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The Association of Theological Schools (ATS) in the United States and Canada and the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., have named François Bovon as a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology for 2002-03. Bovon, the Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion at the Divinity School, was named a fellow in the category of Bible and…

Harvard Business School (HBS) students Matthew Mugo Fields 02 and Lucas Klein 02 and their business partner Jason Green like to begin their business plan presentations with a question: How does the U.S. Government forecast prison growth?

An article by Les Gura of the Hartford Courant about an instructor at Yale University who became the focus of stories that unfairly cast him as a murder suspect, is the inaugural winner of the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. The award, endowed by the former publisher of The Boston Globe and the…

The events of Sept. 11 have changed the way America responds to disasters, Daniel A. Craig, regional director (Region One) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), told a Harvard audience last month. FEMA needs to lead the charge in implementing these changes.

Up until the month of showers, success for the Harvard baseball team appeared to be postponed indefinitely. The Crimson notched just three victories in 14 outings during their opening month of play, dropping their first six games of the season. Yet ever since a doubleheader sweep over reigning Ivy champion Princeton in early April, Harvard…

Harvard seniors Erica Levy, Christopher Papagianis, and Marc Wallenstein have been awarded the George Peabody Gardner Traveling Fellowship for 2002. The fellowship, available to graduating seniors who are concentrators (or joint concentrators) in the Departments of Visual and Environmental Studies, Anthropology, English, History and Literature, Literature, or Philosophy, is awarded to students who demonstrate a…

The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has announced the recipients of the 2002 Harvard Medal: Peter A. Brooke 52, M.B.A. 54, Sharon Elliott Gagnon, A.M. 65, Ph.D. 72, John A. Lithgow 67 and Daniel C. Tosteson 46, M.D. 48. First given in 1981, the Harvard Medal recognizes extraordinary service to the University. President Lawrence H. Summers…

Youve heard of the Cambridge folk renaissance? Well, Lenny Solomon was there.

Dibner Institute appoints Cavicchi for second year

President Lawrence H. Summers and seven Harvard professors are among the 72 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, the academy announced Tuesday (April 30). Members are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those elected bring the total number of active members to 1,907. With its eight…

With globalization linking their fates, the developed world cannot afford to leave the developing world behind, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Wednesday (April 24), urging support for African efforts to help themselves.

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 of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, April 27. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

May 12, 1638 – By order of the Great and General Court, Newetowne is renamed Cambrige (Cambridge).

At its 14th meeting of the year the Faculty Council considered a proposed merger of the departments of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and Sanskrit & Indian Studies with Professor Peter Bol (chair, E.A.L.C.) and Professor Leonard van der Kuijp (chair, Sanskrit and Indian Studies).

A photo that appeared on page 12 of the April 25 edition should have identified Alison Vaughan as the executive director of Tutoring Plus of Cambridge. She was incorrectly listed as a tutor. The Gazette regrets the error.

Thursday, June 6, 2002

Recent evidence for the existence of strange types of stars made from a new form of material raises some questions about the stability of matter in the universe.

Un libro te lleva al cualquier sitio que tu quieras: a book takes you wherever you want to go, 9-year-old Gabriel Castro told Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers on Friday (April 26).

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has been selected by Harvards Nieman Fellows to receive the 2002 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism.

On April 10, the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory (HCL) treated its last patient.

Does your doctor sing? Does your dentist tap dance?

For a team that was forced to share last seasons Ivy crown with the Harvard softball squad (thanks to some late-season Harvard heroics), Cornells 5-1 win over the Crimson this past Sunday (April 21) was a fitting bit of redemption for the Big Red. As Cornell drilled five hits in the fifth inning against Harvard…

Teen conference is set for Arab Americans

From street vendors in India to fighter pilots in the U.S. Air Force, from teen pregnancy to religious asceticism, issues of gender united academics from around Harvard Friday (April 19) in an unusual cross-disciplinary conference.

The scientist put what looked like black dust into a dish of water. Instead of dust, however, the particles were actually diodes, capable of emitting light under the right conditions. In the dish sat a cylinder, patterned with tiny dots of solder connected by threadlike lines of solder. The goal of the experiment was to…

“Un libro te lleva al cualquier sitio que tu quieras“: a book takes you wherever you want to go, 9-year-old Gabriel Castro told Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers on Friday…