Year: 2001
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Campus & Community
Harvard lends MFA ‘the Look’
More than 70 original prints from the Harvard Theatre Collections Hoyningen-Huene archive are on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) exhibition The Look: Images of Glamour and Style, Photographs by Horst and Hoyningen-Huene. As chief photographers at Vogue, Horst and Hoyningen-Huenes elegant style heavily influenced fashion photography of the mid-20th century. This exhibition…
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Campus & Community
Hammer’s film premieres at Brattle
Two films produced and directed by independent filmmaker Barbara Hammer, a 2001-02 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be shown at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square Nov. 16 – 18. The film series, which will mark the Boston premiere of History Lessons, is co-sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute and the Brattle.
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Campus & Community
Portrait of Batts unveiled at HLS
Harvard Law School unveiled a portrait of U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts, the first and only openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual member of the federal judiciary, on Saturday, Oct. 27. Batts, a 1972 graduate of Harvard Law School and 1969 graduate of Radcliffe, was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District…
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Campus & Community
Bioterror poll finds public wary, not panicked
School of Public Health researchers will be taking the countrys temperature on bioterror in the coming weeks in an effort to track what Americans so far have taken pretty much in stride, according to the first survey published last week (Nov. 8).
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Campus & Community
President Clinton proves a big draw
The Harvard Box Office did a brisk business this week in free tickets to President Bill Clintons address at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center Monday, Nov. 19. On Tuesday (Nov. 13), the first day the tickets were available to Harvard students, faculty, and staff, a line snaked through the Holyoke Center lobby and out…
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Campus & Community
BWH awarded $14M grant for skin cancer research
Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH) announced last month that the hospitals Department of Dermatology has been awarded a Skin Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Campus & Community
Crimson comes back, Penn falls
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the University of Penn – one of the best defensive teams in the nation – must have been absolutely smitten with…
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Campus & Community
Slavery, though outlawed, persists:
A former slave and former slave owner from Mauritania urged Harvard students Tuesday night (Nov. 13) to fight the slavery that, though outlawed, still keeps more than 100,000 people in bondage in the West African nation.
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Campus & Community
‘Glass Flowers’ gallery to close for renovations
The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) will be closing its Glass Flowers and Mineral galleries from Dec. 8 through Feb. 7 for a renovation of the Glass Flowers gallery.
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Campus & Community
Students travel the world – in class
Once a week, about 40 Harvard students visit Boston high schools to teach students about globalization.
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Campus & Community
The Big Picture
Im the man with the blue guitar. Picasso tried to paint me in Paris but he never got my soul.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Foundation awards its fall grants
The Faculty and Student Advisory Committees of the Harvard Foundation awarded 87 grants to some 40 different undergraduate student organizations for projects in the fall 2001 semester. More than $20,000 were disbursed for intercultural and race relations projects ranging from an East Coast Chicano (Mexican-American) Student Conference to a Korean Association lecture on the Korean…
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Campus & Community
Artists at “Sprung From Ruins” confront post-Sept. 11 world
None of the artists who participated in the Nov. 9 panel discussion Sprung From Ruins presumed to offer words of wisdom about how the arts might heal or soothe or put right the terrible damage wreaked on this country on Sept. 11.
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Campus & Community
Fineberg selected as IOM president
Harvey V. Fineberg, former provost of the University, has been selected to become the seventh president of the Institute of Medicine (IOM). He will begin his six-year term on July 1. Fineberg was dean of the School of Public Health for 13 years before serving as the Universitys provost from 1997 to June 2001.
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Campus & Community
President holds office hours
President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. on the following dates: Nov. 29 Dec. 13 Feb. 1,…
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 10. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
Nov. 7, 1898 – The Harvard Bulletin (predecessor of Harvard Magazine) publishes its first (four-page) issue. Cost: 8 cents. Nov. 10, 1903 – In the now-demolished Rogers Building (or Old…
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Campus & Community
Grill fire forces Eliot House evacuation
A fire in the Eliot House Grille, located in the basement below M-Entry, forced the evacuation of approximately 430 Eliot House students Sunday, Nov. 11, shortly after 8 p.m. Students in nearby Kirkland House were also temporarily evacuated as a precaution. No injuries were reported. Thick black smoke was reported coming from the basement common…
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Campus & Community
Faculty council Notice for Nov. 14
At its fifth meeting of the year, the Faculty Council discussed with deans Vincent Tompkins (academic affairs) and Jeffrey Wolcowitz (economics and undergraduate education) a new multiyear curricular planning initiative being undertaken in the faculty.
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Campus & Community
Suspects sought in armed robberies
On Monday, Nov. 12, three graduate students were the victims of two separate armed robberies. The first robbery occurred at approximately 12:30 a.m. opposite 16 Holden St., when the suspect approached two students from behind and demanded their wallets. Although no weapon was produced, the suspect made a gesture to his pocket, along with threatening…
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Campus & Community
Nathan Pusey dies at 94
Nathan Marsh Pusey, the 24th president of Harvard, died early on the morning of Nov. 14 at the New York Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. He was 94.
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Health
Immune system discovery may lead to preventive therapy for diabetes
The job of cells known as iNKT cells is to regulate the immune system’s response to infections and other disorders, ensuring that only diseased tissue, not healthy tissue, is targeted…
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Health
“Heart of glass” may be more than just a metaphor
Jeffrey Fredberg is a professor of bioengineering and physiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. His primary research interest is asthma. Fredberg was intrigued by the plasticity of the…