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Clearing up ‘programming myths’
There are these amazing distributions called power laws that seem to come up over and over again throughout nature and science, explains newly tenured Professor of Computer Science Michael Mitzenmacher. Under a power law distribution, rare events happen much more frequently than one would expect. They can come about not because of any great design…
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FAS chief information officer is appointed
Lawrence M. Levine, chief information officer and associate provost for information technology at Dartmouth College, has been named associate dean and chief information officer for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at Harvard. Levine will report to Executive Dean Nancy Maull. The appointment is effective Aug. 1.
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 23. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
May 28, 1951 – About 350 former newspaperboys convene at Boston’s Parker House to mark the 50th anniversary of the Newsboys Protective Union and to celebrate the Boston Newsboys Scholarship…
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Campus & Community
HGLC fetes award recipients
The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) announced this week that Alphonse Fletcher Jr. A.B. 87 and Massachusetts Representative Alice K. Wolf will receive the HGLC Civil Rights Award and Ally for Justice Award, respectively. The two will receive the award at the caucus annual Commencement Day dinner, to be held in Lowell House on June 9.…
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Campus & Community
Commencement notice for June 9
Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree…
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Campus & Community
Tree huggers
Outside of the Kennedy School, a couple embraces, either out of affection or a desperate attempt to keep warm.
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Campus & Community
Seeing the universe’s most powerful explosion
Reporting in the May 12 issue of Nature, astronomers announced that they have penetrated the heart of the universe’s most powerful explosion – a gamma-ray burst (GRB). Using the PAIRITEL…
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New delivery technology paves way for disease therapies
A new way to administer therapeutic RNA molecules that efficiently guides them to cells throughout the body is being reported by researchers at the Harvard-affiliated CBR Institute for Biomedical Research…
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Campus & Community
Pros and amateurs team up for discovery
For the first time, amateur and professional astronomers have teamed up to discover a new planet circling a distant star. The planet was detected by looking for the effect of…
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Health
Exercise shown to promote breast cancer survival
Exercise plays a role in preventing breast cancer, and research strongly suggests that breast cancer patients who are more physically active improve their self-esteem and body image. Now, a landmark study from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) finds that exercise after diagnosis may help breast cancer patients live longer.
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Health
‘Brown fat’ cells hold clues for possible obesity treatments
In laboratory studies of mouse cells, the research team identified genes that govern how precursor cells give rise to mature brown fat cells. There are two main types of fat…
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Science & Tech
Witnessing gun violence significantly increases the likelihood that a child will also commit violent crimes
“Based on this study’s results, showing the importance of personal contact with violence, the best model for violence may be that of a socially infectious disease,” says Felton Earls, MD,…
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Health
Imaging may not be major driver of hospital cost increases
“There have been several news stories and reports from insurers claiming that imaging costs are catching and even surpassing drug costs as major drivers of health care inflation,” says Scott…
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Health
Magnetic stimulation may improve stroke recovery
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment improved motor function in a small group of people. For the stimulation, an insulated wire coil is placed on the scalp, and an electrical current…
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Science & Tech
Amateur and professional astronomers team to find new planet
Astronomer Scott Gaudi of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believes that microlensing has the potential for wide use in the future: “With improving technologies and techniques, the first Earth-sized planet…
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Health
TB gene identified
As many as one out of three people in the world are infected with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis, public health experts estimate. That could lead to a global plague…
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Health
Insulin prods development of type 1 diabetes
Joslin Diabetes Center researchers Diane Mathis’s and Christophe Benoist’s finding that the lymph node draining the pancreas was intrinsic to the autoimmune response in mice made David Hafler, HMS professor…
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Health
Breathing restored after severe spinal-cord injury
Keeping an animal functioning after a cervical spinal cord injury is nearly impossible. An American researcher developed the lower spinal cord rat model in the early 1900s. He found that…
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Health
Broken hearts may mend after all
Although adult muscle cells become inflexible after differentiation, these cells temporarily loosen the structure to divide in fetal development. Mark T. Keating found that in some lower vertebrates, heart tissue…
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Campus & Community
Inaugural Schelling and Neustadt Awards given to scholar, judge
A federal judge and a respected social policy writer and scholar were recently honored during the inaugural Richard E. Neustadt and Thomas C. Schelling Awards ceremonies at The Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Mass. The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) hosted the event.
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Campus & Community
Emerging democracies and transitions they face explored
What are the challenges facing emerging democracies? Thats the complex question asked, and partially answered, by a panel of Kennedy School professors on May 13 as part of the 2005 Kennedy School Spring Conference.
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Interns focus on public interest during their college summer
The Center for Public Interest Careers (CPIC), a collaborative effort of Phillips Brooks House, the Office of Career Services, and the Harvard Alumni Association, aims to expose Harvard College students to the public interest sector during their college summers and at the start of their professional careers. Entering its fourth year, the internship and fellowship…
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Sports in brief
Eastern Sprints spring gold for Crimson crew The Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges’ 60th annual Eastern Sprints turned up gold for both the Harvard heavies and lightweights on May 15…
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HSPH receives NCI grant
The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has received a grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, to establish a program to reduce cancer disparities in minority and underserved populations. The program, named MASS CONECT (Massachusetts Community Networks to Eliminate Cancer Disparities through Education, Research and Training), has…
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Campus & Community
In brief
Reischauer seeks submissions The deadline for submitting works for the 2005 Noma-Reischauer Essay Prizes in Japanese Studies, given to the best graduate and undergraduate papers on a Japan-related topic, is…
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Campus & Community
The Big Picture
After 10 years as a justice of the peace, Wilma Stahura has plenty of wedding stories.
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Campus & Community
Print pals
HGSE student Sherri Sklar (left) reads with her Amigos School buddy, second-grader Avianna Perez. Managed by Cambridge School Volunteers (CSV), Reading Buddies is a program that pairs adults from the Graduate School of Education and from BookPALS, a program of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, with young students from a Cambridge public school. At the…
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Reynolds Foundation creates unique fellowship
In a bold move to eliminate financial barriers for graduate students who will go on to confront some of societys most challenging problems, the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation is giving $10 million to create a major fellowship program in social entrepreneurship at Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
It’s a small, small world for Hongkun Park
Hongkun Park thinks small to get big results.