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At its 11th meeting of the year (April 14) the Faculty Council discussed with Dean of the College Benedict Gross (mathematics) and Professor Jennifer Leaning (faculty of public health) the implementation of the recommendations made last year by the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard (the Leaning Committee). Dean Julia Fox (Harvard College) and…

Kofi Annan, the secretary-general of the United Nations and 2001 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will be Harvards 2004 Commencement speaker at the Afternoon Exercises on June 10.

Rakesh Jain looks at tumors from an engineers perspective. The view he gets has led to some startling results.

Vicki Norberg-Bohm, a pioneer in the study of technology innovation, died March 21 at the age of 48 after a courageous fight with cancer.

The Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at Western Kentucky University (WKU) has named Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, the recipient of the 2003 Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism. Buell will receive the award for Emerson (2003, Belknap Press), an assessment of Ralph Waldo Emersons works, at…

Funds and fellows will be made available to Harvard faculty in an effort to spark wide-ranging implementation of the powerful array of educational technology pioneered at the University in recent years, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven E. Hyman announced.

Tuesdays mean a full house in Pat Goffredos second-grade classroom at the Amigos School in Cambridge. I rarely have any absences on Tuesday, says Goffredo. Even if they have dentists appointments, they make it in.

From physicians and therapists to Reiki practitioners and spirit singers, a wide range of religious and medical professionals shared their projects and findings from the 18-month Women Healing Women project at Harvard Divinity School in March. Sponsored by the Religion, Health and Healing Initiative of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Women Healing…

Now that the franc, the mark, and the lira have followed the ducat, the doubloon, and the Louis dOr into numismatic superannuation, economists have been watching with great interest to see how well the successor to these national currencies – the euro – has been doing at replacing the monetary systems of a dozen linguistically…

Whats smaller than a microbrewery but bigger than a cauldron of homebrew stinking up the kitchen?

This sweet row of Dutch spring tulips seems to have sprung spontaneously out of the cold New England stone fronting the Holyoke Center Arcade. (Staff photo Jon Chase/Harvard News Office)

Fakes. Phonies. Forgeries. Institutions are careful not to acquire them – as a rule. But this month, as it has done for five years, the Fogg Art Museum makes an exception to show some Fabulous Fakes and Poignant Poetry, the work of art teacher Deb Whitmores fifth-grade students at Captain Samuel Brown School in Peabody.…

Fitting in and looking as if it belonged was never the point. Otherwise, it would have been made of red brick, not slabs of barefaced concrete. It would have shuffled its interior spaces into neat stacks so people would know where they were and where they were going instead of feeling a sense of perpetual…

Doing things solo was never a problem for Alesia Johnson. After all, the Charlestown High senior from Dorchester held down a part-time job at a local bank, paid her own living expenses, and kept up pretty good grades without parental involvement. But when it came to applying to college, the first-generation college-bound senior was stumped.

A recent, highly controversial series of papers published by two researchers at the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen, Peter Gotzsche and Ole Olsen, concluded that mammography does not save lives and instead exposes women to unnecessary diagnostic and surgical procedures.

The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has named mathematical statistician Stuart Baker of the National Cancer Institute the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Alum Award. As the winner, Baker will deliver a lecture at the School this June about his career and life.

You go to China, its dazzling, says Erik Eckholm, one of three contributors to an exhibit of photographs called The Reporters Eye: Images from Chinas Socioeconomic Frontiers. Tall buildings. Cars. Growing fast. But there are also all these casualties and cast-offs. I think its important not to forget them.

A. Bernard Ackerman, a physician and professor who has devoted his career to finding inventive and engaging ways of teaching, is creating a new endowment at Harvard for the study of culture and medicine. The A. Bernard Ackerman Endowment for the Culture of Medicine will establish a professorship and support a wide range of activities…

A Kennedy School expert on democracy and leadership in the developing world is assisting a new African effort to improve leadership on the continent by training young leaders and drawing inspiration from current and former best practices and success stories.

Harvard Medical School Professor of Genetics Frederick W. Alt, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Childrens Hospital Boston (Department of Molecular Medicine), has received the Clowes Memorial Award from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), acknowledging his three decades of seminal discoveries in genomic instability and cancer. The Clowes is the oldest award…

Kiyo Morimoto, who helped tens of thousands of students adjust to college life in his 27 years at Harvards Bureau of Study Counsel, and who served for six years as the bureaus director, died Feb. 22 at the age of 86.

Kennedy School of Government (KSG) student Kate Kohler is so youthful and bubbly, its hard to imagine her as a veteran of the U.S. Army or a dedicated marathon runner.

California adolescents are much more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use a gun in self-defense, according to an article in the April issue of The Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Arthur Maass, a political scientist whose study of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers management of water resources earned him the respect of the agency he criticized, died on March 26 in his home in Boston. He was 86.

The search for a new Harvard Divinity School Librarian has ended with the appointment of Laura C. Wood, who will assume leadership of Andover-Harvard Theological Library on June 15.

Harvard Divinity School (HDS) Dean William A. Graham has announced the appointment of Elizabeth (Betsy) Sloane as the new associate dean for development and alumni/ae relations at HDS, to start this month.

Harvards administrative and professional staff are invited to attend a lecture presented by Provost Steven E. Hyman as part of the Harvard Administrators Forum (HAF) 2004 lecture series – Managing Change and Seizing Opportunities. At the April 13 lecture, to be held in Emerson Hall, room 105, Hyman will share his perspectives on global changes…

Two new exhibitions have opened at Houghton Library.

For the group of public school educators and administrators who gathered at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Wednesday (March 31), pink slips and hiring freezes make teacher shortages difficult to imagine.

With the identification of the gene responsible for a newly recognized type of mental retardation, researchers at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have also discovered what appears to be the key target in the evolution of the frontal lobes of the brains cerebral cortex. The findings, reported in the March 26 issue of…