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When Gweneth Newman and Katherine Alberg Anderson decided to enter a design competition as a final project in their course on watershed management, they had no idea that they would end up $5,000 richer.

Martians battled humanity at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) Thursday night (March 7), and, to the delight of a partisan home crowd, the humans won.

The National Cancer Institute has awarded Harvard a $40 million chemistry grant to develop a laboratory that will dramatically enhance researchers ability to find the proteins involved in disease and identify agents that can manipulate them.

Russian journalists struggling to maintain freedom of expression found an influential ally last month – Harvard University.

Can the nations oldest university, one with its roots sunk deep in American soil, embrace globalization? And what does this buzzword of globalization mean for education beyond swapping students across national borders?

In an effort to improve medical teaching in an era when research is king and technology and societal changes are dramatically revising what it means to be a doctor, Harvard Medical School is launching an organization to recognize and support its best teachers and to innovate in medical education.

Three of the 21st centurys foremost writers of English gathered at Harvard March 8 to read from their works. Sponsored by the Harvard Advocate, Americas oldest college literary magazine, the event featured poet John Ashbery 49, and prose writers Jamaica Kincaid and Salman Rushdie.

A new Harvard center is taking aim at neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimers, Parkinsons, Huntingtons, and Lou Gehrigs disease, using a collaborative approach and a combination of weapons to foster research aimed at advancing knowledge about the diseases and quickly applying that knowledge to the needs of patients.

Annys Shin, a senior writer for the Washington City Paper, has been awarded the Christopher J. Georges Fellowship for in-depth reporting to cover the impact of the release of prisoners finishing their mandatory sentences. Shin, 29, will receive $10,000 to fund research and writing of the project.

In his opening remarks at the Institute of Politics-sponsored panel discussion on the future of the Republican Party, Harvard College Republican Club President Brian Grech recounted a comment made by a former IOP fellow: You know, Brian, he said, I used to think I knew what it was like to be a minority, because Im…

Harvard Foundation to host Molina

One of the main disadvantages facing the Democratic Party today is that it has lost its bully pulpit, said U.S. Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif.

With new technology driving education reform, a host of new programs, disciplines, and teaching configurations are emerging, from packages that combine elements of traditional classroom teaching with distance learning components to intensive continuing education programs that are intended to replace more traditional full-time campus classes.

The Rev. M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O., author and internationally known leader of the Centering Prayer movement, will lead a two-evening talk and workshop on the practice of Centering Prayer on Wednesday, March 20, and Thursday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Centering Prayer is a contemplative practice rooted in ancient texts, the…

Christiane Amanpour, this years winner of the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism, gave the keynote address at the awards ceremony. Amanpour, chief international correspondent at CNN, spoke about the trials, tribulations – and rewards – of being a war correspondent in these difficult days. The ARCO Forum talk was a highlight of the…

Scoring three unanswered goals in the first quarter, the Harvard mens lacrosse team soared past the Hartford Hawks, 11-7, this past Saturday (March 9) at Jordan Field. Junior attackman Matt Primm and senior co-captain Jim Christian notched three goals apiece in the home opener, as Harvard goalie Jake McKenna 04, who had 14 stops on…

The Harvard Childrens Initiative and the Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative have announced research awards of up to $1,500 for Harvard juniors and seniors (as of fall 2002). The second annual Kagan Undergraduate Research Awards are named in honor of Jerome Kagan, Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, for his indispensable work in developmental psychology, and…

Shed always been a dancer, just like the girl in the Beatles song – toe shoes, leotards, tutus, first position, second position, pliés at the bar.

Two years ago, Afsaneh Najmabadi delivered a lecture on gender and Iranian modernity as part of her selection process to the Harvard faculty. The talk summarized the final chapter of her nearly completed manuscript, Male Lions and Female Suns: The Gendered Tropes of Iranian Modernity.

Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo (right) chats with President Lawrence H. Summers in Mass. Hall on Wednesday afternoon (March 13) a few hours before Zedillo delivered the 2002 Collins Lecture at the Kennedy School of Governments ARCO Forum.

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. Individuals wishing to meet with President Summers or Provost Hyman will be welcomed on a first-come, first-served basis. A Harvard ID is required.

Following are some the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, March 9. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

March 6, 1808 – Students establish the Pierian Sodality, forerunner of todays Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.

On last weeks front page, the caption should read: The change from the oblong skull and protruding face of ancient humans (right) to the modern rounder skull and retraced face (left) is associated with a sharper bend in the floor of the brain case.

Do animals think?

Dudley Co-op has an image problem.

In the good old days, intellectual property battles at the OK Corral were fair fights between evenly matched foes. When General William Westmoreland sued CBS for libel in 1982, each side had the financial heft to hire the best lawyers and state its case.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, these are a few of the things we know about global warming: The average land-surface temperature of the Earth has risen by 1 degree Fahrenheit in the past century. Precipitation has increased by about 1 percent, and the sea level has risen 6 to 8 inches, in part due…

Lei, Zhou win Weintraub Award Graduate student Elissa P. Lei of the Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and Zhaolan Zhou, former graduate student in the Department of Molecular and…