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When it comes to people, programs, and policies in education, Mica Pollock thinks we should talk about race more. And sometimes less. But mostly, Pollock, assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE), believes Americans need to learn to talk about racial issues in education better than we do.

Contrary to expectations, 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.

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

Scientists may have pinpointed a microscopic reason why people suffering from the most common type of vertigo experience a distinct time lag between a rapid head motion and the onset of dizziness. The explanation, the researchers say, could be that it takes five to six seconds for minuscule crystals in the inner ear to sediment…

HLS chooses architect for northwest corner Harvard Law School (HLS) recently announced the selection of Robert A.M. Stern Architects as the principal design firm to prepare a planning framework for…

Farrar to take helm of Harvard water polo Longtime collegiate water polo coach Erik Farrar will take the reins of Harvard’s men’s and women’s programs, it was announced earlier this…

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

Harvard athletes strut stuff in Athens Harvard graduate Brenda Taylor ’01 placed seventh in a field of eight in the women’s 400m hurdles on Wednesday evening (Aug. 25) in Athens.…

Robert C. Orr, executive director for research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), left his post this month to become assistant secretary-general of the United Nations. In his new role, Orr is the UNs top official responsible for policy and planning, and the senior-most American…

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.

Harvard Medical School (HMS) officially kicked off a new research center Monday (Aug. 23) focused on understanding and reversing the immune system dysfunction that both causes diabetes and that presents a hurdle to potential cures.

A memorial celebration honoring the life of Philip S. Holzman will be held on Oct. 23 at 1 p.m. at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Holzman, who died on June 1, was the Esther and Sidney R. Rabb Professor of Psychology Emeritus, and professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, emeritus. A…

Harvards alpine ski team will be under the tutelage of a new head coach for the 2004-05 season, as former UMass standout Justin Rouleau joins the Crimson coaching staff. Rouleau replaces Lisa Smyth, who was with the team for five years.

The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is committed to assisting all members of the Harvard community in providing for their own safety and security. Harvards annual security report, prepared in compliance with The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (the Clery Act), is titled Playing It Safe, and can…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the weeks beginning July 18 and ending August 25. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Researchers have found a family of molecules that play a key role in the formation of synapses, the junctions that link brain cells, called neu-rons, to each other. The molecules initiate the development of these connections, forming the circuitry of the mammalian nervous system.

At the annual Mid-Summer Celebration of the 12 day camps run by Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), a student-led non-profit at Harvard College, Wednesday evening (Aug. 4), old-fashioned summertime fun took on a distinctly urban flavor. As campers from Boston and Cambridge ran sack races, tossed rings and softballs, slurped watermelon, and smeared their faces…

The world’s first quantum network, integrated with the Internet, is now operating in the Boston area. Its developers hope that the messages it sends will be secure from hackers and eavesdroppers for as long as imagination now extends.

Balloons waved, jazz standards played, and Cambridge seniors danced on the steps of the Memorial Church during Wednesday’s (Aug. 4) 29th Annual Senior Picnic in Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre.

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have found that the content of human DNA and genes, originally thought to be very similar among all human beings, differs significantly. This unexpected finding could one day provide researchers with the insight necessary to understand how disease development differs among individuals and…

Howard A. Frank, co-developer of the heart pacemaker and clinical professor of surgery emeritus at Harvard Medical School, died from complications of a stroke at his Brookline, Mass., home on June 27. He was 89.

The impending retirement of 77 million baby boomers, if managed properly, can transform the nature of American society through an explosion in volunteerism that rejuvenates the societal ties that bind the nation together.

The John Harvard Mall, a hilltop park in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, is now restored and designed to be safer for Boston residents and their children, thanks to a partnership between the city of Boston and Harvard University.

Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Forsyth Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil have successfully used tissue-engineering techniques to regenerate rat tooth crowns.