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  • Newsmakers

    Butler and Gudrais Named Harvard Magazine Fellows for 2000-01 Kirstin E. Butler and Elizabeth A. Gudrais have been named Harvard Magazine‘s Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellows for the 2000-01 academic…

  • Statement of President Neil L. Rudenstine On Contingent Workforce Issues

    Harvard is committed to providing fair and competitive compensation and a favorable working environment for all its employees. For the vast majority of our regular employees, we meet and exceed…

  • Notes

    Artistic freedom conference at Law School, April 14 The Harvard Law School Arts Panel will present its spring conference on Friday, April 14, at 2:30 p.m. in Hauser 104. The…

  • Police Log

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the weeks ending March 25 and April 1. The official log is located at Police Department…

  • Harvard Planning and Real Estate Announces Affiliated Housing Rent Rates for 2000-01

    Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE) has announced approval of the new rent schedule for approximately 2,300 Harvard-owned apartments rented by graduate students and other University affiliates. The new rents…

  • Adam Ulam, Authority on Russia, Dies at 77

    The Harvard Gazette

  • Time On Their Hands

    The Harvard Gazette

  • Medical Students Learn From Dying Patients

    The Harvard Gazette

  • Faculty Council Notice

    The Harvard Gazette

  • Harvard Foundation To Host Nichols’ Lecture

    The Harvard Gazette

  • Filmmaker/Lecturer Nominated for Oscar

    If Wendy Tilby’s name is called at Sunday night’s Academy Awards presentation in Los Angeles, a roar of applause may be heard emanating from the Carpenter Center on Quincy Street.…

  • New KSG Center Will Focus On Public Leadership

    The Harvard Gazette

  • Fish Gotta Swim — But only George Lauder can tell us how

    George Lauder hits a few keys on his laptop, and a moving image appears on the screen. “That’s the fish’s pectoral fin,” he says, pointing to the grainy, black-and white-picture.…

  • Faculty Council

    At its 11th meeting of the year the Faculty Council discussed the annual Affirmative Action Report with Professor Marjorie Garber, Associate Dean for Affirmative Action, and Elizabeth Doherty, Assistant Dean…

  • Bertrand Fox, Former HBS Professor, Dies at 92

    Professor Emeritus Bertrand Fox, an economist and investment banking expert who had a lasting impact on Harvard Business School as director of its Division of Research, died on March 14…

  • Better Way To Predict Heart Attacks Is Discovered

    For about $20 you can determine your risk of a future heart attack, according to a new study from Harvard Medical School. The test measures levels of a protein that…

  • Fazili Wins Women’s Leadership Award

    Harvard College has selected Sameera Fazili ’00 as the winner of the Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award. Also, Emmy Award-winning senior correspondent for ABC Carole Simpson, has been named the…

  • Newsmakers

    Jane Fountain, associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and member of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, has been appointed to a three-year term as a…

  • Notes

    Hauser to speak on his books at M.I.T. Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser will give a talk about his two books, The Design of Animal Communications (M.I.T. Press, 2000)…

  • Ethnobiologist Plotkin To Deliver Lowell Lecture

    “Witchdoctors and Biotechnology” is the subject of the annual Lowell Lecture, which will be delivered this year by ethnobiologist Mark Plotkin. The talk will take place on Friday, April 7,…

  • Police Log

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending March 18. The official log is located at Police Department Headquarters, 29 Garden…

  • A High-Flying Season . . . ends with a hard landing for women’s hockey

    Although the 1999-2000 women’s hockey season came to a disappointing end when the Crimson was not chosen for the AWCHA National Championship Tournament, the year was filled with many high…

  • Love Is in the … Computer

    It was a crowded room, but the eyes of Ana Tavares and Fidencio Saldana did not meet across it. That is because Saldana is 6-foot-5 and Tavares is about a…

  • Leading Environmentalist Leaves Papers to Harvard

    Environmental scholars at Harvard will soon have access to the personal papers of Maurice Strong, one of the central figures in international environmental politics for the past 30 years. Strong’s…

  • At Busch Hall, Clock’s Time Has Come Again

    The hands of time will begin turning again today on Busch Hall. It has been more than four months since the circa 1930 tower clock was disassembled, removed, and then…

  • Conference to Explore Experience-Based Education

    The Harvard Outward Bound Project and the Experiential Educators’ Network are planning a conference for those interested in learning more about experiential or experience-based education. The conference, called “The Common…

  • Experience, Education Link Real World to Classroom

    The class started off easily enough. Graduate School of Education Lecturer Meg Campbell said it was to be student-directed, following the principles of experience-based education. She had given the assignment…

  • Law Students Offer Free Tax Assistance

    The Harvard Law School Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) is providing free, confidential assistance in preparing state and federal tax returns to low-income, elderly, and handicapped residents of Boston,…