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  • Kids rule at Sports Fest

    Mayor Thomas Menino joined hundreds of local youths, student athletes, and coaches last Friday (April 28) to kick off the annual Sports Festival held at Harvard. Designed to celebrate the…

  • Ruth Dixon Turner, professor of biology, dies

    Ruth Dixon Turner, professor of biology emerita, died Sunday in Meadow Green Nursing Home in Waltham at the age of 85. Turner was curator of malacology at the Museum of…

  • Vorenberg memorial service set for May 10

    A memorial service will be held for Roscoe Pound Professor of Law James Vorenberg, a former Harvard Law School dean, on Wednesday, May 10, at 2 p.m. in Memorial Church,…

  • Irvin H. Blank, Leader in Dermatology, Dies

    Irvin H. Blank, a former research fellow at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and physician on the Dermatology Service at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), died in his Belmont home on April…

  • Sharon Clayborne Memorial Is Changed to May 2

    The memorial service for Sharon P. Clayborne, director of financial aid at Harvard Medical School, who died on April 13, has been changed. The service will be held on Tuesday,…

  • Community Gifts Donations Surpass Last Year’s by $69K

    The generosity of Harvard employees has always been great. This year it has proved to be greater than ever. The 1999-00 Community Gifts through Harvard Campaign has raised $871,912, an…

  • Harvard Reaches Out To Forge Links With Cuba

    At a time when U.S—Cuban relations are at best strained and at worst bordering on crisis, a group of Harvard scholars is working to strengthen educational and cultural ties between…

  • Kennedy School Student Leaders Push for End of Cuban Embargo

    Student leaders at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) passed a resolution this week calling for the immediate repeal of the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba. The vote capped a…

  • Small Chemical Spill Forces Evacuation at Science Center

    A minor chemical spill forced the limited evacuation of the Science Center basement on Wednesday morning. According to authorities with the Environmental Health and Safety Office (EHS), a small amount…

  • Faculty Council Notice

    At its 14th meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed a proposed Statement on Outside Activities with three members of the Committee that drafted the document: Professor Dennis Thompson…

  • Topping off her education in style

    After being fitted for her undergraduate cap and gown at the Harvard Coop, Kamil Redmond ’00 toys with the idea of pursuing an advanced degree while trying on the appropriate…

  • Health Care Issues Rise to Top in Presidential Run

    What if there were an election without a great pressing issue facing the electorate? That’s the dilemma in the 2000 presidential campaign. The United States isn’t at war, and the…

  • Sacred Flames — Vedic fire ceremony celebrates Hinduism

    His Grace Srila Turiya Das Acarya Mahasaya, a Hindu priest of the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition, presides over a Vedic fire ceremony held on the steps of Memorial Church. The event…

  • Memo On Human Subjects Research

    The memorandum from Provost Harvey Fineberg reprinted below is intended to remind members of the Harvard community about matters related to the conduct of human subjects research. April 2000 To:…

  • Law Students Examine High Court on the High Desert

    While many of their peers were sipping margaritas on the beaches of Cancun or playing volleyball in Daytona, Fla., a half dozen Law School (HLS) students spent their spring break…

  • Newsmakers

    Herzlinger Named Bush Adviser Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has been named an adviser to presidential candidate George W. Bush regarding…

  • Notes

    The Graduate Student Council of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will honor five faculty members with the Excellence in Mentoring Award at a reception on Thursday, May 4,…

  • Police Log

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 22. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.…

  • Memorial Service for Wilfred Cantwell Smith Set

    A memorial service for Wilfred Cantwell Smith, professor of the comparative history of religion emeritus, will be held on Friday, May 5, at 2:30 p.m. in the Memorial Church in…

  • Crew Cops Compton, O’Leary Cups — Men and women rowers leave Princeton, Dartmouth in their wake

    The Harvard men’s heavyweight crew, ranked fourth in the nation, solidified its standing with a victory over fifth-ranked Princeton and M.I.T. in the 65th rowing of the Compton Cup Saturday…

  • Thinnest Wires Probe Superconductivity

    Scientists at Harvard University have made wires too small to see without a powerful microscope. They are almost too small to imagine – thousands of times thinner than a human…

  • Scans Predict Alzheimer’s Risk

    Older people frequently forget where they left their glasses or parked their car. Could such memory lapses be a sign of Alzheimer’s disease? Until now, no good way existed to…

  • Women’s Basketball Awards Given; 2000-01 Captains Named

    The women’s basketball team held its annual post-season banquet on Tuesday evening, April 25. In addition to team awards for 1999-00, head coach Kathy Delaney Smith announced that juniors Kristen…

  • Arthur Mu-En Lee, Expert in Cardiovascular Disease, Dies

    Arthur Mu-En Lee, associate professor of molecular biology at the Harvard School of Public Health and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, died on April 10 following surgery…

  • Scoring the Future — Arts Medalist Harbison wants budding careers to bloom

    His life’s work is a montage of musical masterpieces, including three symphonies, three string quartets, two operas, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning cantata “The Flight into Egypt.” Yet, it’s not so…

  • Hypersensitive Skin Reveals Clues About Migraine Pains

    The painfully sensitive skin that accompanies many migraines has revealed a new understanding of the debilitating headaches. The latest findings from Boston researchers are the first that may explain why…

  • Narayan Memorial Set for May 5 at Adams House

    A memorial service, “A Celebration of the Life of Navin Narayan,” will be held on Friday, May 5, in the Adams House Library at 2:30 p.m. Navin Narayan ’99 died…

  • Commencement Speaker Named

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  • Gary Bellow, Legal Education Programs Founder, Dies at 64

    Harvard Law School Professor Gary Bellow, the founder and former faculty director of the School’s Clinical Programs and a pioneering public interest lawyer, died on April 13 from cardiac arrest…