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  • Campus & Community

    Erratum

    In a page 7 article in the May 23 issue of the Gazette, Ganz organizes peer network, the address for the Web site featured in the article was incorrect. The correct URL is http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/organizing.

  • Campus & Community

    Memorial service set for Carolyn Andrews

    A memorial service for Carolyn E. Andrews, who served as associate master of Leverett House from 1971 to 1981 with her husband, Kenneth R. Andrews, Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, will be held on June 11 at 2 p.m. in the Memorial Church. The service will be followed by a reception at…

  • Campus & Community

    Cambridge Street tunnel last hurdle for CGIS

    After significant design changes and five years of community, University, and city government review, Harvards new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) is a City Council vote away from getting the go-ahead to put the Government Department and more than a dozen international centers under one roof.

  • Campus & Community

    Brain changes in learning measured

    After decades of speculation and experiments, researchers have discovered brain changes that may underlie learning and memory.

  • Health

    Researchers uncover remaining critical insulin gene regulatory factor

    Scientists have known the identity of two genes that can influence the ability of insulin genes to trigger insulin production in the beta cells of the pancreas. Through subsequent research…

  • Science & Tech

    Pendulating “between euphoria and despair”

    In his landmark 1845 essay, “Facundo, Civilización y Barbarie,” Argentinean author and statesman Domingo F. Sarmiento, the nation’s second president, sharply contrasted the forces at work on his young nation.…

  • Science & Tech

    Radcliffe conference presents research on lethal school violence

    Educators, policy-makers, law enforcement officials, and adolescent-development specialists came to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on May 21, 2002, for the National Conference on Lethal School Violence. The conference…

  • Health

    New molecular model increases longevity and could allow you to eat cake, too

    Scientists have known about the longevity benefits of caloric restriction since experiments in the 1930s showed that rats lived much longer if their food intake was severely restricted. Broadly speaking,…

  • Campus & Community

    China scholar next dean of FAS

    William C. Kirby, Geisinger Professor of History, will be the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘All right, you pencil pushers, drop and give me 50!’

    Getting in shape has become a high-tech endeavor, as any fitness club habitué knows. Athletes strap on digital wristwatches and heart-rate monitors to chart the nuances of their workouts. Even once-humble treadmills now blink with confounding displays of electronics measuring anything from calories burned to miles trod to fluctuations in the stock market.

  • Campus & Community

    Young reporters make headlines, eat lunch

    Editors note: As part of a Graham and Parks School annual project, two seventh-grade students joined the Harvard News Office staff for one week. This is what Jared Hughes and Helen Cowdrey had to say about their experience.

  • Campus & Community

    Life at the Gazette

    Editors note: As part of a Graham and Parks School annual project, two seventh-grade students joined the Harvard News Office staff for one week. This is what Jared Hughes and Helen Cowdrey had to say about their experience.

  • Campus & Community

    KSG puts on its work gloves

    About 30 John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) staff traded in computers for trowels, and pens for work gloves last Friday (May 17) to help beautify Cambridge City Hall and other sites as part of what organizers intend to make an annual day of service to the community.

  • Campus & Community

    Political theorist – and practitioner

    For Nancy Rosenblum, liberalism is more than just a political philosophy to be studied and taught, its an ideal to be put into practice.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty agrees to switch to 4-pt. scale

    At the May 21 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Faculty Meeting, the Faculty unanimously approved two changes in Harvard College policies concerning grading and honors.

  • Campus & Community

    Memorial service is set for John Shlien

    A memorial service will be held for John Shlien, professor of education and counseling psychology emeritus, at the Memorial Church on May 29 at 3 p.m. The service will be followed by a reception in the Eliot-Lyman Room of Longfellow Hall. Shlien died March 23 at his vacation home in Big Sur, Calif. He was…

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    May 4, 1943 – At the Boston Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Boston firm of Perry, Shaw & Hepburn accepts the J. Harleston Parker Gold Medal for Houghton Library as the best architecture in New England for 1942. The City of Boston has given the award annually since 1923.

  • Campus & Community

    A wrinkle in time

    Sushi for breakfast? Why not? Why not pizza? Why not chocolate cake?

  • Campus & Community

    FAS Memorial minute

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 7, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

  • Campus & Community

    Local teens STEP into work world

    Thanks to tight budgets and layoffs throughout the region, the livin might not be so easy this summertime for teenagers scrambling for jobs in Boston and Cambridge. But Harvard is doing what it can to help, developing summer jobs for teens in its host communities around the University. Teenagers will fill close to 100 summer…

  • Campus & Community

    Weatherhead Center awards 60 grants and fellowships

    The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced that it is awarding 60 student grants and fellowships amounting to more than $100,000 for the 2002-03 academic year. Sixteen grants will support Harvard College undergraduates, 32 grants will support graduate students, and 12 awards are being made to undergraduate and graduate student groups for their own…

  • Campus & Community

    Copyediting, photography, and lunch

    Editors note: As part of a Graham and Parks School annual project, two seventh-grade students joined the Harvard News Office staff for one week. This is what Jared Hughes and Helen Cowdrey had to say about their experience.

  • Campus & Community

    HUAM launches ‘Web base’

    The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) have announced the launch of Collections Online – a searchable Web-based database of more than 60,000 works of art from the collections of Harvards three art museums. Collections Online makes it possible for scholars, researchers, and the general public to access textual information on about one-third of the more…

  • Campus & Community

    FAS adminstrative prizes awarded

    When it comes to lengthy leaves and sponsored travel to exotic locales, University administrators usually get the short end of the stick. Faculty members and even enterprising students can avail themselves of research grants, travel fellowships, and sabbaticals, but the administrators who support their pursuit of knowledge must pay for their own trips from their…

  • Campus & Community

    CfA’s Sadler wins Brennan teaching award

    The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), one of the worlds oldest and largest astronomical organizations, has awarded the 2002 Thomas J. Brennan Award to Philip Sadler, director of the Science Education Department at the Harvard – Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). The Brennan Award recognizes exceptional achievement related to the teaching of astronomy at…

  • Campus & Community

    KSG fellow named Carnegie Scholar

    Erin K. Jenne, a postdoc fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the World Peace Foundation (WPF) Program on Intrastate Conflict at the Kennedy School of…

  • Campus & Community

    Scientists seek sea squirts by the seashore

    A powerful cancer drug found in the tissues of sea squirts is being tested on a variety of cancers. Trials conducted in the United States and Europe show that the compound has promising activity against connective tissue, breast, ovary, and prostate tumors.

  • Campus & Community

    In the crosshairs

    The acerbic e-mails began a few days after the School of Public Healths (SPH) David Hemenway published Firearm Availability and Female Homicide Victimization Rates among 25 Populous High Income Countries in the Journal of the American Medical Womens Association (JAMWA) last month. The paper caught the attention of a small group of people, many of…

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Is this mine?’

    Freshmen roommates Susie McGregor and Annie Hilby pack Hilby’s clothes in their Hollis Dormitory. Hilby is hoping to make an afternoon flight to San Diego.