Year: 2002

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    History of slavery

    David Brion Davis, professor of history at Yale University and one of the worlds leading authorities on slavery, delivered the Nathan I. Huggins Lectures last week (April 30, May 1-2). The three lectures were titled: The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery, 1819: Signs of a New Era, and The African-American Impact on American…

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    Du Bois Institute names fellows

    Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of Harvards W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, has announced the appointment of 12 new institute fellows for the 2002-03 academic year.

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    In Brief

    Directory artists needed

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    The Big Picture: A snapshot of the Harvard Community

    Marie Trottier has been in cereal and CD commercials, music videos and movies. Shes played a debutante, a dictator, and Elvis, complete with a white jumpsuit and sunglasses.

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    The tortuous road to Harper’s Ferry

    On Oct. 16, 1859, John Brown and 21 men – 16 whites and five blacks – raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, W.Va., with the intention of distributing arms to Southern slaves and fomenting a violent uprising.

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    Report shows advancements made by lowest-paid workers

    A report released Wednesday (May 7) by Harvard Universitys vice president for administration details a series of actions taken by the University in the last three months to increase wages for service workers, enhance education and training programs, and develop long-term improvements in the climate for workers on campus. The report shows that the University…

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    Provost office hours

    Provost Steven Hyman will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office from 4 to 5 p.m. today. Individuals wishing to meet with Provost Hyman will be welcomed on a first-come, first-served basis. A Harvard ID is required.

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Saturday (May 4). The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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    This month in Harvard history

    May 21, 1890 – A University statute combines faculty of the Lawrence Scientific School with the College Faculty (which is the same as the Graduate School Faculty) to form the 62-member Faculty of Arts and Sciences. There are 12 Divisions, with larger ones broken down into Departments.

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    ‘Globalization’ colloquium can be seen on Web

    The provocative 2002 Harvard Colloquium on International Affairs, which was sponsored by more than a dozen Harvard Schools, centers, and programs this past April can still be viewed in video format on the Internet. You can be a virtual guest at the more than a dozen panels that made up Globalization After September 11: Has…

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    Genes for a better brain found

    Genes that have allowed brains to become larger and more complicated have been found and cloned by researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the California Institute of Technology.

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    Virtual cases bring about real learning at HMS

    A year after having his arm blown off attempting to clear a land mine, Sgt. Jones is still in constant pain from the injury, despite taking many different precription painkillers and trying everything to numb the pain from experimental electric stimulation to a daily six-pack.

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    New online approach builds community around medical cases

    A new suite of Internet tools is boosting student-faculty interaction in an engrossing twist on traditional case-based teaching at Harvard Medical School. Called ICON, for “interactive case-based online network,” the…

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    Harvard researchers take aim at asthma

    Asthma is one of the most common chronic conditions in America, afflicting about 15 million people and causing 5,000 deaths annually, according to the National Institutes of Health. Asthma rates…

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    New approach to cervical cancer screening could save lives

    When caught early through a Pap test, cervical cancer is almost 100 percent preventable, with treatment of precancers. Compared with current practice, shifting women currently getting annual conventional Pap tests…

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    Black, Latino children with asthma receive lesser standard of care

    Led by Tracy Lieu, associate professor of ambulatory care and prevention at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, the researchers interviewed parents of children with asthma who were…

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    Americans don’t see obesity as serious health problem

    Using unique survey data that they collected, researchers Taeku Lee and J. Eric Oliver presented the first examination of public attitudes towards obesity and obesity policy. They found that, contrary…

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    Heart attack patients may benefit from drinking tea

    A study published in the May 7, 2002, issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association found that tea consumption is associated with an increased rate of survival following…

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    Bad dental health could affect military readiness

    Phillip Dexter Woods is a dentist and an Army reservist. Until he graduated in June 2002, Woods was also a student in a master’s program at the Harvard School of…

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    Peripheral ‘Swatch’ watches are powerful force in modulating body’s circadian rhythms

    Clinicians have known for years that organs function at different rates — the heart beats, kidneys transport ions and electrolytes, the liver metabolizes lipids, sugars, and amino acids differently over…

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    Mexican-American women navigate school and work more successfully than men

    Only 19 percent of Mexican-American men in 1990 were upwardly mobile professionally, compared to 31 percent of women, and only nine percent of men worked in professional/technical jobs, compared to…

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    Celebrating spring

    Springfest this year bloomed into a bigger, better event that included the entire Harvard College community, thanks to co-sponsorship from President Lawrence H. Summers.

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    The whole nine yards

    Add parades, a cappella, and fan dancing to the seven livelies and youve got some small notion of the astonishing array of arts and entertainment that will be offered up to the Harvard Community and friends over the upcoming week known as Arts First. This 10th anniversary of the annual event features concerts, poetry readings,…

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    Renowned archaeologist Willey dies at 89

    Gordon Randolph Willey died of heart failure on the morning of April 28, in Cambridge. He was 89.

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    Mallardi named recipient of Vosgerchian Teaching Award

    Claire Mallardi, lecturer on dramatic arts and artistic director Emerita, Radcliffe College, has been named the recipient of the 2001-02 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award. Administered by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, the award carries an honorarium of $10,000.

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    Hawes dedication

    Rodney A. Hawes (MBA 69), reflected in a video monitor, speaks at the dedication of the new Harvard Business School building that bears his name at a ceremony Friday (April 26). Hawes Halls eight classrooms are equipped with advanced technology to facilitate the dynamic interchange between faculty and students in the Schools hallmark case teaching…

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    Thirteen Harvard scholars elected to AAAS

    The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the nations pre-eminent learned society and research institution, announced earlier this week its newly elected fellows and foreign honorary members. Members of this years class – composed of 177 fellows and 30 foreign honorary members – were honored for their achievements in fields ranging from mathematics to medicine,…

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    When special gifts meet special needs

    Its Saturday morning and 6-year-old Desean Watson is hugging his Big Buddy, Harvard senior Nikhil Dutta.

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    When nature and culture intersect

    Donna Haraway, the prominent cultural theorist, has shifted her focus from genetic engineering, primatology, and cyborgs to dogs.

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    Former agriculture secretary to direct IOP

    Daniel R. Glickman, who has spent more than 25 years in public service on both the federal and local levels, has been named director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School of Government by Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. Glickman will succeed Sen. David Pryor, who will be leaving the directors post…

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