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A 23,000-year-old hunter-gatherers camp submerged under the Sea of Galilee for millennia has provided Harvard researchers with new information about early human diets, showing that grains were staple foods 10,000 years earlier than previously thought and shedding new light on agricultures roots.

Harvard University’s endowment earned a 21.1 percent return during the year ending June 30, 2004, bringing the endowment’s overall value to $22.6 billion. The continued strong returns buttress the endowment’s…

As she enters her sophomore year as dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan lays out an ambitious agenda for her tenure. Her immodest plans include expanding the faculty, changing the face of the campus, improving the student experience, and reviewing a curriculum that has served the school for well over a century.

As part of its weeklong orientation to life at Harvard College, the Class of 2008 caught the premiere screening of Empowering You,&dsquo a new video produced jointly by Harvard College and Harvard University Health Services, Sunday night (Sept. 12).

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates: Tuesday, Sept. 21, 4-5 p.m. (sign-up begins at 3 p.m.) Thursday,…

P S A are frightening letters for those diagnosed with prostate cancer, some 230,000 men every year. They stand for prostate-specific antigen, a protein the body secretes in excess when a man has the malignancy. It is used as a marker to both diagnose the disease and to detect its recurrence after surgery or radiation.…

Fewer college-educated women are keeping their maiden names at the altar, according to a Harvard study.

All members of the University community and their guests are invited to attend Harvard’s third annual “It’s Movie Time at Harvard,” to be held this Sunday (Sept. 26) in Tercentenary Theatre.

Scientists, by chance, have found a gene associated with severe clumsiness and other movement difficulties. Mutations of the gene cause Joubert syndrome, a brain malfunction accompanied by weakness, abnormal eye movements, learning difficulties, and mental retardation.

For three weeks in June, Harvard Medical School (HMS) hosted 20 high school students from Hawaii and Hopi nations to study the physiological and psychological effects of drug and alcohol addiction.

Young adults who attended day care or nursery school when they were children were more than a third less likely to develop Hodgkins disease, according to a new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers.

Contrary to expectation, a startling number of large variations have been found in the human genome. The genetic blueprints for humans were thought to be 99.9 percent similar, but researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of Toronto in Canada have accidentally discovered large chunks of missing or added DNA in normal, healthy people.

When it comes to people, programs, and policies in education, Mica Pollock thinks we should talk about race more.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Medicine May 26, 2004, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences May 18, 2004, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Four innovative leaders from Latin America will be welcomed into the Harvard University faculty this academic year as Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Visiting Professors by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS).

Harvards Program on U.S.-Japan Relations has recently selected 15 fellows for the 2004-05 academic year. Founded in 1980, the program enables outstanding scholars and practitioners to come together to conduct independent research and participate in an ongoing dialogue with other members of the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.

The Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences (CBRSS) and the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School (HMS) have announced the arrival of four new visiting scholars, as part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program. This two-year postdoctoral fellowship program is for new Ph.D.s in…

The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics (formerly the Center for Ethics and the Professions) recently announced its Faculty Fellows in Ethics for the 2004-05 academic year. The fellows, who study ethical problems in business, government, law, medicine, and public policy, were selected from a pool of applicants from universities and professional institutions throughout…

Leaders of American Indian nations from across the country came to Harvard University last week to share their best ideas of how to spur economic development, guard resources, and promote the well-being of their people.

Selling stuff for homes on campus and afar Cast-off sofas and retired wastebaskets not only found new life in frugal students’ dorm rooms and suites, they also help families in…

A group of Harvard students is teaming up with the United Nations and leading an effort to identify promising small entrepreneurs in developing countries to highlight the United Nations coming International Year of Microcredit.

Paul A. Zizzo of Arlington, Mass., benefits manager for Harvard University, died on Aug. 15 of complications from back surgery. He was 58.

Fred Lawrence Whipple, whose work on comets revolutionized our understanding of these once enigmatic visitors, died Aug. 30 at the age of 97 following a prolonged illness. He was the Phillips Professor of Astronomy Emeritus at Harvard and a senior physicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO).

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) recently announced the seventh funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, a KSG faculty committee will consider applications for small one-year grants (up to $30,000) to support advanced research by Harvard faculty members on issues of critical…

Rugby club seeks grad student players The Harvard M.B.A./Grad Rugby Club seeks graduate student players of all experience levels for training, matches, tours, or tournaments. Trainings are held Tuesday and…

The third annual Its Movie Time at Harvard – a free outdoor film screening presented by President Lawrence H. Summers – will be held Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. in Tercentenary Theatre. The event is open to the entire University community and their families.

Former Harvard hockey captain, Olympian, and NHL player Ted Donato was named head coach of the Harvard mens ice hockey team on July 2. A 1991 graduate of Harvard who captured an NCAA championship as a sophomore, Donato becomes just the sixth person to serve as Harvards head coach since 1950. The appointment is Donatos…

When Julia Ashmun was a teenager, she told her mother she wanted to be proficient on the water, in the water, and under the water. Given Ashmuns coastal upbringing, which included stints in California, Florida, the Caribbean, and a year on a 27-foot sailboat, such a goal was not far-fetched. By age 15, Ashmun taught…

Karen L. Mapp, an expert on families and communities in education, will join the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) as a lecturer on education beginning Jan. 1, 2005, for a multiyear term.