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Just 14 seconds into the first power-play situation in the first period of the first round of Mondays Beanpot Tournament, Northeasterns Mike Ryan slapped a shot past Harvard goalie Dov Grumet-Morris 05. It wouldnt be his last. The Huskie forward went on to earn a hat trick in the 50th playing of college hockeys most…

It may be the oldest of the arts. No materials required, only the body. Oh, yes, and something to get it moving – a song, a rhythm, the sound of wind in the trees or water over rocks, a feeling of joy, fear, sadness, anger, triumph, love, tenderness, desire, or the excitement of being alive.…

Nicholas Watson loves a challenge. As long as it doesnt involve a classroom of 15-year-olds.

About 80 mid-career students from the Kennedy School of Government toured

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: Feb. 8 March 5 April 10…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, Feb. 2. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

Papers for German conference sought The Eastern German Studies Association (EGSA) – an international network of scholars with research interests in the former German Democratic Republic and the new, eastern…

Feb. 10, 1853 – Jared Sparks steps down as President James Walker, Class of 1814, immediately succeeds him to become Harvards 18th President. Harvard historian Samuel Eliot Morison describes Walker as stone deaf. Ironically, in the fall of 1856, music becomes the only new subject added to the curriculum during his presidency.

At the ninth Faculty Council meeting of the year, Dean of Harvard College Harry Lewis (Computer Science) presented his 2000-2001 Report on Harvard College for discussion by the Council. Lewis also proposed a change in the Facultys definition of rape, to bring it into accord with Massachusetts law.

Emaciated, bearded men stare with hollow eyes through the prison bars. Wrapped in blankets against the winter cold, they look, to a doctors trained eye, like men whose bodies are steadily weakening under the onslaught of cold and hunger, dysentery, and hepatitis.

In Catherine Dulacs laboratory, male mice are acting strangely. They do not attack other males that invade their territory. They will even try to mate with the invaders.

GSD technical services staff joined 1.25 million other New England fans to celebrate the Patriots Superbowl win at a parade in downtown Boston. Standing on Tremont Street are (from left) Alix Rieskind, assistant head, visual resources Dave Ware, bindery assistant Janet Rutan, department head and Maria Tina da Rosa, serials assistant.

School of Public Health professor visits Taliban prisoners

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Teachers learn to survive, prevail

Stephen Walt is named academic dean at KSG

Exposure to students of several racial, ethnic, and economic groups is preparing Cambridge Rindge and Latin students well to face an increasingly diverse working world, according to a new Harvard…

Shortly after the Hasty Pudding Club announced its Woman of the Year (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Man of the Year (Bruce Willis) on Monday (Jan. 28), students around campus shared their opinions of the picks with the Gazette.

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nations oldest dramatic organization, announced the recipients of the 2002 Woman and Man of the Year awards: Sarah Jessica Parker and Bruce Willis.

Researchers, one of them an undergraduate, have used economic analysis to analyse and predict participation and medal outcomes for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

A distinctive signature of genes turned on and off greatly improves predictions of who has the best chance of survival of the most common type of childhood malignant brain tumor, according to a new study by researchers at Childrens Hospital in Boston and their colleagues. If verified by other studies over the next several years,…

Scientists have found pain in the same brain circuits that give you pleasure. That wont make you cry until you laugh, but its likely to lead to better ways to measure and treat chronic pain.

Statement Regarding University Employment and Contracting Policies

Like many first-year students, David Solá-Del Valle 04 came to Harvard with a number of goals. High on Solá-Del Valles to do list, however, was an item other freshmen might find a little daunting: landing a spot in a biology research lab.

A former New York Times columnist, an Israeli communication and government scholar, and a former Boston Globe editor will be among six visiting faculty and fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government this semester.

For a sighted person, blindness is a frightening prospect. Finding ones way, avoiding danger, interacting with strangers – without vision such tasks seem challenging to the point of insuperability.