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A virus that had never been seen in the Western Hemisphere until it killed seven people last fall in New York has re-emerged, and researchers from the School of Public Health (SPH) are working with Massachusetts officials to guard against an outbreak here. Last August, birds began dying in New York City, and tests identified…

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They are bright and beautiful, aromatic, and full of life. For five weeks every spring, colorful lilacs dominate New England gardens, with a span of hues ranging from rich reds to deep blues to festive pinks to majestic whites. Perhaps the most impressive display around can be found at the Arnold Arboretum, where more than…

Ira A. Jackson ’70, former executive vice president of BankBoston Corporation, has been named director of the Center for Business an Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph S. Nye announced on Monday, May 8. “It is a pleasure to welcome Ira Jackson back to the Kennedy School where he began his illustrious…

Hey, Mister Cabdriver Said, where the hell are you taking me? I know this ain’t the way back to my home Cuz I sleep alone And I know I always leave my light on Just to show my way back home When they started jammin’ together two years ago, Al Bennett, a Harvard senior concentrating…

Diana I. Williams ’95, a doctoral candidate in the history of American civilization; Daniel S. Adler, a doctoral candidate in anthropology; and Jason Vigna, Harvard Law School Class of 2000 have been awarded the Philip Hofer Prize in Collecting by the Harvard University Art Museums. Williams won first prize for a collection of books on…

Helping kids get fit for life is the goal of FitNut, a fitness and nutrition program run by Harvard students as part of Project HEALTH, a specal project of the Institute of Politics, Boston Medical Center, and BankBoston. Nine boys and nine girls are involved in FitNut, which is divided into a girls¹ program and…

At its 15th meeting of the year the Faculty Council received the annual report of the Coordinating Committee on Sexual Harassment. Representing the Committee, Deans Garth McCavana (Student Affairs in GSAS), chair, and Elizabeth Doherty (Academic Planning in FAS) were present for this discussion. The Council also discussed the distribution of death notices with Professor…

Being an athlete in college can win women a competitive edge against breast cancer, according to a new Harvard study. A 15-year follow-up of 3,940 female athletes and nonathletes revealed that the less active women had significantly more breast cancer than the more active women. Most of those in the study were graduates of Radcliffe…

Olivia walked in the room, one hand clutching three beer bottles by the neck. She handed the bottles to friends sitting around a cluttered coffee table and settled on the arm of the couch, joining the conversation expertly, as if she’d heard it all before. She had. Several times before, actually. Olivia and her pals…

Only 14 percent of patients treated for three common mental illnesses – depression, generalized anxiety disorder, and panic disorder – received care that met with accepted standards, according to a new Harvard Medical School study titled “Recent Care of Common Mental Disorders in the United States” published in this week’s Journal of General Internal Medicine.…

A memorial service to celebrate the life of Irvin H. Blank will be held on Friday, May 19, at 5 p.m. in the Wellman 1 Conference Room, Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston. Blank, a former research fellow at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and physician on the Dermatology Service at MGH, died in…

Artists and performers in the Harvard community ushered in spring last week with the annual four-day arts extravaganza, Arts First 2000. Audiences had a wide variety of performances and exhibits to enjoy, and were led in the festivities by actor John Lithgow ’67 and comedian Al Franken ’73. Students and faculty staged dozens of plays,…

According to researchers at the School of Public Health (SPH), air pollution from two Massachusetts coal-fired power plants contributes to particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and ozone exposure over a large region. Using a sophisticated model of how particulate matter and its precursors are dispersed in the atmosphere, SPH scientists Jonathan Levy and John…

Nearly 80 percent of students admitted to the Class of 2004 have chosen to enroll, the highest yield since the early 1970s, according to the Undergraduate Admissions Office. Yield, the percentage of admitted candidates who decide to accept an offer of admission, is considered a measure of a school’s competitiveness. Harvard’s yield is again, by…

The Navin Narayan Memorial Lecture has been endowed by the parents of Navin Narayan ’99, a Rhodes Scholar and summa cum laude graduate in social studies who died of cancer this past March. Kalman and Kusuma Narayan’s gift will bring a speaker to Harvard each March “to lecture on topics including social problems and service…

It just gets better and better for Crimson softball as close in on an Ivy League Title. On Tuesday (May 2), freshman Monica Montijo hit a single with the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth inning to propel the Harvard softball team to a 1-0 extra-inning win over the University of Rhode Island.…

Having a job schedule that allows for family time is more important to young men than money, power, or prestige, according to a new study released today by the Radcliffe Public Policy Center. Eighty-two percent of men ages 20-39 put family time at the top of their list, keeping pace with 85 percent of women…

 Andrew Tache, 19, of the Mescalero tribe, dances at the Sixth Annual Harvard University Powwow at the Quadrangle Athletic Facility on Saturday.  Tache combs his hair before braiding it. Prior to leading the dancers, Eric Valle spreads the feathers used to decorate a friend’s headdress.

Remment Koolhaas, professor in practice of architecture and urban design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, is the winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2000. The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the award, will present Koolhaas with the prize and its $100,000 grant on May 17 in Jerusalem. The Pritzker Prize has been considered…

Anyone who has ever visited Beijing in winter knows that air pollution is one of the city’s biggest problems. Homes, schools, offices all heat with coal – which also is the major source of electrical energy. The result is a pall of black soot that settles into people’s lungs and bronchial tubes, and produces an…

Harvard Law School (HLS) Dean Robert C. Clark has announced an extensive expansion of the School’s loan forgiveness program, making it one of the most generous programs of its kind in the country. The School’s Low Income Protection Plan (LIPP), the oldest program of its kind in the country, forgives loans for HLS graduates who…

Approximately 200 Harvard middle managers got together at the Charles Hotel this past Friday, April 28, to discuss obstacles to staff diversity. The conference, sponsored by the Office of the Assistant to the President and the Office of Human Resources/Workforce Initiatives, focused on the roadblocks to achieving staff diversity and how middle management can help…

Former Harvard Varsity Club Director Charles “Chuck” Coulson died on April 11, 2000, in Johnstown, Penn., where he was visiting family. He was 69. Coulson was a devoted long-time supporter of Harvard Athetics. A fixture at the University and a consummate host at both the Varsity Club and Harvard Faculty Club, Coulson was known for…

Sack-like sea squirts living on the sea floor make a complex anti-tumor drug hundreds to thousands of times more powerful than any cancer potion now in use. For the past six years, chemists have been trying to do the same thing more efficiently and without the ecological mayhem involved in scraping the squirts off Caribbean…

Good luck keeping a straight face during ARTS FIRST 2000. Actor John Lithgow ’67 and comedian Al Franken ’73 will light up the marquee at the Pan-Harvard Comedy Carnival that kicks off tonight (May 4) at Radcliffe Yard. The humor continues through the weekend with several shows at five different venues. The carnival is an…

I received today (May 3) a copy of the final report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies — a committee composed of faculty and senior administrators from across the University, which I appointed last spring to study issues relating to the contingent workforce on campus. I intend to study the report thoroughly and…