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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Newsmakers

    Speizer and Willett win prestigious Mott Prize

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    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.

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    Memorial Minute: Richard Warren, Faculty of Medicine

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Medicine on May 30, 2001, the following Minute was placed upon the records. A remarkably skilled surgeon, inspiring teacher, author of a leading…

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    Harvard Extension School announces winners

    This year, the Harvard University Extension School’s Commencement Speaker award will go to Anthony Lorizio, A.L.B. ’01, whose speech is titled “Old Dogs Can and Do Learn New Tricks.” In…

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    Radcliffe fellows online

    Ten fellows from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study talk on camera about their work and their fellowship year in a new videostream feature launched this week on the Radcliffe…

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    Drawing maps across disciplines

    When Adam Storeygard was a child, he imagined his back yard as a golf course. He drew a map of the recontoured landscape, Magic Marker lines running crazily, boldly, about the paper. On family vacations, he pored over road maps, directing his parents from the backseat of the car. When he was a teenager, he…

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    All the world’s her stage

    Sitting on stage in the altogether and having your body painted blue in a performance piece called Untitled – now thats a college memory!

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    Josephine Noble’s story

    This is Josephine Nobles story.

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    Making a system that works, work better

    The story of J. Justin Pasquariellos childhood is more tabloid than fairy tale. His father died when he was an infant. His mother struggled with bipolar disorder. At best, raising Justin was a challenge for her at worst, she endured lengthy periods of hospitalization. Justin bounced from his mothers care in the Boston area to…

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    Mother’s dream becomes reality

    Its been 16 years since the first of Ray and Rose Chavezs five children graduated from Harvard. This years Commencement will mark the culmination of a dream when Elena, the fifth and last from a family that scrimped and saved their way to five Harvard educations, receives her diploma.

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    Raised to be a fighter

    You cant get too bogged down in some of the awful, awful atrocities that happen, says human-rights activist Josh Bloom, 25. You cant try to understand torture and genocide. But there are people who are dealing with that every day.

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    Tales behind tolling of bells

    A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today.

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    Making of a president begins early

    When Jay Munir became president of the Law School Council (LSC) last March, no one could say he lacked experience. The 24-year-olds political career first got off the ground when he was elected president of the student government – in the fifth grade. Oh, and at Forest Hills Central High School in Grand Rapids, Mich.,…

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    They’ve got personality … times ten

    Certainly, Commencement marks the pinnacle of an undergraduates academic career. For many graduating seniors, however, friendships forged at Harvard are every bit as life-shaping as their academic achievements. To celebrate friendship, the Gazette introduces 10 senior men who share a suite in Dunster House.

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    I’ll take that to go

    Food facts Prepared for Commencement 2001: More than 26,000 chicken breasts  2,950 pounds of pasta salad  2,650 pounds of rice salad  More than 320 sheet pans of brownies baked in…

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    Rocker Bono to grads: Rebel against indifference

    Third World countries are drowning in debt, and its up to the wealthy countries to save them, said rock superstar Bono, highlighting an afternoon of reflection, thank-yous, and goodbyes for members of the Harvard College Class of 2001 during Class Day ceremonies in Tercentenary Theatre.

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    Design School awards Fisher Prize to two

    The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science (GIS) has announced that Scott Bassett of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) and Irina Harris of the…

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    Directory Project selects artwork

    The Harvard Directory Project has announced Hannah Sarvasy ’03 as the winner of the 2001-02 student directory cover art competition. Sarvasy’s painting, “Weld Boathouse and the Charles,” will appear on…

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    What was your first job after graduating from Harvard?

    John Lithgow ’67 “After Harvard, I spent two years on a Fulbright, studying acting in England. And after that, I spent a year working for my father, acting at Princeton’s…