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Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the weeks ending March 25 and April 1. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden St. March 19: A bag was stolen from Rosovsky Hall. A cell phone was taken from Currier House. An elevator in Gund…

Artistic freedom conference at Law School, April 14 The Harvard Law School Arts Panel will present its spring conference on Friday, April 14, at 2:30 p.m. in Hauser 104. The event is titled “Protected Speech or Just Bad Art? Artistic Freedom and the First Amendment in the Brooklyn Museum Controversy and Beyond.” Fred Schauer, academic…

Harvard is committed to providing fair and competitive compensation and a favorable working environment for all its employees. For the vast majority of our regular employees, we meet and exceed these standards. All of our full-time, regular employees earn more than $10 an hour in total compensation; all receive generous benefits; and all have access…

Butler and Gudrais Named Harvard Magazine Fellows for 2000-01 Kirstin E. Butler and Elizabeth A. Gudrais have been named Harvard Magazine‘s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2000-01 academic year, when both will be seniors in the College. Butler, who lives in Currier House and comes from Geneva, N.Y., was an editorial intern at…

Former Harvard Business School Professor Myles L. Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, and a member of numerous corporate boards, died on Friday, March 24, in Natick, Mass. He was 88 and a long-time resident of Dover, Mass. Mace was born Oct. 10, 1911, in Montevideo, Minn. He received a…

The Harvard Alumni Association has chosen three alumni to receive the 2000 Harvard Medal: Charlotte P. Armstrong ’49, L.L.B. ’53; John G. Caulfield ’50; and Louis I. Kane ’53. First given in 1981, the Harvard Medal recognizes extraordinary service to the University. President Neil L. Rudenstine will present the Medals on Commencement afternoon, June 8,…

Harvard students have established the Harvard Marine Science Review, a new peer association of scientists, educators, researchers, and students dedicated to the advancement of the fields of ichthyology and marine sciences. The Review is intended to provide a forum for the presentation of research, ideas, theory, and debate, and to encourage the spirit of discovery…

The Harvard Negotiation Law Review and the Harvard Program on Negotiation will honor former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell with the first “Great Negotiator Award” on Friday, April 7, as part of a two-day symposium on problem solving at Harvard Law School. The symposium, “The Lawyer as Problem Solver: A Symposium on Dispute Resolution and Deal…

The Rev. Al Sharpton, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Anita Hill, and family members of Amadou Diallo are among the guests scheduled to speak at the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) spring conference, April 7-9. The conference, titled “The Search for Excellence: Defining New Paths,” will be held in several classrooms at the Harvard…

Senator Edward M. Kennedy gave the keynote speech at an April 3 luncheon of the Leading Industries Executive Forum hosted by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. Kennedy devoted most of his speech to the importance of the partnership between the federal government, universities, and private industry in research and development to the regional economy.…

Will the expanding role of business in American education improve the nation’s schools? Where can the private sector’s strong suits – cost-consciousness, flexibility, and a focus on results – be enlisted to boost the performance of the education system? And when is business involvement with schools risky – or incompatible with the goal of quality…

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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. Tilby, a Visiting Lecturer who teaches two film animation courses in Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) at Harvard, has been nominated for best animated short…

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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. Using the many exhibits and some traditional scientific methods such as observation, sketching, dissecting, and interviewing experts, the 15 children, ranging in age from 8…

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 feature women business leaders from Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley who will initiate a conversation among business and professional women committed to creating positive global…

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 that the case be moved to Federal Court, citing the court’s “jurisdiction over trademark disputes in interstate commerce.” In a letter to state Attorney General…

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, Cambridge, and Somerville. A student-managed organization, VITA performs this community service project in conjunction with the Internal Revenue Service. The VITA sites and their operating…

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 ahead of time – the students were to observe an artifact in the Peabody Museum’s Hall of the North American Indian and write down their…