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Twenty-five years ago, when research ruled at Harvard, President Derek Bok set out on a seemingly quixotic mission to increase incentives for teaching. His campaign created the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, which marked its 25th anniversary Friday (Oct. 19).

Gardner honored in Italy

The new fall fellows at the Center for Business and Government (CBG) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) include high-level bank and finance officers from Asia, Internet entrepreneurs, leading policy-makers, and top researchers from around the world. The fellows will tackle projects ranging from charting political and economic reform in China to creating an…

In a season marked by near-perfect execution, the most ordinary blunder can seem downright freaky. So when the Harvard football team (5-0, 2-0 Ivy) committed four turnovers (and enough bad snaps to fill a beatnik café) against Ivy rival Princeton (1-4, 1-2 Ivy), it seemed as if Halloween had made an early appearance this past…

Elena Kagan, a former senior White House official, and John Coates, once a high-powered corporate attorney, have been appointed professors of law at the Law School (HLS). Kagan is an expert in administrative law, while Coates is a corporate and financial law specialist.

When eight members of the class of 2004 returned to Harvard this fall, they had to make an adjustment uncommon to other sophomores. During the summer they had become published authors and were soon to become household names among the new freshman class.

Rachel, a young shiatsu practitioner, grips Kathleen Whites left wrist and announces that her pulse is a little slow. I probably need some sleep, White says, and I wont get any till after Halloween.

There’s no place like home ‘Nest!’, a public artwork created by the Reclamation Artists in collaboration with Harvard students, explores the concept of ‘home’ as it relates to the multiple…

Judith Vichniac, the former director of studies for the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and a senior lecturer in Harvard College since 1989, has been appointed the director of the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She began her duties in September.

Chewing has changed the face of humankind.

Jeanne Friedmann Westheimer, former assistant dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), died at Mount Auburn Hospital on Oct. 20. She was 86.

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…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 20. The official log is located at HUPD headquarters, 29 Garden St.

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Despite reports of suspicious packages and materials at Harvard, no materials to date have been received that have been hazardous to the communitys health and safety.

Oct. 5, 1740 – Fresh from haranguing 15,000 on Boston Common, the dynamic revivalist George Whitefield breezes in to preach at the Cambridge meetinghouse, inspiring division within families and churches, and much soul-searching among College youth. President Edward Holyoke entertains him, but Whitefield has harsh words for a Harvard in which tutors neglect to pray…

At its third meeting of the year, the Faculty Council met with deans Susan Pedersen (history and undergraduate education), Jeffrey Wolcowitz (economics and undergraduate education), and Deborah Foster (folklore and mythology and undergraduate education), and with Professor William Fash (anthropology), chair of the facultys Standing Committee on Out-of-Residence Study, to discuss the study abroad program…

Symphony of Sound The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra rehearses for its first concert for the academic year, Saturday, Oct. 27 at 8 p.m., in Sanders Theatre. The evening will begin with the…

Lene Hau, the woman who stopped light completely, then released it at will, has won a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship. She and 22 other winners will receive $100,000 a year for the next five years to spend as they wish. No accounting of how the money is spent is required by the giver of the awards,…

Niall Kirkwood’s Scottish accent may be tricky to detect and trickier still to identify, but despite the years he has spent in this country – years that have softened his…

What distinguishes Superman from Man and Superman, Rock Around the Clock from Rachmaninoff, Jurassic Park from Mansfield Park?

An increasingly competitive and deregulated market economy has dramatically changed the medical and legal professions, a panel of five experts agreed last Friday during one of six symposia held to commemorate the inauguration of new Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers.

The rich around the world are getting richer, but the poor arent necessarily getting poorer, as globalization-spurred trade boosts their nations economies, a panel of international development experts said Friday (Oct. 12).

At an Oct. 12 symposium honoring the inauguration of Lawrence H. Summers as Harvards 27th president, five of Harvards top scientists described their cutting-edge research and sought to envision the ways that that research might affect our future.

Recently, a group of about 35 Harvard Neighbors ventured outside of Cambridge for the fragrant and only slightly demanding New England tradition of apple picking at the Honey Pot Orchards in Stow.

Students as consumers, great researchers as inspiring teachers, and technology as anything but a magic bullet were some of the ideas discussed and argued Friday morning (Oct. 12) at The Company of Educated Men and Women: Challenges for the 21st-Century Undergraduate Experience, one of six faculty symposia held as part of the Inauguration of President…

Have you ever purchased a lottery ticket thinking, Maybe this time the big winner will be me? Do you play the same lottery numbers every week because you believe that as soon as you change them, they are sure to be the winners? Emily Oster 02, became intrigued by these questions in her class on…

Harvard University Office of the President Massachusetts Hall October 16, 2001 Dear Faculty, Students, and Staff, Our community has shown remarkable strength, resilience, and compassion during these past few difficult…

Koehler receives Switzer Award Business environmental management expert Dinah Koehler, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Public Health (SPH), has been awarded a Switzer Environmental Fellowship from the Robert…