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…
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 Healths Center for Children’s…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Cambridge Emergency Management Director David OConnor was on the scene as an underground electrical fire forced hundreds of Harvard graduate students and their families to evacuate from Peabody Terrace on…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
In a letter being sent this week to all contributors to Harvards University Campaign, which ended on December 31, President Neil L. Rudenstine thanked them for advancing the Universitys teaching…
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…
January 27, 2000 At its eighth meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed the recent Report of the Provosts Committee on Student Mental Health Services. Members of the Committee…
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…
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…
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 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…
The man brought his 9-year-old son into the makeshift clinic to test the boys brain. There was no point in doing even the simplest test, the nurse noted. The boy…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Phillips Brooks House Association Inc. (PBHA), the oldest and largest volunteer public service organization at Harvard College, is rededicating its home, the historic Phillips Brooks House, on the centennial…
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced the following opportunities for fellowships during the 2000-01 academic year: Graduate Student Associate Positions The Graduate Student Associate Program provides a supportive…
Extension School students David Colt and Amos Lichtman strolled into Sever Hall on their way to their College Algebra class. A little early, they plunked themselves down on the wooden…
The bad news: colon cancer is a killer. The disease is responsible for approximately 48,000 deaths in the United States each year, making it the second leading cause of cancer death in the country.
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