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Listeria and certain strains of E. coli are the scourge of picnics, but researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Londons Hammersmith Hospital show in the November Gene Therapy that combining bacterial components of these bad bugs can create a powerful vector against melanoma-challenged mice. A vector is a kind of delivery vehicle that can…

Its been almost 30 years since buses of black students were pelted with rocks and tomatoes in South Boston. More than a decade has lapsed since Charles Stuart shot his wife in Mission Hill and sparked a veritable witch hunt for a black killer who never existed.

Following a string of nine straight wins, including seven road victories, Harvard mens water polo team dropped a heartbreaking 7-6 decision in their own backyard to Brown on Nov. 2. At the opening round of the Northern Championships this past weekend at Blodgett Pool, the defeat couldnt have been more costly for the No. 15…

Symposium to explore curriculum As part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences curricular review, the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education will be sponsoring its second symposium –…

Italian government honors Wilson E.O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Research Professor Emeritus, was one of nine scholars given the Presidential Medal of the Republic of Italy at the annual conference…

Despite some heavy-duty protection by the aptly named Katie Shields 06, Dartmouth womens soccer (15-2-1, 5-1 Ivy) slipped by a visiting Harvard team this past weekend to take a 1-0 victory. The win marked a league-leading 11 straight for the Big Green, which can secure a share of the championship with a win over Pennsylvania…

When simply breaking school records no longer cut it, senior quarterback Neil Rose and Payton Award candidate Carl Morris 03 took to shattering them this past weekend in Hanover. And against a tenacious Dartmouth team – extra fiery from a three-game win streak (not to mention the previous evenings homecoming bonfire and rally) – the…

The 400th anniversary of the refounding of the University of Oxfords Bodleian Library was a moment in history that colleagues across the sea at Harvard could not let pass unrecognized. Finding a gift that was both a meaningful addition to the Bodleians collection and a symbol of the relationship between the scholarly communities of the…

Holly Neufer knew working with clay was the thing for her the first time she tried it. She walked through the door of the Radcliffe Ceramics Program in 1984 and liked the feel of the place. She liked the dustiness, the studios airy, garagelike space.

Associate Vice President for Planning and Real Estate Kathy Spiegelman has been named chief University planner and director of the Allston Initiative. Spiegelman will start in the new position Jan. 1, 2003. Spiegelman will report directly to Sally Zeckhauser, vice president for administration, and the position has close ties to the provosts office as well.

Missy Holbrooks sunlit office is dominated by a large Boston fern, bursting with life, its exploratory tendrils shooting far up the walls and drooping, beardlike, to the floor. Nearby, a sweet potato vine twines gently around the vertical slats of the window blinds, squeezing them in its progress toward the ceiling.

Friends and colleagues of Costas Papaliolios, professor of physics emeritus, are invited to attend a memorial service at the Faculty Club on Sunday (Nov. 10) at 2 p.m.

A memorial service for David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, will be held at the Memorial Church on Nov. 15 at 3 p.m. Riesman, best known for his influential study of post-World War II American society, The Lonely Crowd, passed away on May 10, 2002.

President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in their Massachusetts Hall offices from 4 to 5 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) on the following dates:

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Nov. 2. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Nov. 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. At Harvard, Darwin’s friends include Professors Asa Gray and Jeffries Wyman. Already evolutionists, they…

Its been known for a while that babies enjoy a dramatic increase in their ability to remember people and things between 8 and 12 months of age. But this is short-term memory, the kind that loses a telephone number in a minute or less if you dont write it down.

A bird¹s-eye view from the Maxwell-Dworkin building shows the warmly colored carpetlike patterns of its plaza contrasting with the slash of a rough stone bench, evoking ancient textiles, ancient structures.

Is nature good or evil?

What comes to mind when you think of Halloween? Pumpkins? Witches? Black cats? Five-year-olds in Spiderman masks proffering open shopping bags while their mothers lurk anxiously in the shadows?

Oct. 16, 1948 – The World War II Memorial Committee formally presents its report to the Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association. The Committee makes a similar presentation for the…

Most of the beginners in the Ninth Annual Beginners competition, hosted by the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team, looked like anything but as they expertly swirled and strutted their hour upon the dance floor last Saturday (Oct. 26). The competition began as the Harvard-Yale Challenge in 1992, when the Yale team would come and dance against…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 15, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

Gerda Lerner, the Robinson-Edwards Professor of History Emerita at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and past president of the Organization of American Historians, will discuss and sign her new book, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography (Critical Perspectives on the Past) [Temple University Press, 2002], on Monday (Nov. 4). Sponsored by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe…

First-years get started on their pumpkins during their study break at the Freshman Pumpkin Carving Contest, hosted by the Prefect Program. The resulting jack-o-lanterns will be judged on Halloween. Free pizza will be awarded to individual entries for most original, most Harvard, funniest, scariest, and best overall. At Weld Hall, Tasha Bartch 06 (left) carves…