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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…
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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.
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Campus & Community
Faculty, staff honored for 25 years of service
One hundred forty-one faculty and staff from across the University will be honored today (May 23) for 25 years of service to Harvard. The 48th annual 25-Year Recognition Ceremony will be held in the Ropes-Gray Room at the Law Schools Pound Hall. President Lawrence H. Summers will host the ceremony, and the guest speaker will…
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Campus & Community
Ganz organizes peer network
Marshall Ganz knows better than most what community organizers are up against out there: trying to change minds, taking risks, supporting sometimes unpopular causes – and often with not much help around.
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Campus & Community
The Big Picture
Who would suspect that an unassuming Greek Revival house, barely a Frisbee-toss from Harvard Divinity School, contains a doorway to another world?
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Campus & Community
SPH student receives new AAAS Fellowship
When K.A. Kelly McQueen, M.P.H. student, came to the School of Public Health (SPH) last fall, her intention was to study international health and humanitarian crises, but her goals changed on her first day of school, Sept. 11.
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday (May 18). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.
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Campus & Community
Warm reception
The president of Iceland, Olafur Ragmar Grimsson (left), greets President Lawrence H. Summers as Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Center for International Development at the Kennedy School, looks on.
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Campus & Community
Erratum
Due to incorrect information supplied to the Gazette, Du Bois Institute fellow Malick Walid Ghachem was incorrectly identified in the May 9 issue. Ghachem, a J.D. candidate at the Law School, received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.
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Campus & Community
Committee to review sexual violence issues
A committee will be formed to enhance educational and outreach efforts regarding sexual violence on campus.
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Campus & Community
Stephen Jay Gould dies at 60
Stephen Jay Gould, Harvards outspoken and often controversial paleontologist whose groundbreaking work on evolutionary theory – coupled with his award-winning writings – brought an expanded world of science to thousands of readers, died Monday morning (May 20) in Manhattan of metastasized lung cancer. He was 60.
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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 (May 20).
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Science & Tech
Emergency communications
As almost 60,000 federal, state and local public safety agencies plan to upgrade their communications systems in the wake of 9/11, Kennedy School of Government Assistant Professor of Public Policy…
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Health
Sea squirt cancer drug under test
In the United States, researchers at three Harvard University-affiliated hospitals — Massachusetts General Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital — have been testing a powerful drug on…
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Health
Endostatin shows no toxicity and some clinical activity in latest report on phase I trial
Discovered in the Children’s Hospital Boston laboratory of Judah Folkman, Endostatin is a natural substance that blocks the formation of new blood vessels around and in tumors, thereby disrupting their…
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Campus & Community
Paleontologist, author Gould dies at 60
Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard’s outspoken and often controversial paleontologist whose groundbreaking work on evolutionary theory – coupled with his award-winning writings – brought an expanded world of science to thousands of readers, has died after a twenty-year battle with cancer. He was 60.
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Science & Tech
Race, place, and segregation
Researchers for the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, using U.S. census data from 2000, examined whether three major metropolitan areas — Boston, Chicago and San Diego — continue to…
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Health
Science illuminates art
Monet and other painters exploited the parallel visual processing of color and brightness. A sunset seems to shimmer, a field of poppies seems to wave, and a river seems to…
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Health
Old-line antibiotic seen to save neurons
Developed as an antibiotic 30 years ago, a drug called minocycline was later discovered to ease acne, rheumatoid arthritis, and other inflammatory conditions. A few years ago, it was shown…
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Campus & Community
‘No laptops allowed’ at the Adams House printing press
In this age of desktop publishing, on-demand printing, and more copy machines than pay telephones, its easy to forget where the whole thing started, but a visit to the Bow and Arrow Press in Adams House is a good place to refresh your memory.
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Campus & Community
Real-life hero Ford gets environmental award
Actor Harrison Ford received the 2002 Global Environmental Citizen Award from Harvard Medical Schools Center for Health and the Global Environment Monday (May 13) for his efforts to protect the planets biodiversity.
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Campus & Community
Greene named to direct Carr Center
The Kennedy School of Governments Carr Center for Human Rights Policy has announced the appointment of Michelle Greene as its new executive director. A graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Greene brings an array of experience in law, management consulting, government, and human rights to the Carr Center.
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Campus & Community
GoGreen
As part of Cambridges annual GoGreen Month Celebration, Rob Gogan (left), waste manager for Harvard’s Facilities Maintenance Operations, receives a GoGreen Award for Harvard’s recycling work from Cambridge Mayor Michael Sullivan (right).
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Campus & Community
SPH professor presents practical guide to living with germs
Scientists have shown that the kitchen sink – not the regularly scrubbed toilet – harbors the most fecal matter in the average home, carried there by unwashed hands after using the bathroom.
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Campus & Community
Libraries to unveil new online HOLLIS catalog
This summer, when Harvard rolls out the new and improved online HOLLIS catalog, library patrons – faculty, students, staff, and other researchers – will benefit from a number of new features. The entirely Web-based catalog has a new format and design, offering users a variety of new and more functional features, while giving users more…
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Campus & Community
Kirby appointed next dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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 today.
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Campus & Community
Seeker of harmony honored
Ada Jane Maxwell 02 likes to focus on things that bring people together, not keep them apart.
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Campus & Community
Faculty of Arts and Sciences – Memorial Minute
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 7, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.