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Steven E. Hyman, former Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard and current Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), has been named Provost of the University, President Lawrence H. Summers announced today.

Hundreds of scholars descended on the Memorial Church this week for a three-day conference on the intersection of science and religion that looked for evidence of god in places ranging from chimpanzees to the cosmos.

Over many years, the art museums at Harvard have benefited from the friendship of Fred and Virginia Deknatel, said James Cuno, director of the Harvard University Art Museums. With the establishment of this fund in their names, we will be able to honor their friendship and legacy of support for modern art at Harvard in…

Call it a home field – or home river – advantage.

A battle over bilingual education raged Oct. 15 at the Graduate School of Educations (GSE) Askwith Education Forum. California businessman Ron Unz, a champion of abolishing bilingual education, squared off against the GSEs Catherine Snow, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education and an expert on language and literacy development, in a heated discussion that pitted…

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of Wisconsin Medical School have found the docking protein, or receptor, for anthrax toxin. The long-sought protein is thought to be the first point of contact between the toxin and the cell it will eventually destroy.

About 150 people turned out for the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies’ open forum at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum Monday (Oct. 22). The forum, which…

The Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School recently welcomed four fellows to its Freeman Foundation Chinese and Southeast Asian Fellowship and Cultural Exchange Program. The program, now in its fifth year (having resumed after a one-year sabbatical in 1999-00), aims to promote cross-cultural exchange and dialogue in the field of medical anthropology. Of…

It was arts and crafts night with a twist this past Sunday evening (Oct. 21) in the Carpenter Center pit, as glue, tape, twine, shattered pottery, and Yoko Ono all came together to commemorate her latest installation, Mend Piece to the World. The outdoor exercise of mending shattered pottery offered the large crowd an opportunity…

Robots made the surgical team last year, providing remarkably tremor-free and precise hands for surgeons. They also offer the benefit of smaller incisions and shorter recovery times. But these high-tech devices, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved for use in minimally invasive gallbladder and gastroesophageal reflux disease surgery, havent made a surgeons job…

Approximately 200 representatives from offices across the University gathered in the Ropes Gray Room of the Law School on Oct. 24 for a luncheon kicking off the 2001 Community Gifts through Harvard Campaign.

Twenty-five years ago, when research ruled at Harvard, President Derek Bok set out on a seemingly quixotic mission to increase incentives for teaching. His campaign created the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, which marked its 25th anniversary Friday (Oct. 19).

Gardner honored in Italy

The new fall fellows at the Center for Business and Government (CBG) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) include high-level bank and finance officers from Asia, Internet entrepreneurs, leading policy-makers, and top researchers from around the world. The fellows will tackle projects ranging from charting political and economic reform in China to creating an…

In a season marked by near-perfect execution, the most ordinary blunder can seem downright freaky. So when the Harvard football team (5-0, 2-0 Ivy) committed four turnovers (and enough bad snaps to fill a beatnik café) against Ivy rival Princeton (1-4, 1-2 Ivy), it seemed as if Halloween had made an early appearance this past…

Elena Kagan, a former senior White House official, and John Coates, once a high-powered corporate attorney, have been appointed professors of law at the Law School (HLS). Kagan is an expert in administrative law, while Coates is a corporate and financial law specialist.

When eight members of the class of 2004 returned to Harvard this fall, they had to make an adjustment uncommon to other sophomores. During the summer they had become published authors and were soon to become household names among the new freshman class.

Rachel, a young shiatsu practitioner, grips Kathleen Whites left wrist and announces that her pulse is a little slow. I probably need some sleep, White says, and I wont get any till after Halloween.

There’s no place like home ‘Nest!’, a public artwork created by the Reclamation Artists in collaboration with Harvard students, explores the concept of ‘home’ as it relates to the multiple…

Judith Vichniac, the former director of studies for the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and a senior lecturer in Harvard College since 1989, has been appointed the director of the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She began her duties in September.

Chewing has changed the face of humankind.

Jeanne Friedmann Westheimer, former assistant dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), died at Mount Auburn Hospital on Oct. 20. She was 86.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: Oct. 26 Nov. 29 Dec. 13…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 20. The official log is located at HUPD headquarters, 29 Garden St.

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