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

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 1. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

John Kelleher service May 17 A memorial service for John V. Kelleher, professor of Irish studies emeritus in the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, will be held May 17…

May 14-15, 1874 – In response to a challenge from the McGill University Foot-ball (sic) Club, the Harvard University Foot Ball (sic) Club squares off against McGill at Jarvis Field…

Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: Degree…

Richard M. Hunt (left), former Harvard University marshal and senior lecturer in social studies, is co-author with editor of The American Scholar John T. Bethell (right) of the new book Harvard A to Z. Hunt and Bethell discussed their book, which is a compendium of fascinating Harvard lore, at the Sackler Museum on April 29.

People who injure an arm or leg sometimes develop pain, swelling, or other unexpected symptoms in the opposite, uninjured arm or leg. Medical reports of such mirror-image effects go back at least to the Civil War and usually are blamed on overuse of the undamaged arm or leg.

Two teams of Harvard researchers have handed doctors a new weapon against lung cancer by explaining the peculiar success of a drug that is extremely effective against the nations top cancer killer, but only in a small percentage of cases.

The interplay of architectonic clouds and glowing sunlight produces a magnificent background to a modest-looking skyline consisting most noticeably of the Memorial Church tower and the Cambridge Fire Department tower.

Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education officially opened the door to racial equality in the United States, education is still the best place to continue pushing for change, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige told a packed audience at the Kennedy School of Government Thursday (April 22).

In a meeting of the United Ways of New England in Boston, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers noted to an audience of 200 Boston industry leaders and executives that at a time when the United States is at its most powerful and incomes are at a historic high, there is a growing gap between this…

Scientists have developed a new type of DNA sequence analysis that pinpoints rapidly evolving pathogenic genes and have used the technique to identify hundreds of quickly evolving tubercular and malarial genes believed to represent key points of contact with the human immune system. The work sheds new light on the interaction of lethal organisms with…

Freshman Morgan Potts hits the books in style at the improvised patio outside of Dudley House and the Gato Rojo Caf&eacute. (Staff photo Kris Snibbe/

The joke is be back by sunset, Sarah Freeman said of her favorite long-distance race: the annual Nunavut Midnight Sun Marathon.

Goroff named FDD Fellow Professor of the Practice of Mathematics Daniel Goroff has been accepted as a 2004-05 Academic Fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) in…

A special reception commemorating the installation of the recently rediscovered grizzly bear claw necklace at the Peabody Museum will be held May 13 – the day the artifact goes on public display – from 5 to 7 p.m. at the museum. Provost Steven E. Hyman and William Fash, Howells Director of the Peabody Museum, will…

Just before 3 oclock on a recent Thursday, Kate Johnsen wrestles with the lock on the door to the Mary Ellen McCormack Youth Center. Moments after she gets the entry to the basement room open, children steadily trickle in. The center is strewn with evidence of spirited use: Checkers are scattered on the floor, homework…

Amid the fuss over Democratic front-runner John Kerrys latest 10-year plan to expand health-care coverage to the tune (according to some Republicans) of $900 billion, and renewed allegations that the Bush administration has suppressed Medicare costs predictions, Harvard Business Schools Regina E. Herzlinger shrugs her shoulders, and smiles. Shes not surprised by the continued political…

Five Harvard students have been awarded grants by the National Security Education Program (NSEP), and another six have received grants from the Freeman-Asia Program. The Institute of International Education administers both grants.

Red Sox VIP tickets, a flight with singer/songwriter and pilot Livingston Taylor, and a movie date with New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell are among the items on the auction block tonight (April 29) at Phillips Brooks House Associations Spring Auction and Raffle to benefit its Summer Urban Program, which runs 12 low-cost day…

The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) has announced its support of 22 art projects and performances that will take place during Arts First weekend (May 6-9). Sponsored by the OFA grants program and selected by the Council on the Arts, the projects range from music and the visual arts to theater and the…

Robert Mann, founder and first violinist of the Julliard String Quartet and a member of the Julliard School Music Division faculty since 1946, has been named the recipient of the 2004 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award.

W.E.B Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and journalist and human rights advocate Kati Marton have been honored with the ninth annual Edith Wharton Women of Achievement Awards. The awards were presented at an April 7 ceremony by Edith Wharton Restoration, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the restoration of The Mount…

Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found that elevated levels of a biomarker that corresponds to a condition in which arteries do not dilate properly can be an indicator of type 2 diabetes risk in women. In addition, endothelial dysfunction – the inflammatory condition in which arteries do not dilate properly – is…

String theory – the idea that the universe is made up not of particles but of tiny vibrating strings – is in the midst of a second revolution that some physicists hope will lead to the long-sought single theory that explains how the universe functions, according to Columbia University Professor Brian Greene.

Within the past several years, articles in the mainstream media have sounded an alarm about a widening black gender gap. In African-American communities, women are outpacing men in professional and educational achievement, while incarceration and unemployment rates for black men far exceed those for black women. Some charge that this phenomenon is affecting marriage possibilities…

Yes, self-experimentation is exactly what it sounds like. Its when a researcher uses him- or herself as the (or one of the) subjects of an experiment. A recent gathering at the School of Public Health (HSPH) looked into the practice in a discussion titled Self-Experimentation by Investigators: Panel and Case Discussion. The exchange produced a…

Harvard College, striving to increase international experiences for its students, may now have one more arrow in its quiver, thanks to the student-initiated Harvard in Asia Project (HIAP). Chaired by David Yuan 06 and Silas Xu 05, HIAP returned triumphant from its first-ever exchange with Peking University, or Beida, in Beijing earlier this month. During…

The Altran/Arthur D. Little Foundation for Innovation will provide $500,000 in the form of money, professional expertise, and consulting to the Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) during the next five years to help support a broad-based program on innovation in science and technology.

The Harvard Stem Cell Institutes inaugural symposium kicked off in interdisciplinary fashion Friday (April 23) with discussions that explored the business, ethics, and science of stem cell research.