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Theo Panayotou, an environmental adviser to the Smithsonian, World Bank, and the United Nations Development Program, has been named the first John Sawhill Lecturer in Environmental Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced earlier this month.

The Harvard University Choir will perform the 91st annual Carol Services on Sunday, Dec. 17, at 5 p.m. and Monday, Dec. 18, at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Church, Harvard Yard.

Two new postdoctoral fellowships have been created at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. The Cabot postdoctoral fellowships, made possible by the Cabot family, are designed to support strong scholars with a distinguished record of teaching, and to promote innovations in undergraduate teaching at Harvard. The Cabot fellows for 2000-01 are No&eumll Bisson…

University-based research – responsible for the Internet, organ transplants, and the vaccine that changed polio from a scourge into an afterthought – is regaining favor in Washington, D.C., and winning federal budget increases after a decade of slow- or no-growth funding.

Derek Bok, president of the University from 1971 through 1991, and William G. Bowen, president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, have won the 2001 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education for their book The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions.

Even as federal spending rises for basic university research, the hospitals where Americas future doctors are trained are hoping to see federal reimbursements frozen for the second year in a row.

Roll call at the Harvard University Police Department will be a little different today (Dec. 14). At the beginning of each shift – there are three of them – after the shift supervisors call the roll, they will address the problem of hate crimes, a growing threat to every community in the country. The department…

With much of the nations attention still focused on the mysteries of the dimpled chad and the passionate dispute over butterfly ballots in Florida, five players in the U.S. election process presented their ideas for fixing the troubled system during a panel discussion Tuesday night at the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs at the Kennedy…

With talk of research budgets doubling, and the country in the midst of a revolution in technology, science, and health care, the future seems bright for scientific research.

Chance played a hand in getting Gisela Striker where she is today – a professor of philosophy and of the classics at Harvard.

Dunlop receives Gold Medal Award The National Policy Association (NPA), a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that focuses on major economic and social problems facing the United States, presented John T. Dunlop,…

The theory, with its mathematical description of knots and their permutations, is an unlikely tool for todays advanced geneticists. It was actually invented a century ago to help describe what was then thought of as the cosmic ether that surrounded all things.

While the University will not be officially closed during the holidays, administrative, professional, non-bargaining unit support staff, and Harvard Union of Clerical Technical Workers staff will have an extended holiday period in 2000. Normally, staff receives 1.5 days of holiday time off for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and one day of holiday time off…

Tamara Elliott Rogers 74, who has been Harvards Associate Director of University Development and Director of University Capital Projects, has been named Associate Dean for Advancement and Planning at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Rogers will assume her newly created position at Radcliffe on Jan. 8.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) through Dec. 9.

Next set of Community Gift winners are announced The winners of the Dec. 7 drawing for solicitors of the Community Gift Through Harvard Campaign are: 1. $50 gift certificate to…

An informal talk featuring speaker Gail C. Christopher (near right), executive director for Innovations in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, was hosted by the Harvard Office of Community Affairs on Dec. 12 at the Faculty Club. Leaders from Cambridge community-based organizations were on hand. After the talk, Macy DeLong (far right), executive…

Fiscal 2000 was a year of milestones for Harvard University, including its merger with Radcliffe College, the end of the six-year Capital Campaign, and the Endowments remarkable 32.2 percent return, which boosted its value to $19.2 billion.

Having spent months traversing the campaign trail explaining to voters why they should go to Washington, 18 newly elected members of Congress visited the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) in mid-December to bone up on the challenges they’ll face once they get there.

Successes so far with the much-ballyhooed, tumor-choking drug Endostatin are leading researchers to believe they can keep cancer patients alive for many more years with the help of nontoxic drugs that dont have the debilitating effects of large doses of chemotherapy and radiation. The hope is that such drugs will play a key part in…

It was, some said, miraculous. In 1839 a photographic process developed by Louis Jacques Mand&eacute Daguerre was unveiled in Paris. Within weeks, the world was buzzing about the astonishing accomplishment. At Harvard, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. suggested that Daguerre had help from high places: It will be recognized that a new epoch in the history…

Kerry Kennedy Cuomo visited Harvard on Monday, Dec. 4, to receive the Harvard Foundation Award for her outstanding contributions to human rights and intercultural relations.

Stanford University and Harvard Business School (HBS) have announced their intention to jointly explore a project to develop and deliver online executive and management training.

Although early foul trouble continues to be something of a problem for the Crimson mens basketball team – it can also prove troublesome for opponents.

James L. Kugel, Harry Starr Professor of Classical, Modern Jewish, and Hebrew Literature at Harvard University and a member of the Faculty of Divinity, has won the 2001 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book The Bible as It Was. The award, a $200,000 prize presented by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of…

Award given to KSG Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. received the “Eagle on the World” award from the Japanese Chamber of Congress and…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) through Dec. 1.

Community Gift winners The winners of the Nov. 30 drawing for solicitors of the Community Gift Through Harvard Campaign are: 1. $50 gift certificate to Harvard Collections store: Patricia Loric,…