Year: 2004

  • Nation & World

    Alcock sees bright future for CfA

    Charles Alcocks history of managing large projects in astronomy will come in handy as he tackles what he said is his biggest challenge so far as the new director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

    5 minutes
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    New Financial Aid Initiative shows solid ‘early’ results

    Harvards new Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), announced last spring by President Lawrence H. Summers, has led to the admission of more financial aid students in this years Early Action competition, especially those from low- and moderate-income backgrounds. More than twice as many admitted students were granted application fee waivers this year compared with last year…

    4 minutes
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    President holds office hours for students

    President Lawrence H. Summers will hold office hours for students in his Massachusetts Hall office on the following dates:

    1 minute
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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Dec. 13. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

    2 minutes
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    Where’s the mistletoe?

    Maria Stavropoulos 05 reads under some diverse holiday decorations at Gato Rojo Cafe in Dudley Hall.

    1 minute
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    This month in Harvard history

    Dec. 16, 1948 – The Law School Forum makes its first television appearance on Boston’s WBZ-TV with a discussion of Boston traffic and housing problems. Dec. 1952 – At the…

    1 minute
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    Gazette publication to resume in February

    The Harvard University Gazette will suspend printed publication through early February. It will resume publishing with the Feb. 3 edition. Keep up with all the latest University news by visiting http://www.harvard.edu.

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    Experts take on climate change

    A panel on possible future steps to combat climate change Monday (Dec. 13) discussed embracing market-based incentives for carbon dioxide reductions and starting a new dialogue between the worlds two biggest carbon dioxide emitters – the United States and China.

    7 minutes
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    Google to digitize some Harvard library holdings

    Harvard University is embarking on a collaboration with Google that could harness Googles search technology to provide to both the Harvard community and the larger public a revolutionary new information location tool to find materials available in libraries.

    4 minutes
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    Ninety percent of U.S. wounded survive

    For an article in the Dec. 9, 2004 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Atul Gawande, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and a surgeon at Brigham…

    1 minute
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    Studying Boston’s race trends

    Guy Stuart, an associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, is the author of a new study, “Boston at the Crossroads: Racial Trends in the Metropolitan…

    1 minute
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    Study finds women hesitant to take tamoxifen as preventive measure

    “Our study underscores the need [for medical professionals] to address psychological factors that may influence decision- making, in order to help women feel confident and satisfied with their treatment choice,”…

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    Researchers find high levels of potentially toxic heavy metals in herbal medicine products

    “This study, yet again, highlights the need for Congress to revisit the way dietary supplements are regulated in the U.S.,” said co- author David Eisenberg, MD, the Bernard Osher Associate…

    1 minute
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    Chelsea, Mass.: A very special place

    As the Boston Red Sox swept their way to a World Series victory this past October, innumerable messages of support began appearing all over the metropolitan area. There was one, however, that outshone the rest. Each night, the words Go Sox in letters 20 feet high, glowed on the side of Chelseas enormous salt pile,…

    6 minutes
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    Zero Arrow space flexible, eclectic

    Nothing will come of nothing, said King Lear. Obviously, he hadnt heard about Zero Arrow Street.

    5 minutes
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    At KSG, advice for new reps

    Keep your word, build relationships in both parties, and find meaningful issues to work on. That was the advice from current and former congressional and White House staffers to 23 newly elected members of Congress during a four-day conference at the John F. Kennedy School of Government last week.

    4 minutes
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    PON to screen ‘Hotel Rwanda’

    In honor of International Human Rights Day (Dec. 10), the Program on Negotiation (PON) – a consortium of faculty, students, and staff at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University, and other area universities – together with Harvard Friends of Amnesty International, the Human Rights Program, and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy,…

    1 minute
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    Student, alum win International Rhodes

    Ashwini Vasanthakumar 04 and Silas Xu 05 have won International Rhodes Scholarships to Oxford University in England, bringing to eight the number of Harvard students or alumni to win a Rhodes Scholarship this year.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Journalism conference looks at truth, lies, and narrative

    War and truth telling dominated last weekends Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism (Dec. 3-5). The ongoing violence in Iraq and postelection timing lent a sense of urgency to the many lectures, panel discussions, and question sessions about improving the craft and content of news writing.

    7 minutes
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    It’s the ‘moment of truth’ for GOP

    It is the moment of truth for the Republican Party and American conservatism, journalist William Kristol told a Kennedy School audience Wednesday night (Dec. 1). President George Bushs narrow but clear re-election victory supplemented by GOP gains in both the House and Senate provide a unique opportunity, he said, for dynamic change in Washington.

    3 minutes
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    In brief

    Scholars at Risk Fellowship nominations sought The Harvard Scholars at Risk committee is now accepting nominations from Harvard faculty, staff, and students for its fellowship for persecuted scholars. The fellowship…

    2 minutes
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    Newsmakers

    Center for Health and Global Environment honors Moyers The Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School (HMS) recently presented broadcast journalist Bill Moyers with its 2004…

    1 minute
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    Fromm Foundation announces 2004 commissions

    The board of directors of the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University recently announced the names of 12 composers selected to receive 2004 commissions. These composers were chosen from 207 applicants.

    1 minute
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    Stephen Prina: A man for all media

    Stephen Prinas artwork is full of unsuspected surprises, secret compartments that pop open to release compressed bundles of meaning or coiling strands of narrative.

    6 minutes
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    Faculty Council notice for Dec. 8

    At its fifth meeting of the year on Wednesday (Dec. 8), the Faculty Council heard a report on the Harvard College Library from Professor Sidney Verba, Department of Government and director of the University Library Professor Kathleen Coleman, Department of the Classics and vice chair of the Faculty Standing Committee on the Library and Nancy…

    1 minute
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    Corporation Committee releases annual report

    The 2004 Annual Report of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), a subcommittee of the President and Fellows, is now available upon request from the Office for the Committees on Shareholder Responsibility. Please call (617) 495-0985 to request copies.

    1 minute
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    Harvard buildings win wind energy in challenge

    Fifteen Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Longwood buildings will win renewable energy in the 2004 Go Cold Turkey Energy Conservation Challenge. The wind energy certificates purchased for these buildings will move Harvard from third to second place in terms of green power purchased by American institutes of higher education, according to the records…

    1 minute
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    Barker times two

    Golden retriever August relaxes in his home-away-from-home at 8 Prescott St., where he has been attending expository writing classes taught by his owner Chris Grenier, since he (August) was 3 months old. Here, he wonders if the Barker Center in the background could fit under the literary definition of irony.

    1 minute
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    Subir Sachdev appointed FAS professor of physics

    Theoretical physicist Subir Sachdev, whose research has shed light on quantum wonders arising from the collective behavior of vast numbers of electrons in complex and novel materials, has been appointed professor of physics in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 2005. Sachdev comes to Harvard from Yale University, where he is…

    2 minutes
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    Seeking biology that underlies behavior

    Several hundred participants were treated to a view of the marvels of modern neuroscience Nov. 30, thanks to the marvels of modern communications technology during a New York conference telecast to audiences in Chicago and Boston.

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