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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…

If you think globalization is a recent phenomenon, check out the exhibition in the newly renovated Divinity School library, Light From the Age of Augustine: Late Antique Ceramics From North Africa (Tunisia).

Its one of the first things children learn when they start school – no gum chewing! Dubble Bubble, Chiclets, Dentyne, Wrigleys Spearmint – all verboten! And dont even think about leaving the chewed wad stuck to anything.

The third consultation on womens networks in multireligious America will be held at Harvard University this Saturday (April 27) through Monday (April 29). This consultation builds on two previous conversations hosted by the Pluralism Project, under the direction of Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian Studies.

Journalist Christopher Lydon will deliver the annual Lowell Lecture, A Culture Trying to Happen, on Tuesday (May 7) at 8 p.m. in Science Center C. The Lowell Lecture is devoted to explorations of major issues of our time and is jointly sponsored by the Lowell Institute of Boston and the Harvard University Extension School.

Not long ago at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) more than 20 Harvard community movie hounds showed up for the inaugural meeting of Cinephiles Unite, a new special interest group started by Harvard Neighbors (HN) that connects film lovers from across the University with screenings and movie chat. The featured film on this occasion was…

Harvard College has selected Laura E. Clancy 02-03 as the winner of the 2002 Harvard College Womens Leadership Award for her exceptional leadership skills.

In his introductory remarks at a lecture Sunday night (April 21) sponsored by the Museum of Natural History (HMNH) at Sanders Theatre, Mellon Professor of the Sciences and Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus E.O. Wilson called Richard Leakey a heroic figure whose life is an epic. He briefly recounted Leakeys bio: The son of the paleoanthropologists…