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Following are some of the incidents reported to the HUPD for the week ending Feb. 5. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden Street. Jan. 31: A purse was stolen from Lamont Library. Feb. 2: A caller reported a car accident in the parking lot at the Harvard School of Dental…

A raspberry has only 8 percent as much genetic material as you or me. That’s expected; raspberries aren’t too smart or complex. But an onion isn’t very complex either, and it has more than 12 times as much DNA as a Harvard professor. What’s more, amoebas oozing along in shallow ponds boast a genome 200…

Portfolio Review Extended The Harvard Neighbors Art Committee has extended its annual review for Harvard-affiliated artists interested in applying to exhibit during the 2000-2001 academic year. Faculty and staff with regular or part-time positions and their spouses or partners are encouraged to apply. Portfolios will be accepted March 1—3 and March 6 from noon —…

Desan Receives Legal History Award The American Society for Legal History has awarded Professor of Law Christine Desan the Erwin C. Surrency Prize for the best article published in volume 16 of the Law and History Review. The Society honored Desan for her article titled, “Remaking Constitutional Tradition at the Margin of Empire: The Creation…

Rahim Oberholtzer remembers his shock when Maury Povich’s voice came over his headset telling him he had won more than a million dollars. It was $1.12 million, to be precise. Standing in the soundproof booth, able to see only his own reflection in the one-way glass, Oberholtzer felt completely isolated, cut off from what was…

The problem defied Einstein, but Harvard physicist Juan Maldacena is using black holes and tiny cosmic strings to help figure out the “Theory of Everything.” A newly minted Harvard physics professor and recent winner of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” Maldacena has devised a way to explain gravity using a theory that also explains the…

Claudia Huettner can switch off deadly leukemia in mice simply by putting an antibiotic in their drinking water. Her system even causes regression of advanced stages of the cancer. When the antibiotic-spiked water is withdrawn, the cancer returns. Unfortunately, Huettner cannot do the same thing in humans. Nonetheless, she and her colleagues at Harvard Medical…

At its ninth meeting of the year the Faculty Council received a report from Nancy Maull, Administrative Dean; David Zewinski, Associate Dean for Physical Resources and Planning; and Vincent Tompkins, Assistant Dean of the Faculty, on long-term space planning. The Council also considered a proposal by Professor Harry Lewis (Computer Science), Dean of Harvard College,…

A alleged campus thief and convicted trespasser was back in Cambridge District Court this week, after attempting to elude Harvard University Police by fleeing cross-country. Andre Stuckey was led off a plane in handcuffs early Wednesday morning by University and state authorities. He had been captured on another college campus thousands of miles away, the…

While spending a semester away from the daily grind, the Spring 2000 fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center will focus on, among other things, the relevance of character in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, advances in East Asian press freedom since the 1997 financial and political crisis, and media legislation in Central Europe. The Joan…

The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research will hold a memorial service in honor of Professor Benjamin Schwartz on Thursday, Feb. 3 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. A reception will follow at the Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street. A fund in Schwartz’s name has been established to encourage the…

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation’s oldest dramatic organization, announced the recipients of the 2000 “Woman and Man of the Year” awards: Jamie Lee Curtis and Billy Crystal. The 50th anniversary of the Woman of the Year celebration will be Thursday, Feb. 10. Curtis will lead a parade through the streets of Harvard Square at…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the HUPD for the week ending Jan. 29. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Jan. 23: A burnt-out part in a boiler caused a fire alarm at Peabody Terrace. One hour later, a fire was reported in an underground tunnel at the…

Newly found connections between pain and memory are leading to novel ways to control pain. Nerves carry pain signals to the spinal cord and brain where they excite cells involved with making memories of pain, according to Clifford Woolf, Kitz Professor of Anesthesia Research at Harvard Medical School. This excitation is a main contributor to…

Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Association’s nominations for this year’s election to the University’s Board of Overseers and the HAA Board of Directors. The election this spring will determine five new Overseers and six new members of the HAA Board. Ballots will be mailed by April 15 and results of the election will be…

Harvard Neighbors to review artists’ portfolios The Harvard Neighbors Art Committee will hold its annual review for Harvard-affiliated artists interested in applying to exhibit during the 2000-2001 academic year. Faculty and staff with regular or part-time positions and their spouses or partners are encouraged to apply. Portfolios will be accepted March 1 and 2, from…

Reinhardt Book Links Business and Environment Forest Reinhardt, associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, has linked business success and environmental consciousness in his book Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management. The book, published in December 1999, argues that business managers would benefit if they set about solving environmental problems…

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Two professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have received research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Suzanne Blier, professor of the history of art and architecture in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, received a fellowship for a project titled “Imaging Amazons: The Art of Dahomey Women…

The Fellows for Spring 2000 at the Institute of Politics will discuss their personal perspectives on politics in a panel discussion at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 8, in the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. This semester’s fellows include: Jon Cowan, chief of staff of the U.S. Department of…

What would Martha Ballard think of DoHistory.org? Would she be puzzled that so much fuss was being made about a woman from rural Maine who died almost 200 years ago, unknown to any except her local community? Or would she be pleased that the work she had done as a midwife and healer was finally…

The People’s Lawyer: A to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham” will be held at the Kennedy Library in Boston from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 6. The tribute will include film clips of Judge Higginbotham and a roundtable discussion by friends and colleagues, among whom will be Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree, Anita…

Richard Heck sits in his office, his lanky frame sprawled on a worn armchair. A half-finished bottle of Coke rests on the seat of a wooden chair beside him. Nothing unusual in this picture, but to Heck, who is a professor of philosophy, the tableau raises enormous problems. “One of the basic questions in philosophy…

Children dying of cancer experience substantial suffering in the last month of life, according to researchers at two prominent cancer hospitals in Boston. Not all such suffering is necessary, say experts at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital. The major problem, they believe, stems from the idea that the quality of life of children…

More than 13,000 visits were logged on to a new Website of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention within the first week of its launch in mid-January, making it the most successful site launched at the Harvard School of Public Health. Your Cancer Risk, at http://www.yourcancerrisk.harvard.edu, received 1 million hits on its first day and…