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Year: 2007
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Nation & World
Germanic Languages and Literatures names 2006-07 prize winners
The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures recently announced its 2006–07 award winners. Prizes to undergraduate and graduate students total $9,000.
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Career forum, June 12
Employment Services, collaborating with a University-wide organizing committee, will host its ninth annual career forum on June 12. The event will be held at the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. and will be open to the public from 4 to 6:30 p.m.
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Healthy and wise: Farmers’ market will return to campus on June 19
Beginning June 19, the Harvard community can once again enjoy weekly access to freshly harvested fruits and vegetables, handmade breads and pastries, and other healthy, homemade options, when the Farmers’ Market at Harvard reopens. Started by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) in 2006, the market will be held every Tuesday through October.
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Looking for language’s universal logic
To Gennaro Chierchia, language’s innumerable combinations and subtle changes of structure and meaning are a window onto the human mind.
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Children can perform approximate math without arithmetic instruction
Children are able to solve approximate addition or subtraction problems involving large numbers even before they have been taught arithmetic, according to a study conducted at Harvard University by researchers from the University of Nottingham and Harvard.
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Gene variants significantly increase risk for breast cancer
Newly identified inherited variants of a single gene increase breast cancer risk for women of European ancestry approximately 20 percent if they carry one copy of the gene and by 60 percent if they carry two copies. These variants, in the FGFR2 (Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 2) gene, were found in more than half of…
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Coop honors public service programs at Harvard
The Harvard Coop, continuing its tradition of contributing to public service in Greater Boston communities, has awarded $10,000 in grants to a total of 22 student-led public service organizations at Harvard. Nine grants will support summer programming in 2007 and 13 grants will support term-time service for the 2007-08 academic year. Harvard Coop public service…
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Traditional tintinnabulation
A peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge next week, on June 7. For the 19th consecutive year, a number of neighboring churches and institutions will ring their bells in celebration of the city of Cambridge and of Harvard’s 356th Commencement Exercises.
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Commencement exercises, June 7
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:
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Faust installation, Oct. 12
Incoming President Drew G. Faust will be formally installed as Harvard’s 28th president on Oct. 12 at an outdoor ceremony in the Tercentenary Theatre. An academic procession, featuring representatives of universities from around the world, will begin at 2 p.m. The installation will begin at 2:30 p.m. The event will be open to all faculty,…
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Four faculty recognized with Cabot Fellowship
Faculty of Arts and Sciences interim Dean David Pilbeam has announced that Allan Brandt, Kathleen Coleman, Jeffry Frieden, and James Robinson are the Walter Channing Cabot Fellows for the current academic year. The fellowships are awarded annually to selected faculty members in recognition of their achievements and scholarship in the fields of “literature, history or…
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Historical Commission recognizes Radcliffe
The Cambridge Historical Commission recently awarded its Preservation Recognition Award to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for its renovation of the Radcliffe Gymnasium, which preserved the historical fabric of the building while focusing on accessibility, quality, and sustainability. Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves, along with Historical Commission Chair William B. King and Vice Chair…
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Nieman Foundation announces U.S., International Fellows for 2007-08
Thirty U.S. and international journalists have recently been named to the 70th class of Nieman Fellows at Harvard University.
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Conference examines values and global health
In an age where the health of those in one country can affect that of others around the world, scholars from Harvard, Boston University, and Northwestern University gathered at Harvard’s Barker Center last week to examine the importance of values in driving efforts to address global health concerns.
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Commencement feasting, customs, color date to medieval Europe
The sheriffs still ride up to Harvard’s Johnston Gate on horseback. The free beer flows freely. It’s the 400th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard, the first benefactor of the University, and the 356th Commencement at the nation’s oldest institute of higher learning.
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Writers support Hoffman Breast Center
Harvard’s American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) hosted a very special event on May 21, “An Evening With Your Favorite Authors,” to benefit the Hoffman Breast Center at Harvard-affiliated Mt. Auburn Hospital.
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This month in Harvard history
May 1967 — More than 800 guests fill the Palmer Dixon Tennis Courts to celebrate John Finley’s 25th anniversary as Master of Eliot House.
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Police reports
Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending May 21. 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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In brief
BSC summer session upcoming The Bureau of Study Counsel will offer its summer session course in reading and study strategies from July 2 to 19. Through readings, films, and classroom exercises, students learn to read more purposively, selectively, and with greater speed and comprehension. One-hour sessions will be held Monday through Friday beginning at 4…
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Newsmakers
Kargère awarded advising award The Student Affairs Committee of the Undergraduate Council recently awarded Lecturer on History and Literature Stephen Kargère the 2007 John R. Marquand Award for exceptional advising and counseling for a faculty member. Now in its sixth year, the prize — honoring legendary Dudley House senior tutor John H. Marquand — is…
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Memorial service
Westheimer memorial set for June A memorial gathering for Frank H. Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, will be held June 29 at 3 p.m. in Pfizer Lecture Hall, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, 12 Oxford St. Westheimer died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on April 14. He was 95.
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Homebodies
Ana Vollmar ’08 of Pforzheimer House and Matt Drazba ’08 of Kirkland House have been named this year’s David Aloian Memorial Scholars. The two will be honored at the Harvard Alumni Association’s (HAA) fall dinner. Established in 1988 to honor the late David Aloian ’49, a former HAA executive director and master of Quincy House,…
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School volunteers honored with Mack Davis award
Cambridge School Volunteers (CSV) recently honored more than 900 volunteers who have served in grades K-12 of the Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) during the 2006-07 school year. The special reception, hosted by Harvard at the Faculty Club, was held May 14.
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Undergraduate book collecting winner announced
A family activity rare in this day and age — singing around the piano — inspired the collection of this year’s winner of the Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting. Harvard student Robin Worth Reinert ’10 has been awarded first prize for her entry “Songs That Never Die: Community Songbooks in America.”
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Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus announces Respect Award recipient
The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus (HGLC) announced that Kevin Jennings ’85 will receive the HGLC Respect Award. It will be presented to Jennings at the caucus’ annual Commencement Day dinner, this year to be held in Lowell House on June 7. In the evening’s keynote speech, best-selling author Andrew Tobias ’68, M.B.A. ’72 will…
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Harvard Foundation honors Knowles, students
The Harvard Foundation recently honored members of the University community who have made outstanding contributions to improving intercultural and race relations at the College. More than 40 students and one distinguished faculty member were presented with awards at the annual Harvard Foundation Student/Faculty Awards Dinner held on May 4 at Quincy House in memory of…
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Reunions
This Commencement season, reunion activities for the Classes of 1987, 1992, 1997, and 2002 will be held June 7-10. Members of those classes can contact Jen Halloran at (617) 495-2555 with any reunion questions. Individuals planning on attending their fifth Harvard reunion can register for events and housing at http://classes.harvard.edu/college/2002.
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Rothschild, Enlightenment scholar, named FAS professor
Emma Rothschild, one of the leading historians of the Enlightenment whose extensive scholarly career has focused on the history of European economic ideas, has been appointed professor of history in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1, 2007.
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Holiday hours for workout facilities…and more
Harvard Recreation has announced its hours of operation for the Memorial Day weekend for the following facilities: Hemenway Gym, Gordon Track and Field Center, Blodgett Pool, and the Quadrangle Recreational Athletics Center (QRAC).
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School volunteers honored with Mack Davis award
Cambridge School Volunteers (CSV) recently honored more than 900 volunteers who have served in grades K-12 of the Cambridge Public Schools (CPS) during the 2006-07 school year. The special reception, hosted by Harvard at the Faculty Club, was held May 14.