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  • Campus & Community

    Franklin Ford memorial service set for Nov. 20

    A memorial service for Franklin Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Emeritus, will be held Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. at the Memorial Church.

  • Campus & Community

    Stick to your promise and get your flu shot

    University Health Services (UHS) will be providing free flu vaccines to members of the Harvard community beginning in November. The walk-in clinics are being held at the following locations:

  • Campus & Community

    Gene needed for puberty discovered

    If your Harry Potter gene doesnt work, you cant reach puberty. Thats what researchers at Harvard University and in England have discovered.

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    Chim-chim-chi-red

    Gift of the season: Bright red ivy enlivens a chimney on the roof of a Mt. Auburn Street building. Strong winds in the next couple of days should remove whats left of falls leaves.

  • Health

    Regeneration of insulin-producing islets may lead to diabetes cure

    Type 1 diabetes develops when the body’s immune cells mistakenly attack the insulin-producing islet cells of the pancreas. As islet cells die, insulin production ceases, and blood sugar levels rise,…

  • Health

    Smoking increases bleeding into the brain, study finds

    A research team at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) found that stroke risk for women increased proportionately with the number of cigarettes smoked each day. In contrast, women who stopped…

  • Campus & Community

    Scholars resuscitate dead languages

    The goal of a Harvard academic research project is to develop advanced computer technology that will help scholars mine myriad scientific texts in a variety of languages, but also to…

  • Science & Tech

    ESL children not at a reading disadvantage

    Harvard researcher Nonie Lesaux’s study, published in the journal “Developmental Psychology” in November 2003, tracked 1,000 children speaking native English and English as a second language (ESL) in mainstream English…

  • Campus & Community

    Designing solutions to fresh water shortage

    Robert France, associate professor of landscape ecology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, is a scientist who has studied the effect of environmental degradation of various plants and animals.…

  • Science & Tech

    Puberty gene identified

    A gene discovered by Harvard researchers and their colleagues in England makes a protein necessary to trigger a hormonal cascade that flows from the brain to the gonads. Without it,…

  • Health

    Physicians report trouble obtaining specialty services for uninsured

    A research team surveyed more than 2,000 physicians at U.S. academic health centers who had provided direct patient care during the preceding year. Among the questions asked were whether the…

  • Health

    Study challenges proposed changes to clinical definition of mental illness

    As the American Psychiatric Association prepares for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’s fifth edition, there is debate over whether to eliminate milder forms of diseases to prevent…

  • Health

    Adolescent stress can change brain during adulthood

    Researchers found that adult rats exposed to a social stress during adolescence (ages approximating 13 to 15 years in humans) showed a significant decrease in a specific protein found in…

  • Health

    Is your heart in the right place?

    In a frog, the position of the heart is determined within the first hour in the womb, Harvard scientists have discovered. Researchers all over the world believe that frogs and…

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty of Arts and Sciences ‹ Memorial Minute

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 21, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

  • Campus & Community

    Twelve named to the Administrative Fellowship Program

    Twelve new fellows have been selected for the 2003-04 Administrative Fellowship Program. Of the 12 fellows, seven are visiting fellows (talented professionals drawn from business, education, and the professions outside the University) and five are resident fellows (minority professionals currently working at Harvard). Resident fellows are identified by their department and selected by the fellowship…

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    ‘Staying the hand of vengeance’

    Why not just shoot Slobodan Milosevic?

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    Houghton bridge is coming down

    As one of the final projects in the renovation and restoration of Widener Library, the bridge that formerly connected the Widener Library stacks to the Houghton Library reading room will be removed in spring 2004. During the course of the stacks renovation, the bridge was identified as a structure that did not meet current building…

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    Busch-Reisinger marks a century

    The name is instantly familiar from the beer: Busch, as in Anheuser-Busch, the worlds largest brewer and producer of such well-known brands as Budweiser and Michelob. But what, one wonders, does Harvards Busch-Reisinger Museum have to do with a family of St. Louis beer barons?

  • Campus & Community

    Debating a brave new world

    As biotechnology increasingly lets us change ourselves and our children, bioethics asks whether we should.

  • Campus & Community

    Schauer: Profiling can be a useful investigative tool

    In the 1980s, after a rash of attacks by pit bull terriers on children and adults as well as on other dogs, many municipalities passed ordinances making it illegal to own pit bulls.

  • Campus & Community

    William L. Fash named Peabody Musuem director

    William L. Fash Jr. has been named Howells Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, effective Jan. 1, 2004. Fash, the Charles P. Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology in the Harvard Anthropology Department, will succeed Rubie Watson, the first Howells Director of the Peabody Museum,…

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    Richard Neustadt remembered as guiding force at KSG

    Richard E. Neustadt, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government Emeritus at Harvards Kennedy School of Government and eminent presidential scholar and former adviser to three U.S. presidents, is being remembered fondly by former colleagues as a guiding force in Kennedy School history. Neustadt passed away in England on Friday (Oct. 31) at age 84.

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    Miller named chair of ophthalmology at HMS

    Professor of Ophthalmology Joan W. Miller, an internationally recognized expert in the field of macular degeneration, was recently named chief of ophthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) and chair of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS).

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    Gephardt throws strikes at ‘Hardball’

    This is the fourth in a series of interviews with Democractic presidential candidates.

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    Panel probes power, personality of LBJ

    The complex personality and power of President Lyndon Baines Johnson and his legacy to todays political and media landscape were the topics of the Theodore H. White Seminar Wednesday morning (Oct. 29) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Johnson, Robert Caro, joined a panel of prominent media figures for a…

  • Campus & Community

    Richardson Fellowships go to grads committed to public service

    Rachelle Gould 03, an environmental science concentrator working for The Nature Conservancy in Washington, D.C., and Chile, and Krishnan Subrahmanian 03, a social studies concentrator developing programs for children with HIV/AIDS in South Africa, are this years recipients of the Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service. The two recent graduates received the second…

  • Campus & Community

    Kuwait Program accepting grant proposals until Dec. 1

    The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the fifth 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…

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    Civil War historian, beloved professor, William Gienapp, at 59

    William E. Gienapp, Harvard College Professor, professor of history, and a prominent authority on the Civil War, died Oct. 29 at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass., of complications related to cancer. He was 59. Passionate about baseball, Gienapp was known as a popular, engaging teacher whose lectures regularly packed halls with undergraduates.

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    Lapse from the past

    For all the musing over the stadiums centennial this season, the outcome of Saturdays game against Dartmouth proved to be regrettably reminiscent. After all, it was Nov. 14, 1903, when the then Dartmouth Indians blanked the Crimson, 11-0, to break in the new stadium. And though the Crimson put up a good fight Nov. 1,…