of horses. “Franz Marc: Horses” brings together a selection of major works by this…