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NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell to accept Shorenstein award Sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism will…

Grossman Library to close during Sever Hall renovations The Harvard Extension School’s Grossman Library will be closed beginning May 28 while Sever Hall undergoes major renovations. The library will reopen…

Only two weeks after Brian Skotko, a joint-degree student at Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government, published a paper about problems in physician delivery of a Down syndrome diagnosis in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (AJOG), he has been invited to the nations Capitol for a joint press conference with Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Sam Brownback, R-Kan., on the topic. The senators plan to jointly introduce a new bill motivated by Skotkos study. The bill is titled the Prenatally Diagnosed Condition Awareness Act and proposes $25 million in federal funding so that women who receive prenatal test results for conditions like Down syndrome get accurate, up-to-date information and referrals to support groups.

Less than a week after crashing Dartmouths would-be Ivy clinching party with a 70-67 come-from-behind win (a victory that served to snag the Harvard womens basketball team a share of the league prize), the Crimson were turned away from the Big Dance. The snub followed the teams most recent match-up this past Saturday (March 12) in Providence, R.I., – a one-game showdown to determine which of these two clubs would represent the Ancient Eight in the NCAA tournament. After constructing a 12-point halftime lead on 53 percent shooting, an aggressive Dartmouth squad went on to demolish the Cambridge gang, 75-61, and close the door on Harvards postseason hopes.

Grumet-Morris grabs Walter Brown Award The Gridiron Club of Greater Boston announced this week that Harvard goalie Dov Grumet-Morris ’05 has been selected as the winner of the 53rd Walter…

Just days after President Bush returned from a fence-mending visit overseas, Frances defense minister told a Harvard audience that Europe and the United States are positioned to overcome their differences on Iraq and work together in confronting a range of world challenges.

Harvard has joined a new coalition of universities, hospitals, patient organizations, business groups, and scientific societies whose aim is to support embryonic stem cell research in Massachusetts and, specifically, to support pending legislation on stem cell research in the Massachusetts legislature.

New research shows that children between 8 and 15 years old who are in the upper half of the normal weight range are more likely than their leaner peers to become obese or overweight as young adults. This research was conducted over nearly a decade at the Harvard Medical School (HMS), Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, and Childrens Hospital Boston and is reported in this months Obesity Research journal.

No link between breast cancer and consumption of chips and fries Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, have found no association…

Two members of a family who suffered progressive hearing loss and then underwent heart transplants got Christine Seidman, a Harvard professor of medicine, interested in the strange connection. Their hearing…

Harvard researchers have devised a way to greatly decrease the cost of making artificial genes in the laboratory, an advance that could increase the ability of geneticists to explore and…

In 1999 Time Magazine named Peter Raven a “Hero for the Planet.” It’s a good thing because, as Raven himself tells it, the planet really needs a hero. Raven, the…

Engineers and applied physicists have demonstrated the feasibility of a new type of plug-in laser that could lay the groundwork for wide-ranging security applications. Their Raman injection laser, described in…

The much-touted concept of “interdisciplinary collaboration” was more than a concept last week at the Eric M. Mindich Conference on Experimental Social Science. Titled “Action Research in Psychology and Economics,”…

Health officials from Mexico, Sweden, England, and the United States compared notes on health reforms March 4 at a symposium designed to illuminate the role of government in addressing health…

Harvard University Art Museums will host the Tanglewood Marionettes as part of its upcoming Sackler Saturday event on March 12. The performance, titled Perseus and Medusa – A Tale From Ancient Greece, tells the classic Greek myth of Perseus and his quest to defeat the snaky-haired Gorgon Medusa. The show begins at 11:30 a.m., and is included free as part of Sackler Saturday, though tickets are required.

At its 10th meeting of the year on March 9, the Faculty Council heard a report from the Harvard College Curricular Review Committee on General Education. Committee members present included Professors Charles Maier and Michael Sandel, and student representative Matthew Mahan 05. Council member Alison Simmons also serves on the General Education Committee.

March 1925 – The Harvard-Boston (Egyptian) Expedition discovers, intact, the secret tomb of Queen Hetep-heres I, mother of King Cheops (a.k.a. Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid). This spectacular find…

The Holyoke Center Arcade looks open for business as night falls.

The Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government has recently announced the availability of predoctoral fellowships for the 2005-06 academic year. The center supports research in areas relating to leadership and the dynamics of progress and change. This fellowship is intended to expose the successful applicant to the academic literature on leadership help him/her make scholarly connections between leadership and his/her home discipline and provide him/her with an intellectual environment supportive of the early stages of dissertation work, including prospectus preparation and defense.

A memorial service for Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus Ernst Mayr will be held April 29 at 2 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Widely considered the worlds most eminent evolutionary biologist, Mayr joined Harvards Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1953 and led Harvards Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1961 to 1970.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 14. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

Democratic institutions are gaining a foothold in parts of the Middle East, according to U.S. Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith. But only time will tell if the institutions flourish and if so, how those democracies will look compared with ours, Feith told an audience at the Kennedy School Forum March 3.

Drawing a line between areas where people use the term hoagie rather than po boy or water fountain instead of bubbler is the kind of problem that concerns linguists who study regional speech differences.

Film and television actor Sharon Stone will receive the Harvard Foundations 2005 Humanitarian Award when she delivers the annual Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Lecture at the Memorial Church on Monday (March 14) at 7 p.m.

The tsunami that hit Southeast Asia on Dec. 26 created one of the largest swaths of destruction meted out by a natural disaster in historical memory. This catastrophe galvanized an unprecedented outpouring of international aid in terms of funds and organizational efforts, providing an opportunity to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of international humanitarian response.

In a long-awaited clinical trial conducted among nearly 40,000 initially healthy middle-aged American women, regular use of low-dose aspirin over a 10-year period was found to reduce the risk of stroke 17 percent. However, among the same population, researchers from Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) also found that low-dose aspirin did not benefit most women in terms of preventing first heart attacks or cardiac deaths.

Chen wins Weintraub Award Irene A. Chen, an M.D. candidate in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Harvard Medical School, has been named one of 15 graduate students nationwide selected…

Bradley Welch to play Harvard Organ Society’s celebrity series In association with Harvard University Art Museums and the Memorial Church, the Harvard Organ Society will present a recital by world-renowned…