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  • Composer Harbison To Receive 2000 Harvard Arts Medal

    Pulitzer Prize winning composer John Harbison ’60 (AM ’68) will receive the 2000 Harvard Arts Medal on May 6 as part of ARTS FIRST 2000, the eighth annual celebration of…

  • Helping a Student-Run Homeless Shelter

    President Neil L. Rudenstine (left) shakes hands with Alina Das ’01, student director of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter at the University Lutheran Church, on Tuesday while Joanne Engquist, a…

  • Housing Studies Fellowship Offered

    The Joint Center for Housing Studies is offering a fellowship award for the academic year 2000-01 for doctoral candidates who are engaged in writing a dissertation on a housing-related topic…

  • HRO To Host Outreach Concert for 1,000 Cambridge Schoolchildren

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  • Internet Conference Lottery Deadline Is March 17

    The Third International Harvard Conference on Internet & Society, to be held May 31-June 2, will explore the impact and implications of the Internet in transforming industry, government, and individual…

  • Memorial Service Set for Kaplan

    A memorial service for Felicia Lamport Kaplan will be held on Monday, March 13, 2000 at 3 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, 1515 Massachusetts Ave.,…

  • Kovach Receives Goldsmith Award At KSG Tonight

    Bill Kovach will receive this year’s Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at an award ceremony tonight (March 9) at 8:00 p.m. at the Kennedy School of Government. Kovach,…

  • Laser Lights Way To Treating Advanced Lung Cancer

    The woman’s left lung had collapsed because a tumor blocked the airway leading to it. She could only survive in a hospital with the help of a machine that forced…

  • Of Masks and Mirrors

    Erin Curran, 6, a 1st-grader from the Martha Jones School in Westwood, Mass., practices a wrathful roar while looking in a hand mirror after having her face painted inside the…

  • Newsmakers

    Callbacks Win A Cappella Semifinals The Callbacks, one of Harvard’s coed undergraduate a cappella singing groups, placed first in the Northeast Regional Final of the National Championship of Collegiate A…

  • Notes

    Vacation Houses For Rent Harvard’s vacation houses on Sutton Island and Kittery Point, Maine, are available for rent to salaried faculty and officers of the University. Applications for weekly rentals…

  • Provost Announces New Round of Grants To Promote Interfaculty Collaboration

    Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced a new round of grants under the Provost’s Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration. These grants are designed to promote intellectual interchange across Faculties of the…

  • Four Seniors Are Off to England as Harvard-Cambridge Scholars

    It’s not often opportunities like this one come knocking on a dormitory room door. So you can just imagine the reaction when 20 members of the Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships selection committee…

  • Ben Shahn’s New York

    The moment I stepped into the Ben Shahn exhibition currently at the Sackler Museum, I had the feeling that I was in the presence of something uncannily familiar, a world…

  • Honoring Two Former Cambridge Mayors

    President Neil L. Rudenstine hosted a lunch Tuesday, March 7, in honor of recently retired Cambridge mayors Frank Duehay (left) and Sheila Russell. The mayors and other guests were also…

  • Whirling at Wonderland

  • Players Make Cancer Battle a Team Effort Student-athletes respond to Delaney-Smith’s openness in her fight with breast cancer

    Courtney Egelhoff leaned in close, her face just inches from her coach’s blonde, shoulder-length hair. Intent with concentration, Egelhoff combed and snipped. Combed and snipped some more. The scene was…

  • Major Bach Exhibition Mounted by Students at Houghton, Loeb Libraries

    The life of Johann Sebastian Bach, from his music to his personal relationships with sons, students, and other contemporaries, is documented with selected original materials in an exhibition called “The…

  • Bott Wins Israel’s Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics

    The Wolf Foundation, an Israel-based organization dedicated to the promotion of science and art, has named Raoul Bott, the William Caspar Graustein Research Professor of Mathematics, winner of the 2000…

  • Dropping Dyslexia’s Baggage

    Juliana Paré-Blagoev believes that brain scan studies will not only yield scientific clues for furthering treatment of dyslexia, but also subtle, easily overlooked benefits–such as a sense of hope, that…

  • Police Log

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 4. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden…

  • Harvard Wins Ivy Honors for Player of Week and Rookie of Week

    Harvard basketball senior captain Damian Long of Spokane, Wash., has been named Ivy League Player of the Week for the period ending March 5, while freshman guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman of…

  • 2000-01 Undergraduate Tuition and Fees Are Set

    Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles has announced that for the 2000-01 academic year, Harvard’s package of undergraduate tuition, room and board, and student fees…

  • Practical Physics — David Weitz works with real materials on real problems

    When David Weitz says his experiment is ready to fly, he means that literally. Like into space. Weitz has had four experiments aboard space flights, including three on the Mir…

  • Undergraduate Applications Top 18,500

    A record 18,687 students have applied for the 1,650 places in the Class of 2004, according to the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, marking the ninth time in the…

  • Matthew Alper Joins Kennedy School As New Assistant Dean for Research

    Matthew Alper, director of administration and finance for the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at the Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has been named…

  • Provost Increases Funds For Child Care, Enhances Back-Up Care Service

    Harvard Provost Harvey Fineberg has announced two initiatives to help faculty and staff with child and elder care. He has approved an increase in the University’s child-care scholarship fund, which…

  • Making a Difference — Busy Crimson athletes find time to contribute to local community

    To many, the most remarkable element of Harvard’s extensive athletics program – and its high level of success – is that its athletes must be just as dedicated to excellence…

  • Harvard Alumni Prepare To Elect Overseers, HAA Directors

    This year eligible alumni voters will elect five members of the University’s Board of Overseers and six directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots will be mailed during the…

  • Marijuana Said to Trigger Heart Attacks

    Marijuana can be hard on the heart. In the first hour after smoking pot, a person’s risk of a heart attack could rise almost five times, according to a Harvard…