Year: 2001

  • Nation & World

    Anthrax expert Matthew Meselson speaks

    Matthew Meselson, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, has been raising his voice in opposition to biological and chemical weapons since 1963. He investigated the largest known outbreak…

    7 minutes
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    Religion course touches a nerve

    Barely two months after Sept. 11, students in Religion 1529 are grilling Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies and director of the Pluralism Project, on religious tolerance, respect, and understanding. A teaching fellow roams Science Center B with a microphone like a talk show hostess, amplifying questions that are as academic as…

    6 minutes
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    Anthrax expert Matthew Meselson speaks out

    In 1992-93, Harvard Professor Matthew Meselson investigated the largest known outbreak of inhalation anthrax in history, which occurred in the Soviet Union in 1979. The anthrax was accidentally released from…

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Strong student support found for war

    American college students strongly support U.S. war objectives in Afghanistan aimed against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda terrorist network, according to a survey conducted by the Institute…

    1 minute
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    Survey shows Americans not panicking over anthrax

    In the wake of biological terror attacks perpetrated by unknown persons sending anthrax-laced letters through the U.S. mail, the Harvard School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation…

    1 minute
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    Six faculty elected to the IOM

    Six faculty members from Harvard Medical School (HMS) are among 60 new members recently elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. With their election, members make a commitment to volunteer on committees engaged in a broad range of health policy issues.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Tanner Lectures: Rights in crisis

    Former Harvard Law School Professor Kathleen Sullivan returns to Cambridge Nov. 7, 8, and 9 to deliver the 2001 Tanner Lectures on Human Values.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    More than a ‘fair exchange’

    What do you need to get your life back?

    5 minutes
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    The Big Picture

    Ask Elliot Hammerman about his work, and hell show you pictures. Pictures of smiling adults, pictures of himself and his colleagues dressed up in costume, pictures of kids – lots and lots of kids – in hospital johnnies or baseball uniforms or their Sunday best.

    3 minutes
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    Newsmakers

    Dunns to assume APS executive officer position The American Philosophical Society (APS) has named husband – and – wife team Mary Maples Dunn, most recently the acting dean of the…

    1 minute
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    Identity politics in late antiquity

    For most people, the world of late antiquity can hardly be said to be a subject of pressing and immediate concern, unless of course it happens to be the setting for a film about an indomitable gladiator or the internecine struggles of decadent aristocrats.

    7 minutes
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    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,…

    1 minute
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    Sink or swim

    John Douglas, a Southern Californian who grew up swimming, surfing, and playing water polo, gets a special sense of satisfaction from teaching adult beginners to swim.

    2 minutes
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    Policies relating to research and other professional activities within and outside the University

    1. With the acceptance of a full-time appointment in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, an individual makes a commitment to the University that is understood to be full time in the most inclusive sense. Every member is expected to accord the University his or her primary professional loyalty, and to arrange outside obligations, financial…

    9 minutes
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    Picasso at the Café Gato Rojo

    Bryan Sun is a graduate student with more than one iron in the fire.

    2 minutes
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    Lights, camera, ‘Dance by Design’

    A young woman stands at a crossroads in her life, unsure of which path to take. Should she fulfill her fathers dream and become an architect, or should she follow her heart and try to make it as a professional dancer?

    4 minutes
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    Making strides, raising awareness

    Like many Bostonians, Diane Decker once viewed the areas myriad fundraising walks as little more than a disruption of traffic. Decker, undergraduate coordinator at Harvards Dudley House, certainly hadnt participated in any.

    5 minutes
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    Curatorial associate blends science with sleuthing

    A pygmy hippo has died at the Franklin Park Zoo and Judy Chupasko is troubled. Not because of its death: all indications are that the 33-year-old male died of natural causes.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The zebra in the freezer

    A pygmy hippo has died at the Franklin Park Zoo and Judy Chupasko is troubled. Not because of its death: all indications are that the 33-year-old male died of natural causes.

    7 minutes
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    KSG honors alumni with public service awards

    Three alumni have been named recipients of the 2001 Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Alumni Achievement Award. The winners – Douglas Bereuter, Anne Reed, and Barbara Roberts – were honored at a dinner at KSG on Friday, Oct. 26.

    3 minutes
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    Alumni/ae recruitment efforts are recognized

    Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons presented an annual award for outstanding longtime service to seven alumni/ae at the Faculty Club last Friday (Oct. 26). This years recipients are James Bernstein and Barbara Bernstein 49 and 53, Rockville Center, N.Y., 70 years of service, total Gertrude B. Brekus 50, Palm Beach, Fla.,…

    2 minutes
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    “Sprung From Ruins”

    A panel of luminous talents will gather at Sanders Theatre to talk about the effect of Sept. 11 on the arts and the creative process. The world-altering day and its consequences will be the subject of the panel discussion Sprung From Ruins. The panel will take place on Friday, Nov. 9, at 3 p.m. and…

    1 minute
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    Web peek into GSE

    1 minute
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    CES professor honored on 90th birthday

    Four distinguished scholars gathered at the Center for European Studies Oct. 29 to pay 90th-birthday respects to their former professor, Samuel Beer, the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Emeritus.

    3 minutes
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    Kabila looks toward a new DRCongo

    Democratic Republic of Congos President Joseph Kabila outlined his vision for bringing prosperity and democracy to his war-torn country at the ARCO Forum Monday night. The 29-year-old president – who took office just nine months ago, after the assassination of his father and the countrys president Laurent Kabila – said rebel forces are keeping the…

    2 minutes
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    Carroll embodies diversity at GSE

    Claudia Carroll describes her life as a peasant cart, cobbled together from odds and ends, with rickety wheels about to fall off.

    7 minutes
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    Central lighting

    After two years of excavating, pounding, drilling, and building, the east light court of Widener Library has been transformed into a luminous new reading room. Made possible through the generosity of Charles G. Phillips 70 and his wife Candace, the Phillips Reading Room is a controlled room for the use of noncirculating materials that are…

    1 minute
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    Du Bois Institute welcomes 16 fellows

    Sixteen new fellows have joined the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard this fall for one or two semesters of the 2001-02 academic year. Founded in 1975, the institute is the oldest research center of its kind, and has supported the scholarly work of nearly 300 alumni.

    3 minutes
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    The man in the mirror

    In todays workplace, where Wall Street rules, the World Wide Web sets the speed limit, and change is status quo, doing work that is both professionally excellent and ethically responsible is harder than ever. Yet some professionals manage, even amidst this turbulence, to do good work. Others fail. Why? What conditions need to exist for…

    6 minutes