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Professor Emeritus Bertrand Fox, an economist and investment banking expert who had a lasting impact on Harvard Business School as director of its Division of Research, died on March 14 in Lexington, Mass., at the age of 92. Fox was a distinguished member of the School’s faculty for 25 years, beginning in 1949. He served…

At its 11th meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed the annual Affirmative Action Report with Professor Marjorie Garber, Associate Dean for Affirmative Action, and Elizabeth Doherty, Assistant Dean of the Faculty for Academic Planning. The Council also heard a proposal from Professor Harry Lewis, Dean of Harvard College, concerning businesses in student rooms.…

George Lauder hits a few keys on his laptop, and a moving image appears on the screen. “That’s the fish’s pectoral fin,” he says, pointing to the grainy, black-and white-picture. “It’s slowed down because the camera was taking 250 images per second. But do you see the way the water is moving in a sort…

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June Dowling, a receptionist at the Harvard University Employees Credit Union since 1989, died on March 6, three months after being diagnosed with cancer. She is survived by her husband, Robert, who worked for Harvard University Police and Security from 1980 until his retirement in 1995. She also leaves seven children, 13 grandchildren, and eight…

Kathy Delaney-Smith rode her bike to the office the day after the devastating 96-74 loss to Dartmouth ended the Crimson women’s basketball season. It had been only days earlier, coming into the season’s last weekend, that Delaney-Smith, Harvard women’s basketball coach, had hoped Harvard would share the title that Dartmouth won outright. The whipping by…

For years, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah has espoused the ideal of bringing a multidisciplinary approach to the study of ethnic history and identification. Since arriving at Harvard in 1991, Appiah has worked to expand the consciousness of both blacks and whites when viewing the complexities of African history and…

While South Africans around the world celebrate their country’s Human Rights Day on Tuesday, March 21, Sheila Sisulu, the South African Ambassador to the United States, will be at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study attending a lecture by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a former member of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. On the following morning,…

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet Seamus Heaney will give the inaugural Stratis Haviaras Lecture, titled “Room to Rhyme,” in the Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland St., on Thursday, April 6, at 5:30 p.m. Heaney, a 1995 Nobel laureate and former Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will read from his new book, a verse translation…

The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations is sponsoring the Seventh Annual Science Conference, titled “Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics” Friday and Saturday, March 17 and 18 in the Science Center. Feature events at the conference include student and faculty presentations of research, a keynote address, and a mentoring program…

The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to journalists from Time Magazine by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. In last Thursday night’s ceremony, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele were presented the Prize for their series, “What Corporate Welfare…

College students are drinking more and college administrators are enjoying it less, according to a nationwide study of binge drinking. Approximately one in four (23 percent) of more than 14,000 students surveyed admitted to frequent binge drinking, defined as consuming four, five, or more consecutive drinks at least three times in the two weeks prior…

According to Joel Schwartz, associate professor of environmental health at the School of Public Health, “Air pollution kills about 70,000 Americans each year. That’s more people than die from breast and prostate cancers combined. Air pollution is a huge public health problem.” The idea that air pollution is harmful is hardly new. However, critics of…

When David Weitz says his experiment is ready to fly, he means that literally. Like into space. Weitz has had four experiments aboard space flights, including three on the Mir space station and one on the shuttle flight that hoisted an aging John Glenn into orbit. He has a fifth experiment scheduled to fly aboard…

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles has announced that for the 2000-01 academic year, Harvard’s package of undergraduate tuition, room and board, and student fees will increase by 2.9 percent, to $33,110. This marks the ninth consecutive year in which the rate of increase has declined; the percentage increase is…

Harvard basketball senior captain Damian Long of Spokane, Wash., has been named Ivy League Player of the Week for the period ending March 5, while freshman guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman of Mercer Island, Wash., has earned Ivy Rookie of the Week honors. The duo helped lead the Crimson to a pair of road victories over the…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 4. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Feb. 27: A jacket was stolen from the coatroom at the Sackler Museum. A parked car in Holyoke Center garage was struck by another…

Juliana Paré-Blagoev believes that brain scan studies will not only yield scientific clues for furthering treatment of dyslexia, but also subtle, easily overlooked benefits–such as a sense of hope, that may come simply from the subjects’ participation in a brain-imaging experiment. “How do people with dyslexia think about their disability?” Paré-Blagoev wonders, “and how does…