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As a youngster attending school in the small Inuit community of Igloolik in Canadas Northwest Territories, Zacharias Kunuk made and sold carvings to earn money to go to the movies.

American Academy appoints Mikkelsen Lecturer on History and Literature Ann-Marie Mikkelsen has been named a member of this year’s group of visiting scholars at the American Academy of Arts and…

Six entries have been chosen as finalists for the 2004 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, which is awarded each year by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The winner of the $25,000 prize will be named at an awards ceremony on March 17…

Care to tell singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor anything about the art of performing? I wouldnt. After all, he wrote the book. His Stage Performance (2000) is both a bible for the stagestruck and a blueprint for why the 30-year music veteran was hailed the ultimate crowd pleaser by Performing Songwriter Magazine. On Feb. 24, when he…

This years choices for the Hasty Pudding Man and Woman of the Year awards join a distinguished, talented elite that includes Ella Fitzgerald, Katharine Hepburn, Jack Lemmon, and Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Beginning Feb. 18, HARVie – Harvards new intranet resource for employees – will be up and running. At harvie.harvard.edu, University employees will be able to report time and labor, find out about benefits and services, access PeopleSoft, and get the latest University announcements. Employees will also be able to purchase tickets via credit card from…

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…

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a burden to the elderly population, and its consequences are increasing because treatment options are limited. Prevention remains the best approach for decreasing the impact of this leading cause of blindness.

Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of Massachusetts physicians favor single-payer national health insurance, far more than support managed care (10 percent) or fee-for-service care (26 percent), according to a Harvard Medical School study published Monday (Feb. 9) in the Archives of Internal Medicine. National health insurance (NHI) received majority support from physicians of virtually every age,…

The proverbial village it takes to raise a child assembled itself at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Friday (Feb. 6): Educators, social workers, policy-makers, health professionals, business leaders, parents, academics, and politicians, including the mayors of Boston and Providence, came from around the Northeast for a conference called Building Strong Community Schools.

Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge talked to a Harvard Business School audience of students and faculty Wednesday (Feb. 11) about the challenges he has faced as the first head of a new federal agency. The Department of Homeland Security was put together from 22 federal departments in the aftermath of the…

Scholarships for study or research in China Scholarships for one academic year of study or research in China are made possible through an agreement between the Ministry of Education of…

Anthony Shadid, Islamic affairs correspondent for The Washington Post, has been named the 23rd Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial lecturer at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Shadid, who is based in the Middle East, will deliver the lecture on March 11 in the Knight Center at the Walter Lippmann House.

Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have successfully engineered a singularly heart-healthy mouse, an advance that could lead to the development of meat, milk, and eggs that are as good for your heart as fish is. With the help of a gene from the C. elegans roundworm, the researchers developed a strain of mice…

From the proper vantage and with just a little squint of the eyes, the double-legged columns lining up to support a Memorial Hall arcade look like ballet dancers at the barre.

Far from Beanpot business as usual, it took a three-goal, third-period outburst by the No. 3 Harvard womens hockey team to put away a feisty Northeastern team, 5-1, in the championship game this past Tuesday evening (Feb. 10) at B.C.s Kelley Rink. With the win, Harvard (18-2-1 2-2-0 Ivy) grabs its sixth-straight best-in-Boston title, and…

Listen closely and youll hear Catherine Baker channeling the forgotten faithful.

Educators at all levels are struggling to implement the landmark No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, according to the findings of a four-part study released Monday (Feb. 9) by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard. The reports look at the impact of this complex, dramatic change in federal education policy on each level of government…

The Harvard Libraries Web site – accessible directly from the Libraries button on Harvards home page – serves as an online gateway to the rich library resources of the University. In a continuing effort to enhance the information available on this valuable Web site, the University Librarys Office for Information Systems has added a new…

Caring for the Harvard Community, Harvard Universitys regular series of events focusing on contemporary mental and emotional health issues for students, faculty, and staff, returns for two weeks of workshops and discussions Feb. 23-March 5. Coordinated by Sharon Thomas in the Provosts Office, all events in the student-driven series fall within the theme A World…

Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), joined Harvard Medical School (HMS) faculty members last Wednesday (Feb. 4) to share memories of the civil rights era with Boston youth, describing the times difficult work and telling the children that future struggles for justice will be theirs.

A group of Harvard administrators and students met Friday (Feb. 6) with the College Safety Committee to discuss new campus safety initiatives and update them on investigations surrounding recent indecent assaults in the area.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Feb. 7. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Two female graduate students were victims of indecent assaults within 15 minutes of each other last Friday (Feb. 6), in and near Harvard Yard, according to Harvard University Police.

Harvard University scientists have found a mechanism by which cells repair a key type of oxidative DNA damage that, left unchecked, can lead to a greatly elevated risk of colon cancer. The findings appear in the Feb. 12 issue of the journal Nature.

Since 1976, Timothy Springer has been trying to solve the mysteries of how white blood cells squeeze out of blood vessels and find their way to sites of infectious attacks. What he has learned has won him this years Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Crafoord Prize.

A tenacious Harvard womens hockey team tuckered out Boston College, 4-0, in the semifinal round of the 26th annual Beanpot Tournament this past Tuesday evening (Feb. 3) in Chestnut Hill. The Crimson, who endured a career-high 59 saves by B.C. netminder Lisa Davis, blasted the net 63 times (to the Eagles eight) en route to…

Its 5:30 on a windy January night, and around Harvard Square, pedestrians strain against the cold, counting each excruciating step to their destinations, their scarves and mittens and the bulkiest of coats providing scant protection from the free-falling temperatures. Suddenly, from the direction of Concord Ave., a bright orange figure slices through the chill -…

You cant be flexible without LOX, scientists have discovered.