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Campus & Community
Influence peddling in D.C. discussed at K School
The Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal currently encircling the United States Congress is the worst case of corruption to hit Washington in a long time, according to experts taking part in a Kennedy School of Government forum Tuesday night (Feb. 7).
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Campus & Community
New Orleans, Mississippi towns welcome help
When the busload of Harvard undergraduates arrived at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in New Orleans, one of the citys first schools to reopen after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the back yard was a debris-clogged mess.
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Campus & Community
$5 million Pritzker gift to fund potential solutions for childhood obesity
To address the national and global epidemic of childhood obesity, Harvard College alumna Penny Pritzker 81 and her husband, Bryan Traubert, have pledged $5 million to Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) to fund the nationwide application of a childhood exercise and nutrition program that has been piloted by HSPH and the YMCA.
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Campus & Community
Institute of Politics opens video archives
Theres President George H.W. Bush riffing on Saturday Night Live comedian Dana Carvey riffing on him. Theres South African Bishop Desmond Tutu talking about people power. Theres Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai talking about the importance of striving to do your best.
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Campus & Community
Cranmer receives Harvey Prize
Astrophysicist Steven Cranmer of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has been awarded the 2006 Karen Harvey Prize by the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the largest organization of professional astronomers in North America.
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Campus & Community
Sports in brief
Womens swimming & diving scores perfect 10 Host Harvard women’s swimming and diving team sunk rivals Yale (252-67) and Princeton (203-116) in this past weekend’s Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet (Feb. 4-5) to…
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Campus & Community
Crimson cook up sweet finish
This years opening round Beanpot challenge was hardly a cakewalk for the No. 7 Harvard women icers. But for these reigning best-of-Boston champs long-accustomed to hoisting the ceramic prize each and every February since 1999 (whilst annually whipping their Pot opponents by an average score of 7-1), the outcome – a 2-1 win in overtime…
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Campus & Community
Undergrad travelers swap stories
Where do university lectures end in applause? Where can you see country folk taking their first train ride? Where is Tiger Leaping Gorge and its 1,000 species of plants and animals? If you were among the 123 students who spent the fall semester abroad, you could answer these exotic questions (Germany, Southern India, and Chinas…
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Campus & Community
Guido Imbens, ‘distinguished econometric theorist,’ joins faculty in July
Guido Imbens, widely considered among the most creative, productive, and influential econometricians of the past two decades, has been appointed professor of economics in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1.
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Campus & Community
President Summers holds office hours
President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates: 2006 Wednesday, Feb. 15, 4-5 p.m. Thursday, March 16, 4-5:30 p.m.…
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
Feb. 5, 1954 – At the winter meeting of the Massachusetts Bar Association in Springfield, Law School Dean Erwin Griswold discusses the soundness and landmark significance of the Fifth Amendment…
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meetings held Jan. 4 and Feb. 1
At its eighth meeting of the year on Jan. 4, the Faculty Council received a report from Senior Adviser to the Dean Lisa Martin on issues related to tenure-track faculty…
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Campus & Community
After Midnight
This is the first in an ongoing Gazette series giving our readers and viewers a glimpse into life at Harvard after dark. We begin our series with the all-nighter, which is just what photographer Justin Ide pulled not long ago as he spent 24 hours at Lamont Library. The undergraduate library has recently adjusted its…
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Campus & Community
HMS creates first known library of breast cancer proteins
In research that could significantly advance the pace of drug discovery in the fight against breast cancer, Harvard Medical School (HMS) investigators announced in Wednesday’s (Feb. 8) online Journal of…
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Campus & Community
Complete breast is grown from single stem cell
A complete, functioning breast has been grown from a single stem cell, by researchers in Australia. It was done in a mouse, but experts believe it won’t be long before…
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Campus & Community
When the blues keep you awake
Your eyes do more than see. Researchers at Harvard Medical School demonstrated this by showing that your eyes are part of a light reception system that can keep you alert…
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Campus & Community
Science losing war over evolution?
This just in from the front lines of the battle between evolution and intelligent design: evolution is losing. That’s the assessment of Randy Olson, a Harvard-trained evolutionary biologist turned filmmaker…
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Campus & Community
Two teams address Harvard planning and development
To meet the increased physical planning and development needs of the faculties and departments on Harvard’s existing campus while simultaneously preparing for first-phase development in Allston, the Harvard Planning + Allston Initiative (HPAI) – the team that coordinated University-wide physical planning – has been reconfigured into two University organizations.
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Arts & Culture
Brigham pilot program connects people with family histories
A Harvard Medical School instructor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital is spearheading a pilot project to encourage Brigham employees to gather detailed family health histories to give health care officials an edge fighting inherited diseases.
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Campus & Community
Music Dept.’s beloved Elliot Forbes, 88
Elliot Forbes, the Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus, died Jan. 10 at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 88. A member of an old Boston family with numerous Harvard connections, Forbes was the son of Fogg Museum Director Edward Waldo Forbes and the great-grandson of poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Health
Professor shines light on shadowy condition
Sandra Fallman avoided mirrors. Walking down sidewalks during dates, she would avoid bright storefront lights, walking near the curb to stay in the shadows. She put 25-watt bulbs in her apartment lights, not to set the mood, but to provide cover. Fallman suffers from a little-known mental condition called body dysmorphic disorder (BDD).
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Campus & Community
Gwynne Evans, Renaissance lit scholar, at 93
G. (Gwynne) Blakemore Evans, Cabot Professor of English Literature Emeritus at Harvard University and this country’s most distinguished editor of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, died on Dec. 23, 2005, at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 93. His death was the result of complications that followed a recent stroke.
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Campus & Community
Divinity School’s Hutchison dies at 75
William Hutchison, scholar of American religious history and former co-master of Winthrop House, died of cancer on Dec. 16, 2005, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was 75.
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Campus & Community
Shorenstein announces spring fellows
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government recently announced its group of spring fellows.
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Arts & Culture
The first word on nouns and verbs
Since humans learned to speak, they have put their words into two basic categories, nouns and verbs. Nouns denote objects; verbs refer to actions. Dictionaries of specialized words have been added by bankers, lawyers, scientists, and clergy, but this core distinction remains.
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Arts & Culture
Controlling long-term memory
Harvard University biologists have identified a molecular pathway active in neurons that interacts with RNA to regulate the formation of long-term memory in fruit flies. The same pathway is also found at mammalian synapses, and could eventually present a target for new therapeutics to treat human memory loss.
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Campus & Community
IOP announces fellows for spring semester
Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the Kennedy School of Government, has announced the selection of an experienced group of individuals for fellowships this spring. The following resident fellows will join the institute for the spring semester and will lead weekly, not-for-credit study groups on a range of political topics. Fellows interact with students,…
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Harvard senior awarded Mitchell Scholarship
Harvard College senior Victoria Sprow is among the 12 national recipients of the 2006-07 George J. Mitchell Scholarship. Only the third Harvard student ever to receive the Mitchell award, Sprow will study for a master’s degree in creative writing at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
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Campus & Community
Shorenstein Center names finalists for Goldsmith Prize
Six entries have been chosen as finalists for the 2006 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, awarded each year by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. The winner of the $25,000 prize will be named at an awards ceremony on March 14 at the Kennedy…