Year: 2000
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Campus & Community
Suspect wanted for assault near Leverett
According to Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), a woman affiliated with the University was assaulted while walking on the pathway behind Leverett Towers on Saturday, Sept. 16, between 10:45 and…
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Campus & Community
HLS students honored for community service
Sixteen members of the Harvard Law School (HLS) Class of 2000 have received the inaugural HLS Student Community Service Awards in recognition of their service to the Harvard Law School…
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Campus & Community
Police call beating of Harvard student a ‘hate crime’
In what they are calling a “hate crime,” Cambridge Police are looking for two men who assaulted a Harvard undergraduate on Tuesday, Sept. 19. The assault occurred at approximately 8:35…
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Campus & Community
GSE leadership program gets $3.6 million Gates grant
Giving many cause to celebrate the first day back to school in Boston, on Sept. 5 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $3.6 million grant to the Harvard…
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Campus & Community
Black alumni will gather at HLS celebration
More than 80 years after Harvard Law School (HLS) awarded a degree to the nation’s first black law school graduate, a group of defiant attorneys led by Harvard’s own Charles…
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Campus & Community
Laying down the law: Zittrain wants to bring order to the Wild Wild Web
You might say Jonathan Zittrain was way ahead of his time. When the recently appointed assistant professor of law at Harvard Law School (HLS) was all of 12 years old…
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Campus & Community
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs names 2000-01 fellows
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has named 21 international affairs practitioners from around the world as fellows for 2000-01. Established in 1958, with the founding of the Center, the…
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Campus & Community
Increase in criminal vehicle incidents in Allston area
Criminal incidents involving motor vehicles in the area in and around the Business School campus and athletic facilities have increased in the last few months, according to the Harvard University…
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Campus & Community
Partial ceiling collapse at Stoughton Hall spurs inspection
All’s well at Stoughton Hall following a partial ceiling collapse last week. One freshman student suffered minor scratches when a portion of drywall and insulation came tumbling down from above…
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Campus & Community
Shorenstein announces fellows
The Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government has selected five distinguished journalists and scholars as the 2000 Fall Fellows. Among the…
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Campus & Community
Raise high the roof beam
Workers repaired the building’s leaky roof in work that began this summer and is slated to be completed in October.
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Campus & Community
Provost grants to promote interchange
Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has announced a new round of grants under the Provost’s Fund for Student Collaboration. These grants are designed to promote intellectual interchange across faculties of the…
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Campus & Community
Grants help Pluralism Project cultivate ‘national conversation
The Ford Foundation recently awarded a grant of $641,000 in supplemental support to the Pluralism Project for “development of a project that serves as a national research and policy resource…
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Campus & Community
PBHA brings Harmony to the children
The four boys clustered around the drum pounded it rhythmically — almost — filling the small gymnasium with sound and sending tobacco bits ritually sprinkled on the drum’s skin bouncing…
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Campus & Community
Location of Oxford Street barricades changed
With the completion of the city’s pipeline investigations, DPW has concluded that the portion of Oxford Street north of the Dworkin Driveway is in the poorest condition and must be…
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Campus & Community
Notes
President, provost offer office hoursHarvard President Neil L. Rudenstine will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 3. Provost…
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Campus & Community
Carbon bits to revolutionize computer construction
A new way of building computers involves the world’s strongest material in the form of exotic tubes 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. Called nanotubes, they are a hundred…
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Campus & Community
‘Stag’ faces changing times
Thomas Derrah doesn’t look much like a king. Wearing a Hawaiian shirt and baseball cap, he sits scrunched up in a front-row seat at the Loeb Drama Center, scribbling notes…
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Campus & Community
Greenblatt named University Professor of the Humanities
President Neil L. Rudenstine has announced that Stephen Greenblatt, a world-renowned scholar of Renaissance literature, has been named John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities. With this appointment, Greenblatt joins…
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Campus & Community
Rounding up the ‘Horses’: First U.S. exhibition devoted to Franz Marc’s ‘Horses’ opens at Busch-Reisinger
Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum will present an exhibition offering an intimate look at Franz Marc’s (1880-1916) paintings of horses. “Franz Marc: Horses” brings together a selection of major works by this…
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Campus & Community
East Boston gets helping hand
A below-market rent for a renovated East Boston apartment looks more than pretty good to Javier Loaiza, who is raising his daughter, Dahiana, by himself and feeling stretched a bit…
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Campus & Community
Divinity Hall to be rededicated
Amidst the anxieties, toils, pleasures, dissipations, and competitions of life, in the stir and bustle of society, and in an age when luxury wars with spirituality … we would devote…
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Campus & Community
Center for the Study of World Religions names new fellows
The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at the Harvard Divinity School is host to 32 fellows and visiting scholars from around the world for the 2000-01 academic…
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Campus & Community
Labor director is named: Jones works to keep relationships respectful, consistent and fair
David A. Jones, who has served Harvard as director of Workforce Initiatives since January 1999, has been appointed director of Labor and Employee Relations. He replaces Kim Roberts who resigned…
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Campus & Community
Law professor David A. Charny dies at 44
Employment and corporate law specialist David A. Charny, the David Berg Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, died unexpectedly, after a brief illness, on Thursday, Aug. 31. He was…
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Campus & Community
Economist David Bell dies at 81
David E. Bell, the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Population Sciences and International Health Emeritus, died Sept. 6, 2000, after a brief illness. He was 81. An economist who served…
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Campus & Community
Art museums reach out to local community
The Harvard Art Museums (HUAM) are eager to help local schools plan curricula, arrange student visits, and generally make their superb collections available to the Cambridge community. That was the…
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Health
Sights set on partial corneal transplants
“We don’t have any way of curing these problems,” says Nancy Joyce, a Harvard researcher who is working on saving people’s sight when their corneas deteriorate. “The only way right…
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Science & Tech
Chandra clinches case for missing-link black hole
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have zeroed in on a mid-mass black hole in the galaxy M82. This black hole – located 600 light years away from the center…
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Health
Sharp declines in heart disease in women
During the course of a 14-year study, female participants’ consumption of red meat dropped by nearly 40 percent, intake of trans fats dropped by more than 30 percent, and use…