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When little Dutch master Jan Vermeer painted The Astronomer in the 1660s, Johannes Kepler had already discovered the laws of planetary motion, Galileo had tangled with the church over his heliocentric convictions, and Isaac Newton was crashing at his parents house (to dodge the plague) and formulating the laws of gravitation and motion.

As the search begins for a successor to Robert G. Stone Jr., who earlier announced plans to step down as a Fellow of Harvard College on June 30, 2002, members of the University community are invited to offer nominations and advice regarding the selection of a new member of the Harvard Corporation.

Great blobs of dust may signal the presence of a planet orbiting Vega, the brightest star in the summer sky.

Harvard hockey stars assured of Olympic gold

Swapping New York cool for wide-eyed gushing, Sex and the City star and co-producer Sarah Jessica Parker arrived at Harvard Thursday (Feb. 7) to collect the Hasty Pudding Theatricals annual Woman of the Year award.

On his Feb. 11 visit to Harvard, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán (center) is greeted by President Lawrence H. Summers at Massachusetts Hall. Later, Orbán signed the guest book with University Marshal Rick Hunt (far left) at Wadsworth House and then dined at the Faculty Club.

The Environmental Information Center (EIC) embarks on its seventh year with a new librarian, plans for influential collection expansion, and an intense commitment to interdisciplinary research.

The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, better known as Harvards famed Glass Flowers, is back on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History after a two-month absence while the gallery housing the treasures was remodeled.

The Environmental Information Center, a unit of the Harvard College Library, is mounting a special exhibition in preparation for the upcoming 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development – a United Nations conference called to examine the first 30 years of environmental policy and to chart future strategies. People and the Planet: Forging International Environmental Policy,…

Progress has been made in the worldwide fight against hunger but action is still needed to help the 777 million people who still dont have enough to eat, Catherine Bertini, the executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, said Thursday (Feb. 7).

Third-year Suffolk University Law School student Peter Brown wants to help eradicate employment discrimination. Thanks in large measure to a Jerome Lyle Rappaport Charitable Foundation internship, which brought him this past summer to the Attorney Generals (AG) office in Boston, Brown is well on his way to his dream job with the Equal Employment Opportunity…

Poor Figaro! All he wants to do is marry his beloved Susanna and settle down, but look what he has to put up with – a lusty count with the hots for his wife-to-be, an older woman wholl forgive the money he owes her if hell marry her instead, a goofy young page whos infatuated…

Foster McCrum Palmer, associate University librarian from 1966 until 1974, died on Feb. 2 at his home in Watertown. He was 87 years old. Palmers career in the Harvard libraries began in 1938 under the late Keyes Metcalf. In 1941, Palmer began his long service as senior reference librarian in Widener Library. He is acknowledged…

An asylum full of lunatics and their brutal keepers take over the main stage of the Loeb Drama Center tomorrow night (Feb. 15). Its a theatrical experience that may give you nightmares, but youll also find yourself whistling the catchy tunes.

On Sept. 15, four days after terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh immigrant from India, was shot to death while he worked on landscaping outside his Chevron station in Mesa, Ariz.

No one said Harvard would be easy. Your roommate drives you crazy, you cant master that chemistry assignment, and its been weeks since youve slept through the night. In fact, youre quite certain the admissions office made a grievous error in inviting you here in the first place.

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For more than a dozen years, Judith Gurewich has been guiding Harvard students and faculty through the intricate terrain of structuralism, post-structuralism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and other daunting regions of contemporary thought.

A record 19,520 students have applied for admission to the college this year for entrance to the Class of 2006 next September. For the 11th time in the past 12 years, applications rose. Last year, 19,014 students applied for admission 10 years ago 13,029 applied.

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: March 5 April 10 May 8…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, Feb. 9. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

This evening (Feb. 14) the toughest movie star in America will be roasted at the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Awards. Actor Bruce Willis, who recently garnered critical raves for his work on the film Sixth Sense (and whose new movie, Harts War, will be released tomorrow), will be teased and toasted by his…

Feb. 29, 1672 – President Charles Chauncy dies in office.

Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1991, has announced his plans to end his service as dean and to return to the faculty at the end of this academic year.

Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1991, has announced his plans to end his service as Dean and to return to the Faculty at the end of this academic year.