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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 Truth: The Personal and Political in ArtxD3 on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 6 p.m. in the Gutman Conference Center, Gutman Library. Preceding the lecture, Yazzie,…

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 convenience? Researchers at Harvard University and their collaborators in Rome believe they have found the answer. Vowels are more sonorous than consonants, that is, they…

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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, cutting toward the left post, took a feed from linemate Tammy Shewchuk ’01, and one-timed the puck past goalie Erika Silva for the game-winner. It…

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 meet with President Neil L. Rudenstine. Their visit was part of a program called GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs), which…

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 Street. Feb. 6: A bag was stolen from Memorial Hall; an individual later found in possession of the bag was arrested. Feb. 7: Personal property…

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 Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom. Ellen Goodman ’63, associate editor and columnist for the Boston Globe, will introduce Thomas, who…

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 8 p.m. Spong, an author and theologian and the former Episcopal Bishop of Newark, N.J., will give the series of lectures, titled, “Developing a New…

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 the University of Cambridge, England, on Sunday, Feb. 6. Gomes delivered the sermon, “An Act of Defiance and the Yearning for Something More,” in his…

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 United Nations conference (HNMUN). The annual event simulates the hard work and diplomacy that characterizes the real United Nations. Over the course of four days,…

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 the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1954-72, advisor to the council of the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research, 1953-58, and a member 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 into office and radical students took over the U.S. embassy in Tehran, touching off the Iran Hostage Crisis. Smoothing the way for those students –…

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 KSG students who will work for the federal government over the summer. Imagitas is a marketing and communications firm which works to enhance the public’s…

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 to be a part of the celebration of black arts at an event called FABRIC at 5 p.m. on Feb. 24 at the MEC Atrium…

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 Botswana-Harvard HIV Reference Laboratory, a joint project sponsored by the Ministry of Health of Botswana and the Harvard AIDS Institute, were held last week in…

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. She will remain in her current position at the Kennedy School until mid-June and will continue to be involved in the Kennedy School, including serving…

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 Public Policy. According to a weekly national survey by the Vanishing Voter Project at the Shorenstein Center’s Washington, D.C. office, a full two-thirds of Americans…

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 the Radcliffe Seminars and Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust, the conference, scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 12, will convene international experts to present a range of…

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 tumors. Today, Folkman’s research – and the anti-angiogenesis drugs it has spawned – is being hailed as a new hope in fighting cancer. And the…

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 start of the 2000-01 academic year. “Harvard is very fortunate that two individuals of such extraordinary caliber have agreed to serve the University in these…

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 with Boston Mayor Tom Menino, a day shadowing U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., and lunch with the Rev. Jesse Jackson. These items are up for…

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 the event. A black-tie dinner was held in honor of the 100th Jacob Wendell Scholar, Sarah Moss ’02, at the Faculty Club on the evening…

” Big Three” rivals Harvard, Yale, and Princeton tangled poolside last weekend, as men’s and women’s swimming and diving meets yielded mixed results at Blodgett Pool. The Crimson men emerged victorious and moved a big step closer to their second straight Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) dual championship. The women outdistanced Yale, but came up…

The Harvard University Art Museums are bringing New York to Cambridge this month, with an exhibit at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of the artistic and social documentary photographs of Ben Shahn. The exhibit, “Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modern Times,” focuses on Shahn’s use of photographs as a research tool for his…

Although more African-Americans and Hispanics are buying homes in municipalities surrounding Boston, these buyers are concentrated in a small number of communities and are thus segregated from white homeowners, according to a new study released by the Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Civil Rights Project. Segregation in the Boston Metropolitan Area at the…