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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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;…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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:…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • ‘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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…