Year: 2005
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Campus & Community
Buchloh named Rosenblatt Professor of Modern Art
Art historian Benjamin Buchloh, recognized internationally as one of todays most important contributors to the study of post-1945 art, has been named Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of Modern Art in Harvard Universitys Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective Sept. 1, 2005.
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Campus & Community
In brief
Harvard co-sponsored diversity forum approaching Members of the University community are invited to join the M.B.A. Diversity Forum at the Hult International Business School (One Education St., Cambridge, Mass.) on…
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Campus & Community
Newsmakers
Doctoral student accepts Horowitz Foundation grant The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy has named Jeremy Tobacman, a Harvard doctoral candidate in the Department of Economics, as a 2004 grant co-recipient.…
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Campus & Community
Rowland Institute names two new fellows
The Rowland Institute for Science, an interdisciplinary research institute in Cambridge, Mass., that merged with Harvard in 2002, has announced its selection of two new junior fellows. These researchers have been chosen to perform independent experimental research for five years, with full institutional support and access to the institutes technical and scientific resources.
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Campus & Community
E-Research @ Harvard Libraries debut nears
The University will soon launch a new set of tools for accessing and searching electronic resources on the Harvard Libraries Web site (also known as the portal) located at http://lib. harvard.edu. Known as E-Research @ Harvard Libraries, the tools – set to launch June 30 – will replace the portals current E-Resources menu.
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Campus & Community
Centuries of service
On June 14, troops muster on Cambridge Common in advance of historical re-enactments that commemorate the 230th birthday of the U.S. Army. The establishment of a Continental Army was approved by Congress on June 14, 1775.
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Campus & Community
2005 Harvard Board of Overseers brings five on board
The president of the Harvard Alumni Association has announced the results of the annual election of new members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. The results were released at the annual meeting of the association following the Universitys 354th Commencement (June 9).
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Campus & Community
Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending June 13. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor, and is available online at http://www.hupd.harvard.edu/.
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Campus & Community
This month in Harvard history
June 11, 1776 – The Provincial Congress grants the College permission to reoccupy its buildings, and Harvard prepares to return from Concord.
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Campus & Community
New director of alcohol abuse services
Ryan Travia, coordinator of alcohol and drug education programs at Dartmouth College, will become director of alcohol and substance abuse services at Harvard University, announced Paul Barreira, director of the Department of Behavioral Health and Academic Counseling. In this new position, Travia will lead the University in addressing issues of alcohol and health among students…
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Campus & Community
Of mice and manatees: Lithgow charms all
At Afternoon Exercises of this years Commencement (June 9), the Class of 2005 was delighted to hear a childrens story and a song about a manatee. Actor and arts activist John Lithgow 67 charmed the large Tercentenary Theatre crowd with his disarming address offering lighthearted advice and self-deprecating wisdom along the way.
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Campus & Community
Laser’s inventor predicts meeting of science, religion
Nobel laureate and laser inventor Charles H. Townes told a packed Science Center lecture hall Monday (June 13) that science and religion are parallel, rather than antagonistic, disciplines and that…
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Campus & Community
Half of us suffer from mental illness, survey finds
About half of all the people in the United States will develop one or more mental disorders in their lifetimes, according to the latest national survey. During any year, one…
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Campus & Community
A new way to identify cancers is found
Scientists are surprised and delighted that a recently discovered group of small molecules show an unexpected potential for easily distinguishing healthy cells from tumors and one type of cancer from…
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Science & Tech
Judah M. Folkman, MD
In the early 1970s Folkman refined his theory that tumors have the capability to grow their own blood vessels, thereby obtaining the nourishment they need to keep growing in a body. Folkman never quit thinking about why this happens and how he might use that information to treat cancer patients.
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Health
Higher levels of systemic inflammatory markers associated with progression of AMD
Researchers led by Johanna M. Seddon, M.D., at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health, conducted a prospective longitudinal study to examine…
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Health
Studies chip away at sex hormone roles in prostate and breast cancers
In recent work, Myles Brown and colleagues combined chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChiP) assays with measures of DNA structure and large-scale gene chip analyses to study where, when, and how androgen and…
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Health
Fetal-cell transplants reverse Parkinson’s in two patients
The two patients were part of a small exploratory study in Halifax. In the study, the cells were bathed in the trophic factor GDNF before being implanted into the striatum,…
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Health
Gene clue to brain asymmetry revealed on right side
Although many assumed that the asymmetry-producing genes, when found, would be more highly expressed on the left side of the brain than the right, Sun Tao, Christopher A. Walsh, and…
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Health
Disease mutation tracked down, ending ‘curse’ for Colombian families
Three years later, Joseph Arboleda-Velasquez, an HMS graduate student who led the scientific team that identified the mutations, and his collaborators have worked out an early step in the events…
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Campus & Community
Radcliffe names 2005-06 fellows
Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Lincoln Professor of History, has announced the names of 51 women and men selected as 2005 – 06 Radcliffe Institute fellows. While at the institute, the fellows – among them creative artists, humanists, social scientists, and scientists working on projects ranging from cancer…
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Campus & Community
CES lists grants, fellowships, internships
The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced its student grants and internships for the 2005-06 academic year. The center will support the projects of 52 undergraduate and graduate students with awards that total more than $320,000. In addition to funding research conducted abroad, CES has been working with Harvard alumni clubs…
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Campus & Community
Pets and song as therapy
Michelle Whites love of animals has shown her a way to reach out to others and is leading to a possible lifetimes work as a veterinarian.
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Campus & Community
Who is Tumi Makgetla?
Having an identity crisis is not uncommon for college students. Who am I? Where do I belong? What is my purpose in life? These are questions that haunt many a young person preparing for the plunge into adulthood.
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Campus & Community
Oarsman welcomes rough waters
Aaron Holzapfel looks about as youd imagine the captain of Harvards championship heavyweight crew would look – 6 foot 3, 220 pounds, with a trim beard and longish, wavy blond hair.
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Campus & Community
Fledgling orators launch on rhetorical flights
Nobodys perfect, not even Harvard students, Alicia Menendez 05 will tell graduates and their families today.
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Campus & Community
The long view: 50 years from Harvard
Harvard alumni celebrating their 50th reunion have been out of school more than twice as long as most graduating seniors have been alive. What have they learned in all that time? What do they remember of their student days? How does life look from the perspective of 50 years out? We talked to some members…
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Campus & Community
Women of achievement honored at Radcliffe
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University will honor, among others, writer and editor Ann Fadiman 75, pianist Ursula Oppens 65, and biologist Susan Lindquist Ph.D. 76 at its annual Radcliffe Day celebration on Friday (June 10). The awards will be presented and the recipients will speak at the Radcliffe Awards Symposium, Discovering…
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Campus & Community
Museums seek docents for training
Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) is currently seeking volunteers interested in public art education for its museum docent program. The program consists of approximately 35 volunteer guides who give tours of the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.
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Campus & Community
Certificates awarded by South Africa Fellowship Program
Professor Felton Earls, director of the Harvard South African Fellowship Program, recently awarded special certificates signed by President Lawrence H. Summers to eight South African Fellows who studied in various programs throughout the University this past year. The Harvard South African Fellowship Program is funded by the Presidents Office and the individual Schools that the…