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  • Campus & Community

    President holds office hours

    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…

  • Campus & Community

    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 13. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    Oct. 6, 1870 – The Rev. Phillips Brooks lays the cornerstone of Memorial Hall. October 1874 – The Harvard Athletic Association forms, with Benjamin R. Curtis, Class of 1875, as…

  • Campus & Community

    The making of a president

    Harvard University inaugurated Lawrence H. Summers as its 27th president Friday (Oct. 12) in a Tercentenary Theatre ceremony that celebrated the Universitys centuries of tradition and set a tone for the institutions future.

  • Science & Tech

    Drug patents not crucial in AIDS fight, researchers find

    About 25 million people are infected with AIDS in Africa and just 25,000, or one in 1,000, are receiving antiretroviral drug treatment. Patents for anti-AIDS drugs have come under fire…

  • Health

    Cognition unaffected by marijuana use

    Harrison Pope, a Harvard professor of psychiatry, and his colleagues at McLean Hospital, a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric facility in Belmont, Mass., investigated the long-term cognitive effects of smoking marijuana. They recruited…

  • Health

    Cardiovascular risks seen from marathon running

    Researchers analyzed the blood of marathon runners less than 24 hours after they had finished a race. They found abnormally high levels of inflammatory and clotting factors of the kind…

  • Campus & Community

    Study: Intelligence, cognition unaffected by heavy marijuana use

    The new study of cognitive changes caused by heavy marijuana use has found no lasting effects 28 days after quitting.

  • Health

    A strategy to neutralize anthrax toxin in the body

    A Harvard Medical School research team has developed a strategy to neutralize anthrax toxin in the body. So far they have tried the treatment in rats. Normally, rats die within…

  • Health

    Anthrax immunity gene found in mice

    Anthrax is an often fatal disease that is caused by a bacterium. It has been considered a prime biological weapon in the arsenal of terrorists since attacks in the United…

  • Campus & Community

    Greetings from the future

    When senior Paul Gusmorino steps to the podium on Oct. 12 to deliver his inaugural greetings to President Lawrence H. Summers, he will be speaking not only on behalf of Harvard&rsquos undergraduates &mdash he will be speaking on behalf of the future.

  • Campus & Community

    President holds office hours

    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…

  • Campus & Community

    Summers’ Installation 2001

    Lawrence H. Summers was installed as Harvard University’s 27th president on Friday (Oct. 12).

  • Campus & Community

    Eat art!

    Sonja Alh&aumluser loves to cook. She loves the heightened awareness that cooking demands, loves to bring different ingredients together and come up with something new and, if all goes well, delicious.

  • Campus & Community

    Minority candidates sought for CASE Fellowship Program

    The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard&rsquos Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the arrival of the 2001-02 visiting fellows and associates. Each year, the center hosts leading scholars and practitioners in the field of human rights. The Carr Center welcomes 13 extraordinary individuals this academic year.

  • Campus & Community

    Carr Center announces fellows, associates

    The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard&rsquos Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the arrival of the 2001-02 visiting fellows and associates. Each year, the center hosts leading scholars and practitioners in the field of human rights. The Carr Center welcomes 13 extraordinary individuals this academic year.

  • Campus & Community

    The science of bad taste:

    Jack and Rexella Van Impe won a prize for their discovery that black holes in outer space fulfill all the technical requirements to be the location of hell.

  • Campus & Community

    Antique silver shines

    Company&rsquos coming, and Harvard is bringing out the good silver.

  • Campus & Community

    Events for the inaugural weekend

    The following is a partial list of events at Harvard over the inaugural weekend. See Calendar for times, locations, prices, etc.

  • Campus & Community

    Venerable insignia to see light of day at Installation

    Rarely seen Harvard insignia of office will emerge from the vault of University Archives to bear silent witness to tomorrow&rsquos (Oct. 12) installation of President Lawrence H. Summers.

  • Campus & Community

    An ‘imposing, ancient, and curious throne’

    At Cambridge. Is kept in the College there. Seems but little the worse for wear. That’s remarkable when I say It was old in President Holyoke’s day. – Oliver Wendell…

  • Campus & Community

    Notes on the evolution of a ceremony

    Aug. 27, 1640* Civil and religious officials of the Bay Colony invite Henry Dunster to become “President of the Colledge.” He accepts. Harvard gains its first president. No formal installation…

  • Campus & Community

    Student “superchoir” pitches in

    You might call it a &ldquosupergroup.&rdquo

  • Campus & Community

    Bells ring out for Installation

    A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge Friday, Oct. 12.

  • Campus & Community

    Inauguration at a glance

    Today, Oct. 11 7 p.m. “Segue!…” Student performance in Sanders Theatre (invitation only but waiting line for potential available seats). Overflow room for video simulcast in Loker Commons and Science…

  • Campus & Community

    Expert offers Arab point of view

    In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, many Americans are looking for answers. What could have motivated the hijackers to sacrifice their lives to kill thousands of innocent people? What is their hatred based on? Are these the acts of isolated extremists, or do the terrorists represent something larger to which the…

  • Campus & Community

    Lecture, forum shed light on Islam

    Like many Harvard schools and organizations struggling to make sense of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Graduate School of Education shuffled its Askwith Education Forums to include a new forum, &ldquoUnderstanding More About Islam,&rdquo on Wednesday evening, Oct. 3. The panelists at the well-attended forum included an Iowan, an Egyptian, a Christian Arab, and a…

  • Campus & Community

    Omnipresent media hurts, helps children

    Movies, music, television, video games, and the Internet can warp the way children view sex, drugs, their bodies, and themselves, but they can also be a positive tool, educating and inoculating children against evils such as drunk driving and gang violence, according to participants at a Harvard School of Public Health symposium Friday (Oct. 5).

  • Campus & Community

    Gore calls for unity

    A relaxed, bearded Al Gore called for national unity in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist hijackings Thursday, praising the public servants who responded to the crisis and passing up a chance to criticize President George Bush before a packed Kennedy School crowd.