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  • Campus & Community

    Spar takes on boom in baby biz

    The field of reproductive technologies has become a fast- growing and profitable economic sector. “Parents choose for different traits, clinics woo clients, and specialized providers earn millions of dollars,” points…

  • Campus & Community

    Arnold Arboretum: A winter tour

    In 1872, whaling merchant James Arnold’s will transferred a section of his Jamaic Plain estate to the fellows and president of Harvard College,. The Arnold Arboretum has since performed a unique function as Boston’s own living open-air museum.

  • Science & Tech

    Super-Earths may be three times more common than Jupiters

    Astronomers have discovered a new “super-Earth” orbiting a red dwarf star located about 9,000 light-years away. This newfound world weighs about 13 times the mass of the Earth and is…

  • Health

    Ancient molecules guide new synapse growth

    Recent research has shifted the understanding of a group of specialized molecules in the extracellular matrix, recasting them from scaffolding only to key cue-providers that help guide the formation of…

  • Health

    RNA sequence restrains fatal encephalitis

    One short sequence of RNA protected mice from deadly brain inflammation caused by West Nile virus and Japanese encephalitis virus, report Priti Kumar, Manjunath Swamy, and Premlata Shankar. The findings,…

  • Campus & Community

    Kennedy School launches Native American public service fellowship

    The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced a new full-tuition Native American Public Service Fellowship (NAPSF), to be awarded to an individual who has demonstrated commitment to matters of concern to Native American tribes. Areas of focus may include (but are not limited to) tribal self-governance and policy.

  • Campus & Community

    Decoding ‘complex emergencies’

    Peter Salama, M.P.H. 97, is an expert on the epidemiology of conflict and famine in complex emergencies, which is to say that he studies what kills people when things like war and droughts happen. On March 2, Salama visited the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study as part of the Voices of Public Intellectuals lecture series…

  • Campus & Community

    Sports in brief

    Grapplers grab EIWA titles Harvard wrestlers Bode Ogunwole ’07 and Andrew Flanagan ’09 captured individual championships at the 102nd Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) championships at Lehigh University on March…

  • Campus & Community

    Mora named acting vice president for finance

    Associate Vice President for Sponsored Programs Elizabeth Mora has agreed to serve as acting vice president for finance while the search for a permanent successor to outgoing Vice President for Finance Ann Berman proceeds. Mora will assume her new role on April 1.

  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 6. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    March 9, 1857 – The faculty adopts the recommendation of a joint faculty/Overseers committee that annual examinations of each Class in each subject before an Overseers Visiting Committee be in…

  • Nation & World

    Get-tough measures suggested in Darfur

    A no-fly zone over the southwestern Sudan region of Darfur coupled with beefed-up international forces with a more aggressive mandate could go a long way toward stemming the humanitarian crisis in one of the worlds most troublesome spots, high-level participants at a Kennedy School conference on Sudan recommended Saturday (March 4).

  • Campus & Community

    Top economists take a close look at U.S. budget

    Two of the nations top economists, Gregory Mankiw and Gene Sperling, offered their perspectives on how to keep the American economic engine revving during a panel discussion March 1 at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers moderated the Kennedy School event.

  • Campus & Community

    NAACP’s Jackson inspires conference attendees

    You were created for such a time as this, attendees of the Harvard Graduate School of Educations Alumni of Color Conference were told – or, rather, challenged – as they listened to the conferences keynote talk. The inspiring voice belonged to John Jackson Ed.D. 00, chief policy officer for the National Association for the Advancement…

  • Campus & Community

    Zoellick on foreign policy future

    International diplomacy requires both policy and political savvy to succeed, explained U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, M.P.P. 81, in a March 2 discussion on the future of U.S. foreign policy at a Kennedy School forum.

  • Campus & Community

    Juan Manuel Taveras

    Dr. Juan M. Taveras died March 27, 2002, in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, at the age of 83. He was widely regarded as the father of neuroradiology, and pioneered the concept of subspecialization in radiologic practice. He was emeritus Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and emeritus Chair of the Department of Radiology…

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Film Archive honors actress Tantoo Cardinal

    Canadian actress Tantoo Cardinal presented a sampling of her films at the Harvard Film Archive and accepted the Sun Hill Award for Excellence in Native American Filmmaking on March 3 and 4, respectively. Now in its second year, the award (jointly sponsored by the Sun Hill Foundation and the Harvard Film Archive) is given in…

  • Campus & Community

    Summers praises Harvard’s ‘authority of ideas’

    Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers thanked the parents of this years juniors for giving him the chance to work with their children, saying working with and for the students has been an enormous privilege and the greatest joy of his time as president.

  • Campus & Community

    Leonardo da Vinci, proto genetic engineer?

    A conceptual artist named Eduardo Kac ignited a fierce controversy in 2000 when he tried to enter a genetically modified bunny that glowed green under ultraviolet light in an art exhibition in France.

  • Campus & Community

    President Summers’ office hours in March

    President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates: Wednesday, March 15, 4-5:30 p.m. (students and staff) Thursday, April 20,…

  • Campus & Community

    Memorial service set for John Langstaff

    A memorial service for John Langstaff, founder of The Christmas Revels, will be held at the Memorial Church on March 18 at 2 p.m. Langstaff passed away this past December…

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting March 8

    At its 13th meeting of the year on March 8, the Faculty Council met with incoming interim President Derek Bok, continued their discussion of the Curricular Review, and heard reports…

  • Campus & Community

    Arnold Arboretum

    When Gazette photographer Rose Lincoln first proposed shooting the Arnold Arboretum in wintertime, the entire Harvard News Office staff responded enthusiastically at the prospect of capturing the still and barren beauty of Harvards 265 woody acres during the cruelest and often prettiest months of the year. And though winter 2006 hardly cooperated with our preconceived…

  • Campus & Community

    Countway reveals ‘buried’ treasures

    There is something about the physical manifestations of history that communicate both intellectual heft and inspirational authority. Which is why Longwood’s Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine — the largest…

  • Campus & Community

    Broad vision required to fight HIV

    A major new public health campaign focused on AIDS is needed in the wake of the World Health Organization’s “3 by 5” campaign, which forced a new approach to fight…

  • Campus & Community

    Judge Baker Children’s Center welcomes a groundbreaking research project that may shed light on autism

    Harvard-affiliated Judge Baker Children’s Center is launching a research project to study autism. Jerome Kagan and Nancy Snidman, director and research director, respectively, of Harvard’s Infant and Child Study Center,…

  • Campus & Community

    Vitamin D critical to human TB response

    Vitamin D plays a critical role in the human body’s response to tuberculosis, according to new research that explains why people of African descent are more susceptible to TB. The…

  • Campus & Community

    Depression is bad for the heart

    Depression is more likely to break your heart than smoking or eating fatty food. “Recurrence of cardiovascular events, including heart attacks, strokes, cardiac arrest, severe chest pain and other problems…

  • Health

    Binge eating disorder may have genetic ties

    Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have reported that binge eating disorder runs in families, raising the possibility that this condition may have a genetic basis. In the study, published in…

  • Campus & Community

    Donald Alan Malt

    Donald A. Malt died on October 5, 2002, after a protracted illness, thus ending a brilliant academic surgical career in his 71st year of life. Professor, prolific writer, editor, productive investigator, courageous clinician of undaunted spirit, he came to be regarded by the scores of young surgeons he mentored as the prototypical academic surgeon.