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Rahim Oberholtzer remembers his shock when Maury Povich’s voice came over his headset telling him he had won more than a million dollars. It was $1.12 million, to be precise.…

The problem defied Einstein, but Harvard physicist Juan Maldacena is using black holes and tiny cosmic strings to help figure out the “Theory of Everything.” A newly minted Harvard physics…

Claudia Huettner can switch off deadly leukemia in mice simply by putting an antibiotic in their drinking water. Her system even causes regression of advanced stages of the cancer. When…

At its ninth meeting of the year the Faculty Council received a report from Nancy Maull, Administrative Dean; David Zewinski, Associate Dean for Physical Resources and Planning; and Vincent Tompkins,…

A alleged campus thief and convicted trespasser was back in Cambridge District Court this week, after attempting to elude Harvard University Police by fleeing cross-country. Andre Stuckey was led off…

While spending a semester away from the daily grind, the Spring 2000 fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center will focus on, among other things, the relevance of character in the…

The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research will hold a memorial service in honor of Professor Benjamin Schwartz on Thursday, Feb. 3 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church in…

The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation’s oldest dramatic organization, announced the recipients of the 2000 “Woman and Man of the Year” awards: Jamie Lee Curtis and Billy Crystal. The 50th…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the HUPD for the week ending Jan. 29. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Jan. 23: A…

Newly found connections between pain and memory are leading to novel ways to control pain. Nerves carry pain signals to the spinal cord and brain where they excite cells involved…

Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Association’s nominations for this year’s election to the University’s Board of Overseers and the HAA Board of Directors. The election this spring will determine…

Harvard Neighbors to review artists’ portfolios The Harvard Neighbors Art Committee will hold its annual review for Harvard-affiliated artists interested in applying to exhibit during the 2000-2001 academic year. Faculty…

Reinhardt Book Links Business and Environment Forest Reinhardt, associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, has linked business success and environmental consciousness in his book Down to Earth:…

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Two professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have received research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Suzanne Blier, professor of the history of art and…

The Fellows for Spring 2000 at the Institute of Politics will discuss their personal perspectives on politics in a panel discussion at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 8, in the…

What would Martha Ballard think of DoHistory.org? Would she be puzzled that so much fuss was being made about a woman from rural Maine who died almost 200 years ago,…

The People’s Lawyer: A to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham” will be held at the Kennedy Library in Boston from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 6. The tribute will…

Richard Heck sits in his office, his lanky frame sprawled on a worn armchair. A half-finished bottle of Coke rests on the seat of a wooden chair beside him. Nothing…

Children dying of cancer experience substantial suffering in the last month of life, according to researchers at two prominent cancer hospitals in Boston. Not all such suffering is necessary, say…

More than 13,000 visits were logged on to a new Website of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention within the first week of its launch in mid-January, making it the…

Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has named this year’s Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The four recipients of this fellowship are: Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer,…

The pictures will be available to the public next year in an exhibit, “Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings,” scheduled for April through July 2001 at the Fogg Art Museum. Eleven of…

The Harvard women’s basketball team has jumped out to a 10—5 record on the season, and as of Feb. 1, sits atop the Ivy League standings with a perfect 3—0…

François Bovon has spent many years peering into the mists that shroud the early history of Christianity. His investigations have shown him something that might surprise nonscholars – that even…