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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.

Charlie Connor was at home one night about a month ago when a call came in from Harvards Operations Center, saying that a racket coming from Coolidge Hall had prompted a neighbor to complain.

‘Celebrating Community Spirit,’ the Fourth Annual Benefit Concert for the Cambridge Housing Assistance Fund (CHAF), was held on Sept. 27 at Sanders Theatre. Kansas City blues singer (left) Paul Broadnax belts one out with Grammy nominee and nine-time Boston Music Award winner Rebecca Parris. Parris, who was the headliner at this fundraiser for the homeless,…

The Harvard mens tennis team played host to a crowd of racketeers this past weekend (Sept. 27-29) at the Beren Tennis Center. The three-day Harvard Fall Invitational gave teams from as far away as Alabama, Notre Dame, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (not to mention Ivy neighbors Brown and Princeton), an opportunity to…

Russian Academy elects Lamberg-Karlovsky C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, the Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology, was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences and conferred an honorary doctorate of science on…

Its the largest collection of brains in the world. No, not Harvard University, but a small room at McLean Hospital where row upon row of plain metal shelves with Tupperware containers that hold more than 5,000 brains.

President Lawrence H. Summers offers Mary Yacubian a birthday greeting. Yacubian, who celebrated her 87th birthday on Oct. 1, has worked at Harvard since 1959. The former Massachusetts Hall receptionist now helps with filing for the president and the provost.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Sept. 28. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Oct. 26, 1912 – The Boston Elevated Railway Co. opens Stadium Station on lower Boylston (now Kennedy) St. for the convenience of Saturday Harvard football crowds. Oct. 7, 1915 –…

At a meeting of the Faculty of Medicine on May 29, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.