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Campus & Community
PBHA names nine community service interns
Under the auspices of the Alumni Association of Phillips Brooks House Association, nine students are interning this summer at not-for-profit organizations and one government agency. The host agency is paying each intern’s salary, except for two students who are receiving work study funding.
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Campus & Community
Seven win first Kagan Research Awards
As a 10-year-old child visiting a historical society in Cabot, Vt., Sarah Anne Carter was fascinated by two small dolls dressed in plain black, lying in wooden coffins. Carter has…
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Campus & Community
Housing Innovations grant winners announced
The University has announced this year’s Harvard Housing Innovations Program (HHIP) grant winners. The awards ceremony took place on Friday, June 8, at the Business School. These awards are the…
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Campus & Community
NewsMakers
Institute for Advanced Theatre Training names new director The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) has announced that Hungarian theater and film director János Szász has been appointed director of the A.R.T…
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Campus & Community
Cuno is named president of AAMD
James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums, has been elected president of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD).
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Campus & Community
In Brief
Center for Ethics accepting fellowship applications The Center for Ethics and the Professions is accepting applications for 2002-03 residential faculty fellowships in ethics. Fellows will participate in the center’s weekly…
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Campus & Community
Head of Divinity School Hehir to retire
Harvard University announced yesterday (June 13) that the Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, professor in religion and society and chair of the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Divinity, will resign as head of Harvard Divinity School (HDS) at the end of 2001 to become president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, a network of more…
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Campus & Community
Renowned critic Bénichou, 92, dies
Paul Bénichou, a critic recognized by students of French literature as one of the premier scholars of the 20th century, died in a Paris hospital on Monday, May 14. He…
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Campus & Community
Assault and battery at Academy of Arts and Sciences
On Friday, June 8, at approximately 4:50 a.m., an assault and battery was reported inside the entry gate to the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Bryant and Scott Streets.…
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Campus & Community
Scalise named director of athletics
Former Harvard coach Robert L. Scalise has been named Harvard’s Nichols Family Director of Athletics, announced Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, at a press conference on Monday, July 16.
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Campus & Community
Roads scholar visits most remote spots
One week he dodged grizzly bears another time it was an attack by raccoons on yet another day he found evidence of wild bobcats inside the Chicago city limits. That all happened to Richard Forman as part of a project to visit the most remote areas in the contiguous United States.
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Campus & Community
Overseers names 5; HAA Elected Directors names 6
The President of the Harvard Alumni Association announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers last week. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the Universitys 350th Commencement. The five newly elected Overseers, in order of their finish, are Harold Hongju Koh,…
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Health
Introducing baby to the right bacteria
Developing a symbiotic relationship with the right bacteria is essential for a baby’s health and development. W. Allan Walker, a researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, has…
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Health
Breathing new life into asthma therapy
Asthma attacks have lasting effects because the lungs’ most delicate airways can become scarred. This makes future attacks all the worse. Researchers at Harvard Medical School have looked at what…
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Health
Gene found for rare bone disorder
Cherubism may sound angelic, but it certainly is not. The rare bone disorder afflicts children starting at about age 3 or 4, causing them to develop chubby cheeks and upward-looking…
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Campus & Community
Albright is named Radcliffe Medalist
Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright will receive the Radcliffe Medal from the Radcliffe Association on Friday, June 8, during the associations annual luncheon in Cambridge. The Radcliffe Medal is awarded yearly to an individual whose life and work has had a significant impact on society.
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Campus & Community
Law School alumni to convene in Paris
Hundreds of Harvard Law School alumni will convene in Paris later this month to take part in the schools second Worldwide Alumni Congress – an international gathering of the Law School community featuring both intellectual and social activities.
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Campus & Community
Fond farewells
Staff photos by Jon Chase Following is the text that Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., used to introduce the gift of Nok sculptures to the Rudenstines on May 12: In…
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Campus & Community
Albright is named Radcliffe Medalist
Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright will receive the Radcliffe Medal from the Radcliffe Association on Friday, June 8, during the associations annual luncheon in Cambridge. The Radcliffe Medal is awarded yearly to an individual whose life and work has had a significant impact on society.
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Campus & Community
Twelve students in GSAS receive Fulbrights
Twelve students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) are recipients of Fulbright Grants that will allow them to conduct dissertation or other advanced research abroad next year.…
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Campus & Community
Long, winding road to GSE
For Kathleen Dawson, spending a year at the Harvard Graduate School of Education was as much catharsis as it was education, the final marker of a 26-year journey in search of family, purpose, and excellence.
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Campus & Community
Porcupine lessons
The snow was compact and the toboggan glided to the snowmobile trail head more easily than I had expected. I had a plastic sled with an unwaxed snowboard mounted on the bottom, and over 120 pounds in gear and supplies, enclosed by a brown tarp tied to the device with a thin nylon cord. The…
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Campus & Community
Brenda Taylor runs away with All-America
The accolades keep rolling in for Womens Track and Field Team co-captain and Harvard senior Brenda Taylor.
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Campus & Community
Summer projects in public service
Alexis Craig ’02, of Lowell House, will intern at the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit at the District Attorney’s Office in Austin, Texas. Roopal Patel ’03, of Lowell House, will intern…
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Campus & Community
IOP awards summer internships
The Institute of Politics (IOP) has awarded more than $100,000 to Harvard students for summer internships in the public sector. As part of three separate programs offered by the Institute,…
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Campus & Community
Four GSAS Centennial Medals awarded
Two historians, a composer, and a physicist received Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) medals at a ceremony on Wednesday, June 6, at the Faculty Club. The 2001 Centennial Medalists are Bernard Bailyn Ph.d. 53 Caroline Walker Bynum, 62, Ph.D. 69 Elliott Carter, A.B. 30, A.M. 32 and Walter Kohn, Ph.D. 48.
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Campus & Community
College seniors’ Grad Pledge promises green life
About 60 Harvard College seniors signed a written pledge on Thursday, May 31, to live life as environmentally friendly and as socially conscious as possible.
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Campus & Community
Hoopes Prize winners named
Seventy-three undergraduates have won the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work or research. The $2,500 prize is funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes 19. The Hoopes Prize recipients are as follows:
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Radcliffe awards Fay Prize to senior Andrea Kurtz
Andrea Kurtz, a chemistry concentrator and a resident of Kirkland House who plans to do graduate work in her field this fall at Stanford University, is the winner of this years Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, awarded by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study to a graduating senior.