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Credit Union Receptionist June Dowling Dies
June Dowling, a receptionist at the Harvard University Employees Credit Union since 1989, died on March 6, three months after being diagnosed with cancer. She is survived by her husband,…
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Season Ends, Coach’s Fight for Health Continues
Kathy Delaney-Smith rode her bike to the office the day after the devastating 96-74 loss to Dartmouth ended the Crimson womens basketball season. It had been only days earlier, coming…
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Appiah Named Director of South Africa Fellowship Program
For years, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah has espoused the ideal of bringing a multidisciplinary approach to the study of ethnic history and identification. Since…
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Radcliffe Institute To Host South African Leaders
While South Africans around the world celebrate their countrys Human Rights Day on Tuesday, March 21, Sheila Sisulu, the South African Ambassador to the United States, will be at the…
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Weatherhead Center Announces Faculty Research Program for 2000-01
The Harvard Gazette
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Seamus Heaney To Give Haviaras Lecture April 6
Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet Seamus Heaney will give the inaugural Stratis Haviaras Lecture, titled “Room to Rhyme,” in the Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland St., on Thursday, April 6,…
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Conference on Minorities And Women in Science Set for March 17 and 18
The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations is sponsoring the Seventh Annual Science Conference, titled “Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics” Friday and Saturday, March 17…
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Barlett and Steele Awarded Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to journalists from Time Magazine by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy…
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College Students Binge More Frequently, Survey Finds
College students are drinking more and college administrators are enjoying it less, according to a nationwide study of binge drinking. Approximately one in four (23 percent) of more than 14,000…
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Air Pollution Deadlier Than Previously Thought, SPH Study Finds
According to Joel Schwartz, associate professor of environmental health at the School of Public Health, “Air pollution kills about 70,000 Americans each year. Thats more people than die from breast…
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Practical Physics — David Weitz works with real materials on real problems
When David Weitz says his experiment is ready to fly, he means that literally. Like into space. Weitz has had four experiments aboard space flights, including three on the Mir…
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2000-01 Undergraduate Tuition and Fees Are Set
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles has announced that for the 2000-01 academic year, Harvards package of undergraduate tuition, room and board, and student fees…
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Harvard Wins Ivy Honors for Player of Week and Rookie of Week
Harvard basketball senior captain Damian Long of Spokane, Wash., has been named Ivy League Player of the Week for the period ending March 5, while freshman guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman of…
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Police Log
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 4. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden…
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Dropping Dyslexia’s Baggage
Juliana Paré-Blagoev believes that brain scan studies will not only yield scientific clues for furthering treatment of dyslexia, but also subtle, easily overlooked benefitssuch as a sense of hope, that…
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Bott Wins Israel’s Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics
The Wolf Foundation, an Israel-based organization dedicated to the promotion of science and art, has named Raoul Bott, the William Caspar Graustein Research Professor of Mathematics, winner of the 2000…
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Major Bach Exhibition Mounted by Students at Houghton, Loeb Libraries
The life of Johann Sebastian Bach, from his music to his personal relationships with sons, students, and other contemporaries, is documented with selected original materials in an exhibition called “The…
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Players Make Cancer Battle a Team Effort Student-athletes respond to Delaney-Smith’s openness in her fight with breast cancer
Courtney Egelhoff leaned in close, her face just inches from her coachs blonde, shoulder-length hair. Intent with concentration, Egelhoff combed and snipped. Combed and snipped some more. The scene was…
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Honoring Two Former Cambridge Mayors
President Neil L. Rudenstine hosted a lunch Tuesday, March 7, in honor of recently retired Cambridge mayors Frank Duehay (left) and Sheila Russell. The mayors and other guests were also…
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Ben Shahn’s New York
The moment I stepped into the Ben Shahn exhibition currently at the Sackler Museum, I had the feeling that I was in the presence of something uncannily familiar, a world…
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Four Seniors Are Off to England as Harvard-Cambridge Scholars
Its not often opportunities like this one come knocking on a dormitory room door. So you can just imagine the reaction when 20 members of the Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships selection committee…
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Provost Announces New Round of Grants To Promote Interfaculty Collaboration
Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced a new round of grants under the Provosts Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration. These grants are designed to promote intellectual interchange across Faculties of the…
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Notes
Vacation Houses For Rent Harvards vacation houses on Sutton Island and Kittery Point, Maine, are available for rent to salaried faculty and officers of the University. Applications for weekly rentals…
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Newsmakers
Callbacks Win A Cappella Semifinals The Callbacks, one of Harvards coed undergraduate a cappella singing groups, placed first in the Northeast Regional Final of the National Championship of Collegiate A…
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Of Masks and Mirrors
Erin Curran, 6, a 1st-grader from the Martha Jones School in Westwood, Mass., practices a wrathful roar while looking in a hand mirror after having her face painted inside the…