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  • Campus & Community

    Make sure your Diet Coke is the real thing

    On Thursday, Feb. 22, a member of the Harvard community purchased a 20-ounce bottle of Diet Coke that contained a foreign substance that made the person briefly ill. The bottle…

  • Campus & Community

    New director of Carr Center named

    Author Michael Ignatieff, a professor of human rights policy, has been named director of the Carr Center of Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S.…

  • Campus & Community

    Attempted unarmed robbery at Leverett Towers Pathway

    A University graduate student was the victim of an attempted unarmed robbery while talking on his cellular phone on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at approximately 7:59 p.m., on the pathway behind…

  • Campus & Community

    Indecent assault at Lamont Library

    On Friday, Feb. 23, at approximately 3:15 p.m., the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to a report of an indecent assault at the Lamont Library. The victim, not affiliated…

  • Campus & Community

    Divinity School lightens loan load

    A $500,000 donation to Harvard Divinity School has led to the creation of a loan reduction program, an addition eagerly anticipated by students seeking ways to balance the financial conflicts of repaying heavy student loan debt and pursuing careers in typically low-paying public service jobs.

  • Campus & Community

    Cell development is reversed

    If the lizardy newt loses a leg in a battle with a stronger, faster rival, it simply grows a new limb.

  • Science & Tech

    Nine keys to a knowledge infrastructure

    Yesha Y. Sivan, CEO of the K2K Knowledge Infrastructure Laboratory and a visiting scholar at Harvard, has outlined a strategy to allow knowledge-based organizations to plan, implement and evaluate the…

  • Science & Tech

    For billion-dollar deals, risk allocation is key

    Not too long ago, when dot-com fever was at its peak, observers of the business world oohed and aahed over venture capital transactions involving millions of dollars. From researcher Benjamin…

  • Health

    T-cell response to HIV proteins may make them vaccine candidates

    Development of a vaccine against HIV-1 has long focused on the virus’s structural proteins. These molecules are expressed relatively late in the viral life cycle, after HIV-1 has decreased the…

  • Health

    Growth factor seen to reverse loss of muscle from aging, disease

    Previous work by Nadia Rosenthal of Harvard Medical School and her colleagues showed that injection of a virus directing the expression of a molecule known as insulin-like growth factor I…

  • Health

    New vaccines could balance global burden of disease

    The scientific community believes that diseases that have long plagued the world can be controlled by vaccination. But vaccines won’t work unless they reach the people who need them most…

  • Health

    In human genome race, competition spurred better science

    The conflicts between the two teams — one publicly funded, one private — that raced to sequence the human genome often drew more attention than the actual completion of the…

  • Science & Tech

    Radiation limits narrowing of arteries after stent

    The results of a trial directed by the Harvard Clinical Research Institute and the Cardiovascular Data Analysis Center indicate there may be an effective alternative to placement of a stent…

  • Health

    Gene initiates joint formation

    Researchers at Harvard Medical School have identified a molecule that plays a central role in the initiation of joint formation. Studying limb formation in the developing chick, postdoctoral fellow Christine…

  • Health

    How embryonic stem cells become fine-tuned brains

    Research by Michael Greenberg, Harvard Medical School professor of neurology at Children’s Hospital, begins to explain how the embryonic brain’s stem cells decide whether to mature into nerve or glial…

  • Campus & Community

    This month in Harvard history

    February 1952 – President James Bryant Conant and an alumni committee publicize plans for a $5 million campaign to revitalize the Divinity School. The drive seeks to increase endowment sixfold…

  • Campus & Community

    Hopkins hams it up for Hasty

    The stocky, shifty-eyed man wearing a tuxedo and a sly smile claimed it was a case of mistaken identity, but the audience knew better.

  • Campus & Community

    Radcliffe Dean Faust receives Ad Hoc report

    Radcliffe Dean Drew Gilpin Faust has received a report from an Ad Hoc Committee appointed last summer to help her chart a course for Radcliffe during its critical, early years as an institute for advanced study. The report, representing the work of distinguished scholars and academic leaders from outside Harvard, recommends organizational structures and intellectual…

  • Campus & Community

    Crimson pins the title

    The Harvard University wrestling team (9-4) captured its first Ivy League Championship in school history, defeating Brown University (10-9) 30-7 this past Saturday, Feb. 17, at a dual meet held at Boston University. After a 25-11 loss against Penn earlier this month, the Crimson grapplers bounced back with a 37-6 win over Princeton.

  • Campus & Community

    Diverse, dynamic life documented

    The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America have acquired the papers of Shirley Graham Du Bois (1896-1977). An influential artist and activist, Graham Du Bois was the second wife of the renowned African-American intellectual leader W.E.B. Du Bois. The collection…

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Amazing Grace’ author to present Noble Lectures

    Author Kathleen Norris will give the 2000-01 William Belden Noble Lectures on Feb. 26, 27, and 28 at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Church. The lectures are free and open to the public. Norris will also preach on Sunday, Feb. 25 at 11a.m. Her sermon is titled It Is Good for Us To Be Here.

  • Campus & Community

    Lamont Library deploys wireless Ethernet

    With the beginning of Spring term, the Harvard College Library, in collaboration with Harvard Arts and Sciences Computing Services (HASCS), launched wireless Ethernet services in Lamont Library. The introduction of these services at Lamont represents the first deployment that is primarily intended to serve the undergraduate student body.

  • Campus & Community

    Research and study scholarships in China

    Undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty who are U.S. citizens are eligible to apply for research and study scholarships in China for the 2001-02 academic year. Five full scholarships, which include tuition, housing, health insurance, and books, and 10 partial scholarships, covering only tuition, will be offered at one of approximately 80 Chinese universities. The…

  • Campus & Community

    Panel thinks about the unthinkable

    Their faces showed the numbing blows of still-recent loss.

  • Campus & Community

    Level playing field for gays?

    The sports world is an unusual arena where cultural heroes are born, where the bonds between teammates are strongly forged and, often, where gay athletes face their biggest challenge, according to panelists discussing the subject Sunday.

  • Campus & Community

    Eastern Massachusetts to initiate 10-digit dialing

    Four new area codes are being added in eastern Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy has mandated that they be added to existing calling areas. This change requires that all local calls in eastern Massachusetts must be dialed using 10 digits. This change does not apply to the Universitys Centrex numbers.

  • Campus & Community

    IOP names fellows

    New Jerseys Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, Al Gores campaign manager, and the former governor of Puerto Rico are among the distinguished public servants who have been chosen for fellowships at the Institute of Politics (IOP) this spring.

  • Campus & Community

    Bosnian women bond at KSG

    United by their differences, a group of Bosnian women from the torn nations various ethnic groups spent last week at Harvard, talking about their pasts, sharing their visions of the future, and building coalitions to make that future happen.

  • Campus & Community

    Ruggie named Kirkpatrick Professor at KSG

    John G. Ruggie, assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, will join Harvards John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) as the Evron and Jeanne Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced.

  • Campus & Community

    Goldman, Sachs exec joins CBG

    Thomas J. Healey, advisory director at Goldman, Sachs &amp Co., will move from the New York boardroom to a Cambridge classroom as he prepares to share what hes learned with students at the Center for Business and Government (CBG) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG).