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Leverett A. Martel, who worked for 20 years in the purchasing department at the University, died on Friday, March 9, in Rockport, Mass. He was 82. Martel was employed at…

President holds office hours President Neil L. Rudenstine will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on April 4. Provost Harvey V.…

Harvey V. Fineberg has announced his intention to conclude his service as the Universitys provost, effective June 30.

Rather than cut open a persons chest or abdomen, doctors can now insert a slender needle through the skin and destroy a tumor with heat, cold, or alcohol.

Writer, scholar, and critic George Steiner has been named the 2001-02 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard. He will deliver the Norton Lectures at the University next fall and plans to examine the act of teaching, from the Platonic Socrates to Wittgenstein and Ionesco. Currently an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College at the…

Hundreds of libraries in communities across Sub-Saharan Africa will receive donated copies of “Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience.” The comprehensive encyclopedia on black history and culture…

Giving kids something constructive to do between the time school lets out and the time their parents come home is the aim of a new $23 million partnership involving Harvard, the city of Boston, and nine other nonprofit and for-profit institutions.

An assistant professor was the victim of an armed robbery on Oxford Street near Garfield Street this past Thursday (March 8) at 10:30 p.m. The suspect, described below, approached the…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending March 10. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

March 1, 1944 – The Harvard Police begin wearing visored caps and dark blue uniforms like those of regular Cambridge and Boston policemen. Standard apparel had been plain clothes since…

Harvard Presidents Throughout History

Dame Edna Everage, the mauve-haired, gladiola-flinging megastar currently holding court at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, has become a celebrity of such magnitude that many assume her to be a sort of eternal presence, like the constellations.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and former Harvard economics professor Lawrence H. Summers was appointed Harvards 27th president on Sunday, setting the stage for him to succeed outgoing President Neil L. Rudenstine and usher in a new era for Americas oldest university.

Through his years of graduate study and nearly a decade as a Harvard economics professor, Lawrence H. Summers never thought about someday taking the reins of the University.

One cant help but be overwhelmed by a sense of tradition when viewing the fencing facilities of Harvard University. Antique masks and weapons adorn the walls, the parquet floors speak of countless bouts, while students practice beneath the gaze of Harvard Fencings past generations casting their appreciative or critical gaze from portraits and pictures lining…

The Harvard mens hockey team unleashed some serious offensive might against rival Yale this past Friday and Saturday (March 10 and 11) – exploding for 12 goals in two victories – defeating the Bulldogs 5-4 and 7-4 in the best-of-three first-round ECAC Quarterfinals. With the wins, the Crimson advances to the 40th annual ECAC Semifinals…

After waiting his turn to take part in a question-and-answer session during the Islam in America conference at Harvard last weekend, a young man approached the microphone, introduced himself, and said, Im a Muslim, and therefore, by definition, Im a feminist.

What comes to mind when you hear the words Latin American art?

Theater, dance, music, and film will converge at the University this weekend for the Fourth Annual Harvard Black Arts Festival. The three-day event kicks off tomorrow (Friday, March 16), at 4 p.m., at the ARCO Forum, Kennedy School of Government, with a panel discussion featuring Tony-nominated actor Obba Babatunde and Urbanworld Entertainment CEO Stacey Spikes.…

An Indian agricultural expert has called for an Evergreen Revolution in growing food crops that would combine science, economics, and sociology to boost production in a way that can be maintained for decades to come.

Until a few days ago, yellow caution tape, the kind that might delineate a crime scene in a John Grisham novel – or perhaps an unavoidable Cambridge road project – was strung throughout the lobby of Gund Hall at the Harvard Design School. Metal rods hung low from the ceilings, and students scuffled around the…

Theres a movie star in our midst. Her day job happens at a small desk inside the Harvard University Employment Office, but Ashley Wolfe is also a bona fide movie star.

William H. Sweet, professor of surgery emeritus, Harvard Medical School, and former chief of the neurosurgical service, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), died of complications of Parkinsons disease on Jan. 22 at his home in Brookline, Mass. He was 90.

Peter Sellars ’80 – director of theater, opera, and film, and professor of world arts and cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles – is returning to his alma…