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  • Campus & Community

    Kokkalis grad student workshop seeks papers

    The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Southeastern Europe Study Group at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies will hold the eighth annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop on Feb. 3, 2006.

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    Lehigh upend Crimson – and streak

    Eleventh-ranked Lehigh University exploded for three unanswered third-quarter touchdowns en route to a 49-24 win over No. 15 Harvard this past Saturday (Oct. 1) at the stadium. The loss – the Crimsons first since a November 2003 setback against Penn – brings Harvards 13-game winning streak, which stood as the longest in Division I-AA entering…

  • Campus & Community

    Designer, painter, teacher Soltan dies at 92

    Jerzy Soltan, an architect and teacher who educated generations of students in the principles of modernist design, died at his Cambridge home on Sept. 16. He was 92.

  • Campus & Community

    In brief

    Study abroad fair this afternoon The Office of International Programs, in coordination with the Office of Career Services’ International Experience Program, will hold its third annual Study Abroad and International…

  • Campus & Community

    Newsmakers

    Arkansas Black Hall of Fame set to induct David L. Evans David L. Evans, senior admissions officer for Harvard College, will be inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame…

  • Campus & Community

    Hillel opens Bar/Bat Mitzvah Institute

    Zachary Levine-Caleb is just 12 years old, but he loves studying at Harvard.

  • Campus & Community

    HBS honors achievements of alumni

    Harvard Business School (HBS) recently honored five of its alumni with the Schools highest recognition, the Alumni Achievement Award. These awards are given to leaders who have truly made a difference in the world, according to HBS.

  • Campus & Community

    The Big Picture

    The colors are subdued and earthy, but striking in their tonal range: amber, aqua, sea green, black, and ochre. Some are teal or milky. Less common are purple and cobalt blue. Red, the rarest of all, is a deep, wine-dark hue, like a garnet stone. It is made by adding copper or gold before the…

  • Campus & Community

    Endowment posts positive return

    Harvard Universitys endowment earned a 19.2 percent return during the year ending June 30, 2005, bringing the endowments overall value to $25.9 billion.

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    Upcoming Neuhauser Memorial Lecture bridges two worlds

    This years Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture will be held Oct. 19 at 3:30 p.m. in the south building of the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), lecture hall S010. James R. Lilley, U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Korea from 1986 to 1989, and ambassador to the Peoples Republic of China from 1989 to…

  • Campus & Community

    Probing boundary between worlds

    Physicist Subir Sachdev still remembers the excitement that accompanied the discovery of high-temperature superconductors while he was working as a postdoctoral fellow at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1986.

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    Oct. 17, 1640 – The Great and General Court grants Harvard the revenues of the Boston-Charlestown ferry, which plies the shortest route between Boston and Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Medford, and…

  • Campus & Community

    Little Crimson fan

    For more than 15 years, Harvard has invited members of the Allston-Brighton community to enjoy lunch and a ball game. Nearly 500 Allston-Brighton neighbors turned out for the Harvard vs. Lehigh game Saturday (Oct. 1), including Karen Hocker and her son Declan. Eight-month-old Declan, son of Tom Hocker 76, is already displaying impeccable fashion taste.

  • Campus & Community

    Teach-in seeks lessons from disaster

    Hurricane Katrina exposed the United States inability to care for its most vulnerable citizens, abandoning them to a disaster policy that approximated survival of the fittest, international disaster experts said Friday (Sept. 30).

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    Schools welcome transfer students

    Jackson Troutt considered himself a diehard, a special breed of New Orleanian who scoffs at hurricane warnings and is determined to stay put regardless of weather. But that changed the morning of Aug. 29 when he switched on the radio and heard New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin urging everyone to evacuate the city immediately.

  • Campus & Community

    Glauber wins Nobel Prize in physics

    Roy J. Glauber, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University, has won a 2005 Nobel Prize in physics for pioneering work on the nature and behavior of light. Glauber shares the prestigious prize with John L. Hall of the University of Colorado and Theodor W. Hansch of the Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, Germany.…

  • Campus & Community

    University opens heart (and doors) in the wake of devastating Katrina

    Perhaps Barry Bloom, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), expressed the feelings of the Harvard community best when he addressed a group of displaced students from Tulane University who are continuing their studies at Harvard:

  • Campus & Community

    Hurricane Katrina

    The following are excerpts from accounts that appear online. For more information, visit http://www.news.arvard.edu/press/pressdoc/pr-050901-katrina.html.

  • Campus & Community

    And the survey says: Harvard docs practice what they preach

    Do Harvard doctors practice what they preach? The Harvard Health Letter, the country’s first health newsletter for the general public, recently surveyed more than 15,000 Harvard Medical School faculty physicians…

  • Campus & Community

    Climate choices: Grim and grimmer

    Climate change from burning fossil fuels is probably already unavoidable, but it is still up to humans to decide just how bad it will be, Professor of Earth and Planetary…

  • Campus & Community

    CfA researchers discover black holes aren’t so black

    Common wisdom holds that we can never see a black hole because nothing can escape it – not even light. Fortunately, black holes aren’t completely black. As gas is pulled…

  • Health

    Stroke patients with mild symptoms may still need clot- dissolving drug

    “Our primary finding was that about 30 percent of those patients judged ‘too good to treat’ either died or were discharged to a rehabilitation facility,” says Eric Smith, MD, FRCPC,…

  • Campus & Community

    Magnetic stimulation helps stroke victims

    Felipe Fregni, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School, has used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to improve the movement skills of people whose brains have been damaged by strokes, skills that…

  • Health

    High blood glucose levels in early pregnancy may deprive embryo of oxygen

    Research appearing in the October 2005 issue of the American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism suggests that high blood glucose levels early in pregnancy deprive the embryo of oxygen,…

  • Science & Tech

    It takes three Smithsonian observatories to decipher one mystery object

    In an exercise that demonstrates the power of a multiwavelength investigation using diverse facilities, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have deciphered the true nature of a mysterious…

  • Science & Tech

    Black holes aren’t so black

    As gas is pulled into a black hole by its strong gravitational force, the gas heats up and radiates. That radiation can be used to illuminate the black hole and…

  • Health

    Survey shows Harvard doctors practice what they preach

    In the 30th anniversary year for the Harvard Health Letter, the editors decided to revive a tradition and ask Harvard doctors whether they follow their own advice – two similar…

  • Campus & Community

    Bring Harvard University Gazette headlines to your desktop via RSS

    Bring Harvard University Gazette headlines to your desktop via RSS. Feeds with headlines and links for the articles in each of the Gazettes main sections are available through: http://www.hno.harvard.edu/rss/.

  • Campus & Community

    State fair, films ring in semester

    Corn dogs, cotton candy, a mechanical bull, scattered bales of hay, and a dunking booth transformed usually staid Tercentenary Theatre into the first Harvard State Fair on a shady Sept. 23rd evening.

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    Honan Apartments open in Allston-Brighton

    Fifty new units of affordable housing and the innovative partnership that helped make the development happen were the subject of celebration on Friday (Sept. 23) as the ribbon was cut on the Brian J. Honan Apartments at 33 Everett St. in Allston-Brighton.