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At its 12th meeting of the year (April 28) the Faculty Council discussed with Deans Benedict Gross, William Kirby, and Jeffrey Wolcowitz the recently released Report on the Harvard College Curricular Review. Professors Goran Ekstrom (Earth and Planetary Science), Eric Jacobsen (Chemistry and Chemical Biology), Richard Losick (Molecular and Cellular Biology), and Diana Sorensen (Romance…

Mucus is exciting to some cancer researchers. No kidding.

The textured stone of the Weeks Footbridge provides an almost-Mediterranean look to a spring day on the Charles. Framed by the stone are rowers taking part in last Saturdays crew competition, in which Harvard took every race. (Staff photo Lindsay Pierce/Harvard News Office)

Marking the end of the first phase of Harvard Colleges comprehensive review of undergraduate education, William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of History, announced the release of A Report on the Harvard College Curricular Review. The report affirms Harvards commitment to a liberal education…

Stem cell therapies have the potential to do for chronic diseases what antibiotics did for infectious diseases. It is going to take years of serious research to get there, but as a neurologist, I believe the prospect of a penicillin for Parkinsons is a potential breakthrough that we must pursue. As in other areas of…

1 educational Web site to be launched in late spring

A bunch of leeks, an alarm clock, a nylon rope, a banana, three playing cards, an ice skate – what does that suggest to you, Dr. Watson?

The children who inhabit the world of award-winning author, educator, and activist Jonathan Kozol 58 dont wear designer clothing, dont have parents who drive around in SUVs, and dont vacation at Disney World. They live in extreme poverty in the inner cities in places like New York and Los Angeles and often endure chronic asthma,…

Current thinking on how most communicable respiratory infections are spread – by large droplets over short distances or by coming in contact with contaminated surfaces (face-to-face) – needs to be reconsidered, according to Donald Milton, lecturer on occupational and environmental health at the Harvard School of Public Health and co-author of a perspective in the…

Last Friday evenings (April 16) presentation at Harvard Divinity School by the Rev. Dr. Mel White, the former dean of the largest gay and lesbian church in the world (the Dallas Cathedral of Hope), was billed as a lecture on Religion, Homosexuality and Marriage: Why We Cant Wait. But it was really a rallying cry.

Edward Elwyn Jones, currently acting University organist and choirmaster, has been appointed the seventh Gund University Organist and Choirmaster. The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, announced Jones appointment at the Easter morning service.

The reigning league champion Harvard mens tennis team inched closer to a repeat performance this past Saturday (April 17) with a not-so-slight 7-0 shutout of visiting Penn. Still perfect in league play, the Crimson (18-6, 4-0 Ivy) – who also downed Princeton, 5-2, a day earlier – next face Brown, also 18-6, 4-0 Ivy, this…

In studying the worlds environment, Harvard is changing its own environment.

Stem cells are the fundamental source of all the bodys tissues, the template from which bodily cells are derived. As cells die off or are damaged, the hundreds of thousands of stem cells in the human body give rise – constantly – to new tissue. Injuries as simple as the scalding of the mouth with…

Harvard Stem Cell Institute, home page to be launched in late spring

At DNAs mysterious command, an embryonic stem cell can somehow become heart, lung, liver, bone, hair, skin, nail, or any other tissue in the body.

Seven Harvard schools, seven Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals, and close to 100 researchers and scientists are banding together in an ambitious new institute with a simple goal: to explore the promising area of stem cell research.

Seven Harvard schools, seven teaching hospitals, and close to 100 researchers and scientists are banding together in an ambitious new institute with a simple goal: to use stem cells to help the 150 million people nationally living with or dying from five types of organ and tissue failure.

On Aug. 9, 2001, President George W. Bush changed the landscape around embryonic stem cell research.

While the new Harvard Stem Cell Institute aims to encourage scholarly examination of the ethical issues surrounding the institutes work, a Harvard committee has had a similar, but more practical, role for more than two years.

Stem cell therapies have the potential to do for chronic diseases what antibiotics did for infectious diseases. It is going to take years of serious research to get there, but as a neurologist, I believe the prospect of a penicillin for Parkinsons is a potential breakthrough that we must pursue. As in other areas of…

Joan Acocella, dance critic for the New Yorker, introduced the video as one of the most extraordinary pieces of dance footage I have ever seen.

When Harvard University Professors Lawrence Bobo and Michael Dawson formally debuted the new peer-reviewed journal they are co-editing, Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race last month at the Organization of American Historians meeting, the reaction was not so much Why? as What took you so long?

In recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, five Harvard professors recently joined 67 other U.S. scientists and engineers to be elected members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The election, which was held April 20 during the 141st annual meeting of the academy, brings the total number of active members…

According to a recently published list of rankings for fiscal year 2003, the Forsyth Institute – a Harvard-affiliated nonprofit biomedical research organization – received more in federal grant funding from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) than any university or other research organization in its specialty. With 40 principal investigators, the Forsyth…

Nathan J. Heller 06 and Amelia E. Lester 05 have been named Harvard Magazines Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2004-05 academic year. The students will join the magazines staff for the academic year and write a regular column, The Undergraduate, as well as news stories and alumni features. They also provide general editorial…

Water polo felled by No. 20 Brown at Northeast Champs The Harvard women’s water polo team dropped a 9-2 decision against top-ranked Brown in the title game of the Collegiate…

Harvards Office for the Arts (OFA) and the Council on the Arts, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have recently announced the winners of the annual undergraduate art prizes. In recognition of outstanding accomplishments in the arts, five seniors and one junior were named recipients for the 2003-04 academic year.

Harvard to back walk for hunger, AIDS For the 18th consecutive year, the Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs will contribute 50 cents per kilometer walked, or hour volunteered,…

Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies Giuliana Bruno received the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award in Culture and History at a March ceremony for Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film (Verso Books, 2002).