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  • Bio-grant links faculty research to undergrads

    With breakthroughs like the human genome project, the fundamentals of biology dont seem so fundamental anymore. Yesterdays textbook might be obsolete by the time its bound and distributed.

  • Marjorie Cohn named acting director of Fogg

    Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman has announced the appointment of Marjorie B. Cohn, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints at the Fogg Art Museum, to serve as acting director of the Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) until a permanent successor to James Cuno is determined and installed. Cuno, director since 1991, will be leaving at the end of December to head Londons Courtauld Institute of Art.

  • Weather watchers forecast better forecasts

    The notorious inaccuracy of weather forecasts has been the stuff of countless jokes, comic strips, and sitcom disasters, such as the recent New Yorker cartoon that shows a weather reporter in a rain jacket, holding an umbrella. At this point, its still not classified as a hurricane, he says into the camera. Its still being called a raindrop.

  • From the literary page to the public stage

    Meenakashi Gupta 03, who has worked with Project HEALTH Girls Fitness and Nutrition Program for several years, knew that helping inner-city girls steer clear of obesity involved healthy eating and plenty of exercise.

  • The intersection of press and politics

    This fall, students in Deb Harmons advanced placement English class will be getting involved in politics in their hometown of Defiance, Ohio.

  • Fountain of youth discovered

    Ah, summer. Hanging out by the swimmin hole, paddling lazily with friends, splashing cannonballs and double-dog-dares off the highest dives.

  • Busquets is first Bucksbaum Professor

    Joan Busquets has been appointed the first Martin Bucksbaum Professor in Practice of Urban Planning and Design, effective July 1, the Graduate School of Designs Dean Peter G. Rowe announced in July. Busquets comes to the Faculty of Design from a position at the Polytechnic University of Barcelona, where he has been Professor of Town Planning in the School of Architecture since 1979.

  • STEP-ping down

    Nelda Pierre, a rising senior at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, fielded questions from tourists (Wheres the Coop? Whens the next tour?) on Tuesday (Aug. 20), one of her final days as a summer employee in the Harvard Events and Information Center. Harvards Summer Teen Employment Program (STEP) filled 92 summer positions around Harvard – including Pierres – with teens from Cambridge and Boston public schools. STEP eased the students way into the world of work with seminars and social events.

  • Mental health workers prepare for Sept 11th ‘reaction’

    Mental health professionals call it the anniversary reaction – the triggering of negative feelings as the date of a past traumatic event makes its annual appearance on the calendar.

  • From Russia with love and dedication…

    Why is Amelia Nickles scampering about on all fours? Because shes a dog, of course. Not just any dog, but a lean brown greyhound that loves to lean against her mistress knee and rest its head on her lap.

  • Andres, HMS visiting professor, dies at 78

    Giuseppe Andres, visiting professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School, died in Marina Di Pietrasanta, Italy, on July 28. He was 78.

  • KSG honors American Indian tribal governments

    In recognition of their outstanding achievements in governance, eight American Indian tribal government programs were awarded $10,000 each from the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) at a June ceremony held in Bismarck, N.D. The event was attended by hundreds of American Indians from across the country who gathered for a session of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI).

  • Science Center’s Nivola vibrant again

    The 70-foot sandscape mural that decorates the main corridor of the Science Center is looking brighter these days, thanks to a retouching of the original colors by the artists daughter and grandson.

  • GSE project garners $1 million from Ford Foundation

    The Study of New Scholars (an outgrowth of the Project on Faculty Appointments) at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) has received $1 million to study junior faculty members satisfaction with their institutions as a place of work. The Ford Foundation and the Atlantic Philanthropies have each contributed $500,000 over a three-year period.

  • Celebrating seniority

    Music, dancing, entertainment, scrumptious box lunches, all under a rapturously blue sky – could Harvards Senior Picnic get any better?

  • Japanese prime minister visits Harvard University

    Prime Minister of Japan Junichiro Koizumi was welcomed to Harvard University on Monday, Sept. 9, by Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers and members of the faculty. The prime minister attended a reception in his honor hosted by President Summers, where he addressed and met faculty, students, and other members of the Harvard community.

  • Million-dollar professor inspires undergraduates through science

    Eyes may be a window to the soul, but Donna Richard M. Losick, Harvard College Professor and Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), has received a $1 million grant to support innovations in his teaching of science to Harvard undergraduates.

  • President Summers, students speak at remembrance on Sept. 11

    On the anniversary of the Sept. 11 tragedy, Harvard University will hold a ceremony of remembrance in Tercentenary Theatre. Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers will deliver the day’s main address, reflecting upon the year since terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania killed thousands. Students will read passages from a number of religious traditions on the themes of remembrance and hope, and a choral work composed by a member of the Class of 2004 will be performed.

  • Marriage lowers testosterone

    A man’s testosterone levels drop significantly when he holds an infant. Even holding a baby doll can decrease levels of the male virility hormone.

  • Clarification

    In a page 23 article in the July 18 issue of the Gazette, New MS drugs are found, Masha Fridkis-Hareli is an instructor in medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She came to Harvard University seven years ago and worked on the drugs as a postdoctoral fellow. The caption of the photograph with the story should read: Jack Strominger displays an image of a protein similar to the one involved in multiple sclerosis.

  • Summers lauds summer school grads

    President Lawrence H. Summers visited Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) Aug. 2, to congratulate the nearly 300 high school students about to graduate from the Cambridge-Harvard Summer Academy (CHSA).

  • What are you laughing at?

    Dying is easy, comedy is hard. Reportedly, these were the last words of Sir Donald Wolfit, British actor and director. Wolfits deathbed quip has been quoted often, perhaps because it captures so well comedys essential paradox.

  • Nieman receives Knight grant

    The Nieman Foundation for Journalism has received $420,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to provide fellowships for journalists of accomplishment and promise from Latin America.

  • Sarkis named first Aga Khan Professor

    Dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) Peter G. Rowe has named A. Hashim Sarkis the first Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies. Sarkis has taught at the GSD since 1995 and has been associate professor of architecture since January 2001. His teaching has covered a range of topics, in addition to studio design, including Green Modern: A History of Environmental Consciousness from Patrick Geddes to the Present, and Practices in Democracy, with a scope of inquiry addressing non-Western examples and broad issues of development.

  • Harvard to mark anniversary of Sept. 11 with solemn remembrance

    The University observance of the anniversary of the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, will be held in Tercentenary Theatre at noon on Wednesday, Sept. 11. President Lawrence H. Summers will be the principal speaker.

  • Rare disease provides cancer clues

    While studying a rare genetic disease, scientists have unexpectedly found a new way to detect a variety of inherited cancers.

  • John Ruggie named director of CBG

    John Ruggie, Kennedy School of Government (KSG) professor and former assistant secretary-general of the United Nations, has been named director of KSGs Center for Business and Government (CBG), KSG Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. announced this month.

  • James Thomson, former Nieman curator, dies at 70

    James C. Thomson, former Nieman Foundation curator, East-Asia historian, and key figure in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, died Aug. 11, at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, of cardiac arrest after a brief illness. He was 70.

  • Finance VP Huidekoper taking post at Brown

    Elizabeth Huidekoper, Harvard’s Vice President for Finance, to become Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration at Brown University

  • University Marshal Richard M. Hunt to retire

    University Marshal Richard M. Hunt to retire