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Sharon P. Clayborne, director of financial aid at Harvard Medical School, died on Thursday, April 13, at the age of 47. Clayborne tirelessly counseled students through the financial aid process. She was known for her acute memory for names and faces and her pleasure in the awards and accomplishments of the many students she helped…

Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus Abram Chayes, 77, who served as the Kennedy Administration’s chief international lawyer at the height of the Cold War and who taught at Harvard Law School (HLS) for more than four decades, died on Sunday, April 16, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, of complications from pancreatic cancer.…

Brain cells that make it possible for zebra finches to sing were forced to die then brought back to life by researchers at Harvard and Rockefeller universities. In a major biological first, quiescent stem cells naturally present in the birds’ brains were induced to replace the lost cells and restore the finches’ ability to sing…

Harvard Law School Professor Gary Bellow, the founder and former faculty director of the School’s Clinical Programs and a pioneering public interest lawyer, died on April 13 from cardiac arrest at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge. He was a resident of Boston. Bellow was a specialist in the areas of public interest law and poverty…

Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree (from left), Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Mrs. Cecelia Marshall (wife of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall), John Marshall (Justice Marshall’s son), HLS Dean Robert Clark, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer attended the opening last weekend of an…

Accolades abounded at Tuesday evening’s “Harvard University Volunteer Recognition Program 2000.” Over 100 Harvard employees, who volunteer their time, were invited to the Law School’s Ropes and Gray Room for voluntarism’s answer to the Oscars. In opening remarks, President Neil L. Rudenstine reflected on past presidents’ reports dating from the beginning of the century –…

They walk through the door with handfuls or even shoe boxes crammed with crinkled letters, receipts, and tax documents from their pension plans, banks, the Social Security Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service. They rattle off questions and grievances one after another, looking for answers and a compassionate ear. And they usually find both, when…

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Good morning. I’’m very glad to be with all of you this morning, to celebrate your school and its achievements, and to wish you good fortune as you begin your ambitious fund-raising drive. I’’ve been asked – in the next nine or ten minutes – to offer you some brilliant, pithy, and profound remarks about…

Warfield Named Chair of Anesthesia and Critical Care at BIDMC Carol A. Warfield, associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, has been named chair of the anesthesia and critical care department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). An expert in pain management with a 22-year career at BIDMC and its predecessor, Beth Israel…

Monkeys can tell the difference between Dutch and Japanese as easily as human infants, language researchers have found. This ability makes humans less special than previously believed, and ties our mental abilities more closely to our evolutionary kin. “We don’t know yet what mechanisms in our brain allow us to discriminate different languages, but we…

Dayna Muller will be wired like an astronaut when she runs the grueling 26.2-mile Boston Marathon on April 17. A pillbox-sized sensor on one shoe will broadcast her running speed to a watch on her wrist. A heart monitor strapped to her chest will send her heart rate to the same watch. “They wanted me…

Two books and a work-in-progress have been named winners of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project, an awards program jointly administered by the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard to recognize superb works of nonfiction. The awards will be presented on Saturday, May 6, at the Harvard Faculty…

Declaring that music has been central to the African-American experience since slavery, Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. announced Friday the creation of the first endowed professorship in African-American music at Harvard and possibly in the nation. The chair, created with a $3 million gift from media giant Time Warner Inc., is named…

For many of us, food can be a powerful reminder of who we are and where we come from. But the foods that Rebecca Weisinger ’02 remembers from her family dinner table were a little different from most. “Sometimes my mom would make Chinese dishes and then add potatoes to them, or she would serve…

Nearly 300 students turned out for the first annual H’ARD CORPS (Harvard Community Outreach and Public Service) event on Saturday. Breaking into teams, they worked on 18 different projects in Boston and Cambridge, including site clean-up, gardening, visiting the elderly, and helping the Greater Boston Food Bank and AIDS Walk Boston . The event was…

Quality-of-life factors are the most significant determinants for prospective faculty when they’re considering a job offer, according to a new study conducted by the Project on Faculty Appointments at the Graduate School of Education, and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Senior Researcher Cathy Trower admits these results may come as an “absolute shock” to…

The following members of the Faculty have been elected to the Council for terms beginning on July 1, 2000: Professors John Y. Campbell (Economics), Jay M. Harris (NELC), Pamela K. Keel (Psychology), Robert P. Kirshner (Astronomy), Michael Mitzenmacher (DEAS), Paul Pierson (Government), and Gloria Pinney (Classics) At its meeting April 12 the Faculty Council considered…

Each year, the department of chemistry and chemical biology receives a number of corporate fellowships for organic chemistry research. These fellowships are sponsored by several corporations whose support has been instrumental to the training of graduate students in the department. The fellowships for 1999-00 have been sponsored by Eli Lilly Research Laboratories, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.,…