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  • Alex S. Jones Named New Director of the Shorenstein Center

    Alex S. Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of PBS’ Media Matters, has been named the new director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public…

  • Crimson Dedicates Itself to Ivy Victories

    Under threatening skies and windy conditions, over 300 Harvard tennis fans and alumni joined in the celebration to dedicate the new Beren Tennis Center. The ceremony, held on center court,…

  • Raiffa Receives Dickson Prize in Science from Carnegie Mellon

    Carnegie Mellon University has awarded its $50,000 Dickson Prize in Science to Howard Raiffa, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor in Managerial Economics, Emeritus, a pioneer in the field of decision…

  • Terry Murphy Named Gazette Managing Editor

    Terry L. Murphy of Boston has been named managing editor of the Harvard University Gazette. A 20-year veteran of newspaper editing and reporting, Murphy was a copy editor at the…

  • Internet Lottery Opens Up 100 Spaces

    Members of the Harvard community will have a chance to participate in the third International Conference on Internet & Society. The University is providing a forum for leading scholars, practitioners,…

  • Cataloging Terror — Makiya and team lead effort to index Iraqi atrocities

    It was one of the most horrific episodes in recent world history. Almost 400 villages in Northern Iraq were eliminated in 1987 and ’88 – with thousands of inhabitants allegedly…

  • With a Goal In Mind

    Name tags might have been necessary the first few weeks, with all the young faces assembled on Harvard’s women’s lacrosse team. Of the 25 players on the roster this spring,…

  • Vorenberg, Ninth Dean of Law School, Dies

    Roscoe Pound Professor of Law James Vorenberg, the ninth dean of Harvard Law School, former Watergate associate special prosecutor, and first chair of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission, died on…

  • Remembering Justice Marshall

    Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree (from left), Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Mrs. Cecelia Marshall (wife of the late Justice…

  • NAGPRA Conference at Peabody To Discuss Repatriation Issues

    The Peabody Museum will host a symposium on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). A Decade of NAGPRA: Reviewing the Law will take place Friday, April 14th,…

  • Afro-Am Celebrates 30 Years

    Founders and graduates of Harvard’s Afro-American Studies Department came together last weekend to reflect on the struggle that gave the department birth, to plot strategies for the future, and to…

  • American Red Cross Blood Drive

    The American Red Cross will run a blood drive in Memorial Hall on Friday, April 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and at St. Paul’s Church, 29 Mount Auburn…

  • Literacy Lab Named for Jeanne Chall

    The Graduate School of Education’s literacy laboratory will be renamed the Jeanne S. Chall Reading Laboratory in honor of its founder and a leading expert in reading research and instruction…

  • Chemistry and Chemical Biology Fellowships Announced

    Each year, the department of chemistry and chemical biology receives a number of corporate fellowships for organic chemistry research. These fellowships are sponsored by several corporations whose support has been…

  • Faculty Council Notice – April 12

    The following members of the Faculty have been elected to the Council for terms beginning on July 1, 2000: Professors John Y. Campbell (Economics), Jay M. Harris (NELC), Pamela K.…

  • Study Reveals New Priorities for New Generation of Faculty

    Quality-of-life factors are the most significant determinants for prospective faculty when they’re considering a job offer, according to a new study conducted by the Project on Faculty Appointments at the…

  • H’ard Corps Kindness

    Nearly 300 students turned out for the first annual H’ARD CORPS (Harvard Community Outreach and Public Service) event on Saturday. Breaking into teams, they worked on 18 different projects in…

  • Student-Organized Conference To Focus on ‘Mixed-Race Experience’

    For many of us, food can be a powerful reminder of who we are and where we come from. But the foods that Rebecca Weisinger ’02 remembers from her family…

  • Quincy Jones Professorship Is First in African-American Music

    Declaring that music has been central to the African-American experience since slavery, Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. announced Friday the creation of the first endowed professorship in…

  • Nieman Foundation Announces Winners of Lukas Prize for Nonfiction

    Two books and a work-in-progress have been named winners of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project, an awards program jointly administered by the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University…

  • Wired Marathoner To Spotlight Science

    Dayna Muller will be wired like an astronaut when she runs the grueling 26.2-mile Boston Marathon on April 17. A pillbox-sized sensor on one shoe will broadcast her running speed…

  • Monkeys Distinguish Different Languages — It’s Not All Greek to Them

    Monkeys can tell the difference between Dutch and Japanese as easily as human infants, language researchers have found. This ability makes humans less special than previously believed, and ties our…

  • Newsmakers

    Warfield Named Chair of Anesthesia and Critical Care at BIDMC Carol A. Warfield, associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, has been named chair of the anesthesia and critical…

  • Rudenstine Celebrates Boston Latin, Harvard Ties

    Good morning. I’’m very glad to be with all of you this morning, to celebrate your school and its achievements, and to wish you good fortune as you begin your…

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  • Office for the Arts Announces Senior Winners of Annual Prizes

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  • David Pryor Named Director of the Institute of Politics

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  • The Poet Unveiled

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  • Seven Faculty Members Selected As Harvard College Professors

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