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  • Campus & Community

    Middle school students explore HMS

    The next time Elliot Rojas sees his grandmother, hell have plenty to tell her about the breast cancer she battles. He can describe the role of the immune system, how stem cells work, and the research that is aiming to make bone marrow transplants more successful. He can even tell his grandmother what bone marrow…

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    College students support Bush

    A majority of college students say President George Bush is doing a good job even though they think his administration isnt being entirely truthful about Iraq, a new Institute of Politics (IOP) poll shows.

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    Lewis sees threat to civil liberties

    If Jos&eacute Padilla can be held incommunicado in a U.S. Navy brig, without being charged, without the prospect of a trial, and without access to legal counsel, then none of us is safe.

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    Faculty honored for scientific achievement

    Seven Harvard faculty have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the worlds largest federation of scientists. The honorees, to be announced on Oct. 31, include Richard Bambach, Edward Benz, Gary Chamberlain, Jeremy Knowles, Clifford Saper, Dennis Selkoe, and Fred Winston.

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    President Summers becomes principal for a day

    There were two principals walking the halls of Jackson/Mann Elementary School last Tuesday (Oct. 28) – one who has helped to shape the school and its children over the past 12 years, and the other, a newcomer, who runs a school across the Charles River that those children may one day attend.

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    Tigers escape

    A late Crimson surge proved to be too late as Harvards field hockey team dropped a 3-2 decision to Princeton this past Saturday (Oct. 25) at Jordan Field. The No. 15 Crimson, suffering its first defeat since an Oct. 8 heartbreaker against Northeastern, cut the lead to a single goal on a Jennifer McDavitt 06…

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    OT, TD, ‘Oh my’

    For a month dedicated to celebrating the centennial of Harvard Stadium, the Crimsons dramatic 43-40 overtime victory against Princeton this past Saturday (Oct. 25) made for a fitting installment to the stadiums rich 100-year history. In fact, the emotional game – featuring five lead changes, two ties, two missed field goals, four (for four) botched…

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    Accord reached on Riverside zoning

    Harvard and the city of Cambridge, following a unanimous vote from Cambridge city councilors, reached a milestone agreement this week regarding University development in Riverside.

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    In brief

    Committee on Honorary Degrees to consider nominees The Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees will be meeting during the fall and spring to consider nominees for honorary degrees to be awarded…

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    Newsmakers

    Van Valkenburgh wins design award Charles Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture Michael Van Valkenburgh was named a finalist in the environment design category at the National Design Awards…

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    Rowe to step down as dean of the Design School

    Peter G. Rowe, dean of the Harvard Design School and an authority on urban planning and design, announced Wednesday (Oct. 29) at a faculty meeting that he would step down as dean, effective June 30, 2004, after 12 years of service. Under Rowes leadership, the faculty of the School has been significantly expanded, educational offerings…

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    Mazzoli, 70, goes for master’s

    After 12 terms in Congress and innumerable legislative battles, former Kentucky Congressman Ron Mazzoli could teach students of government a thing or two.

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    President to hold office hours Monday

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

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    Oct. 17, 1943 – The Fogg Museum announces that Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Class of 1886, LLB 1889, has left Harvard “the most valuable and comprehensive art collection ever given to…

  • Campus & Community

    A decade of helping

    A recent party marked the 10-year partnership between the Law School and Boston-based law firm Hale and Dorr. The product of this collaboration, Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center of…

  • Campus & Community

    Memorial service set for Ford

    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.

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    Faculty Council notice for Oct. 29

    At the Faculty Councils third meeting of the year, the council discussed pending changes in the facultys appointment procedures with Associate Dean Cynthia Friend (FAS and chemistry) and Associate Dean Vincent Tompkins (academic affairs). Friend is currently chairing a faculty committee on the appointments process.

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    Indecent assault and battery reported on Cambridge Common

    At approximately 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 22, an undergraduate student was walking through Cambridge Common when a male approached her from behind, grabbed her wrist and waist, spun her around, grabbed her breast, and then attempted to remove her coat. The victim struck the suspect in the face. The suspect then struck the victim in…

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    Summers: Will and knowledge can beat AIDS

    Most people are well aware that AIDS in Africa is a crisis of vast and terrible proportions. In a speech Oct. 28 at the School of Public Health (SPH), President Lawrence H. Summers declared that is it also one that offers a great deal of hope.

  • Health

    Researchers boost blood cancer fight

    Working with colleagues at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, Harvard researchers found that giving mice a hormone known for building bones increased their production of blood stem cells.…

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    Speedy solar storm reaches Earth

    An Oct. 28, 2003 eruption created a monstrous solar flare – the third largest recorded since 1976 – and an associated coronal mass ejection, in which superheated gas, called plasma,…

  • Health

    Study shows medical schools lack end-of-life training

    A study, published by Dana-Farber researchers in the September 2003 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, suggests that increasing medical students’ opportunities to learn about end-of-life care will…

  • Health

    Matrix-buster inhibitor has second way to throttle angiogenesis

    Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their regulators, the tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs), form an intriguing partnership. MMPs work by breaking down the dense matrix surrounding cells, freeing them to wander…

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    Boston Public Schools to participate in 3-year project

    The Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE), Harvard Business School (HBS), and nine urban school districts announced the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) on Tuesday (Oct. 21). PELP is a joint venture collaboratively designed to dramatically improve the educational outcomes of these school systems. The districts, representing more than a million students in urban areas…

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    President to hold office hours on Nov. 3

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

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Creativity is for everyone’

    Be habitual. Get organized. Make decisions.

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    Healthy by design

    Promoting Physical Activity and Health by Urban Design – a conference sponsored by the School of Public Health (SPH) and the Design School – will be held Nov. 4 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 600 Atlantic Ave. (across from South Station). With obesity emerging as a serious public health problem in America, the…

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    Segregation talk kicks off population lecture series

    Deep and persistent racial segregation remains a fact of American life and leads to a host of social ills and health concerns that perpetuate stereotypes and create a vicious cycle keeping many African Americans trapped in inner-city neighborhoods.

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    Ambassadors discuss Southeast Europe’s future

    A stronger, larger Europe will become a better partner, not a bigger rival, to the United States in international affairs, according to European ambassadors and consuls gathered at the Kennedy School of Government last week (Oct. 15).

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    One on One: Kerry defends Iraq stance

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