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For the second straight year, the Office of the Provost will make funds available to faculty for University projects that promise to alter and improve teaching and learning through the use of technology. The Provosts Instructional Technology Fund is made up of two funds: the Innovation Fund and the Content Fund. The Innovation Fund is for large-scale projects that propose to introduce a novel approach to teaching and learning using information technology. The Content Fund is aimed toward creating online content for educational purposes.

Maria Valgenti loves to photograph buildings. She feels a rapport with them that eludes her when she tries to capture human subjects.

Short-term downturns in criminal activity do not necessarily result in sustained crime reductions. That is a primary finding in a new research report co-authored by Kennedy School Assistant Professor Brian Jacob.

John Edwards to be visiting fellow at IOP during spring semester Former senator and Democratic vice-presidential nominee John Edwards will be one of three visiting fellows at the Institute of…

Green Campus Initiative launches new Web site The Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) has launched a comprehensive new Web site highlighting green campus activities at the University. This online resource…

After beating Dartmouth goalie Kate Lane early in the first period this past Friday (Feb. 25) at Bright Hockey Center, Laura Brady 08 briefly paused, scanned the visitors cage, glanced at her teammates for confirmation, and only then proceeded to celebrate her third goal of the season. Against the fiery Big Green, such composure proved invaluable for the Crimson, who, despite building a 3-0 lead after the first 20 minutes of hockey, withstood a late-surging Dartmouth club to capture the contest, 4-3, and their sixth Ivy League title to boot.

Crimson fencers capture six trophies at IFA Champs In a first for Harvard fencing, both the men’s and women’s teams captured the combined events of the ECAC-IFA Championships on Feb.…

A grant from Desmond Shum, chairman of Ocean Pacific Investment Management based in Beijing, will enable two Harvard graduate students to spend a year studying in China. These students, who will be studying in the fields of the contemporary Chinese social sciences, will receive a grant of $20,000 each. Students will apply to the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and will be selected through a competitive application process, with award decisions made by a committee of faculty associated with the Fairbank Center. The winning students will be known as the Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellows.

It seemed clear in the lecture hall at Harvard Medical Schools Medical Education Center Tuesday (March 1) that doctors should help their patients – even when those patients are prisoners – and never, ever become their torturers.

Alexander F. Schier, a developmental biologist whose work has illuminated key embryonic molecules that shape masses of undifferentiated cells into complex organisms, has been appointed professor of molecular and cellular biology in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

The Harvard Film Archive will welcome the father of Korean cinema, renowned director Im Kwon-Taek to the University on March 4 for a screening of Chunhyang at 7 p.m. The next evening (March 5), a reception in Ims honor will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Sert Gallery Café, and will be followed by a screening of Chihwaseon. A Q&A session with the director will be held after both films.

In February, the Harvard Archive of World Music at Loeb Music Library, a unit of Harvard College Library, and the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for Sound Directions: Digital Preservation and Access for Global Audio Heritage, a project to create best practices and test emerging standards in the digital preservation of endangered sound recordings.

Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree Jr. issued a call to arms for Americans, in particular African Americans, to reject the status quo in American politics and consider new options for moving forward. Speaking Feb. 23 at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, Ogletree noted that in modern history African Americans have been largely loyal to the Democratic Party, but that loyalty is running thin and could prompt the creation of a third political party.

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences February 15, 2005, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

How can scientific research better inform education policy? That question is at the core of the three-part Burton and Ingles Lecture Series at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, which…

Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) report a surprising finding about embryonic development: The blood system begins to form not only in the embryo itself,…

A survey of mothers in the March issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that obstetricians and genetic counselors are falling short when it comes to delivering…

McLean Hospital researchers have added yet another item to the cornucopia of evidence that “we are what we eat,” confirming that elements in our diet can affect not just our…

Detur Book Prize winners of the Class of 2007 were honored at a Feb.7 reception in the Faculty Room in University Hall. One of the oldest prizes at Harvard College, the prize is intended to honor and congratulate sophomores on the high GPAs earned their first year at the College.

Harvard senior Mike Blumberg (in rear) prepares to return a shot from Cornells Mike Delaney during first-round action of the mens College Squash Associations Championship at the Murr Center this past weekend. Blumberg won the contest, 3-0, as Harvard went on to blank the Big Red, 9-0. The Crimson later downed Yale, 8-1, before falling to Trinity, 7-2, in the title game on Sunday (Feb. 27) – to hand the Bantams its seventh straight national championship. Harvard, who captured the Ivy League title with a 6-0 record, wraps up its season at 11-2, with both losses coming from Trinity.

Under the baton of music director and conductor Jonathan McPhee, the Longwood Symphony Orchestra (LSO) will present the Weilerstein Trio on March 12 at 8 p.m. at the New England Conservatorys Jordan Hall. Featuring conservatory faculty members Donald Weilerstein (on violin) and Vivian Hornik Weilerstein (on piano), and their 21-year-old daughter Alisa Weilerstein (on cello), the trio will perform works by Beethoven, Panufnik, Prokofiev, and Sibelius.

Moira Whelan, who most recently served on the Homeland Security Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives as communications director for the minority, has joined Harvards Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs as the director of communications and outreach. Whelan will coordinate the centers outreach to the media and Capitol Hill.

An Institute of Politics student policy group got some expert advice about legislative redistricting Monday (Feb. 28) from a veteran on the front lines: an incumbent congressman voted out of his seat after a round of redistricting before the 2004 election.

An impressive snowpile on the athletic fields prevents a clear view of the Newell Boathouse.

Before receiving the coveted Pudding Pot from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals last week (Feb. 17), Man of the Year Tim Robbins proved his movie star mettle by demonstrating his hula hoop prowess, appeasing a gaggle of protesters in drag, and donning a lopsided wig and prison-striped bra.

Thanks to a profusion of coffee-table books, reproductions, greeting cards, and other museum gift shop items, Gustav Klimts paintings now rank among the worlds best-known images. The Kiss, in which a man and woman in the midst of an erotic embrace seem almost to disappear into a mountain of richly decorated fabric, has become an iconic expression of romantic love almost as universal as a box of chocolates or a bouquet of long-stemmed roses.

The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) received two reports of armed robbery on Feb. 17. In both incidents, two offenders approached a male graduate student, demanded money, displayed a knife, and then fled.

As the weather continues to have trouble making up its mind if its midwinter or early spring, time is running out to make up your mind about participating in the almost-two-decades tradition of giving that is called Daffodil Days at Harvard. Its a bargain in any season, and its for the best of causes.

At its eighth meeting of the year (Feb. 23), the Faculty Council discussed the February Faculty Meeting.

Feb. 20, 1965 – The Harvard and Columbia University bands perform a combined concert in New York’s Carnegie Hall. Feb. 7, 1967 – With a banquet and concert, refurbished Lehman…