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To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (HILR) – a membership organization offering courses in a variety of liberal arts subjects to former professionals and academics – is presenting a concert on May 18 in Sanders Theatre featuring internationally renowned violinist Joseph Lin. A 2000 Harvard graduate, Lin will be…

Dressed in a T-shirt, jeans, and sneakers, the youthful-looking Edward Zwick 74 was scarcely distinguishable from the Harvard undergraduates who came last Friday (May 3) to hear him speak.

As one of the largest population groups in history moves toward retirement, a Harvard colloquium has been organized to explore the ramifications of a phenomenon that will impact the economy, health care, politics, and culture in the United States and around the world. The Demographic Revolution: Prospects for a Maturing World will be held from…

An adorable – well, not really – squirrel snacks on some garbage outside the Science Center. Despite a warm winter, Harvards squirrel population has grown accustomed to easy pickings.

Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell (D-Maine), nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in negotiating the Good Friday peace accord in Northern Ireland, has accepted an invitation from Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. to address graduates of the Kennedy School on Wednesday, June 5. Mitchells speech will begin at 10 a.m.…

What the world needs now, according to former National Public Radio talk show host Christopher Lydon, is a really good chat.

An unusual collaboration of academic, government, and citizen organizations including the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) is taking aim at the asthma epidemic raging in the United States by seeking solutions in Bostons public housing projects.

The link between terrorism and global poverty isnt as clear as many initially thought and may not exist at all, panelists said at a two-day conference (May 3-4) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government that sought real-world suggestions on how to cut terrorism off at the roots.

Mario Coyula takes pride in his countrys ability to survive.

Four faculty members have been named this years Harvard College Professors in recognition of their outstanding work as undergraduate teachers as well as for their exceptional achievements in graduate education and research.

The Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) has received a $705,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund two three-year postdoctoral fellowships in conservation science at the Straus Center for Conservation. The grant will enable scholars to pursue postdoctoral scientific research within an art museum setting. Fellows will draw upon the Straus Centers outstanding…

The Harvard mens heavyweight crew won its 12th straight race on the Charles this past Saturday (May 4), edging Northeastern by 2.8 seconds to remain perfect on the spring. The win wrecked the Huskies hopes for an undefeated season.

The Harvard baseball team scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth to beat Brown, 2-1, in a one-game playoff contest held Wednesday (May 8) at ODonnell Field. With the victory, the Crimson clinched the 2002 Red Rolfe Division Championship. Harvard will host Princeton – the Lou Gehrig Division champs – in a best-of-three…

Juan Flores of the City University of New York threatens to douse Columbia Universitys Rodolfo de la Garza with a bottle of water during a panel discussion on Latinos Remaking America Thursday (May 2) at the Graduate School of Educations Askwith Education Forum. Co-sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the…

David Brion Davis, professor of history at Yale University and one of the worlds leading authorities on slavery, delivered the Nathan I. Huggins Lectures last week (April 30, May 1-2). The three lectures were titled: The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery, 1819: Signs of a New Era, and The African-American Impact on American…

Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of Harvards W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, has announced the appointment of 12 new institute fellows for the 2002-03 academic year.

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Marie Trottier has been in cereal and CD commercials, music videos and movies. Shes played a debutante, a dictator, and Elvis, complete with a white jumpsuit and sunglasses.

On Oct. 16, 1859, John Brown and 21 men – 16 whites and five blacks – raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, W.Va., with the intention of distributing arms to Southern slaves and fomenting a violent uprising.

A report released Wednesday (May 7) by Harvard Universitys vice president for administration details a series of actions taken by the University in the last three months to increase wages for service workers, enhance education and training programs, and develop long-term improvements in the climate for workers on campus. The report shows that the University…

Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. today. Individuals wishing to meet with Provost Hyman will be welcomed on a first-come, first-served basis. A Harvard ID is required.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday (May 4). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

May 21, 1890 – A University statute combines faculty of the Lawrence Scientific School with the College Faculty (which is the same as the Graduate School Faculty) to form the 62-member Faculty of Arts and Sciences. There are 12 Divisions, with larger ones broken down into Departments.

The provocative 2002 Harvard Colloquium on International Affairs, which was sponsored by more than a dozen Harvard Schools, centers, and programs this past April can still be viewed in video format on the Internet. You can be a virtual guest at the more than a dozen panels that made up Globalization After September 11: Has…

Genes that have allowed brains to become larger and more complicated have been found and cloned by researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the California Institute of Technology.

A year after having his arm blown off attempting to clear a land mine, Sgt. Jones is still in constant pain from the injury, despite taking many different precription painkillers and trying everything to numb the pain from experimental electric stimulation to a daily six-pack.