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  • Campus & Community

    Stephen Walt is named academic dean at KSG

    Stephen Walt is named academic dean at KSG

  • Campus & Community

    School’s diversity mirrors world’s

    Exposure to students of several racial, ethnic, and economic groups is preparing Cambridge Rindge and Latin students well to face an increasingly diverse working world, according to a new Harvard…

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    Students respond to the choices

    Shortly after the Hasty Pudding Club announced its Woman of the Year (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Man of the Year (Bruce Willis) on Monday (Jan. 28), students around campus shared their opinions of the picks with the Gazette.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Sex’ and the ‘Sixth Sense’

    The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nations oldest dramatic organization, announced the recipients of the 2002 Woman and Man of the Year awards: Sarah Jessica Parker and Bruce Willis.

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    Researchers make Olympic predictions

    Researchers, one of them an undergraduate, have used economic analysis to analyse and predict participation and medal outcomes for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

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    Better predictions for outcome of kids’ brain tumors

    A distinctive signature of genes turned on and off greatly improves predictions of who has the best chance of survival of the most common type of childhood malignant brain tumor, according to a new study by researchers at Childrens Hospital in Boston and their colleagues. If verified by other studies over the next several years,…

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    Pleasure, pain activate same part of brain

    Scientists have found pain in the same brain circuits that give you pleasure. That wont make you cry until you laugh, but its likely to lead to better ways to measure and treat chronic pain.

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    Statement Regarding University Employment and Contracting Policies

    Statement Regarding University Employment and Contracting Policies

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    Undergrad’s evolution isn’t random

    Like many first-year students, David Solá-Del Valle 04 came to Harvard with a number of goals. High on Solá-Del Valles to do list, however, was an item other freshmen might find a little daunting: landing a spot in a biology research lab.

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    Anthony Lewis named Lombard Lecturer

    A former New York Times columnist, an Israeli communication and government scholar, and a former Boston Globe editor will be among six visiting faculty and fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government this semester.

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    At Perkins School, tutoring is hands-on

    For a sighted person, blindness is a frightening prospect. Finding ones way, avoiding danger, interacting with strangers – without vision such tasks seem challenging to the point of insuperability.

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    Teach For America seeks seniors ready to make an immediate impact

    Teach For America seeks seniors ready to make an immediate impact

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    SPH faculty votes not to accept tobacco funds

    Faculty members at the School of Public Health (SPH) voted Thursday (Jan. 24) not to accept research funding from tobacco manufacturers and their subsidiaries. Because of an incompatibility with the public health mission, such funds had not been accepted at the School as a general practice for a number of years. The vote puts current…

  • Campus & Community

    AI evolution: From tool to partner

    Scientists have found pain in the same brain circuits that give you pleasure. That wont make you cry until you laugh, but its likely to lead to better ways to measure and treat chronic pain.

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    Dolbeare appointed as senior scholar

    Housing policy expert Cushing N. Dolbeare, founder of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, has been appointed senior scholar at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Nicolas P. Retsinas, the centers director, announced earlier this month.

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    Weekend warriors

    The defending Ivy League champion Harvard wrestling team split a pair of homestand meets this past weekend (Jan. 26-27), downing Army 29-10, while losing a 21-20 decision to Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) powerhouse Lehigh. The Crimson, who also hold last seasons EIWA title, stand at 2-3 in dual meets and 1-1 in the EIWA.

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    The Big Picture

    From the roof above Sanders Theatre, Elizabeth Randall surveys her handiwork: University Hall, Boylston Hall, the freshman dorms. Randall, capital projects manager for Faculty of Arts and Sciences Physical Resources, oversaw the renovations of these and many other Harvard landmarks. She even helped pick out paint color for the Memorial Churchs recent sprucing-up.

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    Telling tales out of, and in, class

    Homi Bhabha was born in India, but he is quick to add that he is a Parsi, a member of an Indian minority with a population of only about 160,000 worldwide. The Parsis are Zoroastrians who migrated from Persia in the eighth century to avoid persecution by the Muslims.

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 26. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.

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    In Brief

    Joint Center fellowship program accepting applications The Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program – a competitive master’s level program for students in all of Harvard’s professional schools and related academic departments of…

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    Newsmakers

    Watson elected president of AAS Professor of anthropology James L. Watson, the John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society, has been elected to serve as the 61st…

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    Joyce Lever, 60, director of Alumni Information Systems

    Joyce Lever, the director of Alumni Information Systems, died on Thursday, Jan. 17. She was 60.

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    This month in Harvard History

    Jan. 18, 1943 – At Radcliffe, Briggs Hall becomes home to 75 Waves (all commissioned officers) studying at the Navy Supply Corps School at the Business School. The women will become disbursing officers and assistants in Navy storehouses. Another 75 are due to arrive on April 1.

  • Science & Tech

    Powerful mutagen found in Massachusetts water

    Mutagen X, a by-product of chemicals used to disinfect public water supplies, is not monitored or regulated in the U.S. water supply. A new report from researchers at Harvard’s School…

  • Health

    Pigment plays role in Xenopus development

    Harvard Medical School researchers have discovered that a pigment contained in the egg of the South African claw-toed frog is indispensable for development. Witout the pigment, called biliverdin, which is…

  • Health

    Cell surface proteins can have pro- and anti-angiogenic face

    Angiogenesis is the process by which cancer tumors develop a network of blood vessels to feed them, so that they may continue their growth. The strategy that cancer cells use…

  • Health

    Mutation reported with AIDS vaccine

    Researchers are working feverishly to develop an effective vaccine against the AIDS virus. Various vaccines have been tested. One of the more promising vaccine trials involved eight monkeys. When one…

  • Health

    Mouse model devised that develops asthma

    A Harvard research team led by Laurie Glimcher, Irene Heinz Given professor of immunology at the Harvard School of Public Health and a Harvard Medical School professor of medicine, two…

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    Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. honored

    It is an ancient custom, as ancient as the Roman Empire, to idolize those whom we honor, to make them larger than life, to give their marvelous accomplishments a magical and mystical origin. By exalting the accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr. into a legendary tale that is annually told, we fail to recognize his…

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    Faculty of Arts and Sciences – Memorial Minute

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 11, 2001, the following Minute was placed upon the records.