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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will conduct an accreditation survey of Harvard University Health Services on Feb. 10 -13.

Jan. 10, 1921 – In the Music Building’s John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Marian MacDowell, widow of composer Edward MacDowell, gives a lecture on “The MacDowell Colony at Peterborough” (the…

At its sixth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed three interrelated topics: (1) The extension of the Infrastructure Fund (2) The rise in and effects of the fringe benefit rate and (3) Faculty of Arts and Sciences financial results for FY 2003 and prospects for this and future years. Ann Berman, vice president…

A memorial service for Kennedy School faculty member Susan C. Eaton will be held Saturday (Jan. 10) at 10:30 a.m. at First Parish Church in Cambridge. Eaton died Dec. 30 from complications of leukemia. She was 46.

On Dec. 11 at approximately 7 p.m. a graduate student was walking on Mt. Auburn Street toward Dunster Street when she was approached by a male who attempted to grab her crotch while walking by her. The victim pulled back causing the suspect to briefly touch her thigh. The suspect and the victim continued to…

Paloma Valverde knows scorpion venom. A biochemist, she has worked with it for years, and marveled at how it can both kill prey and fight a number of diseases in both animals and humans.

Band names Holmes Scholarship recipients The Harvard University Band has awarded its annual Malcolm H. Holmes Scholarship to freshmen Keneshia Washington and Kenton Hetrick. Given annually to two dedicated new…

The Harvard University Bridge to Learning and Literacy Program – an education program for the Universitys service workers – is seeking volunteers who can commit two hours per week to tutor adult learners in language, literacy, numeracy, and computers skills. While some volunteers are needed immediately, the program is also asking people who may be…

Things happen to Edward Elwyn Jones in the nick of time. Consider. In 1998, he was in his final year at Cambridge University, when he was invited to Harvards Memorial Church, first as Organ Scholar, and then to stay on for an additional year as assistant organist to University Organist and Choirmaster Murray Forbes Somerville.…

On Dec. 4-8, 2003, representatives of Harvard University and members of a Russian delegation headed by the Father Superior of the Moscow St. Daniel Monastery met to discuss the future of the bells from the monastery that have hung in the Lowell House bell tower at Harvard University since 1930 when they were sold by…

Harvard University announced today (Dec. 11) that it is launching a new summer program for academically talented high school students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds. Students will come to Harvard from public and parochial schools in Boston and Cambridge to participate in an intensive summer program focused on academic and personal development. Each student will participate…

During a brief lull in Tracy and the Plastics set this past Monday evening (Dec. 6) at the Cabot House Underground Theatre, Tracy (aka, Wynne Greenwood) – mastermind and front-woman of the Olympia, Wash.-based art-punk trio – invited the crowd of nearly 75 people to Look at each other for a second. Greenwoods suggestion to…