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  • 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…

  • Scott M. Black Professorship Established at Kennedy School

    The Kennedy School of Government has established a new chair in government, the Scott M. Black Professorship of Government. The chair, made possible by a gift from Scott M. Black…

  • Campaign Raises Record $2.6 Billion For Teaching, Research

    In a letter being sent this week to all contributors to Harvard’s University Campaign, which ended on December 31, President Neil L. Rudenstine thanked them for advancing the University’s teaching…

  • First Report in a Decade Quantifies Healthcare for U.S. Children

    Taking a comprehensive look at healthcare delivery to children for the first time in more than a decade, a report by the Harvard School of Public Health’s Center for Children’s…

  • Christopher Named Director Of KSG’s Innovations Program

    Gail C. Christopher, director of the Alliance for Redesigning Government and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, has been named executive director of the Innovations in American…

  • Harvard College Names Donahue As New Financial Aid Director

    Sarah Clark Donahue has been appointed director of financial aid for Harvard College. Donahue served for over a decade as director of financial aid at Harvard Law School, where she…

  • Faculty Council Notice

    January 27, 2000 At its eighth meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed the recent Report of the Provost’s Committee on Student Mental Health Services. Members of the Committee…

  • Notes

    Lottery to be held for Harvard Conference on Internet & Society Registration Spaces The Third International Harvard Conference on Internet & Society, to be held May 31-June 2, 2000, will…

  • Prize Allows FAS Administrators To Recharge Batteries

    Susan Vacca calls it her “odyssey.” In July of 1998, Vacca, associate director and librarian in the Office of Career Services, flew from Boston to Genoa, Italy; from Genoa to…

  • Intensely Technical — Ariel Pakes Has Followed His Head and Heart to Prominence in Economics

    After three months writing a novel on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Ariel Pakes learned he had a scholarship to Harvard to do graduate work in economics. An aspiring journalist…

  • Faculty Task Force Recommendation To Close HIID Approved

    Harvard Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has accepted the recommendation of a faculty task force to close the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) after integrating some of its programs and…

  • Phillips Brooks House Celebrates 100th Anniversary

    100 Years of Encouraging and Supporting Volunteerism 1917 1922 1940’s 1958 Its elegant meeting rooms have seen the likes of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lani Guinier, and ACLU founder Roger Baldwin.…

  • Tomiko Brown-Nagin Named Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow

    Tomiko Brown-Nagin has been appointed a Harvard Law School Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow. The Houston Fellowship was established in 1992 by Dean Robert Clark to promote new channels of entry…

  • Harvard Workers Respond As a Team to Peabody Terrace Emergency

    Cambridge Emergency Management Director David O’Connor was on the scene as an underground electrical fire forced hundreds of Harvard graduate students and their families to evacuate from Peabody Terrace on…

  • Harvard Planning and Real Estate Proposes Increase for 2000-2001

    Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE) has proposed a 2.5 percent rent increase for current affiliated housing residents who live in the approximately 2,300 Harvard Affiliated Housing apartments. The proposed…

  • Police Log

    The following are some of the incidents reported to the HUPD for the week ending Jan. 22. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Jan. 16:…

  • Children Treated for Lead Poisoning

    The man brought his 9-year-old son into the makeshift clinic to test the boy’s brain. There was no point in doing even the simplest test, the nurse noted. The boy…

  • Modus Operandi of Polio Virus Revealed

    The first images of a polio virus as it infects a human cell have been captured by researchers at Harvard Medical School. The paralyzing disease has been eradicated from Western…

  • Hidden Tolls of Intimate Partner Violence Brought to Light

    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person,” and that “no one shall be subjected to torture, inhuman, or…

  • Men’s Squash co-captain Wyant ’00 Has a Sense of History

    When men’s squash co-captain, senior Tim Wyant, speaks of being a part of the Harvard program, his pride is evident. Thirty-one national team championships. Twenty-four Potter Trophies. Thirty-three Ivy League…

  • Hospitals Could Dramatically Cut Mistakes

    One out of every 25 hospital patients suffers complications related not to illness, but to treatment. And more than any other single cause, that treatment involves drugs. A study by…

  • ‘Voices of Public Intellectuals’ Lecture Series Kicks Off

    Following a successful run last fall, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will again host its “Voices of Public Intellectuals” lecture series this spring with a focus on “Feminisms and…

  • Three Students To Study in Ireland As Mitchell Scholars

    Three Harvard students – two undergraduates and a Medical School student – will be studying in Ireland for a year as part of the inaugural cohort of George J. Mitchell…

  • Newsmakers

    Gingerich wins LeRoy Doggett Prize in Astronomy Owen Gingerich, professor of astronomy and the history of science, received the LeRoy E. Doggett Prize from the Historical Astronomy Division of the…

  • A Letter from President Rudenstine

    January 21, 2000 Dear Alumni, Alumnae, and Friends, I write with a simple purpose: to thank you, on behalf of the entire Harvard community, for taking part in the most…

  • Standing Committees for 1999-2000 –— Faculty of Arts and Sciences

    Upon the recommendation of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the President approved and announced the following Standing Committees at the FAS Faculty Meeting of Oct. 19,…

  • Male Baldness Linked To Higher Incidence of Heart Disease

    It appears that balding men have more to worry about than their vanity. The largest study to date concludes that male pattern baldness is associated with an increased risk for…

  • Kokkalis Program Offers Travel Grants, Seeks Scholars

    The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe will award travel grants to students seeking to work or pursue research in the region of its focus during the summer of…

  • Black History Month Service To Be Held At Memorial Church on Sunday, Feb. 13

    A service in honor of Black History Month will be held Sunday, Feb. 13, at 3:30p.m. in The Memorial Church, Harvard Yard. The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes will preach;…

  • Artist To Discuss His Work at Free Illustrated Lecture

    Painter, sculptor and printmaker Oliver Jackson will discuss his work and career in an illustrated lecture at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 22, at the Sackler lecture hall, Arthur M.…