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The Harvard Gazette

The Harvard Gazette

The Harvard Gazette

The Harvard Gazette

The Harvard Gazette

The Harvard Gazette

The Harvard Gazette

The Harvard Gazette

The Harvard Gazette

If Wendy Tilby’s name is called at Sunday night’s Academy Awards presentation in Los Angeles, a roar of applause may be heard emanating from the Carpenter Center on Quincy Street.…

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Every Tuesday afternoon for the past eight weeks, kids in the Young Scientists’ Club turned the Harvard Museum of Natural History into their own research lab to learn about light.…

The Kennedy School of Government will participate via satellite in the global “Women.Future Conference” to be held on Wednesday, April 5, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The conference will…

Facing a state court deadline last week to respond to the Attorney General’s lawsuit about Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s use of the Harvard name, the University has responded by requesting…

The Harvard Law School Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) is providing free, confidential assistance in preparing state and federal tax returns to low-income, elderly, and handicapped residents of Boston,…

The class started off easily enough. Graduate School of Education Lecturer Meg Campbell said it was to be student-directed, following the principles of experience-based education. She had given the assignment…

The Harvard Outward Bound Project and the Experiential Educators’ Network are planning a conference for those interested in learning more about experiential or experience-based education. The conference, called “The Common…

The hands of time will begin turning again today on Busch Hall. It has been more than four months since the circa 1930 tower clock was disassembled, removed, and then…

Environmental scholars at Harvard will soon have access to the personal papers of Maurice Strong, one of the central figures in international environmental politics for the past 30 years. Strong’s…

It was a crowded room, but the eyes of Ana Tavares and Fidencio Saldana did not meet across it. That is because Saldana is 6-foot-5 and Tavares is about a…

Although the 1999-2000 women’s hockey season came to a disappointing end when the Crimson was not chosen for the AWCHA National Championship Tournament, the year was filled with many high…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 18. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden…

“Witchdoctors and Biotechnology” is the subject of the annual Lowell Lecture, which will be delivered this year by ethnobiologist Mark Plotkin. The talk will take place on Friday, April 7,…

Hauser to speak on his books at M.I.T. Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser will give a talk about his two books, The Design of Animal Communications (M.I.T. Press, 2000)…

Jane Fountain, associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and member of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, has been appointed to a three-year term as a…

Harvard College has selected Sameera Fazili ’00 as the winner of the Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award. Also, Emmy Award-winning senior correspondent for ABC Carole Simpson, has been named the…

For about $20 you can determine your risk of a future heart attack, according to a new study from Harvard Medical School. The test measures levels of a protein that…

Professor Emeritus Bertrand Fox, an economist and investment banking expert who had a lasting impact on Harvard Business School as director of its Division of Research, died on March 14…

At its 11th meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed the annual Affirmative Action Report with Professor Marjorie Garber, Associate Dean for Affirmative Action, and Elizabeth Doherty, Assistant Dean…

George Lauder hits a few keys on his laptop, and a moving image appears on the screen. “That’s the fish’s pectoral fin,” he says, pointing to the grainy, black-and white-picture.…