Year: 2001

  • Nation & World

    Cambridge schools seek volunteer tutors, aides

    Cambridge School Volunteers Inc. (CSV), is a private, nonprofit organization that recruits, trains, places, and provides support services for volunteers in kindergarten through grade 12 in the Cambridge Public School system. CSV needs people of all ages and backgrounds to serve as tutors, classroom aides, and library assistants.

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    Suspect is sought

    On Monday, Jan. 8, at approximately 2:19 p.m., the victim of an indecent assault and battery incident came to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) headquarters to report that she had just been attacked while walking along Berkeley Street near Phillips Street in Cambridge. The suspect approached the victim from behind and grabbed her in…

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    Police Log

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Jan. 13. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St.

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    Harvard History

    January 1659 – President Charles Chauncy describes a recent “great disorder at Cambridge” involving nighttime fighting “betweene the schollars and some of the toune.” Cambridge and Harvard thus chalk up…

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    Faculty Council Notes

    At its eighth meeting of the year the Council heard a report from Paul Bergen, the Facultys Instructional Computing Group Manager, on the development of instructional computing in the Faculty. Dean Paul Martin, chair of the Standing Committee on Information Technology, and Frank Steen, director of Computer Services, were present for this discussion.

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    Alzheimer’s vaccine looks promising

    In 1993, Harvard researchers Dennis Selkoe and Howard Weiner got together over dinner to talk about how they might combine their expertise to find a better treatment for Alzheimer’s, a…

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    Gene for familial dysautonomia discovered

    Familial dysautonomia is a neurodegenerative disease that mainly targets Ashkenazi Jews. The disease, which affects one in every 3,600 members of this group, impairs the development of the sensory and…

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    High school dropouts concentrated in 35 cities

    The nation’s high school dropout problem is most desperate in between 200 to 300 schools in the 35 largest cities in the U.S. The cities are Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, San…

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    Genetic link discovered for late onset Alzheimer’s

    Although they have not yet identified the actual gene, researchers have evidence that a gene located on human chromosome 10 could be more potent than previous risk factors for late…

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    Accurately measuring socioeconomic differences, health disparities

    For more than two years, Nancy Krieger and her colleagues have worked with approximately 1 million records from databases of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Departments of Public Health as…

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    Soft news and critical journalism eroding audiences

    A rise in soft news and critical journalism “may now be hastening the decline in news audiences” and “weakening the foundation of democracy by diminishing the public’s information about public…

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    Marine science expert monitoring Boston Harbor pollution

    Harvard researcher James Shine is currently researching pollutants in the sediment of Boston Harbor and other harbors. He is crafting criteria for the Environmental Protection Agency that would measure pollution…

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    Uncovering new evidence for ‘event horizons’ surrounding black holes

    With results that fundamentally differ from earlier black hole studies, Harvard researchers have shown that some recently discovered black holes are not only ultra-dense, but actually possess event horizons that…

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    One in three Massachusetts workers ill-equipped to meet demands

    The most startling finding of a new report is that 667,000 of 1.1 million at-risk workers in Massachusetts have earned a high school credential but still lack basic math, reading,…

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    Study quantifies children’s mouthing of objects

    A study asked parents to observe and record their children’s mouthing behavior over five non-consecutive days. Approximately 300 children showed a wide range of mouthing behaviors, from essentially none at…

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    Lowering iron levels does not cut heart attack risk for men

    Men who give blood reduce the amount of iron in their bodies, but that does not result in a reduction in their risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and heart…

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    Gifts from Kiev

    Gennadii Boriak of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences presented a guide to the Central State Archive of Public Organizations of Ukraine to Harvard University in December. Sidney Verba (above), director…

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    President issues statement on diversity

    A number of questions have been asked in recent days about the University’s position and my own views on diversity. I thought a brief statement might be helpful in this regard.

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    How we talk can change the way we work

    If we want a better understanding of the prospect of change, we first need a better way of seeing into our own powerful inclination NOT to change. Considering every workplace…

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