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Campus & Community
Is there life after school for nation’s students?:
For Boston middle school students, schools out at 1:35 in the afternoon. Between that time and when their parents return home from work, youth crime spikes and drug use rises. Risk for teenage pregnancy increases in the late afternoon.
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Campus & Community
Researchers identify risk factors underlying medical errors that involve leaving surgical sponges or instruments inside patients:
After analyzing medical malpractice insurance claims that involved 22 hospitals, researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) have identified risk factors underlying medical errors that involve leaving surgical sponges or instruments inside patients after an operation, a rare but serious complication. Their findings appear in the Jan. 16 edition of the New England Journal of…
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Campus & Community
Massachusetts Health Commissioner Howard Koh to join faculty at Harvard School of Public Health:
Howard K. Koh, commissioner of public health for the commonwealth of Massachusetts since 1997, has agreed to join the faculty at the School of Public Health (SPH) as an associate dean and professor.
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Campus & Community
King commemoration set for Memorial Church:
A service commemorating the life and mission of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held on Jan. 20 at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, will deliver the keynote address, and the Kuumba Singers, a 90-member choral group of Harvard undergraduates dedicated to the expression of…
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Campus & Community
Track splitters:
The Harvard mens and womens indoor track and field teams hosted crosstown rival Northeastern this past Saturday (Jan. 11) with mixed results. Powered by a first- through third-place sweep in the mile run, and strong outings in the long, triple, and high jumps, the mens team floated past the Huskies, 75-70. The womens squad, however,…
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Campus & Community
Barbara Haber brought books and cooks to Schlesinger Library:
When a young Barbara Haber accepted a part-time, low-paying position at a small library devoted to womens history in 1968, her library school mentor was dismayed. She showed such promise, he thought, that she should pursue loftier employment leading toward the goal of one day directing a library.
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Campus & Community
Yakov Gubanov:
In Woody Allens film, The Purple Rose of Cairo, a character from a 1930s movie walks off the screen and into the life of an audience member.
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Campus & Community
Framed!
From the Dudley House Lounge, a student can be seen scurrying to his next study session.
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Campus & Community
Medical texts and other fictions:
Hysteria is no longer accepted as a valid medical diagnosis. You wont find it in the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, nor are any of the major pharmaceutical firms producing drugs to alleviate its symptoms.
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Campus & Community
Word wiz:
Awarded each year to an outstanding student of Japanese. David Hembry 06 is this years winner of the Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize. The prize is awarded annually to an outstanding student of Japanese who has completed at least two years of Japanese language study at Harvard. The award is sponsored by the Tazuko Ajiro Monane…
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
Ca. January 1956 – West Publishing Co. (St. Paul, Minn.) presents the Law School with one of two known copies of “The Capitall Lawes of New-England, as they stand now…
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Campus & Community
New, far-out planet is discovered:
Astronomers have discovered a new planet in the constellation Sagittarius, the farthest from Earth found to date. Its so distant that light takes 5,000 years to travel from there to here at a speed of 186,000 miles per second.
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Campus & Community
Harvard expands financial aid for students choosing public service:
President Lawrence H. Summers announced a new initiative Wednesday (Jan. 15) that will make a Harvard education more accessible and affordable for talented students who wish to pursue careers in public service. In a series of steps designed to ease financial burdens for students in fields that do not offer high financial returns, the University…
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Science & Tech
A multiracial society with segregated schools
The nation’s public schools are becoming steadily more nonwhite, as the minority student enrollment approaches 40 percent of all U.S. public school students, almost twice the share of minority school…
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Health
Medical texts and other fictions
In the 19th century, hysteria was considered one of the most common disorders afflicting women. Doctors advised parents to keep their daughters from riding horseback, eating vanilla, or reading novels,…
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Science & Tech
New moons found around Neptune
Astronomers have discovered three new moons of Neptune, boosting the number of known satellites of the gas giant to 11. These moons are the first to be discovered orbiting Neptune…
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Health
Scientists identify hundreds of worm genes that regulate fat storage
Findings by Harvard researchers, published in the Jan. 16, 2003 issue of Nature, represent the first survey of an entire genome for all genes that regulate fat storage. The research…
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Health
Study identifies risk factors for retained objects after surgery
A study found that errors involving leaving surgical sponges or instruments inside patients are more likely to happen during emergency procedures, or in operations where there is a sudden change…
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Health
Kidney disease genes tied to flow sensing
Polycystic kidney disease, or PKD, is the most common life-threatening genetic disease. It is caused by mutations in one of two genes. Though the genetic defect that causes PKD is…
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Science & Tech
New study suggests staggered boards hurt shareholders
Staggered boards hurt shareholders of hostile bid targets even when a majority of the board is made of independent directors, and they do not appear to benefit shareholders of targets…
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Science & Tech
Strong public support for spraying against mosquitoes
The opening study of the Project on Biological Security and the Public found that one-third (33 percent) of Americans who live in areas where there are a lot of mosquitoes…
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Health
Enzyme pair joins fight against drug-resistant bacteria
Scientists have been striving to develop antibiotics against drug-resistant bacterial strains. Most attempts have been plagued by a lack of molecular tools for manipulating — and ultimately improving — the…
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Campus & Community
Bust a study break:
For most of the 1,400 freshmen who joined President Lawrence H. Summers at the first-ever Reading Period Study Break in Annenberg Hall Monday night (Jan. 6), it was the food – sumptuous displays of decadent desserts and a veritable mountain of nachos – that lured them away from their books and papers.
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Fish twice a month reduces risk of stroke
Researchers from the School of Public Health studying the role of fish consumption and risk of stroke among men have found that men who eat fish as little as twice per month significantly reduce their risk for ischemic stroke compared with men who eat fish less often or not at all. The findings are in…
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Campus & Community
Brian Sinclair dies at 62:
Brian Sinclair 62, a Harvard employee for three decades and co-host of the popular Hillbilly at Harvard radio program on WHRB since 1966, died Dec. 28 after battling leukemia. He was 62.
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Campus & Community
Sleeping giants attack!:
Following a trio of nightmarish defeats to Boston College, Richmond, and the Virginia Military Institute, Harvards sleeping giants were more than a little stirred in the Crimsons league opener against Dartmouth (4-7, 0-1 Ivy) this past Saturday (Jan. 4), lifting the mens basketball team past the Big Green, 67-50.
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Newsmakers
AESC awards Bartlett Christopher A. Bartlett, Thomas D. Casserly Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Professor Sumantra Ghoshal of London Business School have won the 2002…