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A young woman stands at a crossroads in her life, unsure of which path to take. Should she fulfill her fathers dream and become an architect, or should she follow her heart and try to make it as a professional dancer?

Like many Bostonians, Diane Decker once viewed the areas myriad fundraising walks as little more than a disruption of traffic. Decker, undergraduate coordinator at Harvards Dudley House, certainly hadnt participated in any.

A pygmy hippo has died at the Franklin Park Zoo and Judy Chupasko is troubled. Not because of its death: all indications are that the 33-year-old male died of natural causes.

A pygmy hippo has died at the Franklin Park Zoo and Judy Chupasko is troubled. Not because of its death: all indications are that the 33-year-old male died of natural causes.

Three alumni have been named recipients of the 2001 Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Alumni Achievement Award. The winners – Douglas Bereuter, Anne Reed, and Barbara Roberts – were honored at a dinner at KSG on Friday, Oct. 26.

Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons presented an annual award for outstanding longtime service to seven alumni/ae at the Faculty Club last Friday (Oct. 26). This years recipients are James Bernstein and Barbara Bernstein 49 and 53, Rockville Center, N.Y., 70 years of service, total Gertrude B. Brekus 50, Palm Beach, Fla.,…

A panel of luminous talents will gather at Sanders Theatre to talk about the effect of Sept. 11 on the arts and the creative process. The world-altering day and its consequences will be the subject of the panel discussion Sprung From Ruins. The panel will take place on Friday, Nov. 9, at 3 p.m. and…

Four distinguished scholars gathered at the Center for European Studies Oct. 29 to pay 90th-birthday respects to their former professor, Samuel Beer, the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Emeritus.

Democratic Republic of Congos President Joseph Kabila outlined his vision for bringing prosperity and democracy to his war-torn country at the ARCO Forum Monday night. The 29-year-old president – who took office just nine months ago, after the assassination of his father and the countrys president Laurent Kabila – said rebel forces are keeping the…

Claudia Carroll describes her life as a peasant cart, cobbled together from odds and ends, with rickety wheels about to fall off.

After two years of excavating, pounding, drilling, and building, the east light court of Widener Library has been transformed into a luminous new reading room. Made possible through the generosity of Charles G. Phillips 70 and his wife Candace, the Phillips Reading Room is a controlled room for the use of noncirculating materials that are…

Sixteen new fellows have joined the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard this fall for one or two semesters of the 2001-02 academic year. Founded in 1975, the institute is the oldest research center of its kind, and has supported the scholarly work of nearly 300 alumni.

In todays workplace, where Wall Street rules, the World Wide Web sets the speed limit, and change is status quo, doing work that is both professionally excellent and ethically responsible is harder than ever. Yet some professionals manage, even amidst this turbulence, to do good work. Others fail. Why? What conditions need to exist for…

Howell Jackson has been named associate dean for research at the Law School (HLS). In this position, Jackson will oversee, coordinate, and promote the Law Schools extensive research activities, including research by members of the faculty and the work of HLSs 17 research centers, programs, and projects.

As policymakers scratch their heads over what to do about increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, Harvard atmospheric chemistry researchers are pioneering new ways to measure these levels. Were chasing air masses, says Christoph Gerbig, a research associate working with Steven Wofsy, Abbot Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science. Wofsy, Gerbig,…

It is the nations public health system, not the military, that is squarely in the path of terrorist attacks using biological weapons, and it is the public health system that should be strengthened to deal with future assaults, according to experts gathered at the School of Public Health last week (Oct. 25-26).

A group of summer interns are showing the way to a more environmentally friendly Harvard, featuring cars that run on soybeans, efficient buildings, and organically nurtured lawns.

Extending its unbeaten streak to six games in astonishing fashion this past Saturday at Harvard Stadium, the Crimson football team (6-0, 4-0 Ivy) rallied from a 21-point halftime deficit to defeat Dartmouth (1-5, 1-3 Ivy) 31-21. A season-record crowd of 12,000 witnessed what proved to be the largest come-from-behind victory in the programs 128-year history.

The Harvard field hockey team (8-6, 3-2 Ivy) dropped its second consecutive match against an Ivy opponent this past Friday (Oct. 26), falling 4-2 at home against Dartmouth, but bounced back in a 1-0 win over cross-town rival Boston University – the teams first against the Terriers in 10 years – on Sunday (Oct. 28).…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 27. The official log is located at HUPD headquarters, 29 Garden St.

HMS creates bio-threat Web site

In honor of the holiday, the Harvard Lampoon building is trying to look scary but only succeeds at looking a bit winsome. Neither Christopher Angelakis nor Helen Shapiro, lunching on the steps, seems the least bit intimidated.

Nov. 6, 1770 – Rumblings of Revolution: Joseph Avery, Class of 1771, orates on Oppression and Tyranny before the Speaking Club.

Helga Boedtker Doty, a molecular biologist at Harvard University, died on Oct. 23 following a stroke. She was 77.

Penetration is never easy for a sperm. Getting to an egg has been compared to a salmon swimming upstream to spawn. Both have to lash their tails vigorously to reach…

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 Monday, Oct. 29.