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  • What’s It Like To Be President of Harvard? Inquiring seventh-graders want to know

    At noon on a very wet Valentine’s Day, a lively group of seventh graders from the Grover Cleveland Middle School in Dorchester entered a lecture hall in Byerly Hall to…

  • Crimson Women Bring Home the Beanpot

    Harvard sophomore Jennifer Botterill’s overtime goal gave Harvard (15-4-3) a 4-3 win over Northeastern in the championship game of the 22nd-annual women’s Beanpot Tournament at the Bright Hockey Center. Botterill,…

  • Truckin’ Toward a Degree in Natural Sciences

    The Harvard Gazette

  • Sounding Your Os and Rs

    One of the grand mysteries of language concerns the nature of vowels and consonants. Are they really different entities processed separately by the brain, or just artificial labels developed for…

  • Artist Melanie Yazzie To Lecture at GSE

    The Harvard Native American Program and the Askwith Education Forum at the Graduate School of Education will present artist Melanie Yazzie in a lecture and slide show titled “Holding the…

  • 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…

  • Faculty Council — Feb. 9

    At its ninth meeting of the year the Faculty Council received a report from Nancy Maull, Administrative Dean; David Zewinski, Associate Dean for Physical Resources and Planning; and Vincent Tompkins,…

  • Holdren Wins Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

    John P. Holdren, the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, has won the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for his work to…

  • Researchers Switch Cancer Off and On — In Mice

    Claudia Huettner can switch off deadly leukemia in mice simply by putting an antibiotic in their drinking water. Her system even causes regression of advanced stages of the cancer. When…

  • A Theory About Everything — Maldacena closes in on one of universe’s deepest mysteries

    The problem defied Einstein, but Harvard physicist Juan Maldacena is using black holes and tiny cosmic strings to help figure out the “Theory of Everything.” A newly minted Harvard physics…

  • Law School Student Aces T.V. Pop Quiz

    Rahim Oberholtzer remembers his shock when Maury Povich’s voice came over his headset telling him he had won more than a million dollars. It was $1.12 million, to be precise.…

  • Newsmakers

    Desan Receives Legal History Award The American Society for Legal History has awarded Professor of Law Christine Desan the Erwin C. Surrency Prize for the best article published in volume…

  • 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…

  • Radcliffe Institute To Host Conference on Genetically Engineered Food

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is tackling the controversial issue of genetically engineered food by hosting a one-day conference titled, “Genetically Modified Foods: Should You Be Concerned?” Co-sponsored by…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • New Cancer Risk Website Logs Record-breaking Launch

    More than 13,000 visits were logged on to a new Website of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention within the first week of its launch in mid-January, making it the…

  • 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…