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Campus & Community
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Stephen Lewis named HSPH Commencement speaker Stephen Lewis, United Nations special envoy of the secretary-general for HIV/AIDS in Africa and director of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, will be the Harvard…
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Joslin Diabetes Center scientist elected to NAS Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School Christophe O. Benoist, co-head of the Section on Immunology and Immunogenetics at Joslin Diabetes Center, was…
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Campus & Community
University applauds faculty and staff
One hundred forty-five Harvard faculty and staff members will be honored today (May 12) for reaching a milestone: 25 years of service to the University. The 51st annual 25 Year Recognition Ceremony – a unique event in that it recognizes both faculty and staff from across the entire University – will be held at the…
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Campus & Community
Tim Russert to speak at Harvard Class Day
Tim Russert, managing editor and moderator of Meet the Press (MTP) and political analyst for NBC Nightly News and the Today program, is the 2005 Class Day speaker, announced the Harvard College Class of 2005 Senior Class Committee and the Harvard Alumni Association Wednesday (May 11). He will address the senior class and guests on…
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Campus & Community
Philosophy Department appoints Hall
Edward J.P. Hall, a leading philosopher of physics and quantum mechanics and an eminent analyst of the philosophical notion of causation, has been appointed professor of philosophy in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.
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Campus & Community
HMNH names Elisabeth Werby as executive director
The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) has named Elisabeth Werby its new executive director. Currently senior director of government relations and strategic project development at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York, Werby will join the HMNH in July.
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Campus & Community
Riding a bicycle built for two
For James Robinson, recently appointed to a tenured position in the Government Department, the desire to understand the world from a broad intellectual perspective began when he was a boy in England in the 1970s.
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Campus & Community
Fehrenbach joins FAS as professor of history of art, architecture
Art historian Frank Fehrenbach, a prolific and expansive scholar who is one of the worlds leading intellects in the field of Renaissance art, has been named professor of the history of art and architecture in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending May 9. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
May 1879 – The committee on women’s education (chaired by Elizabeth Cary Agassiz) announces its first course offerings (51) in the following subjects: English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Spanish,…
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Campus & Community
Environmental express
The Kennedy School of Government has presented the 2005 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership to the FedEx-Environmental Defense Future Vehicle Project. The Future Vehicle Project – a public/private collaboration of Environmental Defense, FedEx Express, and the Eaton Corporation – has introduced a hybrid delivery truck that increases fuel efficiency by over 50 percent and…
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Campus & Community
Faculty Council meeting for May 11
At its 15th meeting of the year on May 11, the Faculty Council received a report on the Allston Initiative from Vice President for Administration Sally Zeckhauser, Dean Alan Altshuler of the Graduate School of Design, and David MacGregor, project manager for Cooper, Robertson & Partners.
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Campus & Community
College’s yield rises to nearly 80 percent
Nearly 80 percent of the students admitted to the Class of 2009 will enter Harvard in September. The current yield is 78.5 percent, slightly above last years 77.6 percent.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Foundation unveils portraits
They were turning away people at the door as President Lawrence H. Summers and S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, unveiled six portraits as part of the Harvard Foundation Minority Portraiture Project, an initiative to recognize faculty members and administrators of color who have served Harvard with distinction…
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Campus & Community
Brainy surprise party
After neuroscientist John Dowling presented his last lecture at the Science Center on Tuesday (May 10), he was treated to a surprise party in honor of three decades of exemplary teaching. Provost Steven E. Hyman praised Dowling, who was then presented with a cake decorated with a picture of a brain, the Harvard veritas symbol,…
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Campus & Community
Researchers ID antigen for type 1 diabetes
Type 1 diabetes, diagnosed in children and adults, is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the pancreas no longer produces insulin. Diabetes, which ranks as the fifth-deadliest disease in the…
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Campus & Community
Harvard ‘Foresters’ put forward bold new plan
n a new scientific report titled “Wildlands and Woodlands: A Vision for the Forests of Massachusetts,” David Foster, director of Harvard University’s Harvard Forest, is calling, along with his colleagues,…
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Campus & Community
Low-fat dairy may help reduce risk of type 2 diabetes
The consumption of low-fat dairy foods may reduce men’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study in the May 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. The…
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Campus & Community
Breathing easier after spinal cord injuries
njuries to the upper spinal cord can take a victim’s breath away. Most people don’t know that breathing difficulties are the leading cause of disease and death after such injuries.…
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Health
Left- or right-brain? Genes may tell the story
According to HHMI investigator Christopher A. Walsh, postdoctoral fellow Tao Sun, and their colleagues at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, their discovery that a gene called…
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Science & Tech
Robotic telescope penetrates heart of universe’s most powerful explosion
Cullen Blake, a graduate student at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and lead author on the paper, said that the simultaneous observation of infrared light with a gamma-ray burst was…
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Health
Low-fat dairy foods may help reduce risk of type 2 diabetes
“Our study found that men consuming higher levels of dairy products, especially low-fat dairy foods, had a significantly lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes during a 12-year period,” says…
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Health
Study finds men who consume more dairy products have lower incidence of diabetes
A report from researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) – the first large-scale, prospective examination of a relationship…
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Health
Brain chemical serotonin involved in early embryo patterning
A study published in the May 10, 2005, Current Biology has ramifications for neuroscience, developmental genetics, evolutionary biology and, possibly, human teratology (a branch of pathology and embryology concerned with…
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Health
T cell misfits may spell autoimmunity
For a would-be T cell, the journey from cradle to grave is likely to be brief. After leaving the bone marrow, the immature immune cell travels directly to the thymus,…
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Campus & Community
Abu Ghraib onstage
Since the theaters beginnings in ancient Greece, playwrights have used the stage to explore complex ethical issues and portray disturbing current events. It is a practice that continues into the present day with works like Athol Fugards Master Harold … and the Boys and Tony Kushners Angels in America.
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Campus & Community
Conference builds on ‘the built environment’
The conference title was Reconceptualizing the History of the Built Environment in North America.