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The Harvard Defenders, a Harvard Law School student organization that provides legal representation to low-income persons accused of crimes, will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Saturday, April 29. The Harvard…

Sharon P. Clayborne, director of financial aid at Harvard Medical School, died on Thursday, April 13, at the age of 47. Clayborne tirelessly counseled students through the financial aid process.…

Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus Abram Chayes, 77, who served as the Kennedy Administration’s chief international lawyer at the height of the Cold War and who taught at Harvard…

Brain cells that make it possible for zebra finches to sing were forced to die then brought back to life by researchers at Harvard and Rockefeller universities. In a major…

Harvard Law School Professor Gary Bellow, the founder and former faculty director of the School’s Clinical Programs and a pioneering public interest lawyer, died on April 13 from cardiac arrest…

Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree (from left), Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Mrs. Cecelia Marshall (wife of the late Justice…

Accolades abounded at Tuesday evening’s “Harvard University Volunteer Recognition Program 2000.” Over 100 Harvard employees, who volunteer their time, were invited to the Law School’s Ropes and Gray Room for…

They walk through the door with handfuls or even shoe boxes crammed with crinkled letters, receipts, and tax documents from their pension plans, banks, the Social Security Administration, and the…

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Good morning. I’’m very glad to be with all of you this morning, to celebrate your school and its achievements, and to wish you good fortune as you begin your…

Warfield Named Chair of Anesthesia and Critical Care at BIDMC Carol A. Warfield, associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, has been named chair of the anesthesia and critical…

Monkeys can tell the difference between Dutch and Japanese as easily as human infants, language researchers have found. This ability makes humans less special than previously believed, and ties our…

Dayna Muller will be wired like an astronaut when she runs the grueling 26.2-mile Boston Marathon on April 17. A pillbox-sized sensor on one shoe will broadcast her running speed…

Two books and a work-in-progress have been named winners of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project, an awards program jointly administered by the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University…

Declaring that music has been central to the African-American experience since slavery, Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. announced Friday the creation of the first endowed professorship in…

For many of us, food can be a powerful reminder of who we are and where we come from. But the foods that Rebecca Weisinger ’02 remembers from her family…

Nearly 300 students turned out for the first annual H’ARD CORPS (Harvard Community Outreach and Public Service) event on Saturday. Breaking into teams, they worked on 18 different projects in…

Quality-of-life factors are the most significant determinants for prospective faculty when they’re considering a job offer, according to a new study conducted by the Project on Faculty Appointments at the…

The following members of the Faculty have been elected to the Council for terms beginning on July 1, 2000: Professors John Y. Campbell (Economics), Jay M. Harris (NELC), Pamela K.…