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Harvards Records Management Office (RMO) will offer a new presentation for office managers and other staff charged with file keeping. The new one-hour presentation, which will be offered on three Thursdays (April 15, July 8, and Oct 28), will provide practical guidance on filing systems, filing rules and procedures, and equipment and supplies. Each session…

The Third Millennium Foundation has recently launched the Human Rights Practice Fellowships. In both 2004 and 2005, the foundation will award up to six fellowships to outstanding graduating Harvard students contemplating a career in human rights. These fellowships are designed to enable students (from the College or any one of Harvards 10 graduate schools) to…

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…

Sidney R. Knafel A.B. 52, M.B.A. 54 (right), and his wife, Londa Weisman, confer with architect Henry Cobb A.B. 47, M.AR. 49 (center), as the final beam is hoisted into place at the Knafel Building, a major component of the new Center for Government and International Studies. The center, for which Knafel gave the initial…

After fighting off a host of collegiate and professional players from across the country, Harvard tennis teammates (and doubles partners) Jack Li 07 and Chris Chiou 05 eventually found themselves in the midst of a civil war. In semifinal singles action in the first annual USTA Mens February Open, which concluded on Feb. 22 at…

The Harvard womens hockey team (22-2-1, 12-2-0 ECAC) earned a pair of wins over St. Lawrence this past weekend to move into sole possession of first place in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC). The host Crimson, ranked second prior to meeting No. 3 St. Lawrence on Friday (Feb. 20), edged the Saints, 3-2, in…

Describing mezzo-soprano Carolann Buff as a singer hardly does justice to the many roles she juggles. In addition to the duties that fall to any professional musician – balancing budgets, managing publicity, coordinating recording sessions – she spends plenty of her free time doing research in Loeb Music Library, where she works part time as…

The Harvard School of Public Healths (HSPH) AIDS Treatment Care and Prevention Initiative in Africa will receive first-year funding of $17 million of a five-year $107 million grant as part of the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to help eradicate AIDS/HIV in the worlds hardest-hit regions.

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) is now offering research grants to support summer and academic year research, workshops, working groups, and lecture series by faculty of the University in all fields related to population, health, and development. The centers research committee, which gives priority to interdepartmental or cross-School collaborations that contribute…

Hundreds of college students from around the Northeast descended on Harvard last weekend for the Northeast Climate Conference, an event designed to educate students and inspire them to action.

A stroll through Harvard Yard immediately reveals the rich diversity of the University. Passersby – students, faculty, and staff – reflect a dizzying range of cultures, races, and ethnicities. Posters around campus reinforce this proud multiculturalism with events and services – from a South Indian dance performance to an informational meeting for black scientists to…

Winthrop House will hold a memorial service for Harvard junior Anthony Fonseca at St. Pauls Church, 29 Mount Auburn St., on Thursday, March 4, at 4 p.m. The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the masters house at 5:30.

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. 21. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

John Dearden memorial Feb. 27 A memorial service for John Dearden, Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, will be held on Friday (Feb. 27) at 10:30 a.m. in…

Feb. 29, 1672 – President Charles Chauncy dies in office. Feb. 11, 1941 – President James Bryant Conant testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of H.R. 1776,…

At its eighth meeting of the year (Feb. 25) the Faculty Council discussed three research policy issues with Professor Paul Martin (physics), dean for Research and Information Technology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Professor James Alt (government) participated in a discussion of co-principal-investigator privileges for research associates, and Professor Caroline Hoxby (economics) contributed…

The cancer drugs effectiveness surprised everyone. Called TNP-470, it stunted the growth of every malignancy it touched – animal tumors, human tumors, and spreading tumors. It suppressed tumors of the ovaries, colon, prostate, and breasts. In some cases the tumors shrank in others, they disappeared.

Severely blind people have been able to temporarily see patterns of light with the help of an electric device developed by a Harvard-M.I.T. research team.

Before feting Woman of the Year Sandra Bullock, Hasty Pudding members previewed their new show As the Word Turns, a story of love, villainy, and proper spelling. See the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Web site for details.

For some time, researchers have known that people with diabetes have a greater risk of developing Alzheimers disease and other forms of dementia than those without diabetes, but the exact cause of this link has not been known. Now, a new study by researchers in Cologne, Germany, and at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, to…

Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge shared sometimes deeply personal insights about leadership with a Harvard Business School audience of students and faculty on Wednesday (Feb.11), saying that he has largely been driven by lessons from his father about integrity, responsibility, hard work, and the value of education.

Forty years after the birth of the womens movement, women need to look at themselves, rather than at men or at society, for reasons why there arent more women heading companies, earning top dollars, or running governments.

Gro Harlem Brundtland, former director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), has been named Health Policy Forum Fellow at the Kennedy Schools Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy for the spring 2004 semester.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson called for a Freedom Summer type of effort in the coming months to register voters, heal interracial wounds, and get out the vote for what he said will be a presidential campaign of historic proportions.

The ivory tower has a tenuous hold on Radcliffe Fellow Jennifer Harbury and Harvard Medical School Professor of Medical Anthropology Paul Farmer, who have traded lofty academic seclusion for messy, complicated, and dangerous work in the jungles and judicial systems of Guatemala and Haiti. At the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) Tuesday…

The quilting group of Harvard Neighbors is celebrating 10 years of making baby quilts for the Cambridge Health Alliance (formerly Cambridge City Hospital) and the New Day Clinic in Somerville. The group started with six quilts in 1994 and this year will donate more than 20 baby-size quilts, which means that over 150 infants and…

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 the new civic instruments…