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  • From KSG to Gore headquarters: Lecturer Elaine Kamarck has become a major voice on the campaign trail

    However the U.S. presidential race turns out for Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush, it’s looking like a winner for Elaine Kamarck. Kamarck, a lecturer in…

  • Just sleep on it: And empty the brain’s ‘in box’

    Robert Stickgold caused 17 different people to have the same dream. In doing so, he added to evidence that the purpose of sleep is to process information — to take…

  • Faculty Council Oct. 25

    At its fourth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council reviewed the Oct. 17 Faculty Meeting and discussed the agenda for the Nov. 14 Faculty Meeting. The Council also heard…

  • From KSG to Gore headquarters: Lecturer Elaine Kamarck has become a major voice on the campaign trail

    However the U.S. presidential race turns out for Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush, it’s looking like a winner for Elaine Kamarck. Kamarck, a lecturer in…

  • Just sleep on it: And empty the brain’s ‘in box’

    Robert Stickgold caused 17 different people to have the same dream. In doing so, he added to evidence that the purpose of sleep is to process information — to take…

  • Faculty Council Oct. 25

    At its fourth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council reviewed the Oct. 17 Faculty Meeting and discussed the agenda for the Nov. 14 Faculty Meeting. The Council also heard…

  • Gazette’s new look

    The Harvard University Gazette is making changes. In addition to the new nameplate, we’ve added an expanded promo box that points you to stories of special interest inside. In the…

  • Former News Office photographer William H. ‘Bill’ Tobey dies at 77

    Wiliam H. “Bill” Tobey, 77, a photographer and filming coordinator at the Harvard University News Office starting in 1956, died on Oct. 5 at Mid Coast Hospital in Maine. Born…

  • Free will hunting: Dan Wegner probes the relation between mind and action

    Try not to think about a white bear. Really try. Try not to think about a white bear. You’re thinking of one, aren’t you? Dan Wegner, who just joined the…

  • Harvard College Social Enterprise Club launches new program

    The Harvard College Social Enterprise Club announced a new program that will provide comprehensive support to undergraduate social purpose start-ups. Beginning in November, the Social Enterprise Incubator Program will offer…

  • Concentrating on gender: GSE students study gender issues in new concentration

    Examining a fundamental yet, until recently, understudied element of the human experience is the intent of a new concentration at the Graduate School of Education (GSE). Gender Studies is an…

  • Transgendered playwright assails ‘institutions of oppression’

    The ambiguities of gender captured the spotlight on Monday night at the Askwith Education Forum, sponsored by the Graduate School of Education (GSE). Transgendered playwright and performance artist Kate Bornstein,…

  • Study looks at role of writing in learning

    Shauna Shames ’01 recalls a line from an essay by Joan Didion: “She said, ‘I write to find out what I think.’” This could be a slogan for the Harvard…

  • School of Design announces 2000-01 Loeb Fellows

    James G. Stockard Jr. curator of the Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Design School (GSD), has announced the selection of the Loeb Fellows for 2000-01. The Loeb Fellowship is a…

  • Crime numbers falling in several categories

    On-campus crime appears to be decreasing in several categories at Harvard University according to newly released crime statistics posted on the U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education Web…

  • Police Log

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 21. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden…

  • Women’s soccer streak comes to an end

    A maxim that the Harvard women’s soccer team both championed and cursed during a busy away weekend against Princeton and Penn State. After defeating rival Princeton 2-0 on Friday night…

  • Radcliffe’s Capital Campaign garners record $101M

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced the successful completion of an eight-year quest to secure $100 million in gifts from donors. At a gala dinner, Acting Dean Mary…

  • Journal of African American Public Policy pays tribute to Higginbotham

    The Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with a new issue that pays tribute to the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. The journal,…

  • Former Nieman curator is honored

    Nieman fellows and alumni from around the world have raised more than $22,000 for the newly named Kovach Library at Lippmann House. The donations honoring former Curator Bill Kovach will…

  • Notes

    Waging a peaceful celebration In celebration of Women Waging Peace, a Kennedy School program, there will be a concert on Monday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. With…

  • Delaney-Smith carries on fight against cancer

    In December 1999, Harvard women’s basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith was diagnosed with breast cancer. In March 2000, the Gazette chronicled Delaney-Smith’s fight. Today, we revisit her to see how she’s…

  • Harvard focuses on mental health

    People may think of Harvard students as models of cool, as intelligent, sophisticated youths well able to handle the pressures of academic work and social life at an elite university.…

  • Female monogamy is fiction, not fact, Hrdy says

    Women are naturally monogamous. Men tend to rove. That assumption is not only part of popular belief, it has also been enshrined by science. Darwin, writing of animal mating habits,…

  • Bicycle bandits still at large

    According to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), a University student was the victim of assault and unarmed robbery on Sunday, Oct. 15, at 10 p.m. While walking down Holyoke…

  • Community service is key: Ebert Awards recognize the commitment of eight

    Eight medical professionals were recently recognized for extraordinary service — locally and globally — by the Medical School/School of Dental Medicine Office of Community Outreach Programs. Joseph Martin, Dean of…

  • Water power: Once American women rowers trailed the field. In 1975, that all changed.

    If you had been walking along Memorial Drive early one particular morning during the summer of 1975, you might have seen a group of strapping young women expertly lowering a…

  • Field hockey hits its stride

    Crimson field hockey is rolling right along this year, with (at press time) an 8-3 record on the season and a perfect 4-0 in the Ivy League. A week ago…

  • Administrative fellows named

    Eleven new fellows have been selected for the 2000-01 Administrative Fellowship Program. Of the 11, six are visiting fellows and five are resident fellows. The Administrative Fellowship Program, coordinated by…

  • Ravitch slams school reform: Ed School forum shows the failures of progressive education

    From “social efficiency” to “curriculum integration” to “open classrooms,” the history of American education is littered with failed school reform efforts that mobilized support and generated momentum for fits and…