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Celebrating its 11th year, Arts First, Harvards annual celebration of students and faculty in the arts, lights up Harvard Square with performances, exhibits, and arts activities. From May 1 through May 4, Harvard welcomes the public to more than 225 music, theater, dance, film, and visual arts events (most free of charge). The festival is…

Filmmaker James Toback 66 was at the Harvard Film Archive last Friday (April 18) for the screening of his 1978 film Fingers.

From inside the 10th floor of Holyoke Center, photographer Stephanie Mitchell used a piece of paper to ask window washer Paul Werra his name. He obliged by soaping the window and writing his name with his finger – backward.

Two Harvard energy-saving initiatives were honored last week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for their efforts to increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by using computers more efficiently.

Ten Harvard undergraduates will lend their hands to causes such as slavery abolition, Middle Eastern peace, and aboriginal rights in a new human rights internship that will take them across the country and around the world – as far as Australia and East Timor.

The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) recognized its new group of fellows for 2003 at an April 13 ceremony in Washington, D.C. Among the group of 10 fellows, three Harvard faculty were named. They include Mary Jo Bane, Christopher Jencks, and Orlando Patterson.

New research from the Graduate School of Education (GSE) reveals that many schools are not organized to hire and support new teachers in ways that help them enter the profession smoothly and attain early success:

Adolescence, that betwixt-and-between age that bridges childhood and early adulthood, can be more than just awkward years of peer pressure, raging hormones, and changing identities. Those early teen years can be downright dangerous, as risk-taking behavior meets poor judgment with disastrous or even deadly outcomes.

Few spaces at Harvard are more burdened by symbols of the Universitys glorious past than the Barker Centers Thompson Room.

Cait Storks voice wavered as she addressed the audience in a Harvard Hall classroom, speaking clearly but cautiously about her battle with bipolar disorder and her high school suicide attempts.

Hey, very cool, commented more than one undergraduate entering Loker Commons recently and seeing Jeff Kosokoff, head of reference services at Lamont Library, sitting just inside the door. Kosokoff may claim these greetings were provoked by his winsome smile, but it may have had more to do with the sign on the table in front…

Following an intensive six-month international search, Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, was unanimously elected the first chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) by the 89 members of the ICCs governing Assembly of States Parties this past Tuesday (April 22).

Springfest 2003 is set for this weekend Rain or shine, Springfest 2003 – Harvard’s springtime carnival for the entire University community – will be held April 27 from noon to…

Graham Burt Blaine Jr., chief of psychiatry at University Health Services (UHS) from 1964 to 1971, died April 7 from complications arising from a stroke. He was 84.

Love makes it hard for Janis Forde to do what she does. Its also what keeps her at it.

The twin solar images glared from the screen in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics auditorium, green tinged with yellow, swirls of fire erupting from the surface.

You pick up your cell phone, dial, and, if all goes well, you talk, say good-bye, and hang up.

Out of 37 entries, the School of Public Health (SPH) has named two winners for its 17th annual Poster and Exhibit Day. Pauline Koh-Banerjee won for her research Changes in body weight and body fat distribution as risk factors for clinical diabetes in U.S. men and Dmitri Wiederschain won for his exhibit Extreme C-terminus of…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 19. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave, sixth floor.

April 25, 1959 – At the invitation of the Law School Forum, Cuban Premier Fidel Castro speaks before a crowd of more than 7,000 at Soldiers Field. Introduced by FAS Dean McGeorge Bundy, Castro speaks in English, with periodic assistance from Public Relations Ambassador Teresa Casuso. Earlier at noon, Castro and an entourage of 50…

After eight months of intensive review, the Committee to Address Sexual Assault at Harvard (CASAH), chaired by Professor of International Health and Assistant Professor of Medicine Jennifer Leaning, has released its report containing recommendations to strengthen the Colleges educational and support services related to sexual violence on campus. The report will now undergo a period…

At least one magnolia blossom is unintimidated by the winterlike temperatures recently visited on the region.

As the aggressor in a war it chose to wage, the United States is being judged by high standards in its conduct of both the war and its aftermath, School of Public Health Professor Jennifer Leaning said Tuesday (April 22).

Twelve Harvard-related students are among the 30 recipients for the 2003 Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship. Fellows receive up to a $20,000 stipend plus half-tuition for up to two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States.

Masturbation. Female orgasm. Viagra. Bestiality.

Author and naturalist Peter Matthiessen described a life seeking the mystery within nature Sunday (April 13). He told of traveling to the Icelandic coast where the last great auk died, chasing great white sharks in the southern ocean, and traversing todays environmental battleground in Alaskas oil fields.

Stuart Eizenstat calls it the greatest robbery in world history – the Nazis theft of money, valuables, artworks, and property from Jews, Catholics, and others during World War II.