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Widener Library main entrance to close for six months Starting Oct. 19, the main entrance of Widener Library will be closed for six months in order to renovate the first…

Joseph S. Nye Jr., dean of the Kennedy School of Government, has announced the creation of a program to educate new leaders for the free and prosperous development of Armenia and the good of her citizens and countrymen around the world. The Manoukian Public Service Program for Armenia is supported by a gift from the…

Responding to student requests that fall term exams be held before the winter break, the School of Public Health (SPH) has adopted a new fall schedule this year that not only pushes the exams up, but provides for new learning options during a monthlong January session.

As a social historian, Emmanuel Akyeampong focuses on those aspects of life that often escape the attention of scholars who chronicle the large-scale events that shape a nations political destiny.

Harvard Universitys Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) William C. Kirby and Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Thomas M. Reardon announced that Beth Balmuth Raffeld has been named associate vice president and dean for development for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

In a battle of nationally ranked teams, Harvard football saw its 11-game win streak snapped by the Mountain Hawks of Lehigh University, 36-35, this past Saturday (Oct. 5) in Bethlehem, Pa. With the win, the hosts, who rallied for 15 fourth-quarter points, extended their home victory streak at 26 games.

The consistently successful Harvard field hockey team (6-2, 3-0 Ivy) showed a penchant for being consistent in the losing department as well, dropping its second 3-2 decision at Jordan Field on Oct. 5, this time to third-ranked Wake Forest. The seasons second loss snapped a four-game win streak for the Crimson, who managed three shutouts…

People have come up to Shanel Nand with tears in their eyes to tell her how moved they were by her singing.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen will return to Harvard in January 2004 as Lamont University Professor.

Meselson wins ASCB’s Public Service Award The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) will present Matthew Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, with its Public Service Award…

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 for the week ending Oct. 5. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Among this years Nobel Prize winners are two Harvard Ph.D.s and a former professor in the Astronomy Department. Riccardo Giacconi is one the winners of the Nobel Prize for physics. In addition to having held a professorship in astronomy at Harvard, Giacconi was associate director for High Energy Astrophysics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics…

Oct. 12, 1942 – Lt. Gen. Hsiung Shih-sei, of the Chinese Military Mission to the United States, visits Harvard with other Chinese officers and diplomats. Although the University is officially…

At its fourth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council met with Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise the Dean of the College Harry Lewis (DEAS) and the Associate Dean of the College for Human Resources and the House System Thomas A. Dingman to discuss the experience of Harvard athletes and policy questions relating to…

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Two genes that determine brain size have been discovered. One can increase the thinking parts of mice brains, possibly making the rodents smarter. The other is present in people with microcephaly, a genetic disease characterized by a smaller-than-normal brain and head. Such people are mildly retarded.

Robert D. Reischauer 63 has become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced Sunday (Oct. 6).

Robert D. Reischauer ’63 has become the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, the University announced today.

An editor of a feminist journal in Iran, a peace and disarmament correspondent, and the former editor in chief of the Financial Times are among the fellows at the Kennedy Schools Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy this semester.

An assistant Secretary General of the UN (on sabbatical), the most recent U.S. ambassador to Mexico, and President Kennedys advisor and speechwriter, are among those who have been chosen for fellowships this fall at the Kennedy School of Governments Institute of Politics (IOP). In all, six leading professionals have been selected to spend the fall…

A month into the fall term in the houses, the new paint smell has dissipated and shoes, posters, and CDs have found suitable resting places. But for residents of five houses, freshness remains, as new Allston Burr Senior Tutors in Cabot, Currier, Dunster, Kirkland, and Lowell houses acquaint themselves with their new jobs and with…

The John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the third grant cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With generous support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, 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…

As he conducted a search for a new dean of the Graduate School of Education (GSE), President Lawrence H. Summers was fond of describing the School as uniquely central to the mission of the University: Although Harvard trains doctors and lawyers and managers, the business of the University is not medicine or law or business.…

Though much of the inequity in world health stems from differences in wealth – both within and between countries – several experts say that health disparities could be reduced through wise government policies even as income disparities persist.