Year: 2002
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Campus & Community
Photo feature: Patriot fever by design
GSD technical services staff joined 1.25 million other New England fans to celebrate the Patriots Superbowl win at a parade in downtown Boston. Standing on Tremont Street are (from left) Alix Rieskind, assistant head, visual resources Dave Ware, bindery assistant Janet Rutan, department head and Maria Tina da Rosa, serials assistant.
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Campus & Community
School of Public Health professor visits Taliban prisoners
School of Public Health professor visits Taliban prisoners
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Science & Tech
SPH professor finds Taliban inmates dying, in need of care
Jennifer Leaning is a professor in the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Population and International Health. She is also one of Physicians for Human Rights’ founders. In January…
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Science & Tech
Chandra scores a double bonus with a distant quasar
In one set of observations of quasar PKS 1127-145, researchers found an X-ray jet that extends over a length of at least a million light years. The jet reveals explosive…
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Health
Study links Western dietary pattern with greater risk for type 2 diabetes in men
About 16 million Americans have type 2 diabetes, which can cause blindness, kidney failure, and heart disease. Now researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health have linked a diet…
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Health
FDA approves Gleevec as oral treatment for gastrointestinal stromal cancer
George Demetri, medical director of the Sarcoma Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, was the lead investigator of a clinical study that…
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Campus & Community
Stephen Walt is named academic dean at KSG
Stephen Walt is named academic dean at KSG
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Campus & Community
School’s diversity mirrors world’s
Exposure to students of several racial, ethnic, and economic groups is preparing Cambridge Rindge and Latin students well to face an increasingly diverse working world, according to a new Harvard…
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Campus & Community
Students respond to the choices
Shortly after the Hasty Pudding Club announced its Woman of the Year (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Man of the Year (Bruce Willis) on Monday (Jan. 28), students around campus shared their opinions of the picks with the Gazette.
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Campus & Community
‘Sex’ and the ‘Sixth Sense’
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nations oldest dramatic organization, announced the recipients of the 2002 Woman and Man of the Year awards: Sarah Jessica Parker and Bruce Willis.
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Campus & Community
Researchers make Olympic predictions
Researchers, one of them an undergraduate, have used economic analysis to analyse and predict participation and medal outcomes for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
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Campus & Community
Better predictions for outcome of kids’ brain tumors
A distinctive signature of genes turned on and off greatly improves predictions of who has the best chance of survival of the most common type of childhood malignant brain tumor, according to a new study by researchers at Childrens Hospital in Boston and their colleagues. If verified by other studies over the next several years,…
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Campus & Community
Pleasure, pain activate same part of brain
Scientists have found pain in the same brain circuits that give you pleasure. That wont make you cry until you laugh, but its likely to lead to better ways to measure and treat chronic pain.
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Campus & Community
Statement Regarding University Employment and Contracting Policies
Statement Regarding University Employment and Contracting Policies
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Campus & Community
Undergrad’s evolution isn’t random
Like many first-year students, David Solá-Del Valle 04 came to Harvard with a number of goals. High on Solá-Del Valles to do list, however, was an item other freshmen might find a little daunting: landing a spot in a biology research lab.
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Campus & Community
Anthony Lewis named Lombard Lecturer
A former New York Times columnist, an Israeli communication and government scholar, and a former Boston Globe editor will be among six visiting faculty and fellows at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government this semester.
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Campus & Community
At Perkins School, tutoring is hands-on
For a sighted person, blindness is a frightening prospect. Finding ones way, avoiding danger, interacting with strangers – without vision such tasks seem challenging to the point of insuperability.
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Campus & Community
Teach For America seeks seniors ready to make an immediate impact
Teach For America seeks seniors ready to make an immediate impact
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Campus & Community
SPH faculty votes not to accept tobacco funds
Faculty members at the School of Public Health (SPH) voted Thursday (Jan. 24) not to accept research funding from tobacco manufacturers and their subsidiaries. Because of an incompatibility with the public health mission, such funds had not been accepted at the School as a general practice for a number of years. The vote puts current…
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Campus & Community
AI evolution: From tool to partner
Scientists have found pain in the same brain circuits that give you pleasure. That wont make you cry until you laugh, but its likely to lead to better ways to measure and treat chronic pain.
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Campus & Community
Dolbeare appointed as senior scholar
Housing policy expert Cushing N. Dolbeare, founder of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, has been appointed senior scholar at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Nicolas P. Retsinas, the centers director, announced earlier this month.
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Campus & Community
Weekend warriors
The defending Ivy League champion Harvard wrestling team split a pair of homestand meets this past weekend (Jan. 26-27), downing Army 29-10, while losing a 21-20 decision to Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) powerhouse Lehigh. The Crimson, who also hold last seasons EIWA title, stand at 2-3 in dual meets and 1-1 in the EIWA.
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Campus & Community
The Big Picture
From the roof above Sanders Theatre, Elizabeth Randall surveys her handiwork: University Hall, Boylston Hall, the freshman dorms. Randall, capital projects manager for Faculty of Arts and Sciences Physical Resources, oversaw the renovations of these and many other Harvard landmarks. She even helped pick out paint color for the Memorial Churchs recent sprucing-up.
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Campus & Community
Telling tales out of, and in, class
Homi Bhabha was born in India, but he is quick to add that he is a Parsi, a member of an Indian minority with a population of only about 160,000 worldwide. The Parsis are Zoroastrians who migrated from Persia in the eighth century to avoid persecution by the Muslims.
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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, Jan. 26. The official log is located at 29 Garden St.
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Campus & Community
In Brief
Joint Center fellowship program accepting applications The Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program – a competitive master’s level program for students in all of Harvard’s professional schools and related academic departments of…
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Watson elected president of AAS Professor of anthropology James L. Watson, the John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society, has been elected to serve as the 61st…
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Campus & Community
Joyce Lever, 60, director of Alumni Information Systems
Joyce Lever, the director of Alumni Information Systems, died on Thursday, Jan. 17. She was 60.