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Although the 1999-2000 women’s hockey season came to a disappointing end when the Crimson was not chosen for the AWCHA National Championship Tournament, the year was filled with many high points. Ranked in the top three for the entire season, Harvard compiled a 21-5-3 overall record and a 17-4-3 mark in the ECAC. Led by…

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 18. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden St. March 12: A coat was stolen from Harkness Commons. A Palm Pilot computer and credit cards were stolen from the Faculty Club. March 13:…

“Witchdoctors and Biotechnology” is the subject of the annual Lowell Lecture, which will be delivered this year by ethnobiologist Mark Plotkin. The talk will take place on Friday, April 7, at 8 p.m. in Science Center C. Illustrated with slides, the lecture will explore the extraordinary advances in technology during the past decade that have…

Hauser to speak on his books at M.I.T. Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser will give a talk about his two books, The Design of Animal Communications (M.I.T. Press, 2000) and Wild Minds (Holt, 2000) on Thursday, April 6, at 6 p.m. at M.I.T.’s Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames St., Cambridge. An expert in…

Jane Fountain, associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and member of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, has been appointed to a three-year term as a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Internet Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. Dubbed by its founders as the “Brookings Institution of the Internet,”…

Harvard College has selected Sameera Fazili ’00 as the winner of the Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award. Also, Emmy Award-winning senior correspondent for ABC Carole Simpson, has been named the recipient of the Harvard College Women’s Professional Achievement Award. Fazili, a Social Studies concentrator from Buffalo, N.Y., is the president of the Harvard Islamic Society,…

For about $20 you can determine your risk of a future heart attack, according to a new study from Harvard Medical School. The test measures levels of a protein that increase with the amount of inflammation in coronary arteries. The study showed that healthy women with the highest levels of this substance, known as high-sensitivity…

Professor Emeritus Bertrand Fox, an economist and investment banking expert who had a lasting impact on Harvard Business School as director of its Division of Research, died on March 14 in Lexington, Mass., at the age of 92. Fox was a distinguished member of the School’s faculty for 25 years, beginning in 1949. He served…

At its 11th meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed the annual Affirmative Action Report with Professor Marjorie Garber, Associate Dean for Affirmative Action, and Elizabeth Doherty, Assistant Dean of the Faculty for Academic Planning. The Council also heard a proposal from Professor Harry Lewis, Dean of Harvard College, concerning businesses in student rooms.…

George Lauder hits a few keys on his laptop, and a moving image appears on the screen. “That’s the fish’s pectoral fin,” he says, pointing to the grainy, black-and white-picture. “It’s slowed down because the camera was taking 250 images per second. But do you see the way the water is moving in a sort…

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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, Robert, who worked for Harvard University Police and Security from 1980 until his retirement in 1995. She also leaves seven children, 13 grandchildren, and eight…

Kathy Delaney-Smith rode her bike to the office the day after the devastating 96-74 loss to Dartmouth ended the Crimson women’s basketball season. It had been only days earlier, coming into the season’s last weekend, that Delaney-Smith, Harvard women’s basketball coach, had hoped Harvard would share the title that Dartmouth won outright. The whipping by…

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 arriving at Harvard in 1991, Appiah has worked to expand the consciousness of both blacks and whites when viewing the complexities of African history and…

While South Africans around the world celebrate their country’s Human Rights Day on Tuesday, March 21, Sheila Sisulu, the South African Ambassador to the United States, will be at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study attending a lecture by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a former member of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. On the following morning,…

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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, at 5:30 p.m. Heaney, a 1995 Nobel laureate and former Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will read from his new book, a verse translation…

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 and 18 in the Science Center. Feature events at the conference include student and faculty presentations of research, a keynote address, and a mentoring program…

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 School of Government. In last Thursday night’s ceremony, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele were presented the Prize for their series, “What Corporate Welfare…