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  • A tour of human history, with guide Jared Diamond

    Some time around 1680, an Easter Islander cut down the islands last tree, dooming any hopes of an environmental recovery on the remote Pacific Ocean speck and condemning his descendants to poverty, civil war, and cannibalism.

  • Crimson find redemption in Saints

    In the latest leg of this seasons ECAC Hockey League title run, a best-of-three quarterfinal series against visiting St. Lawrence University on March 10-12, the Harvard mens hockey team took a bad spill, got up, and then proceeded to dust the competition. For the resilient and then-some Crimson, the redemptive powers of beating the Saints 3-2 and 8-4 in the second and deciding contests, respectively, ought to put a strut in their skates heading into Fridays (March 17) conference semifinal against Dartmouth.

  • DeWolfe Howe Fund seeks proposals for 2006-07

    The Mark DeWolfe Howe Fund for Study and Research in Civil Rights-Civil Liberties and Legal History is currently accepting proposals for either the coming summer or for the 2006-07 academic year.

  • Distinguished panel explores ‘martyrdom’

    If suicide terrorism is to be held in check, what’s needed is an engaging, exciting “counterperformance” – whatever that might be – that can be offered in place of the “theater of violence” exemplified by the al-Qaida attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

  • Mad, hot ballroom steams up MAC

    Accompanied by the dazzle of gowns and the pounding of their own hearts, some of the very best collegiate and amateur dancers in the United States whirled around the Malkin Athletic Center at the recent Hanlon-Ford Winter Ball.

  • This month in Harvard history

    March 3, 1939 – Spurred by a bet, Lothrop Withington Jr. 42 slurps down a four-inch goldfish – and unwittingly starts the national goldfish-swallowing college craze. March 1, 1942 –…

  • Memorial services set for Langstaff, Stone

    Memorial service for John Langstaff on Saturday A memorial service for John Langstaff, founder of The Christmas Revels, will be held at the Memorial Church on March 18 at 2…

  • President Summers’ office hours in April

    President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates: Thursday, April 20, 4-5 p.m. Thursday, May 11, 4-5 p.m. Sign-up…

  • Gossip, litigiousness, the invention of the address

    How did we get here from there? Thats the question that preoccupies historian Daniel Lord Smail, who joined Harvards Faculty of Arts and Sciences as professor of history on Jan. 1.

  • University-wide staff survey to measure employee engagement

    Harvard staff: Whats your Harvard like? Do you tell people great things about working at Harvard? Do you recommend Harvard as a place to work? Do you ever think about leaving Harvard? Do you do your best work every day? Do you regularly go above and beyond at work?

  • The challenges of women’s leadership

    Closing the leadership gap between men and women is one of the central challenges of this century, said David Gergen, director of Harvard Universitys Center for Public Leadership (CPL), after two days of intense discussions at a Kennedy School conference on womens leadership.

  • Newsmakers

    Schlesinger Library archivist Kraft honored with ACRL award Katherine Kraft, archivist at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for…

  • Sports in brief

    Skilled and lucky 13 named All-Ivy fencers One month after capturing Ivy League championships, the Harvard men’s and women’s fencing teams placed 13 athletes on the All-Ivy squads, including seven…

  • ‘Hidden Wounds’ documentary uncovered at KSG

    Reflecting upon his own experience after returning from the Vietnam War, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said to a Kennedy School of Government (KSG) audience, We lived in a very complicated period of time when the war was confused with the warrior and vice versa, so that whatever normal proclivity there was in America to welcome home those who served, to say thank you, to celebrate that service, had melted away.

  • Dan Rather at Kennedy School of Government

    Acknowledging that demographics, not ratings, are now king in the media world, former CBS anchor Dan Rather told a Kennedy School of Government (KSG) audience that he could easily see Daily Show host Jon Stewart replacing Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes when Rooney retires.

  • At Carpenter Center, ‘Empire Strikes Back’

    For those peering in the windows from the outside, the Carpenter Centers main gallery looks like a work in progress, or the studio of a frantic, grim, compulsive artist.

  • Arnold Arboretum: A winter tour

    In 1872, whaling merchant James Arnold’s will transferred a section of his Jamaic Plain estate to the fellows and president of Harvard College,. The Arnold Arboretum has since performed a unique function as Boston’s own living open-air museum.

  • Depression is bad for the heart

    Depression is more likely to break your heart than smoking or eating fatty food. “Recurrence of cardiovascular events, including heart attacks, strokes, cardiac arrest, severe chest pain and other problems…

  • Vitamin D critical to human TB response

    Vitamin D plays a critical role in the human body’s response to tuberculosis, according to new research that explains why people of African descent are more susceptible to TB. The…

  • Judge Baker Children’s Center welcomes a groundbreaking research project that may shed light on autism

    Harvard-affiliated Judge Baker Children’s Center is launching a research project to study autism. Jerome Kagan and Nancy Snidman, director and research director, respectively, of Harvard’s Infant and Child Study Center,…

  • Broad vision required to fight HIV

    A major new public health campaign focused on AIDS is needed in the wake of the World Health Organization’s “3 by 5” campaign, which forced a new approach to fight…

  • Countway reveals ‘buried’ treasures

    There is something about the physical manifestations of history that communicate both intellectual heft and inspirational authority. Which is why Longwood’s Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine — the largest…

  • Arnold Arboretum

    When Gazette photographer Rose Lincoln first proposed shooting the Arnold Arboretum in wintertime, the entire Harvard News Office staff responded enthusiastically at the prospect of capturing the still and barren beauty of Harvards 265 woody acres during the cruelest and often prettiest months of the year. And though winter 2006 hardly cooperated with our preconceived ideas of bare-branched snow-swept oaks and elms (what with anomalies like pussy willows defiantly budding between the occasional cold snaps), we managed to learn something quite unexpected. Whether the winter is harsh or mild, the arboretum teems with life, botanical and otherwise.

  • Faculty Council meeting March 8

    At its 13th meeting of the year on March 8, the Faculty Council met with incoming interim President Derek Bok, continued their discussion of the Curricular Review, and heard reports…

  • Memorial service set for John Langstaff

    A memorial service for John Langstaff, founder of The Christmas Revels, will be held at the Memorial Church on March 18 at 2 p.m. Langstaff passed away this past December…

  • President Summers’ office hours in March

    President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates: Wednesday, March 15, 4-5:30 p.m. (students and staff) Thursday, April 20,…

  • Leonardo da Vinci, proto genetic engineer?

    A conceptual artist named Eduardo Kac ignited a fierce controversy in 2000 when he tried to enter a genetically modified bunny that glowed green under ultraviolet light in an art exhibition in France.

  • Summers praises Harvard’s ‘authority of ideas’

    Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers thanked the parents of this years juniors for giving him the chance to work with their children, saying working with and for the students has been an enormous privilege and the greatest joy of his time as president.

  • Harvard Film Archive honors actress Tantoo Cardinal

    Canadian actress Tantoo Cardinal presented a sampling of her films at the Harvard Film Archive and accepted the Sun Hill Award for Excellence in Native American Filmmaking on March 3 and 4, respectively. Now in its second year, the award (jointly sponsored by the Sun Hill Foundation and the Harvard Film Archive) is given in honor of a director, actor, producer, or writer who has made a significant contribution to the legacy of Native American film.

  • Juan Manuel Taveras

    Dr. Juan M. Taveras died March 27, 2002, in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, at the age of 83. He was widely regarded as the father of neuroradiology, and pioneered the concept of subspecialization in radiologic practice. He was emeritus Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and emeritus Chair of the Department of Radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.