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  • Dunlop Lecture focuses on ‘American Dream’

    The Joint Center for Housing Studies will hold the fourth annual John T. Dunlop Lecture on Feb. 4 at the National Housing Center in Washington, D.C. The lecture, titled The American Dream of Homeownership: From Cliché to Mission, honors Lamont University Professor Emeritus John T. Dunlop for his distinguished career at the University, in government, and in the private sector. Angelo R. Mozilo, of Countrywide Financial Services, presents this years talk. The lecture is sponsored by the National Housing Endowment.

  • Musical burden

    Ashley Seo 06 heads into the Science Center on a recent frigid day, possibly wishing shed chosen flute.

  • In brief

    HMS center to receive funding for 4 more years Harvard Medical School’s (HMS’s) Center of Excellence in Women’s Health has announced that it will receive funding from the U.S. Department…

  • Faking happiness for fun and profit:

    You can be happier at work if you smile more, even if you have to fake it. Suppressing anger and other negative feelings, on the other hand, leads to less job satisfaction and more thoughts of quitting.

  • Fine art, cutting-edge science meet at Straus Center

    High atop the Fogg Museum, Henry Lie, director of the Straus Center for Conservation, and art historian Francesca Bewer study an X-ray, pointing to the milky image and scratching their chins in thought. A warrior – or rather, a 16th century bronze cast of a warrior by Dutch sculptor Willem van Tetrode – has broken his arm, and they look closely at the fracture and the pins that reset it.

  • Study scholarship opportunities in China

    Scholarships for one academic year of study or research in China are made possible through an agreement between the Ministry of Education of the Peoples Republic of China and Harvard University. For the 2003-04 academic year, five full scholarships (covering tuition, housing, health insurance, and books) and 10 partial scholarships (covering tuition) will be offered for study or research at one of approximately 80 Chinese universities authorized by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to admit foreign scholarship students.

  • Highway 61 – and 93 and 128 – revisited:

    There are almost 4 million miles of road in the United States. Added together, these roads and roadsides make up more than 1 percent of the country, an area equal to South Carolina. But the area affected by the noise, pollution, animal deaths, and other ecological impacts linked to roads is much larger, 22 percent by one estimate.

  • Jane Swift is among spring IOP fellows

    The former governor of New Hampshire, a New York Times political reporter, the former commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, a high-ranking official in Ireland, and a leader in civic participation have all been chosen for fellowships at the Kennedy School of Governments (KSGs) Institute of Politics (IOP).

  • Native American professorship endowed:

    Harvard Law School (HLS) has announced the establishment of the Oneida Indian Nation Professorship of Law. This chair – the first endowed chair in American Indian studies at Harvard University and the only professorship of its kind east of the Mississippi River – will allow HLS to continue its leadership role in the development of emerging legal fields.

  • Deep freeze

    As the temperature plummeted, the urge to cower, cuddle, and bundle up was outweighed by the imperatives of the world, by personal demands, and, most of all, by exam period.

  • Harvard celebrates merger with Rowland Institute:

    To the strains of a string quartet made up of Harvard students, the University, on Jan. 15, celebrated its merger with the famed Rowland Institute of Science.

  • Recent immigration changes affect Harvard community

    Since Sept. 11, 2001, a number of changes in U.S. immigration policy have affected the Harvard community.

  • The Big Picture:

    Seven years ago, as Steve Dudley was making a career transition from psychotherapy and substance abuse counseling to personal fitness training, he would joke to his new clients: Its not how you feel, its how you look.

  • Shine on:

    Staff photo by Kris Snibbe

  • Newsmakers

    ICF honors Kanter The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), a unit of the World Teleport Association that focuses on communities’ use of broadband technology for economic development, has presented its Intelligent…

  • DNA and the fall of Rome:

    Michael McCormick is trying to figure out how to spend $1.5 million.

  • Getting frosh in the laboratory:

    On the third floor of the Biological Laboratories, Honor Hsin and Alice Bailey squint into computers, hoping that the data confirm that theyve successfully made the gene mutations they set out to make.

  • May be possible to stay slim and eat what you want

    Imagine being able to throw away those diet books and eat whatever you want without becoming fat, and – as a bonus – not develop diabetes and live longer as well. A new study led by Joslin Diabetes Center researchers and published in the Jan. 24 issue of the journal Science brings scientists one step closer to turning this scenario – no doubt the dream of the estimated 60 million overweight American adults – into a reality.

  • Harvard expands financial aid for students choosing public service:

    President Lawrence H. Summers announced a new initiative Wednesday (Jan. 15) that will make a Harvard education more accessible and affordable for talented students who wish to pursue careers in public service. In a series of steps designed to ease financial burdens for students in fields that do not offer high financial returns, the University has established:

  • New, far-out planet is discovered:

    Astronomers have discovered a new planet in the constellation Sagittarius, the farthest from Earth found to date. Its so distant that light takes 5,000 years to travel from there to here at a speed of 186,000 miles per second.

  • This month in Harvard history

    Ca. January 1956 – West Publishing Co. (St. Paul, Minn.) presents the Law School with one of two known copies of “The Capitall Lawes of New-England, as they stand now…

  • Word wiz:

    Awarded each year to an outstanding student of Japanese. David Hembry 06 is this years winner of the Tazuko Ajiro Monane Prize. The prize is awarded annually to an outstanding student of Japanese who has completed at least two years of Japanese language study at Harvard. The award is sponsored by the Tazuko Ajiro Monane Memorial Fund and hosted by the Japanese Language Program.

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  • Medical texts and other fictions:

    Hysteria is no longer accepted as a valid medical diagnosis. You wont find it in the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, nor are any of the major pharmaceutical firms producing drugs to alleviate its symptoms.

  • Framed!

    From the Dudley House Lounge, a student can be seen scurrying to his next study session.

  • Yakov Gubanov:

    In Woody Allens film, The Purple Rose of Cairo, a character from a 1930s movie walks off the screen and into the life of an audience member.

  • Barbara Haber brought books and cooks to Schlesinger Library:

    When a young Barbara Haber accepted a part-time, low-paying position at a small library devoted to womens history in 1968, her library school mentor was dismayed. She showed such promise, he thought, that she should pursue loftier employment leading toward the goal of one day directing a library.

  • In brief

    Big Picture makes move

  • Track splitters:

    The Harvard mens and womens indoor track and field teams hosted crosstown rival Northeastern this past Saturday (Jan. 11) with mixed results. Powered by a first- through third-place sweep in the mile run, and strong outings in the long, triple, and high jumps, the mens team floated past the Huskies, 75-70. The womens squad, however, surrendered the meet, 71-56, despite a balanced afternoon in the field events.

  • King commemoration set for Memorial Church:

    A service commemorating the life and mission of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be held on Jan. 20 at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Church. Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, will deliver the keynote address, and the Kuumba Singers, a 90-member choral group of Harvard undergraduates dedicated to the expression of black creativity and spirituality, will perform.