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Tompkins to lead NIGMS grant project The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has selected Ronald Tompkins, chief of trauma and burn services at Massachusetts General Hospital, to lead…

It seems strange that a person who makes her living asking probing, often intimate questions of complete strangers and having those conversations broadcast daily to a nationwide radio audience should confess to being shy, but that is exactly how Terry Gross, host of National Public Radio&rsquos &ldquoFresh Air,&rdquo describes herself.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 6. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29…

A.R.T. costume sale The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) costume shop will hold a giant sale on Saturday, Oct. 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Loeb Drama Center,…

Oct. 7, 1783 – With high ceremony, Harvard Medical School officially opens as the “Medical Institution of Harvard University.” Its first home is the ever-versatile Holden Chapel.  Oct. 23, 1832…

Final details were being set into place this week &mdash along with thousands of chairs in Harvard&rsquos Tercentenary Theatre &mdash in preparation for installing Lawrence H. Summers as Harvard University&rsquos 27th president on Friday (Oct. 12).

A novel use has been found for black silicon, an exotic material discovered accidentally in a Harvard research lab three years ago.

As with other musical offerings celebrating the beginning of a new administration, a peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge in joyous thanksgiving for the Installation of Lawrence H. Summers…

In a ceremony marked by emotion and remembrance, J. Dirk Iglehart, M.D., was installed as the first incumbent of the Anne E. Dyson Chair in Women’s Cancers at the Dana-Farber…

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…

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The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA) is offering an open house for undergraduates to meet with fellows, faculty, visiting scholars, associates, graduate students, and staff of the center today…

At the Sackler Museum on Tuesday, Oct. 2, essayist and novelist Paul Auster introduced ‘I Thought My Father Was God,’ a collection of 180 personal, true-life accounts submitted to the…

Medical School (HMS) researchers have identified a mouse gene that, in certain forms, renders mice resistant to anthrax – an often fatal disease that is caused by a bacterium thought…

The Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University has selected five leading scholars for its postdoctoral program in 2001-02. The postdoctoral residence in Cambridge will give the young scholars…

Eight doctoral candidates of exceptional promise have joined the Society of Fellows as Junior Fellows. The society gives scholars at early stages of their careers an opportunity to pursue their…

Mariana Tres, an artist from Portland, Ore., whose work has been inspired by an array of astronomical imagery and phenomena, has been invited to be the Center for Astrophysics’ (CfA’s)…

There’s gold in them thar hills, and Emilie Norris is the prospector. OK, not really gold. Norris is mining for art, sculpture, and historical artifacts buried in offices and houses…

In the 19th century when education was dominated by the twin poles of Classical literature and Christianity, comparing Jesus and Socrates was a favorite essay topic for getting students to…

Today’s new teachers are as likely to be 40-year-old former lawyers or scientists with a five-week certification course behind them as they are to be 20-somethings fresh from teacher education…

Harvard to receive HP, Intel grant In a joint effort by Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Intel Corp., 40 universities worldwide, including Harvard, will receive servers and workstations as part of…

Birthday party At the 25th anniversary celebration for the Henry A. Murray Research Center on Friday, Sept. 28, keynote speaker Jacquelynne Eccles (left), a professor of psychology at the University…

The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the second grant cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With support from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, a…

When you hear the word “surgeon,” the next word you think of isn’t likely to be “humble.” Surgeons literally hold other people’s lives in their hands. That makes them the…

Marshall Carter, a senior fellow and adjunct lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Center for Business and Government, has been asked to chair a state commission prompted…

Harvard University has pledged $1 million and joined with the American Council on Education to raise scholarship funds, on behalf of higher education, for the children and spouses of the…

Cherrapunji, an otherwise unremarkable town in “the abode of the clouds” – the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya, nestled midway between the Bay of Bengal and the Himalayas – was…

Students at Harvard drink more, smoke less, and have less sex than students at other colleges, according to the first nationwide survey of college lifestyles and health behaviors. Harvardians also…