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Would-be reformers of Americas urban schools are hamstrung by a rigid dogmatism that pits progressive against conservative, parent against teacher, and academic against politician, Duke Universitys Charles Payne told an audience at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) Monday night (March 15). In a lecture called A Curse on Both Their Houses: Liberal and…

The Harvard Law School Library has announced the opening of a new exhibition titled The Legal Portrait Project Online. The exhibition is the culmination of an 18-month project to catalog, digitize, and make available the Law Schools 4,000-item portrait collection of lawyers, jurists, and legal thinkers dating from the Middle Ages to the late 20th…

Harvard Law School, long a training ground for many of the nations sharpest legal minds, last week (March 9) coached some seasoned lawyers preparing a case thats on its way to the U.S. Supreme Court later this month. For the members of the legal defense team arguing the case, the moot court provided a realistic…

Harvards Records Management Office (RMO) will offer a new presentation for office managers and other staff charged with file keeping. The new one-hour presentation, which will be offered on three Thursdays (April 15, July 8, and Oct 28), will provide practical guidance on filing systems, filing rules and procedures, and equipment and supplies. Each session…

Amid shifting scientific data on nutrition and obesity, experts from government, industry, and academia converged on Harvard Medical School last week to discuss obesitys causes and how to craft a coherent public nutritional message.

Helen Vendler, the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor and author of numerous books on poets and poetry, will deliver the 2004 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced. The annual NEH-sponsored Jefferson Lecture is the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities.

Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who reports on the U.S. Supreme Court for The New York Times, will receive this years Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Goldsmith Award is given annually to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of journalism by a journalist…

A new exhibit of 28 photographic prints and 20 stereographs from the Peabody Museums Marshall Collection opens today (March 18).

Secondary School Program to hold info session High school students and their parents are invited to attend an information session for Harvard Summer School’s Secondary School Program on April 3…

GSEs Wendy Luttrell appointed to associate professorship

Greg Morrow buckles himself into the bellows and bag of his Scottish small pipes, furrows his brow, and begins to squeeze. As air fills the bladder and Morrow adjusts the lap-sized instruments three pipes, the sound is, frankly, offensive a cross between a goose in pain and a city intersection gridlocked with taxis.

Nigerian AIDS activist Yinka Jegede-Ekpe said that the HIV/AIDS epidemic will never be solved until women are seen as equal partners. She spoke to an audience in Snyder Auditorium at the Harvard School of Public Health on March 9, one day after being named a recipient of a 2004 Reebok Human Rights Award. The award,…

Suzanne J. Battit, M.B.A. 92, has been appointed executive director of the Harvard College Fund (HCF).

On a night Martin McGuinness may have been scheduled to die in Belfast, he was instead at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, answering a students question about what hell do when he reaches heavens pearly gates.

Scott A. Abell 72, a successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Harvard alumni leader, has accepted an invitation from William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and Donella M. Rapier, vice president for Alumni Affairs and Development, to become associate vice president and dean for Development for the Faculty of Arts and…

Students from the Institute of Politics led a voter registration and mobilization drive in front of the Science Center on March 16. More than 300 students registered or filled out Voter Contact Cards to receive information about voting absentee in their home states. The students were joined by IOP Fellow and former Minnesota governor Jesse…

Democratic State Rep. Byron Rushing will speak at the Memorial Church on the subject Church & State: Civil Marriage, Civil Rights, and Religious Freedom on Sunday, March 21. Rushing is an original sponsor of the Massachusetts gay rights bill and the chief sponsor of the law to end discrimination in public schools on the basis…

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 (HUPD) for the week ending March 13. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Morimoto service at Friends Meeting House on Sunday A memorial service for Kiyo Morimoto, former staff member and director of the Bureau of Study Counsel (he retired in 1985 after…

Despite ample meteorological evidence to the contrary, these two fairies adorning Petalis Holyoke Center Arcade window seem certain that spring is a time for lovers AND thats its just around the corner.

Every day, people suffer traumatic experiences that scar their minds. Combat, rape, bombings, burns, beatings, and horrific car accidents haunt them with memories impossible to suppress. Such day- and nightmares are part of a problem known as post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

Harvard researchers have identified a hormone produced by fat cells as a possible link between the foods and drinks we consume and the health of our hearts.

Antanas Mockus had just resigned from the top job of Colombian National University. A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus looked around for another big challenge and found it: to be in…

U.S. and British officials must strike the proper balance between anti-terrorist security and human rights now, because a failure that leads to another devastating attack will prompt even more draconian measures, British Home Secretary David Blunkett said Monday (March 8).

DeWolfe Howe Fund accepting proposals until April 16 The Mark DeWolfe Howe Fund for Study and Research in Civil Rights-Civil Liberties and Legal History is now accepting proposals for either…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Medicine on December 17, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Attending summer school and being held back substantially increases academic achievement among third-graders, according to a recent study by researchers Brian Jacob, an assistant professor of public policyof the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and Lars Lefgren of Brigham Young University.

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

Tourism changes everything it touches, homogenizing and sanitizing even as it brings in bodies and dollars.