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  • Campus & Community

    Needling Harvard community about flu shots

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

  • Campus & Community

    The Big Picture

    Nature draws her, the rocks and the water and the trees the constant change that cycles around until its familiar again and comfortable.

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    In brief

    IOP, Kennedy Library Foundation launch new award The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and the Institute of Politics (IOP) have announced the creation of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier…

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    Newsmakers

    Order of Academic Palms honors Nye Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. received the insignia of Chevalier in the Order of Academic Palms by M. Jean-David Levitte, French ambassador…

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    Radcliffe Fellow explores early female film pioneers

    When Jane Gaines was studying film history in graduate school, tracking the achievements of the industrys early female pioneers was easy. There were exactly four: two French, Alice Guy-Blache and Germaine Dulac, and Americans Dorothy Arzner and Lois Weber. By the 1990s, however, scholars had unearthed, from deep in film archives around the world, evidence…

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    Community Gifts campaign kicks off giving season

    Whether the impending holidays bring joyful anticipation or stressed-out dread, Harvard employees can get a jump-start on the giving season with the Universitys 2003-04 Community Gifts Through Harvard Campaign, which launched this week and runs through November. The campaign, with a goal this year of $1 million, provides a low-stress, high-impact vehicle for improving the…

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    Mark your calendar for meeting with president

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

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    Police reports

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

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    Nov. 2, 1657 – By request of the Board of Overseers, the Great and General Court approves an Appendix to the Charter of 1650 clarifying the division of power between…

  • Campus & Community

    4/15/47: Robinson’s day

    Gerald L. Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters at Washington University in St. Louis, delivers the first of The Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures inside the Barker Center. In this talk, Early concentrated on Jackie Robinson, a staunch civil rights activist, successful businessman, and the first African American to play in major league baseball. Early,…

  • Campus & Community

    Twilight zone twilight

    Whether the result of a solar flare, the nearness of Halloween, or the lustrous alchemy of cloud, setting sun, and October light, the coming of dusk on Oct. 29 turned Harvard Square into a luminous spectacle.

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    A role for clay in formation of the first cells

    Harvard researchers demonstrated how the first living cells may have formed in a series of experiments that indicate that clay can be an important catalyst for life.

  • Campus & Community

    Is your heart in the right place?

    Whether your heart winds up in the right place may be determined as early as the first hour of your life in the womb.

  • Health

    Did life originally spring from clay?

    While the research is a far cry from proving that humans sprang from clay, as some creation myths assert, it does provide a possible mechanism for explaining how life initially…

  • Health

    Enzyme responsible for protein’s ‘Jekyll-and-Hyde’ personality

    Normally, a protein regulates when and how body parts develop, but when mutated, it triggers a rare, often-lethal infant leukemia called mixed lineage leukemia. The newly identified protease enzyme, Taspase1,…

  • Science & Tech

    Studies identify protein’s role in immune response

    Tim-3 (T cell immunoglobulin domain, mucin domain) proteins are found on the surface of TH1-helper type T cells, which when activated become the body’s first line of defense against foreign…

  • Campus & Community

    For service beyond the call

    The Harvard University Alumni Association presented six awards this year to some of its most loyal longtime volunteers who work all over the world administering alumni services. The award is named in honor of Hiram S. Hunn 21 who did schools committee work for 55 years in Iowa and Vermont. At the Agassiz Theatre event,…

  • Campus & Community

    Sharpton plays ‘Hardball’ with Matthews

    This is the third in a series of interviews with Democratic presidential candidates.

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    Getting their kicks

    Harvard Colleges Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) donated $11,000 of its profits from its 155th production, Its A Wonderful Afterlife, to help launch the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Fund for Cultural Enrichment in Cambridge Public Schools. The fund will provide

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    Kuwait Program accepting grant proposals

    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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    Rachel Pollock

    This is my fourth season on staff as craft artisan at the ART [American Repertory Theatre]. There are three areas of costuming that are my responsibility: craftwork, fabric painting/dyeing, and distressing.

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Oct. 25. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave, sixth floor.

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    HMS researchers boost blood cancer fight

    Harvard researchers have stimulated mice to increase their production of blood stem cells, a development with apparent human parallels that researchers hope will have immediate benefits in the treatment of blood cancers.

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    Yenching

    The Harvard-Yenching Library is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year – not all that old compared with its parent institution, created when John Harvard left his 300-plus book collection to the commonwealths fledgling college in 1638. But it is old enough to have been a constant in the lives of some of its most devoted…

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    Middle-class income doesn’t buy middle-class lifestyle

    Elizabeth Warren, a portrait in soft-spoken calm as she sips tea in her gracious office at Harvard Law School, is sounding an alarm.

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    ‘Grim charm’

    Established even earlier than the venerable University across the street, the Old Burying Ground in Harvard Square, though beaten and battered over the centuries, persists as one of the citys most charming historic sites. The modest cemetery, located along Massachusetts Avenue and Garden Street between the First Parish and Christ churches and first fenced in…

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    Summers addresses parents of first-years

    Harvard University and its most valuable resource – its faculty – exist for its students, President Lawrence H. Summers told the parents of freshmen on Friday (Oct. 24), the opening day of Freshman Parents Weekend.

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    KSG dedicates Raines Reading Room

    As a child, Frank Raines A.B. 71, J.D. 76 learned to appreciate the value of books while working in his junior high school library. Later, while studying at Harvard, Raines would browse the aisles at Widener Library, fascinated by the volumes upon volumes on display.

  • Campus & Community

    Free flu shots available to Harvard community

    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:

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    ‘Forte! A Celebration of Student Excellence’

    With an accordion strapped across her shoulders and gold ornaments dangling from her neck, fingers, and hips, Petra Gelbart, a second-year graduate student in ethnomusicology, belted out a Rroma (Gypsy) song with a gorgeous urgency that she seemed to be channeling from generations past. Then Jessica Maya Marglin 06 turned the stage into a passage…