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His Holiness Bhakti Bhavana Vishnu Maharaj, a Hindu monk and swami of the Gaudiya Vaishnava lineage, will give a lecture titled “Gaudiya Vaishnavism: The Spiritual Science of Vedic India” on…

Anna Portnoy had come halfway around the world to witness the birth of a goddess. It was a difficult delivery. As a junior concentrating in the Study of Religion, Portnoy…

The Harvard Native American Program and the Askwith Education Forum at the Graduate School of Education will present artist Melanie Yazzie in a lecture and slide show titled “Holding the…

One of the grand mysteries of language concerns the nature of vowels and consonants. Are they really different entities processed separately by the brain, or just artificial labels developed for…

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Harvard sophomore Jennifer Botterill’s overtime goal gave Harvard (15-4-3) a 4-3 win over Northeastern in the championship game of the 22nd-annual women’s Beanpot Tournament at the Bright Hockey Center. Botterill,…

At noon on a very wet Valentine’s Day, a lively group of seventh graders from the Grover Cleveland Middle School in Dorchester entered a lecture hall in Byerly Hall to…

It¹s a yearly tradition for members of the Harvard Neighbors Quilting Group to make quilts for the children’s ward of Cambridge City Hospital and present them on Valentine’s Day.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 12. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden…

Journalist Helen Thomas to Speak at Law School The Harvard Law School Forum will present speaker Helen Thomas, “dean” of the White House Press Corps and UPI-Washington Bureau chief, on…

Harvard’s Memorial Church will host the 101st annual William Beldon Noble Lectures, which will be given by the Right Rev. John S. Spong, on March 6, 7, and 8 at…

Rev. Gomes Delivers Sermon at University of Cambridge The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes delivered one of six formal “University Sermons” in the Church of St. Mary the Great at…

Hoping to foster international good will and peacekeeping, more than 2,000 college students from all over the world will gather in Boston this week to participate in Harvard’s National Model…

A memorial service for Perry Townsend Rathbone ’33, will be held Friday, Feb. 25, at 4:00 pm in Memorial Church, the Reverend Peter Gomes presiding. Rathbone was the director of…

In 1979, Harvard’s 40 Iranian students underwent an overnight transformation. From being nationals of a “friendly” country, under the Shah, they became suddenly suspect when an Islamic fundamentalist regime swept…

The Newton-based company, Imagitas, has established a new summer fellowship program at the Kennedy School of Government. The program will pay a stipend of $7,000 each to ten to fifteen…

Black students at Harvard Medical School, in conjunction with the Office of Human Resources, Student Affairs, the Joint Committee on the Status of Women and other student groups, invite all…

A southern African nation that has been decimated by a quick-spreading subtype of the AIDS virus is now ground zero in the battle against it. Dedication ceremonies for the new…

Sheila Burke, executive dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, has accepted a post as Undersecretary for American Museums, Programs and National Outreach at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.…

The front-runner in this year’s presidential campaign is no one at all, says a new survey conducted by the Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and…

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is tackling the controversial issue of genetically engineered food by hosting a one-day conference titled, “Genetically Modified Foods: Should You Be Concerned?” Co-sponsored by…

While other funding sources balked, the American Cancer Society decades ago funded Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery Judah Folkman’s research into ways to cut off the blood supply to cancerous…

Conrad K. Harper and Herbert S. Winokur Jr. were named on Monday to join the seven-member Harvard Corporation. Both will assume their positions as Fellows of Harvard College by the…

A nonspeaking, walk-on role in the season finale of the new hot TV show The West Wing, lunch with NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw, a hike on the East Boston Greenway…

On the occasion honoring the 100th Jacob Wendell Scholar, a member of the Wendell family, Andy Thomas, recorded some of the scholarship’s history as well as his own impressions of…