Year: 2000
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Campus & Community
Campaign Raises Record $2.6 Billion For Teaching, Research
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…
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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.…
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Campus & Community
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…
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Campus & Community
‘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…
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Campus & Community
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…
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Campus & Community
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…
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Campus & Community
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:…
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Campus & Community
Harvard Workers Respond As a Team to Peabody Terrace Emergency
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…
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Campus & Community
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.…
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Campus & Community
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…
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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…
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Campus & Community
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…
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Campus & Community
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 Healths Center for Children’s…
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Campus & Community
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…
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Campus & Community
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;…
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Campus & Community
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…
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Campus & Community
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,…
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Campus & Community
For the Love of the Race
When Alexis Todor was 10 years old, she experienced her first serious clash with authority: the principal of her elementary school reprimanded her for not throwing away her lunch (she…
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Campus & Community
Studies: ‘High Stakes’ Tests Are Counterproductive Economically Disadvantaged Students
So-called “high stakes” testing policies that require students to pass standardized tests deepen educational inequity between whites and minorities and widen the educational gap between affluent and impoverished students, according…
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Campus & Community
Karl Strauch, High Energy Physicist, Dies at 77
Karl Strauch, a leading high energy physicist, and professor emeritus of physics at Harvard University, died at Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston on January 3, 2000. He was 77…
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Campus & Community
Smith To Conclude Service With Harvard Corporation
Richard A. Smith, a member of the Harvard Corporation since 1991, will conclude his service as a Fellow of Harvard College at the end of the 1999-2000 academic year. Smith…
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Campus & Community
Police Log
The following are some of the incidents reported to the HUPD for the week ending Jan. 15. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. Jan. 9:…
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Campus & Community
Ocean Weather Prediction System Developed
Oceanographer Allan Robinson stared at the front page of the newspaper showing where EgyptAir Flight 990 had plunged into the sea with 217 people aboard. He focused on a map…
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Notes
Office of Work and Family relocates The Office of Work and Family has relocated to 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Holyoke Center Rm. 761, Cambridge, MA 02138. The phone and fax numbers…
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Kahn Named President of Joslin Diabetes Center C. Ronald Kahn took over as president of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston on Jan. 13. The Mary K. Iacocca Professor of…
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe Professorship Established
Terrence Murray, a 1962 graduate of Harvard College, has donated one of the largest gifts in Radcliffe history to establish the first professorship of the new Radcliffe Institute for Advanced…
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Campus & Community
Marilyn Monroe’s Books Donated to Schlesinger Library
Five books owned by American film icon Marilyn Monroe have been anonymously donated to the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Purchased in October at Christies auction house in New York, the books will be on display at the library throughout the month of January.
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Campus & Community
Mondrian Painting Is First for Busch-Reisinger
The Busch-Reisinger Museum has acquired its first painting by one of the centurys greatest masters of geometric abstraction, Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872-1944). Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow and Red (1922) is an exceptionally well-preserved example of the artists “classic” period, clearly showing Mondrians painterly sensibility shiny black lines and delicately brushed fields, subtle gray…
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Campus & Community
Little Named Director of Center for the Study of Values in Public Life
David Little, T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict at the Divinity School, has been named director of the Schools Center for the Study of Values in Public Life, effective immediately.
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Campus & Community
Online Reference Shelf Will Put Historical Data at Your Fingertips
When researchers seek historical information about Harvard or Radcliffe, or even about the history of higher education in the United States, they often turn to primary sources in the Harvard and Radcliffe Archives. Most often, the quest begins with a browse through the many volumes of annual reports of the Harvard and Radcliffe presidents.