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Campus & Community
In brief
‘Tis still the season: Community Gifts accepting pledge cards Though maybe not exactly a Christmas miracle, Harvard’s annual Community Gifts campaign has extended its deadline for pledge cards through Dec.…
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Campus & Community
‘Joyful Noise,’ Harlem Gospel Choir to honor Kings
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Joyful Noise – the annual gospel concert honoring the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. – the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center (CMAC) will present the Harlem Gospel Choir at Sanders Theatre on Jan. 13.
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Campus & Community
Kellerman honored with KSG’s Burns Lectureship
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government has announced the establishment of the James MacGregor Burns Lectureship in Public Leadership to honor the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and political scientist. Barbara Kellerman, former executive director and former research director at the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, will be the first to hold the chair.
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Dec. 11. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
Clausens’ memorial service scheduled for Dec. 15
Wendell Vernon Clausen, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus, died Oct. 12 in Belmont, Mass. He was 83 and had been in declining health after suffering a…
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
Dec. 8, 1956 – The Music Department’s Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library is dedicated. Designed by Stanley B. Parker ’04, the $500,000 wing allows the department to house its previously…
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Campus & Community
CCSR annual report is available
The 2006 annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a subcommittee of the President and Fellows, is now available upon request from the Office for the Committees on Shareholder Responsibility. To obtain a copy, please e-mail cheryl_thurman@harvard.edu or call the office at (617) 495-0985.
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Campus & Community
Permanent location for HUAM in Allston selected
Harvard University and its Art Museums have selected a site in Allston that will become a permanent additional location for a portion of the Harvard University Art Museums’ operations and staff, and will include public galleries primarily for the display of modern and contemporary art. The new site at 224 Western Ave. is in the…
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Campus & Community
Microsoft’s Ballmer pulls out the stops at HBS talk
The 24th richest person in the world made a visit to the Harvard Business School (HBS) last week (Dec. 7), and gave an audience of 700 advice on how to…
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Campus & Community
Eclipsed for decades, Harvard’s glass animals step out
Long overshadowed by their famed floral kin, some of the exquisite 19th century glass animals housed at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) have finally hit the road for a Minnesota exhibit – the first time in Harvard’s nearly 130-year ownership that the rare sculptures are known to have left Cambridge.
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Campus & Community
Authors fight misinformation on stem cell science
California’s Proposition 71, which committed the state to raising $3 billion for stem cell research, was a public policy ‘atom bomb that shifted the embryonic stem cell research debate from…
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Campus & Community
A short history: Psychiatry in modern Africa
Psychiatrists working in Africa during the colonial period held to the belief that Africans did not suffer from depression. They based this idea on the assumption that Africans lacked the…
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Campus & Community
Obesity protects against breast cancer
Being overweight or obese from adolescence to menopause reduces a woman’s chances of getting breast cancer, researchers at Harvard Medical School have found. The earlier in life that the researchers…
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to change the name Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences to School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted today (Dec. 12) to recommend to the Harvard Corporation that the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) change its name to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). The School will continue to be a part of FAS.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to change the name Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences to School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted today (Dec. 12) to recommend to the Harvard Corporation that the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) change its name to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). The School will continue to be a part of FAS. The change in name was recommended…
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Campus & Community
Doctor fatigue hurting patients
Too many 24-hour shifts worked by hospital interns cause medical mistakes that harm and may even kill patients, according to a new Harvard Medical School study. Doctors in training who…
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Campus & Community
HSPH, Broad map malaria genetic diversity
Researchers have created the first map of genetic diversity of the malaria parasite, providing new insights in the fight against a public health scourge that kills one person every 30 seconds.
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Campus & Community
HU Press publishes poet Emily Dickinson’s childhood herbarium
By the time poet Emily Dickinson was 14 years old, she had undertaken the compilation of an herbarium, a book of pressed flowers and plants, a hobby among the girls of her time. The herbarium has long been a part of the Emily Dickinson Collection at Houghton Library, but due to its fragility the original…
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Campus & Community
Panel takes on domestic violence
“Where is the church in the midst of this public health problem? And what does our faith call on us to do?”
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Nation & World
Experts: Darfur peace depends on coming together of rebel groups
Peace in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region depends on rebel groups getting stronger, not weaker, and negotiating a lasting settlement with the African nation’s government, experts on the situation said Wednesday (Nov. 29).
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Campus & Community
HGSE Web site delivers leading faculty research to educators
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Wednesday (Dec. 6) launched a new Web site aimed at connecting the research of its faculty with educators in the field. The Usable Knowledge Web site features a diverse set of media – text, video, and audio – to make the leading research of its faculty accessible to…
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Campus & Community
Sports in brief
Freshman swimmer sets records At the University of Georgia Fall Invitational Sunday (Dec. 3), Harvard freshman Alexandra Clarke set a pair of school records to take second place in the…
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Campus & Community
In brief
Harvard Foundation celebrates 25th anniversary The students and faculty of the Harvard Foundation celebrated the 25th anniversary of the organization with a formal gala Saturday evening (Dec. 2) in the…
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Brazelton receives 2006 Arnold Lucius Gesell Prize T. Berry Brazelton, clinical professor of pediatrics emeritus at Harvard Medical School, was recently honored with the 2006 Arnold Lucius Gesell Prize. The Theodor…
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Campus & Community
President’s hours
Interim President Derek Bok will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Dec. 11. Sign-up begins at 2:30 p.m., unless otherwise…
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Dec. 4. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
Still time to catch free flu vaccinations: Dec. 19
Free flu shots are now available to all Harvard ID holders and HUGHP health plan members at Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) every Monday and Tuesday through Dec. 19, and at a range of times and days at additional Harvard locations in Cambridge and Boston.
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting held December 6
At its seventh meeting of the year on Dec. 6, the Faculty Council held further discussions on general education, considered a proposal concerning evaluation of teaching fellows, and voted to…
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Campus & Community
Vasiliauskas ’07 wins Marshall, will enjoy two years of study in England
Lowell House senior, literature concentrator, and poet Emily Vasiliauskas has been named a 2007 Marshall Scholar and plans to spend the next two academic years studying at England’s Cambridge University.