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  • Campus & Community

    Music fellowships, awards announced

    The Department of Music has announced that $120,000 went toward fellowship and award programs for the departments graduate and undergraduate students.

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    Davis Center names awardees for 2002-03

    The Davis Center for Russian Studies has announced the recipients of its fellowship, dissertation, and research travel awards for 2002-03.

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    Celebrating a bridge built to last

    From August through May, the workers in the program get four hours of paid release time each week to learn English, computer skills, or the subjects they need to earn a high school diploma. Held onsite, the classes are staggered to cover work schedules ranging from 9-to-5 to the graveyard shift.

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    351st Commencement

    351st Commencement: Harvard confers 6,409 degrees and 361 certificates

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    The divine secrets of the Jimenez sisterhood

    No one needs to tell the Jimenez family that Harvard is worlds away from their home in Rancho Cascade, Calif.

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    Ben Crockett is off to the show

    Major League Baseballs scouting report for Harvard pitcher Ben Crockett 02 applauds his loose, live, strong arm, comparing his lean frame to legend Orel Hershiser. The report celebrates his downer curve with late bite and his solid fielding skills. It concludes with something of a curveball, at least in the world of bottom-line professional sports,…

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    KSG graduates help Kenyans battle AIDS

    Shanti Nayak and Nazanin Samari-Kermani have made the Kenyan battle against AIDS a personal matter, traveling this semester from Mount Elgon in Kenyas west to the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa in the east to help a leading anti-poverty organization gear up to fight the disease.

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    He wants to be America’s dentist

    When Phillip Woods was in the eighth grade, he announced to his parents, Im going to Harvard. It was a big goal for the son of a Baptist preacher in rural North Carolina.

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    Ngwenyama plays the ‘music of the spheres’

    Now that Nokuthula Ngwenyama is about to receive her masters in theological studies, she feels less sure about her goals than when she started the program.

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    Commencement bells have appeal

    A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today (June 6).

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    GSAS Medalists announced

    A physicist who has helped guide U.S. science policy, a biologist who is Indias foremost conservationist, a psychologist who studies organizational behavior, and an engineer who has made major contributions to the science of aerodynamics received the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal on Wednesday (June 6) at the Harvard Faculty Club.

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    Franken’s counsel: ‘It’s lonely at the bottom’

    Al Franken is the perfect Class Day speaker – just ask him.

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    In brief

    Four faculty receive awards from academy in Berlin

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    Billie Jean King to receive Radcliffe Medal

    Billie Jean King, a leader for social change both on and off the tennis court, will be presented with the 2002 Radcliffe Medal during ceremonies on Friday (June 7) at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

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    Newsmakers

    Four faculty receive awards from academy in Berlin

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    The Big Picture

    Cecil B. DeMille has nothing on Grace Scheibner.

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday (June 1). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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    University’s general counsel to step down

    Anne Taylor intends to step down as the Universitys vice president and general counsel by early fall, she announced Wednesday (June 5).

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    Employment Services Office to host forum

    Employment Services Office, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, is hosting Career Forum 2002 on June 11 at the Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St.

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    Capping off a great year

    Jesse Grunfeld, a Law School graduate, looks like hes about to give his mortarboard a sporty tilt as he gets his ensemble together for the great event. A slightly more solemn Ph.D. mannequin looks on.

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    Memorial service set for Carolyn Andrews

    A memorial service for Carolyn E. Andrews, who served as associate master of Leverett House from 1971 to 1981 with her husband, Kenneth R. Andrews, Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, will be held on Tuesday (June 11) at 2 p.m. in the Memorial Church.The service will be followed by a reception at…

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    Williamson is named Overseers’ president

    Thomas S. Williamson Jr. 68, has been elected president of Harvards Board of Overseers for 2002-03. He will succeed Richard E. Oldenburg 54, after Commencement.

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    Twelve to receive honorary degrees

    Nine men and three women will receive honorary degrees at Harvards 351st Commencement Exercises this morning, including the Hon. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who will speak at the Commencement Afternoon Exercises.

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    In jest and in earnest, President Summers bids graduates ‘Godspeed and veritas’

    At his first-ever Baccalaureate address, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers encouraged the Class of 2002 to develop their unique talents, contribute to their communities, and devote the coming years to nurturing the friendships that will sustain them into the future.

  • Science & Tech

    Kennedy School students help Kenyans battle AIDS

    Two Kennedy School master’s students, Shanti Nayak and Nazanin Samari-Kermani, went to Kenya to help a leading anti-poverty organization investigate how best to fight AIDS. Their research, with ActionAid-Kenya, a United Kingdom-based organization, identified a variety of reforms that should help ActionAid more efficiently battle the disease, which kills 700 people a day in the…

  • Health

    One in five women iron deficient, many children also at risk

    Iron-deficient anemia reduces the oxygen-carrying capacity of red blood cells, thus decreasing energy and endurance. When there is not enough iron, the red blood cells are not able to produce enough hemoglobin (the oxygen-transporting pigments found in red blood cells). Those affected may have pale skin and be excessively tired and ineffective at work or…

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    Class Day Address June 5th, 2002: Al Franken ’73

    I was all set to give a speech today entitled, “American Jihad.” But after receiving several complaints, I’ve decided instead to give a less controversial speech entitled: “The Case for Profiling Young Arab Men.” Before I go any further, I would like to thank the University and President Summers for conferring upon me an honorary…

  • Science & Tech

    Three in five Americans would get vaccinated for smallpox

    Substantial public interest in receiving a smallpox vaccination grows in part from continuing fears about a future bioterrorist attack. Nine months after the September 11th attacks, more than four in 10 (43 percent) of Americans surveyed in the summer of 2002 reported being worried about a future attack using smallpox, down from 53 percent in…

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    South Pole telescope maps heart of Milky Way

    Research results obtained by a team of astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) led by Chris Martin and Antony Stark suggest that we are headed for some celestial fireworks. Sometime in the next 300 million years, the galactic center will experience a dramatic burst of star formation and will shine with the light…

  • Health

    Imaging test may detect gene for genetic cardiac disease

    Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common cause of cardiac death among young people and affects one in every 500 individuals, including professional athletes. It is characterized by an enlargement of the left ventricle, the heart’s main pumping chamber. This enlargement results in a thickening of the walls of the heart, which then prevents the…