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  • Campus & Community

    Jill Carroll among fall fellows at Shorenstein

    The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, located at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, recently announced its fellows for the fall. These Shorenstein Fellows will work on research projects while at the center.

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    Martin wins prize for research, innovation

    Internationally renowned Canadian neuroscientist Joseph B. Martin, dean of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine, was recently named the inaugural winner of the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research.

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    Sons of American Revolution welcome Gates

    Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard, was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) on July 10 at the society’s 116th annual convention, held in Addison, Texas.

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    Shonkoff named professor at HSPH, GSE

    Jack Shonkoff, the former dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, has been appointed professor of child health and development at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and at the Graduate School of Education (GSE).

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    Bloxham named FAS divisional dean

    Geophysicist Jeremy Bloxham has been named dean for the physical sciences in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Dean Jeremy R. Knowles announced Aug. 10.

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    Power named first Anna Lindh Professor

    The Kennedy School of Government has announced that Samantha Power has been named Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, the first faculty member to hold the chair honoring the longtime Swedish political and civic leader who was assassinated in 2003.

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    Jim Kim, former HIV director at WHO, to head HSPH center

    Jim Yong Kim, a former director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS unit, has been appointed director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). He will become François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at the School.

  • Science & Tech

    Visualization Lab provides data in three dimensions

    On the second floor of the Peabody Museum, in a darkened room painted flat black, Harvard geologist John Shaw slips on a pair of futuristic goggles as he sits before a 23-foot-wide wrap-around screen.

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    Bok talks about current projects, new initiatives

    It has been 35 years since Derek Bok was sworn in as Harvard’s 25th president and 15 years since he left office. This July he assumed the presidency for a second time, the only person ever to do so.

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    Harvey, champion of low-income housing, named Dunlop Lecturer

    The Joint Center for Housing Studies has announced F. Bart Harvey, chairman of the board of trustees and chief executive officer of Enterprise Community Partners, as well as chairman of the board of Enterprise Community Investment, as its eighth annual John T. Dunlop Lecturer. The lecture will be held in October at the Graduate School…

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    Rembrandt’s lines featured at HUAM

    This year is Rembrandt’s 400th birthday, and to honor the occasion, the Busch-Reisinger Museum has put together an exhibition of nearly 50 of the great Dutch artist’s prints and drawings.

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    Not just cosmetic: Stadium renovations include artificial turf, practice bubble

    Just as Harvard’s many classrooms, labs, and offices got settled into the relatively peaceful pace that tends to mark each summer season here on campus, an army of engineers, contractors, and workers busily moved the earth at Harvard Stadium. And made a mountain.

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    Rappaports permanently endow institute

    The Jerome Lyle Rappaport Charitable Foundation announced that the Rappaport family and foundation have awarded Harvard University $12.35 million to permanently endow Harvard’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.

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    Child health symposium will celebrate the career of Julius B. Richmond

    The Harvard Medical School Department of Social Medicine, together with the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, the Harvard School of Public Health François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, and the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, will co-host a symposium on Sept. 26 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the…

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    HAA honors outstanding service to University

    The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) Awards were established in 1990 to recognize outstanding service to the University through alumni activities. This year’s awards ceremony will take place during the fall HAA board of directors meeting on Oct. 12.

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    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 Oct. 24 and Dec. 11. Sign-up begins at 2:30…

  • Science & Tech

    Strange new planet baffles astronomers

    Using a network of small automated telescopes known as HAT, Smithsonian astronomers have discovered a planet unlike any other known world. This new planet, designated HAT-P-1, orbits one member of…

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    Harvard to eliminate early admission

    Beginning next year Harvard College will eliminate its early admission program and move to a single application deadline of January 1, the University announced today (September 12). The change in policy, which builds on Harvard’s efforts over the past several years to expand financial aid and increase openness in admissions, will take effect for students…

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    Harvard fundraising reaches $595Min fiscal year ’06

    In the United States, the best-off people, like Asian women in Bergen County, N.J., have a life expectancy 33 years longer than the worst-off, Native American males in some South Dakota counties – 91 versus 58 years. So concludes the most comprehensive study to date of who dies when and where in this country.’

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    Research shows who dies when and where

    In the United States, the best-off people, like Asian women in Bergen County, N.J., have a life expectancy 33 years longer than the worst-off, Native American males in some South Dakota counties – 91 versus 58 years. So concludes the most comprehensive study to date of who dies when and where in this country.’

  • Health

    HSCI/MGH researchers identify gene product involved in stem cell aging and death

    A multi-institutional team of Harvard researchers may have advanced our understanding of physiological aging with a new study in which they greatly reduced the impact of aging on blood stem cells. A report on their findings appears in the latest edition of the journal Nature along with similar but independent findings from research teams at…

  • Health

    Interns continue to work overly long shifts, study finds

    That intern working on you at the hospital may be so sleep-deprived his or her performance is no better than that of a drunk. That’s one conclusion of a national study by investigators at the Harvard Medical School.

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    Cutler and colleagues say U.S. health care cost-effective

    Despite dramatic increases in health expenses since 1960, the return on medical spending is high, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. Studying health and spending trends from 1960 to 2000, the researchers concluded that health care in America has been cost-effective on the whole, although ballooning…

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    Greener building a ‘model of restoration’

    The occasion was the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new headquarters of University Operations Services (UOS) on Blackstone Street, Cambridge.

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    Police Reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Aug. 21. 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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    In brief

    Beginning in September, the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) will present “Sketching After School” — a weekly drawing series for young people between the ages of 8 and 12. Artist and educator Deborah Putnoi, who has degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Tufts University,…

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    Newsmakers

    Harvard University graduate students Satoru Takahashi and Gernot Wagner were recently selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as two of 50 outstanding research participants to attend the second Lindau Meeting in Economic Sciences. The meeting, held in Lindau, Germany, Aug. 16-19, welcomed winners of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in memory…

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    HMS grant search is on

    Each year, numerous postdoctoral and faculty fellowships/grants are available to the Harvard medical community by invitation only. These include the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award at the Scientific Interface, the Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award, the Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholars Program in Aging, and the William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholars Program, among others. Nominations…

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    HMS Dept. of Ophthalmology awarded RPB grant

    The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Department of Ophthalmology was recently awarded a grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) for $110,000 to help support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of diseases that cause blindness.

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    Harvard Fulbright Scholars named

    Nine Harvard College students who graduated this past June and 14 current and former graduate students of the University have been named U.S. Fulbright Scholars for the 2006-07 academic year.