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  • Campus & Community

    President Summers and Provost Hyman set office hours

    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:

  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Dec. 7. The official log is located at 1060 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

  • Campus & Community

    Making the ‘disappeared’ visible:

    At the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts Thursday (Dec. 5), slides of the work of Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo conveyed their powerful, horrible beauty: Womens worn shoes roughly sutured behind a thin membrane of animal skin … armoires filled with concrete … a battered cabinet with a zipper between its gaping seams … wooden desk…

  • Campus & Community

    Gupta ’04 is HSA president:

    The Board of Directors of Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. (HSA), has elected Abhishek Gupta 04 as president for the upcoming fiscal year. He will begin his term Feb. 1, 2003, and he will lead the corporation for one year.

  • Campus & Community

    Memorial Minute:

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 12, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

  • Campus & Community

    Holyoke Center to upgrade security:

    In the upcoming months, getting into the administrative offices in the Holyoke Center will take a little extra effort. But once there, employees and visitors will be much safer.

  • Campus & Community

    Chlamydia pneumoniae may contribute to stroke, heart attacks

    Analysis of available data suggests that Chlamydia pneumoniae, which causes walking pneumonia, may contribute to atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and its complications, such as heart attack and stroke, according to a paper in the Dec. 4 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

  • Campus & Community

    Senior 48 selected:

    The following students were selected as the Senior 48 by the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Harvard College:

  • Campus & Community

    Hormone replacement lowers risk of degenerative eye disease

    Postmenopausal women who have taken hormone replacement therapy in the past were 50 percent less likely to develop the blinding disease related to advanced age called maculopathy (ARM), as compared with women who never used hormone therapy.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Is this a puppet which I see before me?’:

    Just a few hours before showtime, Macbeth was undergoing some last-minute plastic surgery.

  • Campus & Community

    Jennifer Siegal designs mobile architecture:

    Build a better mobile home and the world probably wont beat a path to your door because chances are youll have pulled up stakes and moved on. But since your e-mail address will remain the same, theyre sure to find you that way.

  • Campus & Community

    Modern megaliths

    Outside the Science Center, at Harvards very own version of Stonehenge, snow-capped boulders make for a surreal landscape.

  • Campus & Community

    Alumni are encouraged to support priorities across the University

    Harvard has historically engaged alumni on a school-by-school basis. Those who graduate from one school have the opportunity to learn about its activities get to know its faculty, academic leaders, and fellow alumni and are encouraged to support its priorities. Alumni who graduated from the College, the Business School, and the Law School, in particular,…

  • Campus & Community

    Stroke risk from obesity is now measurable

    Researchers at Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) in Boston have determined that obesity is a measurable risk factor for stroke in men, and have calculated that risk in terms of the popular equation used to measure obesity, known as the Body Mass Index, or BMI.

  • Campus & Community

    In brief

    HOLLIS unavailable on 27th The Harvard University Library (HUL) has announced that the HOLLIS Catalog will be unavailable from 4 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Friday (Dec. 27). HOLLIS will…

  • Campus & Community

    University will provide advance to ease January pay transition

    Harvard employees currently paid on a semimonthly basis will find something extra in their first paychecks when they switch to biweekly pay in January – an advance equal to nine days pay without taxes or deductions.

  • Campus & Community

    Newsmakers

    MVP Morris named top senior Harvard wide receiver Carl Morris ’03 – named the Ivy League’s most valuable player for the second consecutive season – received the Harry Agganis/Harold Zimman…

  • Campus & Community

    Mother of documentary theater brings her “children” to Loeb Drama Center:

    Thirty years ago, when Emily Mann 74 was an undergraduate directing plays at the Loeb Drama Center, someone told her that as a woman, she couldnt possibly have a career as a playwright and theater director. Had she considered childrens theater?

  • Campus & Community

    Standing on line at the bubbler with a hoagie in my hand :

    There are those who say America is losing its regional identity, that theres no more difference between Spokane and Spotsylvania, Klamath Falls and King of Prussia than there is between fast-food stops along the interstate. They say the mass media has homogenized our culture, making us all look the same, dress the same, act the…

  • Campus & Community

    Crimson stick it to ’em:

    There were just enough moments of dazzle and dominance in this past Saturdays (Dec. 7) womens hockey match-up at the Bright Hockey Center that host Harvard appeared to be playing against an ice version of the Washington Generals – that hapless squad of fall guys made infamous by the Harlem Globetrotters. Though for the No.…

  • Campus & Community

    Matthew Shair imitates, improves on nature:

    Matthew Shair takes his inspiration from nature. The recently tenured professor of chemistry and chemical biology tries to solve natures mysteries and learn enough in the process to improve upon the mother of life. His work is called biomimetic synthesis, mimicking the way that life works by mixing chemicals in a laboratory.

  • Campus & Community

    Gore family values:

    At the Askwith Education Forum at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Friday (Dec. 6), Al Gore introduced himself as the former next president of the United States and closed with a cautious endorsement of the electoral college system that kept him from that post in 2000.

  • Campus & Community

    A letter from President Summers:

    Dear Colleagues, I am writing to bring to your attention a Harvard initiative concerning scholars who face persecution…

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    Dec. 3, 1948 – The 110-member Harvard University Band makes its second appearance at Symphony Hall, Boston. The program features well-known marches and traditional band music, along with works by…

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Tis the season:

    Lewie Remele 06 hangs holiday decorations inside his dorm room in Grays Hall.

  • Campus & Community

    Five Harvard students selected as 2003 Rhodes Scholars :

    Thinking outside the box seems to have given Harvard students the edge in the Rhodes Scholarship competition this year. Four Harvard College students and one from the Medical School received the prestigious award – more than from any other school. All of them are pursuing academic careers that are interdisciplinary and unconventional.

  • Campus & Community

    Researchers debate origin of language:

    If chickens could talk, would they have anything interesting to say? Most scholars think not. But Marc Hauser, a Harvard professor of psychology, disagrees with them.

  • Health

    Gene signature identifies leukemia patients who should avoid transplants

    It was previously known that only slightly over half of the patients with adult T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) could be cured with chemotherapy. Adult ALL patients often undergo transplants…

  • Science & Tech

    Researchers regenerate zebrafish heart muscle

    A research team led by Mark T. Keating showed that zebrafish can regenerate heart muscle within two months after a severe injury. The team, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute…

  • Science & Tech

    Where do you want your building?

    Humans are changing location more frequently and in greater numbers than ever before in history. But at the same time, the electronic revolution is allowing them to remain in contact…