Year: 2004

  • Campus & Community

    In New London, Crimson is master and commander

    The Harvard mens heavyweight crew managed its fourth consecutive sweep of the freshman, JV, and varsity races in the 139th annual Harvard-Yale Regatta this past Saturday (June 12) in New London, Conn. The Crimson rowers now hold an 86-53 series advantage in the storied regatta – the nations oldest intercollegiate sporting event.

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    University AIDS work to be united in HUPA

    The several AIDS-related programs that exist at Harvard will be united under the new Harvard University Program on AIDS (HUPA), Provost Steven E. Hyman announced today (June 17). The program will better harness and leverage the Universitys research, education, and fundraising resources to prevent and treat this deadly global disease.

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    Financial aid for graduate students to increase

    Financial aid to graduate students will increase by $3 million next year, thanks to significant cost savings achieved by collaborative efforts in the Universitys Central Administration to maintain level funding for fiscal year 05.

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    Brain aging found to start at 40

    Bruce Yankner, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, is investigating how human brains change between ages 26 and 106. If you are more than 40 years old, the news may not be good.

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending June 12. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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    Proud mother, brave son

    Janet King, mother of 2nd Lt. Samuel Knox King, is filled with emotion after pinning her son. Ten Harvard College seniors swore to support and defend the U.S. Constitution on June 9 as they were commissioned as officers in the U.S. armed forces.

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    This month in Harvard history

    June 2, 1954 – Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie visits Harvard. Selassie signs the University guest book, visits Houghton Library to inspect rare books and manuscripts with Ethiopian connections, and takes…

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    Harvard memorial service scheduled for James J. Gill

    A memorial service celebrating the life and work of former Harvard psychiatrist, James J. Gill, S.J., M.D., will be held at noon on June 23 in the Memorial Church.

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    Online Gazettes during summer

    More news and information about Harvard will be delivered digitally by the Central Administration to the community beginning in July, including two summer issues of the Harvard Gazette (http://www.news-harvard.go-vip.net/gazette/gazette). Paper publication of the Gazette will resume Sept. 16 and continue throughout the academic year. Regular Harvard news updates will continue to be available at http://www.harvard.edu.…

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    Ducey to leave Bureau ofStudy Counsel

    After 18 years of dedicated professional service to the College, GSAS, HGSE, and KSG and their students, Charles Ducey has announced his decision to resign from his position as director of the Bureau of Study Counsel as of the end of this academic year for personal and professional reasons. Duceys contributions to the Harvard community…

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    2004 Harvard Board of Overseers election results

    The president of the Harvard Alumni Association Thursday (June 10) announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers.

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    Kofi Annan offers hope for equitable, stable world

    Multinationalism, collective decision-making, and the rule of law – these offer the best hope of achieving a stable and equitable world order, according to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

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    Altshuler to be acting dean of Graduate School of Design

    Alan Altshuler, a member of the Faculties of Design and Government and a distinguished scholar of urban politics and planning, has been named acting dean of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) effective July 1.

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    Harvard selects design firm for Allston

    Harvard University has selected the nationally acclaimed planning and design firm Cooper, Robertson & Partners to create a preliminary planning framework for its future development in Allston.

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    This month in Harvard history

    Ca. June 1961 – Harvard announces that its new office building and health center on Mount Auburn St. will bear the name Holyoke Center, in honor of Edward Holyoke, Harvard’s…

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    Online Gazettes during summer

    More news and information about Harvard will be delivered digitally by the Central Administration to the community beginning in July, including two summer issues of the Harvard Gazette (http://www.news-harvard.go-vip.net/gazette/gazette). Paper publication of the Gazette will resume Sept. 16 and continue throughout the academic year. Regular Harvard news updates will continue to be available at http://www.harvard.edu.…

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    Special notice regarding Commencement Exercises

    Morning Exercises To accommodate the increasing number of those wishing to attend Harvard’s Commencement Exercises, the following guidelines are proposed to facilitate admission into Tercentenary Theatre on Commencement Morning: n…

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    Significant steps taken in forward-looking year

    It wasn’t only students on the road to a diploma taking significant steps at the University this year. It was a time for progress in myriad areas. President Lawrence H.…

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    McLean Hospital mourns loss of revered researcher

    Philip S. Holzman, founder and director of McLean Hospitals Psychology Research Laboratory and one of the worlds pre-eminent scientists in schizophrenia research, died on June 1 at the age of 82.

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    Harvey Brooks, 88, on faculty more than 50 years

    Harvey Brooks, a pioneer in incorporating science into public policy and a member of the Harvard faculty for more than 50 years, died May 28 at his home in Cambridge from complications of congestive heart failure. He was 88.Brooks was Benjamin Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy Emeritus in the Kennedy School of Government,…

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    Music announces fellowships, awards

    The Department of Music recently announced that $144,000 has gone toward fellowship and award programs for graduate and undergraduate students.

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    HBS grads receive Dean’s Award for ‘nation building’

    Mariame Patricia McIntosh and Daniel Walton Reed, members of the M.B.A. Class of 2004 at Harvard Business School (HBS), have been named Deans Award recipients for their accomplishments over the past two years in community building – or, more precisely, nation building – among students at the Business School, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute…

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    Professor E. Raymond Corey is dead at 84

    Edwin Raymond Corey, a professor at Harvard Business School (HBS) for more than 40 years, died on May 28 at his home in Wellesley from complications following abdominal surgery. He was 84.

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    CES names grants, fellowships

    The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced its student grants and fellowships for the 2004-05 academic year. The center will support the research projects of 43…

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    Harvard Extension School awards its 2004 student prizes and faculty awards

    This year the Harvard Extension Schools Commencement Speaker Award will go to Catherine Anne Rahaim, who completed her master of liberal arts (A.L.M.) degree in religion. Her speech, titled Open Gates, highlights her experiences taking evening courses after teaching history during the day at Gardner High School.

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    ASBMB, Merck name award recipient

    The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) has named Jack L. Strominger, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, as the 2004 recipient of the ASBMB-Merck Award. This award, which consists of a stipend, plaque, and transportation expenses to the associations annual meeting, at which Strominger will present…

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    GSAS names centennial medalists

    One composes operas that are performed all over the world another has done breakthrough work on the psychological effect of racial and cultural stereotyping a third, a scholar of modern European history, has probably shaken hands with more world leaders than nearly anyone else on the planet and a fourth, in addition to heading a…

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    Hip-hopping M.D. has just begun to dance

    Listening to Coleen Sabatini is exhausting. You feel like you lead a sluggish life when the 28-year-old talks about all shes done – besides earn a combination M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School and masters from the Harvard School of Public Health.

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    Service above and beyond

    After an invigorating year at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Gregory Wong said hes ready for new challenges and has lined up a big one: a year working to foster economic ties with Iraq as a foreign service officer in the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

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    Kristy Benoit ’04 proves that kindness is catching

    Kristy Elizabeth Benoit, who grew up in the tiny, close-knit community of Havre Boucher, Nova Scotia, never planned to attend Harvard College. She expected to keep with the local tradition: Stay in the province after high school and create a life for herself.