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  • Notes

    Portfolio Review Extended The Harvard Neighbors Art Committee has extended its annual review for Harvard-affiliated artists interested in applying to exhibit during the 2000-2001 academic year. Faculty and staff with…

  • Why Onions Have More DNA Than You Do

    A raspberry has only 8 percent as much genetic material as you or me. That’s expected; raspberries aren’t too smart or complex. But an onion isn’t very complex either, and…

  • Police Log

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the HUPD for the week ending Feb. 5. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden Street. Jan. 31:…

  • Report: Despite Some Progress, Segregation Persists in Boston Area

    Although more African-Americans and Hispanics are buying homes in municipalities surrounding Boston, these buyers are concentrated in a small number of communities and are thus segregated from white homeowners, according…

  • Shahn Exhibit Opens at Sackler

    The Harvard University Art Museums are bringing New York to Cambridge this month, with an exhibit at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of the artistic and social documentary photographs of…

  • Men Top ‘Big Three,’ Women Beat Yale

    ” Big Three” rivals Harvard, Yale, and Princeton tangled poolside last weekend, as men’s and women’s swimming and diving meets yielded mixed results at Blodgett Pool. The Crimson men emerged…

  • Wendell Scholarship Marks 100 Years of Tradition

    On the occasion honoring the 100th Jacob Wendell Scholar, a member of the Wendell family, Andy Thomas, recorded some of the scholarship’s history as well as his own impressions of…

  • Auction Tonight To Benefit KSG’s Student Internship Fund

    A nonspeaking, walk-on role in the season finale of the new hot TV show The West Wing, lunch with NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw, a hike on the East Boston Greenway…

  • Harper, Winokur to Join Harvard Corporation

    Conrad K. Harper and Herbert S. Winokur Jr. were named on Monday to join the seven-member Harvard Corporation. Both will assume their positions as Fellows of Harvard College by the…

  • Daffodils Bloom To Aid Cancer Research

    While other funding sources balked, the American Cancer Society decades ago funded Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery Judah Folkman’s research into ways to cut off the blood supply to cancerous…

  • Alleged Harvard Burglar Captured At UCLA, Returned to Cambridge

    A alleged campus thief and convicted trespasser was back in Cambridge District Court this week, after attempting to elude Harvard University Police by fleeing cross-country. Andre Stuckey was led off…

  • Study: Children With Cancer Suffer Needlessly

    Children dying of cancer experience substantial suffering in the last month of life, according to researchers at two prominent cancer hospitals in Boston. Not all such suffering is necessary, say…

  • The Logical Choice

    Richard Heck sits in his office, his lanky frame sprawled on a worn armchair. A half-finished bottle of Coke rests on the seat of a wooden chair beside him. Nothing…

  • Tribute

    The People’s Lawyer: A to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham” will be held at the Kennedy Library in Boston from 3 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 6. The tribute will…

  • Delivering History

    What would Martha Ballard think of DoHistory.org? Would she be puzzled that so much fuss was being made about a woman from rural Maine who died almost 200 years ago,…

  • Institute of Politics Announces Fellows for Spring 2000

    The Fellows for Spring 2000 at the Institute of Politics will discuss their personal perspectives on politics in a panel discussion at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 8, in the…

  • Two Professors Receive Fellowships from National Endowment for the Humanities

    Two professors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have received research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Suzanne Blier, professor of the history of art and…

  • New Doctoral Program Joins DEAS, Business School

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  • Newsmakers

    Reinhardt Book Links Business and Environment Forest Reinhardt, associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, has linked business success and environmental consciousness in his book Down to Earth:…

  • Notes

    Harvard Neighbors to review artists’ portfolios The Harvard Neighbors Art Committee will hold its annual review for Harvard-affiliated artists interested in applying to exhibit during the 2000-2001 academic year. Faculty…

  • Candidates for Overseer and for HAA Elected Director 2000

    Appearing below are the Harvard Alumni Association’s nominations for this year’s election to the University’s Board of Overseers and the HAA Board of Directors. The election this spring will determine…

  • Memories of Pain Can Come Back To Hurt

    Newly found connections between pain and memory are leading to novel ways to control pain. Nerves carry pain signals to the spinal cord and brain where they excite cells involved…

  • Women Priests, Vegetarianism – An Early Christian Manuscript Holds Some Surprises

    François Bovon has spent many years peering into the mists that shroud the early history of Christianity. His investigations have shown him something that might surprise nonscholars – that even…

  • Police Log

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the HUPD for the week ending Jan. 29. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Jan. 23: A…

  • Women’s Basketball Round-Up

    The Harvard women’s basketball team has jumped out to a 10—5 record on the season, and as of Feb. 1, sits atop the Ivy League standings with a perfect 3—0…

  • Hasty Pudding Names Woman and Man of Year

    The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation’s oldest dramatic organization, announced the recipients of the 2000 “Woman and Man of the Year” awards: Jamie Lee Curtis and Billy Crystal. The 50th…

  • Learning the Boogie-Woogie

    The pictures will be available to the public next year in an exhibit, “Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings,” scheduled for April through July 2001 at the Fogg Art Museum. Eleven of…

  • Memorial Service to be Held

    The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research will hold a memorial service in honor of Professor Benjamin Schwartz on Thursday, Feb. 3 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church in…

  • Cabot Fellowship Awarded to Four in FAS

    Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has named this year’s Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The four recipients of this fellowship are: Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer,…

  • Joan Shorenstein Center Announces Fellows for Spring 2000

    While spending a semester away from the daily grind, the Spring 2000 fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center will focus on, among other things, the relevance of character in the…