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Campus & Community
In brief
Course in reading, study strategies set to begin in mid-February; Lewis and Clark exhibit extends stay at Peabody Museum through 2006
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Campus & Community
Memorial services
Memorial services for David Westfall, William W. Howells, and Marion R. Briefer
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Story Professor of Law Arthur von Mehren dies at 83
Arthur Taylor von Mehren, the Story Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School (HLS), died Jan. 18 at the age of 83. In addition to educating thousands of Harvard Law students over the course of a 50-year teaching career, von Mehren was a pioneer in comparative and private international law. He helped to develop…
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Campus & Community
Playing with the big boys
Its just one of those nights when you know youre going to get a full house, said Allston Brighton resident Dan McLaughlin as he watched his two boys stickhandling pucks and kicking up plumes of ice with a bunch of other excited boys, girls, and Harvard hockey players under the lights of the Bright Hockey…
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Campus & Community
Jones premieres film at HFA
Tommy Lee Jones 69 returned to Harvard to attend the premiere of his new film, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. The film marks Jones debut as the director of theatrical films (he directed a TV movie, The Good Old Boys, in 1995). This time, however, he is also co-producer, co-writer, and star.
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Campus & Community
And the Pudding Pot goes to…
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nations oldest dramatic organization, has named its recipients for the 2006 Woman of the Year and Man of the Year awards – Halle Berry and Richard Gere.
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Campus & Community
Eight seniors awarded 2006-07 Rockefeller Fellowships
Concluding its annual meeting and interviews at Harvard this past December, the Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowships Administrative Board has awarded fellowships to eight graduating seniors – the most ever awarded by the board in a single year, in recognition of an excellent applicant pool. Rockefeller Fellowships contribute $18,000 toward a year of purposeful postgraduate…
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Greenblatt edits ‘Norton Anthology’
When I was in college, The Norton Anthology of English Literature ended with Dylan Thomas. Bringing up the rear in this long parade of writers was not a position likely to win the Welsh poet new readers. With so many older figures to cover, my English professor never even got to Thomas. The most recent…
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Campus & Community
Kirby to step down as dean of FAS
William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Geisinger Professor of History, has announced his plans to step down from the deanship at the end of the 2005-06 academic year. He will return to his scholarship and teaching, and take on a university-wide role in guiding Harvards expanding array of…
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Campus & Community
CfA’s Gaensler wins Newton Lacy Pierce Prize
Assistant Professor of Astronomy Bryan M. Gaensler of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has been awarded the 2006 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize by the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Gaensler received the prize for his work on the interactions between neutron stars and their surroundings, which led to a greater appreciation of the wide diversity…
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Health
All placebos not created equal
While researchers usually use placebos in clinical trials to test the effectiveness of a new treatment, a trial reported in the Feb. 1, 2006 British Medical Journal pitted one placebo against another.
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Science & Tech
Neutron star swaps lead to short gamma-ray bursts
Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe, emitting huge amounts of high-energy radiation. For decades their origin was a mystery. Scientists now believe they understand the processes…
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Campus & Community
Kirby to step down as Dean of FAS
William C. Kirby, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Geisinger Professor of History, has announced his plans to step down from the deanship at the end of the 2005-06 academic year.
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Science & Tech
Two exiled stars are leaving our galaxy forever
TV reality show contestants aren’t the only ones under threat of exile. Astronomers using the MMT Observatory in Arizona have discovered two stars exiled from the Milky Way galaxy. Those…
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Science & Tech
Berkman Center helps launch StopBadware campaign
The problems caused by badware have very serious implications, both for every day use of computers, and for the long-term viability of the open Internet. On Jan. 25, 2006, the…
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Health
Less than half of U.S. health care workers get flu shots
Steffie Woolhandler, Harvard Medical School associate professor of medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, and colleagues at the University of California Los Angeles analyzed data from the 2000 National Health Interview…
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Science & Tech
Cosmic jet looks like giant tornado in space
While examining a region where new stars are forming with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers found a surprise – an object that looks like a giant tornado in space. The…
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Health
Long-term memory controlled by molecular pathway at synapses
Even for a fruit fly, learning and memory are important adaptive tools that facilitate survival in the environment. A fly can learn to avoid what may do it harm, such…
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Science & Tech
There’s more to the North Star than meets the eye
We tend to think of the North Star, Polaris, as a steady, solitary point of light that guided sailors in ages past. But there is more to the North Star…
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Health
RNAi solution knocks down herpes infection
Ever since RNA interference hit the scene a few years ago as a way to selectively turn off gene expression, researchers have been investigating whether these small but powerful bits…
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Health
Synthetic molecule blocks exit from cell organelle
The ubiquitous, small GTPases are a family of signal transduction molecules that play crucial roles in numerous biological processes, including cell motility and division. Though scientists have eyed these proteins…
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Campus & Community
Gift drive HQ
Robert Bridgeman (from left), director of PBH Programs, Amanda Sonis Glynn, director of the Harvard Public Service Network, Mina Makarious 06, and Mae Bunagan 06 seem to enjoy sorting through gifts donated for the Phillips Brooks House gift drive.
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Fairbank Center celebrates half century
The 50th anniversary conference of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research took place over three days (Dec. 9-11), attracting hundreds of scholars from around the world, who gathered to hear and participate in panels on Chinas domestic politics, international relations, economy, social conditions, literature, and philosophical traditions.
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Campus & Community
Enter to grow in wisdom
From the perspective of Harvards 369-year history, the gates in and around the campus are a relatively new phenomenon. For more than two-thirds of its existence, Harvard had nothing more to guard its perimeter than a low post-and-beam fence. When the Johnston Gate – the initial component of the present-day enclosure – went up in…
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UN’s High Commissioner discusses global human rights
The day before she visited Harvard, Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, was criticized by the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton. Arbour had just issued a statement on terrorists and torturers, in which she said that the absolute ban on torture, a cornerstone of the international human rights edifice,…
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Campus & Community
Fun ways to learn after school
Math homework is not one of 10-year-old Aubrey Cappuccis favorite things, but at The East End House after-school program in her East Cambridge neighborhood, shes found a way to learn about math and love it – through games.
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Campus & Community
CCSR annual report is available
The 2005 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. Please call (617) 495-0985 to request copies.
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Campus & Community
Storm watch
Undaunted by whiteout conditions during the surprisingly violent Dec. 9 blizzard, a couple of brave souls stroll casually through Harvard Yard.