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According to the Bible (Genesis 11:31), the city of Ur was where Abraham lived before God sent him forth on his wanderings to find the land of Canaan.

The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) has awarded 55 research grants and 60 internship grants to Harvard undergraduate and graduate students who will spend the summer conducting research and working in a variety of public, private, and independent-sector internships in the region. The grant recipients include students from 21 different concentrations at…

Five juniors have been named winners of this year¹s Patricia King Fellowships. The King Fellowships, named for the former director of the Schlesinger Library and an officer of Radcliffe¹s Phi Beta Kappa chapter, support summer research toward the senior thesis or other independent academic projects.

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Imagining a nation is part of its construction.

Dr. Louis Klein Diamond, a physician who helped found the field of pediatric hematology – the study and treatment of childrens blood diseases – died at his home in Los Angeles on June 14, 1999. He had just passed his 97th birthday.

Twelve U.S. journalists and 13 international journalists were recently appointed to the 65th class of Nieman Fellows. Established in 1938, the Nieman program is the oldest midcareer fellowship for journalists in the world. Fellowships are awarded for an academic year of study in any part of the university to working journalists of accomplishment and promise.…

Graduating senior Katie Heller (left) and friend Susan McGregor 05 bid a sad goodbye in the Yard.

Most are ticketed events, restricting public access. Several of the events will be broadcast on WHRB (95.3 FM). Those events include Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises at 11 a.m. June 4 Baccalaureate service at 2 p.m. June 4 Class Day at 2 p.m. June 5 Commencement Exercises at 9:15 a.m. and 1:50 p.m. June 6.

Seniors Matthew Rosenberg and Stephen N. Smith are the first two recipients of the Elliot and Anne Richardson Fellowships in Public Service. Each will each receive $25,000 in support of a formative year in public service.

More than 50 students and faculty from many schools at Harvard attended the May 10 Interdisciplinary Conference on Disability held at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The Interfaculty Working Group on Disabilities at Harvard, co-chaired by Graduate School of Education (GSE) faculty Evangeline Harris Stefanakis and Thomas Hehir, spawned the daylong forum, the very…

Three Cambridge public school teachers received the Crystal Award for Preeminence in Teaching at a ceremony hosted by Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers at the Harvard Faculty Club Wednesday, May 22. Alan Stone, vice president for Government, Community and Public Affairs at Harvard, presented awards to winners Carol Siriani, social studies teacher at Cambridge Rindge…

Award-winning author Gish Jen, feminist legal scholar Clare Dalton, and National Public Radio (NPR) senior foreign correspondent Anne Garrels are among the distinguished women who will be honored by the Radcliffe Association during Commencement/Reunion Week.

Five Boston and Cambridge public school teachers have received 2002 – 03 James Bryant Conant Fellowships to study for one year at the Graduate School of Education (GSE). The Conant Fellowships, established in 1986 at Harvards 350th anniversary, support the professional growth of outstanding Boston and Cam-bridge public school teachers and administrators who have shown…

Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers have discovered a way to genetically mimic the life-extending effects of calorie restriction – without the severe food deprivation that method entails.

The Womens Studies in Religion Program (WSRP) at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) has announced its five research associates for the 2002-03 academic year: Paola Bacchetta of the University of Kentucky R. Marie Griffith of Princeton University Kelly Pemberton of the University of California, Berkeley Brigid Sackey of the University of Ghana and Elina Vuola of…

The coolest place to rest on a warm, breezy, post-exam day proves to be the large, dense stone slab benches in Cambridge Common.

When The Ants by E.O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, there was little doubt that receiving this prestigious and coveted award exerted a positive effect on the books sales.

For the first time, researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center have isolated and cloned the third and remaining gene believed to be a key regulator of insulin production. The scientists believe this achievement may now pave the way for researchers to use the trio of genes to encourage stem cells or other cells that…

The GSAS Harvard Biotechnology Club recently announced the winners of the 2002 Biotechnology Business Plan Competition. Sponsored by DuPont Bio-Based Materials, the competition is unique in that it focuses exclusively on biotechnology startups. This year, the competition received 18 entries from the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Employment Services, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, is hosting Career Forum 2002 on June 11 at the Graduate School of Designs Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. The event will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. To allow colleagues who are layoff candidates an opportunity to meet directly with many…

Writing is hard work for some. For others, its a way to shout at the top of their lungs without getting arrested. For still others, its a way to understand inner feelings in a process of thats not right, thats not right – thats it.

Harvard senior awarded Cooke scholarship Harvard senior Wenya Linda Bi, a neurobiology concentrator, has been selected as a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholar. Along with 49 other outstanding college…

≈Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday (May 25). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

May 17, 1956 – The Committee on Undergraduate Affairs grants permission for WHRB-Radio to expand into FM broadcasting.

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.

Thursday, June 6

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…

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.

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