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

Tourism changes everything it touches, homogenizing and sanitizing even as it brings in bodies and dollars.

Harvards Pluralism Project invites students in the comparative study of religion, anthropology, sociology, history, government, and other academic fields to participate in research on the changing contours of American religious life. Research concerning religious pluralism and American civil society, particularly the mapping of the multireligious dynamics of particular cities and towns new civic instruments of…

The abnormal magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune – whose magnetic poles lie near their equators – may be a side effect of stable planetary cores that hinder convection. Harvard University scientists report in the March 11 issue of the journal Nature that theyve used a computer model, similar to those used in weather forecasting,…

A memorial service for John K. G. Shearman will be held Sunday, April 4, at 2:30 p.m. in the Faculty Room in University Hall. A reception in the Faculty Room will immediately follow the service. Shearman, who died Aug. 11, 2003, was the Adams University Professor, Emeritus.

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

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 6. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Ca. March 1947 – Students organize a boycott against a local tavern that refuses to serve blacks. Mitchell Goodman ’45, “Undergraduate” columnist of the “Harvard Alumni Bulletin” (March 29, 1947),…

The Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is now accepting applications for its Carol K. Pforzheimer Student Fellowship grants. Intended to encourage Harvard College students to use the resources of the Schlesinger Library, the fellowship awards $100 to $2,500 to cover research expenses, or as…

At its ninth meeting of the year (March 10), the Faculty Council discussed with Professor Thomas Kelly, chair of the Department of Music, a proposed agreement with the New England Conservatory of Music under which undergraduates would be able to complete an A.B. degree at Harvard and a Master of Music degree at the Conservatory…

Antanas Mockus had just resigned from the top job of Colombian National University. A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus looked around for another big challenge and found it: to be in charge of, as he describes it, a 6.5 million person classroom.

Finding new signs of water on Mars was not unlike finding a needle in a haystack. Now scientific explorers and their robot helpers face a trickier task, looking for life, a needle they are not even sure is there.

Harvard Foundation names Scientist of the Year The Harvard Foundation has honored noted mathematician Jonathan David Farley ’91 as its Distinguished Scientist of the Year. A visiting associate professor of…

During the early 1980s, artist Gary Schneider, at a creative impasse in his own work and faced with the necessity of earning a living, decided to capitalize on his darkroom skills and set himself up in business as a printer of the work of other photographers.

To say that Janet Sung plays the violin well is like noting that Baryshnikov is graceful or that Ernest Hemingway knew English. Sung 95 has appeared as a soloist with the National Symphonic Orchestra of Bashkortostan in Russia and Pusan Philharmonic in South Korea, to name a few. Shes given recitals across the globe, from…

Learn from your mistakes. Pass the lessons on to those who may face similar problems in the future. And dont be afraid to challenge authority.

The Harvard Department of Athletics has announced plans to expand and improve fitness facilities at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC). The improvements will significantly increase the space available for both exercise and weight training.

Responding to the devastating effects of war on Iraqi libraries, the Harvard University Library (HUL) system and Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) are launching a joint program to provide training for Iraqi librarians and archivists.

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)