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  • Bertrand Fox, Former HBS Professor, Dies at 92

    Professor Emeritus Bertrand Fox, an economist and investment banking expert who had a lasting impact on Harvard Business School as director of its Division of Research, died on March 14…

  • Better Way To Predict Heart Attacks Is Discovered

    For about $20 you can determine your risk of a future heart attack, according to a new study from Harvard Medical School. The test measures levels of a protein that…

  • Fazili Wins Women’s Leadership Award

    Harvard College has selected Sameera Fazili ’00 as the winner of the Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award. Also, Emmy Award-winning senior correspondent for ABC Carole Simpson, has been named the…

  • Newsmakers

    Jane Fountain, associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and member of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, has been appointed to a three-year term as a…

  • Notes

    Hauser to speak on his books at M.I.T. Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser will give a talk about his two books, The Design of Animal Communications (M.I.T. Press, 2000)…

  • Ethnobiologist Plotkin To Deliver Lowell Lecture

    “Witchdoctors and Biotechnology” is the subject of the annual Lowell Lecture, which will be delivered this year by ethnobiologist Mark Plotkin. The talk will take place on Friday, April 7,…

  • Police Log

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 18. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden…

  • A High-Flying Season . . . ends with a hard landing for women’s hockey

    Although the 1999-2000 women’s hockey season came to a disappointing end when the Crimson was not chosen for the AWCHA National Championship Tournament, the year was filled with many high…

  • Love Is in the … Computer

    It was a crowded room, but the eyes of Ana Tavares and Fidencio Saldana did not meet across it. That is because Saldana is 6-foot-5 and Tavares is about a…

  • Leading Environmentalist Leaves Papers to Harvard

    Environmental scholars at Harvard will soon have access to the personal papers of Maurice Strong, one of the central figures in international environmental politics for the past 30 years. Strong’s…

  • At Busch Hall, Clock’s Time Has Come Again

    The hands of time will begin turning again today on Busch Hall. It has been more than four months since the circa 1930 tower clock was disassembled, removed, and then…

  • Conference to Explore Experience-Based Education

    The Harvard Outward Bound Project and the Experiential Educators’ Network are planning a conference for those interested in learning more about experiential or experience-based education. The conference, called “The Common…

  • Experience, Education Link Real World to Classroom

    The class started off easily enough. Graduate School of Education Lecturer Meg Campbell said it was to be student-directed, following the principles of experience-based education. She had given the assignment…

  • Law Students Offer Free Tax Assistance

    The Harvard Law School Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) is providing free, confidential assistance in preparing state and federal tax returns to low-income, elderly, and handicapped residents of Boston,…

  • University Asks That Harvard Pilgrim Trademark Case Be Heard in Federal Court

    Facing a state court deadline last week to respond to the Attorney General’s lawsuit about Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s use of the Harvard name, the University has responded by requesting…

  • KSG Joins Women.Future Conference on April 5

    The Kennedy School of Government will participate via satellite in the global “Women.Future Conference” to be held on Wednesday, April 5, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The conference will…

  • Young Scientists’ Club

    Every Tuesday afternoon for the past eight weeks, kids in the Young Scientists’ Club turned the Harvard Museum of Natural History into their own research lab to learn about light.…

  • Air Pollution Deadlier Than Previously Thought, SPH Study Finds

    According to Joel Schwartz, associate professor of environmental health at the School of Public Health, “Air pollution kills about 70,000 Americans each year. That’s more people than die from breast…

  • College Students Binge More Frequently, Survey Finds

    College students are drinking more and college administrators are enjoying it less, according to a nationwide study of binge drinking. Approximately one in four (23 percent) of more than 14,000…

  • Barlett and Steele Awarded Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

    The $25,000 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting has been awarded to journalists from Time Magazine by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy…

  • Conference on Minorities And Women in Science Set for March 17 and 18

    The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations is sponsoring the Seventh Annual Science Conference, titled “Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics” Friday and Saturday, March 17…

  • Seamus Heaney To Give Haviaras Lecture April 6

    Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet Seamus Heaney will give the inaugural Stratis Haviaras Lecture, titled “Room to Rhyme,” in the Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland St., on Thursday, April 6,…

  • Tending Her Gardens

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  • Beloved Music Teacher Vosgerchian Dies At 77

    The Harvard Gazette

  • Newsmakers

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  • Notes

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  • Radcliffe Institute To Host South African Leaders

    While South Africans around the world celebrate their country’s Human Rights Day on Tuesday, March 21, Sheila Sisulu, the South African Ambassador to the United States, will be at the…

  • Appiah Named Director of South Africa Fellowship Program

    For years, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah has espoused the ideal of bringing a multidisciplinary approach to the study of ethnic history and identification. Since…

  • Season Ends, Coach’s Fight for Health Continues

    Kathy Delaney-Smith rode her bike to the office the day after the devastating 96-74 loss to Dartmouth ended the Crimson women’s basketball season. It had been only days earlier, coming…