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Yaa Bruce 05 conducted biomedical research in Beijing Katherine Jarvis-Shean 05 learned the ins and outs of running an organic farm in Oliveto, Italy and Andréa Mayrose 06 worked in a pediatrics ward at a hospital in Ngaoundéé, Cameroon – just a sampling of the variety of internships that 31 Harvard students arranged, secured, and…

Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, is the recipient of this years Carl Sandburg Award. Given annually by the Chicago Public Library (CPL), the award honors a significant work or body of work that has enhanced the publics awareness of the written word and reflects…

Tailback Clifton Dawson ’07 tallied three touchdowns to lead 19th-ranked Crimson to a 39-14 win against host Princeton this past Saturday (Oct. 23). In the process, the sophomore set a…

Harvard midfielder Alisha Moran 05 (left) tries to tame a bouncing ball and simultaneously outrace her University of Connecticut opponent on Wednesday (Oct. 27). The Crimson squeaked past the visiting Huskies, 1-0, to improve to 7-5-2.

A crowd of 200,000 braved gusty conditions to take in the 40th annual Head of the Charles Regatta this past weekend (Oct. 23-24). Meanwhile, between the banks of the river, the choppy water on the famously windy course with six bridges tested boats from Harvard, Radcliffe, and across North America and Europe.

Inspired by the great impact wrestling has made on his family, David G. Bunning 88 has endowed Harvards wrestling coach position. The gift was announced at the Friends of Harvard Wrestling kickoff dinner, held on Saturday (Oct. 23).

After recently calling for a renewed national effort against a persistent smoking threat, the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) will take the occasion of its annual Julius B. Richmond Award (to be given today, Oct. 28) to confer its highest honor on three state attorneys general and on an advocate for children who successfully…

Postdoctoral fellow in the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Jinbao Qian died suddenly on Oct. 22. Qian was 38. When Qian left his native China in 1994 to pursue a doctorate at Harvard, he had already made his mark in the field of history. An archivist at the Historical Archives of China in Nanjing, he had…

Six years after leaving the New York City theater scene for Boston and a new job as a fundraiser, Karen Rives says her joy has returned and the Harvard community is the beneficiary.

HPT picks Wang for second straight year The Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) has selected Derrick L. Wang ’06 to compose the score for this year’s show: “Terms of Frontierment.” HPT…

You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends. Or can you?

No official polls have been conducted at the Holyoke Center, but there does seem to be a certain consensus on some of the more important issues of the day.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 25. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

A memorial service in honor of John E. Mack, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School since 1972 and founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital, will be held at the Memorial Church on Nov. 13 at noon. Mack was struck by a car and killed on Sept. 27 in London. He…

Oct. 15, 1901 – The Harvard Union (now the largest part of Barker Center for the Humanities) is dedicated. Oct. 1, 1908 – With 59 students, the Graduate School of…

At its third meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed with General Counsel Robert Iuliano, University attorney Ellen Berkman, and Professor John Huchra (astronomy and chair of the Standing Committee on Research Policy) the relevance of national export control policy to university research. The council also considered revisions to the procedures for Memorial Minutes,…

Every day, in hospitals all over the country, biology clashes with medicine. Biology demands sleep medicine dictates long hours without it.

Until the early 1990s, the marshes of southern Iraq were a critical environmental lifeline, a source of water and nourishment in the desert, and home to Arab peoples who made their living from marsh fish, plants, and wildlife.

The kids at the Lampoon have given the usually inscrutable facade of their Mt. Auburn Street headquarters a frightful Halloween makeover.

Does playing music promote longevity? Many claim that it does, although the evidence is probably more anecdotal than scientific. Well, here is one more piece of data to add to a bulging albeit inconclusive file: James Yannatos is beginning his 41st year conducting the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO).

A panel of human rights activists condemned Sudanese government-sanctioned genocide that has left 1.5 million black Africans in Sudans Darfur region homeless and 70,000 dead.

Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang spends a solitary moment before the screening of his new film Goodbye Dragon Inn at the Harvard Film Archive on Tuesday (Oct. 19). Tsais recurring themes are the isolated nature of individual lives, the rituals that are essential for survival, and the restorative power of love. Goodbye Dragon Inn will be…

Robin Chase has already changed the way we drive, but shes not satisfied. Now she wants to change the way we live as well.

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 seventh annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop on Feb. 4, 2005.

Young women who were treated for cancer as children have a greater chance of developing breast cancer if their treatment included chest radiation, if they initially had cancer of the bones, muscles, or connective tissue, or if they have a family history of breast cancer, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard-affiliated…

Diplomats, academics, and leaders of nongovernmental organizations gathered at the John F. Kennedy School of Government last week for a three-day conference examining the worlds rogue states and how best to handle them.

A Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study conference on womens reproductive health aimed to pierce a global sense of complacency that contributes to hundreds of thousands of women in poor countries dying in childbirth each year.

This fall the Harvard University Art Museums will return with a fourth year of its successful Sackler Saturdays program. Families with children ages 6 to 11 are invited to explore artworks from ancient cultures and distant lands such as China, Japan, Korea, India, Greece, and Rome. The program, which is free and open to the…

Winning finish caps 7-1 season for men’s water polo A pair of wins over Iona and Fordham this past Saturday (Oct. 16) in New London, Conn., improved the Harvard men’s…