Campus & Community
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Harvard scientist awarded Nobel Prize
Gary Ruvkun, professor of genetics at the Medical School, shares honor with former Harvard researcher for discovery of microRNA
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Acknowledging achievements, offering optimism
‘Harvard Extension School degree candidates put challenging academics at the center, not the margins, of their lives.’
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A blueprint for better conversations
After months of listening and learning, open inquiry co-chairs detail working group’s recommendations
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Celebrating 25th anniversary of Radcliffe Institute
Three Harvard presidents, two Nobel laureates gather to mark ‘unique legacy and remarkable impact’
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Scruggs describes ‘super surreal moment’ when she made Olympics history
Harvard fencer reflects on path to silver and gold — including facing a childhood idol — and what keeps her balanced, focused
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Why are you so offended?
It’s about status, not hurt feelings, philosopher argues
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Education Students To Present Research on Range of Topics at Conference
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE) will hold its fifth annual Student Research Conference and International Forum on Feb. 25, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Gutman…
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Living Longer Presents Housing Challenges, According to New Report
A growing population of seniors living longer, healthier lives will present new challenges and opportunities to the housing market, states a new report by Harvards Joint Center for Housing Studies.…
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Migration Washes Over Ambivalent America
Make up your mind, America. Thats the message of Kennedy School of Government economist George Borjas, a specialist in immigration who believes the United States is of two minds about…
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Helping Refugees of Gender-Based Persecution
She was pistol-whipped, raped, beaten unconscious, and kicked until she bled. He used her head to break windows. He threatened her with a machete. When she pleaded with local authorities…
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Rockefeller Center Conference Focuses on Latino Immigration
Americas Latino population is more than 30 million and growing. Yet, as the nation absorbs one of the largest waves of immigration in its history, knowledge about the Latino population…
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Suarez-Orozcos Focus on the Youngest Immigrants
Most Americans think that we are “Garbage” was the response of a 14-year-old Dominican boy when asked to complete a survey sentence by Harvard immigration experts Marcelo and Carola Suarez-Orozco.…
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Waters Brings the ‘Invisible Immigrants’ to Light
A young woman from the West Indies one of hundreds of people Mary Waters interviewed for her new book on West Indian immigration told Waters that she had…
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Women’s Leadership Conference Now Accepting Applications
The Womens Leadership Project (WLP) is currently accepting applications from Harvard undergraduates for its 13th annual Harvard Womens Leadership Conference, to be held Sept. 4-9, 2000. The weeklong conference brings…
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Newsmakers
Stanbridge is Architect of Distinction at GSD Harvard Graduate School of Design student Paul Stanbridge 00 has received both the Autodesk Architect of Distinction Award and the ALEX Award for…
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Scientists Probe Northern Hemisphere Ozone Loss — ‘Spy’ planes fly over Russia for the first time in 40 years
As you read this, frigid air spirals slowly downward from the stratosphere into the winter darkness of the arctic, part of a complex process destroying the ozone layer that shields…
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Police Log
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 19. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden…
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Priceline.com Founder To Speak at Business School
Jay Walker, founder and vice chairman of Priceline.com, will speak about “The Future of the Internet” on Thursday, March 2, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at Burden Auditorium on the…
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Notes
Cultural Rhythms Festival Feb. 26 The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural & Race Relations will present its annual Cultural Rhythms Festival on Saturday, Feb. 26, at 3 p.m. in Sanders Theatre…
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A Quarter Century of Pitching In for All-Female A Cappellas
The sweet rhythms of the Radcliffe Pitches will fill the air at the Sanders Theatre on Friday, Feb. 25, when Harvards oldest all-female a cappella group marks a major milestone…
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Community Leaders Trumpet the Rise of Social Enterprises
Approximately 100 student leaders in public service from Harvard, Wellesley, Columbia, the University of North Carolina, and several other universities gathered at the Kennedy School of Government last Saturday for…
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Study: Most Still Undecided On Presidential Candidate
The front-runner in this years presidential campaign is no one at all, says a new survey conducted by the Kennedy School of Governments Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and…
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Kennedy School Executive Dean Burke Accepts Post at Smithsonian Institution
Sheila Burke, executive dean of Harvards Kennedy School of Government, has accepted a post as Undersecretary for American Museums, Programs and National Outreach at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.…
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Harvard AIDS Institute Opens HIV Laboratory in Botswana
A southern African nation that has been decimated by a quick-spreading subtype of the AIDS virus is now ground zero in the battle against it. Dedication ceremonies for the new…
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Arts Event Set at HMS
Black students at Harvard Medical School, in conjunction with the Office of Human Resources, Student Affairs, the Joint Committee on the Status of Women and other student groups, invite all…
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Imagitas Fellowship Established at KSG
The Newton-based company, Imagitas, has established a new summer fellowship program at the Kennedy School of Government. The program will pay a stipend of $7,000 each to ten to fifteen…
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Making the World Feel at Home
In 1979, Harvards 40 Iranian students underwent an overnight transformation. From being nationals of a “friendly” country, under the Shah, they became suddenly suspect when an Islamic fundamentalist regime swept…
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Memorial Service Planned for Perry Townsend Rathbone
A memorial service for Perry Townsend Rathbone ’33, will be held Friday, Feb. 25, at 4:00 pm in Memorial Church, the Reverend Peter Gomes presiding. Rathbone was the director of…
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More Than 2,000 To Convene in Boston for Harvard Model United Nations Conference
Hoping to foster international good will and peacekeeping, more than 2,000 college students from all over the world will gather in Boston this week to participate in Harvards National Model…
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Newsmakers
Rev. Gomes Delivers Sermon at University of Cambridge The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes delivered one of six formal “University Sermons” in the Church of St. Mary the Great at…
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Spong To Give Noble Lectures At Memorial Church
Harvards Memorial Church will host the 101st annual William Beldon Noble Lectures, which will be given by the Right Rev. John S. Spong, on March 6, 7, and 8 at…
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Notes
Journalist Helen Thomas to Speak at Law School The Harvard Law School Forum will present speaker Helen Thomas, “dean” of the White House Press Corps and UPI-Washington Bureau chief, on…
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Police Log
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Feb. 12. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden…
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From Our Hearts To Yours
It¹s a yearly tradition for members of the Harvard Neighbors Quilting Group to make quilts for the children’s ward of Cambridge City Hospital and present them on Valentine’s Day.
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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 Valentines Day, a lively group of seventh graders from the Grover Cleveland Middle School in Dorchester entered a lecture hall in Byerly Hall to…