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Jantzen pins third EIWA title, on to NCAA’s Senior wrestler Jesse Jantzen became the first Harvard wrestler in history to win three-straight EIWA titles by defeating Brown’s David Dies, 5-2,…

Team player Nicole Corriero 05 entered the sports worlds exclusive last-second-hero club this past Saturday (March 6) at the Bright Hockey Center. Deadlocked at 0-0 against Yale in the final period, the junior left winger somehow found the back of the net with just seven seconds remaining to give the Harvard womens hockey team an…

After six albums and years touring the country on the folk circuit, Russell Wolffs music means a lot to him. But a serious illness over a year ago gave Wolff new perspective.

In honor of the centennial of the birth of poet Pablo Neruda, the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room will host The Poems of Pablo Neruda on March 17.

Harvard and Radcliffe crew coaches perform an annual rite of spring, breaking up the ice on the Charles to allow their teams to practice.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Administrative/Professional Prize is awarded in even-numbered years to four members of the FAS administrative or professional staff who have made extraordinary contributions above and beyond the immediate requirements of their positions. The prize consists of $8,000 and one months paid leave from the University, both of which must…

Samuel Johnson, creator of “A dictionary of the English language,” is one of the most quoted of English writers, second only to Shakespeare; and the latter part of the 18th century is often called, simply, the Age of Johnson.

A sea of parents, family, and friends brought a storm of support to Blodgett Pool last week for the 2004 Ivy League Womens Swimming and Diving Championships. Brandishing pom-poms and banners, and dressed in their team-color best, they came by plane, car, and the Red Line to cheer on their favorite student-athletes in the big…

Men’s squash falls in nationals, 5-4 The No. 1 Trinity men’s squash team came back to defeat Harvard, 5-4, in the finals of the College Squash Association’s National Team Tournament…

Rands elected to American Academy of Arts & Letters The American Academy of Arts and Letters has elected Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Bernard Rands as a new member.…

The Middle East is not Eastern Europe.

Taking their inspiration from South African laborers during apartheid, the Gumboots Dance Troupe, sponsored by the Harvard African Students Association, performs its subversive moves at Sanders Theatre on Feb. 28 at the 19th Annual Cultural Rhythms. Actor, comedian George Lopez (left) was 2004 Artist of the Year. (Staff photos Gail Oskin/Harvard News Office)

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The Student Mental Health Task Force, convened in December 2003 by Harvard University Provost Steven Hyman and Dean of Harvard College Benedict Gross, has released an interim report that recommends the administrative integration of the Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC) and University Health Services (UHS) Mental Health Service. The recommendations – which include creating a…

Marshaling the resources of business, government, academia, and civil society to address pressing social challenges in the United States and globally is the goal of a new Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Initiative, being launched today (March 4) by Harvards Kennedy School of Government (KSG).

Harvard researchers identified eight chemicals that induce a change in leukemia cells out of more than 1,700 candidates in a trial of a process they say holds promise as a way to rapidly identify potential drug candidates.

Postmenopausal women taking estrogen are more than twice as likely to develop asthma than their counterparts not taking the hormone, according to a new study from Harvard researchers.

Louise Richardson, executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and an expert on international terrorism, opened Radcliffes 2004 Voices of Public Intellectuals series on Confronting Terrorism: Democracys Response to the Terrorist Threat Thursday (Feb. 26). In her lecture, The Nature of the Terrorist Threat, she put terrorism in context, providing historical, psychological, religious,…

The de Gaspé Beaubien Foundation, a family foundation based in Montreal, has donated $7.5 million to Harvard Business School (HBS) in honor of Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (M.B.A. 54) and his wife, Nan-b. The gift will fund the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School and focus on supporting a wide range of…

The Harvard campus got a little greener last week, and it has nothing to do with the coming of spring. Rather, the Universitys Transportation Services opened its own biodiesel filling station in Allston, allowing Harvards 25 diesel vehicles – shuttle buses, maintenance and mail trucks, and dining services vehicles – to run on cleaner-burning biodiesel.…

As a child in Erie, Pa., Eric Engel was the kid who said, Lets put on a play!

Joel Hirschhorn, assistant professor of genetics (pediatrics), has been named the recipient of the 2004 Young Investigator Award by the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR). This award recognizes the achievements of scientists and physician scientists embarking on careers investigating the diseases that affect children.

Stanley Cavell, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Emeritus, has received the 2004 Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship in Philosophy. Cavell is the first Harvard professor to receive the award.

A diverse range of expertise presented by panelists and participants from around the world sparked thought-provoking discussion and dissent at Globalization and Education, a conference at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Thursday (Feb. 26). The conference, sponsored by the GSE, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and Ross Institute Agenda, drew from findings presented in…

Microsoft Chairman William H. Gates III delivered a relaxed, sometimes humorous talk to about 350 students, faculty, and administrators at Lowell Lecture Hall Thursday evening (Feb. 26), outlining a software future that features smarter, more secure machines and encouraging students to develop computings next big idea.

Harvards 24-hour Shuttle Service has been extended through March. The service, which began Feb. 4, runs from 12:30 to 7 a.m. (9:30 a.m. on weekends) on a fixed route that includes stops at Memorial Hall, Lamont Library, the river houses, Johnston Gate, and the quad area. Specific departure times are posted at house offices, libraries,…

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

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 28. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Fonseca service today Winthrop House will hold a memorial service for junior Anthony Fonseca at St. Paul’s Church, 29 Mount Auburn St.,today (March 4), at 4 p.m. The ceremony will…

March 20, 1934 – The Charles William Eliot Memorial Association observes the 100th birth anniversary of its namesake by donating a bronze bust of Eliot to Eliot House. Unveiling the sculpture is the late presidents four-year-old great-grandson, Charles William Eliot 3rd. In the evening, CWEMA also holds a memorial meeting in Sanders Theatre that includes…