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Comic books have come a long way.

Thirty-seven foreign scholars and professionals and a senior fellow at Harvard have been named 2001 – 02 Fulbright Grant recipients. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, participating governments, and host institutions in the United States and abroad, these grants allow scholars from across the globe to lecture or conduct research at Harvard during the academic year.

If you asked most college students at most colleges to name their favorite class, chances are the words “freshman chemistry” wouldn’t come up all that often. On the other hand,…

When Linda Norden got hired by the Fogg Art Museum as associate curator of contemporary art, she faced a challenging problem. Museums like the Fogg collect art objects, and they…

After three hours of mathematics one recent Saturday morning, 25 Boston middle school teachers paused briefly for lunch, after which they began their fourth hour of class totally engaged with…

From soccer to science, civics to computers, the after-school offerings of 21 programs serving Boston youth got a $400,000 boost yesterday (Jan. 9), as Harvard formally honored its agreement to…

William A. Graham, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of the History of Religion in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will serve as Acting Dean of the Harvard Divinity School pending the appointment of a permanent dean, President Lawrence H. Summers announced today.

Following twenty-seven years as a member of the Harvard Corporation, Robert G. Stone, Jr., will conclude his service as Fellow of Harvard College at the end of the 2001-02 academic year.

The good news is that the universe will last forever. The bad news is that we will be seeing less and less of it as galaxies fade and become frozen in time.

Edward Wagner, who taught Korean studies at Harvard for 35 years, died Dec. 7, 2001, at the Walden Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Concord of pneumonia and other complications from AlzheimerÕs disease. He was 77.

John Carrol from Facilities Maintenance Operations trims trees in JFK Park during the warmer weather earlier this month.

Faculty selects Lewis for Bond Book Award David Levering Lewis, the Martin Luther King Jr. University Professor at Rutgers University, is the recipient of this year’s Horace Mann Bond Book…

Hauser Center accepting fellowship applicants The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations is currently accepting applications for the 2002-03 Doctoral Fellowships in Nonprofit Sector Studies. The center will award up to…

Karin Alexander of Lowell House is a winner of an International Rhodes Scholarship. Alexander plans to further her work in social studies, in which she concentrated, during her time at Oxford University. Alexander, who grew up in Zimbabwe, will be pursuing a degree in Development Studies at Oxford. She wants to prepare herself to work in civic education in Zimbabwe, helping the countrys rural population become more educated in civics and politics so they can more fully participate in their government.

Lauren Baer and Sarah Moss, both Harvard College seniors, have won Marshall Scholarships. The prestigious scholarships allow young American leaders to study at a university in Britain. On Dec. 5, the British ambassador to the United States, Sir Christopher Meyer, announced the names of the 40 American students who will become the new Marshall class.

The increased activity of a single enzyme in fat cells may be a common cause of obesity and obesity-linked diseases, including diabetes, according to an animal study conducted by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the University of Edinburgh and published in the Dec. 7 issue of Science. The findings could eventually pave the way for future drug development to curb visceral obesity – the ‘beer belly’ fat concentrated in the abdomen.

The increased activity of a single enzyme in fat cells may be a common cause of obesity and obesity-linked diseases, including diabetes, according to an animal study conducted by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the University of Edinburgh and published in the Dec. 7 issue of Science. The findings could eventually pave the way for future drug development to curb visceral obesity – the ‘beer belly’ fat concentrated in the abdomen.

They see some of the world’s worst birth defects at Children’s Hospital in Boston. Dario Fauza remembers a “big beautiful boy” born with a normal heart outside of his body.…

Karin Alexander of Lowell House is a winner of an International Rhodes Scholarship. Alexander plans to further her work in social studies, in which she concentrated, during her time at…

On Wednesday, Nov. 28, at approximately 9 a.m., a resident of Shaler Lane observed a white male, around 60 years old, enter and exit the residents unlocked townhouse. The suspect, described as having white hair and wearing a black waist-length raincoat, remained inside the residence for approximately two minutes. He then exited the residence and walked down Shaler Lane toward Foster Street. A thorough check of the area by the Cambridge Police Department turned up negative results. The resident did not observe any property missing from their residence.

Dec. 9, 1788 – From the Journal of Disorders of Eliphalet Pearson, the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages: Disorders coming out of chapel. Also in the hall at breakfast the same morning. Bisket, tea cups, saucers, and a KNIFE thrown at the tutors. [. . .] – From this day to 13 December disorders continued in hall and chapel, such as scraping, whispering, etc.

Papers sought for graduate student conference

Miranda Worthen 01 joins a Nov. 30 rally organized by the national organization Justice for Janitors. The group has held periodic demonstrations in the area. Staff photo by Justin Ide

Edmund Spevack, a former Harvard lecturer on history and literature, passed away in his native Muenster, Germany, on July 2, 2001, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 38.

If Theodore Bestor had gotten his way when he was 15, he wouldnt be where he is today.

Hill selected for New Century program Allan G. Hill, Andelot Professor of Demography at the School of Public Health (SPH), was recently selected for the newly created Fulbright New Century…

Coach Tim Murphy, who guided the Ivy League Champion Harvard football team to its first undefeated, untied season since 1913, has been named New England Division I-AA Coach of the Year by the New England Sportswriters Association. This is Murphys third selection as Coach of the Year and is his second honor as the Crimson coach. He was first selected in 1987 after leading the University of Maine to an 8-4 record and the teams first-ever 1-AA playoff bid. Ten years later, he nabbed his second nomination after leading the Crimson to a 9-1 record and the Ivy championship.

In the first prospective study in the United States to look at the effect of combination therapy that includes protease inhibitors on HIV-1 infected children and adolescents, researchers from the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (PACTG) and the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) found that mortality rates among the study participants were dramatically reduced. The study appears in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

The next Silicon Valley could well be in Boston, but it is likely to be heading a biomedical rather than a computer revolution, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers predicted Thursday (Nov. 29) in a speech before about 300 doctors, researchers, and other medical personnel at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.