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  • Campus & Community

    In brief

    New Nieman wing to honor Knight Foundation The newly added wing to the Walter Lippmann House – home of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard – will be named in honor…

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    Yale snubs v-ball, 3-1

    A school-record 35 digs by co-captain Allison Bendush 04 wasnt enough to lift the Harvard womens volleyball team past visiting Yale on Saturday (Nov. 8), as the Crimson dropped its final home match of the season, 3-1. The loss, which fell on the heels of Harvards 3-0 sweep of Brown on Nov. 7, ends a…

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    The Big Picture

    When Veronica Fullard performed at her first Renaissance festival, she hid behind a camera snapping publicity photos (in character, of course, with an innovative back story to explain her portrait-taking device) to minimize her interaction with patrons. I used to be the most horribly shy person I knew, says Fullard, who is a staff assistant…

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    Bending notes

    Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music and Harvard College Professor Thomas Kelly strolls to work and is caught in the reflection of a car window.

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    Research on ESL children has surprising results

    For an increasing number of children whose first language is not English, learning to read – arguably one of schools most important and most difficult lessons – can be an especially high hurdle.

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    Local shelter works to stop abuse before it starts

    When Elsbeth Kalenderian, executive director of the Cambridge-based nonprofit Transition House, heard Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers speak about Harvards recent donation of a microscopy unit to Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, she sprung into action. Theres a link, she told him, between academic achievement and the dating violence her organization was fighting to prevent.

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    President Summers opens office to students, staff Dec. 1

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

  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Nov. 8. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    November 1942 – A Harvard Alumni Association advertisement for the well-known Harvard chair (black with gold trim and mahogany-colored arms; weight: 28 pounds; advertised price: $13.50) yields the following historical…

  • Campus & Community

    Bottom’s up

    A glass paperweight in a stationery store reflects a topsy-turvy pedestrian as he walks along Massachusetts Avenue.

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    Franklin Ford memorial service set for Nov. 20

    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.

  • Campus & Community

    Stick to your promise and get your flu shot

    University Health Services (UHS) will be providing free flu vaccines to members of the Harvard community beginning in November. The walk-in clinics are being held at the following locations:

  • Campus & Community

    Gene needed for puberty discovered

    If your Harry Potter gene doesnt work, you cant reach puberty. Thats what researchers at Harvard University and in England have discovered.

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    Chim-chim-chi-red

    Gift of the season: Bright red ivy enlivens a chimney on the roof of a Mt. Auburn Street building. Strong winds in the next couple of days should remove whats left of falls leaves.

  • Health

    Regeneration of insulin-producing islets may lead to diabetes cure

    Type 1 diabetes develops when the body’s immune cells mistakenly attack the insulin-producing islet cells of the pancreas. As islet cells die, insulin production ceases, and blood sugar levels rise,…

  • Health

    Smoking increases bleeding into the brain, study finds

    A research team at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) found that stroke risk for women increased proportionately with the number of cigarettes smoked each day. In contrast, women who stopped…

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    Scholars resuscitate dead languages

    The goal of a Harvard academic research project is to develop advanced computer technology that will help scholars mine myriad scientific texts in a variety of languages, but also to…

  • Science & Tech

    ESL children not at a reading disadvantage

    Harvard researcher Nonie Lesaux’s study, published in the journal “Developmental Psychology” in November 2003, tracked 1,000 children speaking native English and English as a second language (ESL) in mainstream English…

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    Designing solutions to fresh water shortage

    Robert France, associate professor of landscape ecology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, is a scientist who has studied the effect of environmental degradation of various plants and animals.…

  • Science & Tech

    Puberty gene identified

    A gene discovered by Harvard researchers and their colleagues in England makes a protein necessary to trigger a hormonal cascade that flows from the brain to the gonads. Without it,…

  • Health

    Physicians report trouble obtaining specialty services for uninsured

    A research team surveyed more than 2,000 physicians at U.S. academic health centers who had provided direct patient care during the preceding year. Among the questions asked were whether the…

  • Health

    Study challenges proposed changes to clinical definition of mental illness

    As the American Psychiatric Association prepares for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’s fifth edition, there is debate over whether to eliminate milder forms of diseases to prevent…

  • Health

    Adolescent stress can change brain during adulthood

    Researchers found that adult rats exposed to a social stress during adolescence (ages approximating 13 to 15 years in humans) showed a significant decrease in a specific protein found in…

  • Health

    Is your heart in the right place?

    In a frog, the position of the heart is determined within the first hour in the womb, Harvard scientists have discovered. Researchers all over the world believe that frogs and…

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty of Arts and Sciences ‹ Memorial Minute

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 21, 2003, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

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    Twelve named to the Administrative Fellowship Program

    Twelve new fellows have been selected for the 2003-04 Administrative Fellowship Program. Of the 12 fellows, seven are visiting fellows (talented professionals drawn from business, education, and the professions outside the University) and five are resident fellows (minority professionals currently working at Harvard). Resident fellows are identified by their department and selected by the fellowship…

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    ‘Staying the hand of vengeance’

    Why not just shoot Slobodan Milosevic?

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    Houghton bridge is coming down

    As one of the final projects in the renovation and restoration of Widener Library, the bridge that formerly connected the Widener Library stacks to the Houghton Library reading room will be removed in spring 2004. During the course of the stacks renovation, the bridge was identified as a structure that did not meet current building…

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    Busch-Reisinger marks a century

    The name is instantly familiar from the beer: Busch, as in Anheuser-Busch, the worlds largest brewer and producer of such well-known brands as Budweiser and Michelob. But what, one wonders, does Harvards Busch-Reisinger Museum have to do with a family of St. Louis beer barons?

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    Debating a brave new world

    As biotechnology increasingly lets us change ourselves and our children, bioethics asks whether we should.