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Year: 2007
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Arts & Culture
Undergrad grants available through Schlesinger Library
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites Harvard undergraduates to make use of the library’s collections with competitive awards (ranging from $100 to $2,500) for relevant research projects.
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Science & Tech
Undergrads to compete at Programming Contest
A group of Harvard undergraduates will travel to Tokyo to compete in the Association for Computing Machinery’s 31st annual International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) on March 12-16. More than 6,000 teams, representing 1,756 universities from around the globe, participated in the regional competitions last fall. The top 88 teams earned coveted spots on the 2007…
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Campus & Community
Harvard College sets Cambridge Queen’s Head opening for April 19
Following intensive consultation with students and some two years of planning and preparations, Harvard College will open the Cambridge Queen’s Head on April 19. The new 176-seat pub in Loker Commons, intended to augment the College’s House-based social life with a comfortable common venue for meeting and socializing, will debut with some 15 special events…
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Campus & Community
Faust inauguration set for October
The inauguration events for Harvard’s 28th president, Drew Gilpin Faust, will take place beginning the evening of Oct. 11. The inauguration will continue with the installation ceremony scheduled for Oct. 12 at approximately 2 p.m. More details will be made available as plans progress.
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Campus & Community
Fencers split at North Champs
On a weekend where every touch was fought with intensity and passion, great respect was manifest but no love was lost between Ivy League fencing rivals Harvard and Columbia. The two schools, after all, were battling for supremacy at the Ivy League North Championship (Feb. 25) at Harvard’s Gordon Track and Field Center.
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Health
Common prostate cancer therapy may carry risks
Androgen deprivation therapy – one of the most common treatments for prostate cancer – may increase the risk of death from heart disease in patients over age 65, according to a new study by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and other institutions.
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Nation & World
Young scholars show findings at HGSE Student Research Conference
In a basement classroom in Larsen Hall on Friday (Feb. 23), there was everything young learners need: chalkboards, a screen, bright lights, sturdy chairs – and good teachers. In this case, four good teachers – all of them Ed.M. students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). The four were among 230 young scholars…
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Health
Over-the-counter pain relievers increase the risk of high blood pressure in men
Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found that the three most commonly used drugs in the United States, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and aspirin, increase the risk of developing high blood pressure in middle-aged men. These findings are published in the Feb. 26 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Science & Tech
Medieval Islamic architecture presages 20th century mathematics
Intricate decorative tilework found in medieval architecture across the Islamic world appears to exhibit advanced decagonal quasicrystal geometry – a concept discovered by Western mathematicians and physicists only in the 1970s and 1980s. If so, medieval Islamic application of this geometry would predate Western mastery by at least half a millennium.
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Health
Harvard athletes grow bigger, better hearts
Strenuous exercise can cause a heart to grow as much as 10 percent and its chambers to enlarge, Harvard researchers have discovered after testing the University’s athletes. What they are learning from these studies could someday be applied to advising nonathletes about caring for their hearts.
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Campus & Community
College announces new sophomore advising plan
Harvard College has announced a new preconcentration advising program to help rising sophomores. As the former freshmen are being welcomed into House life, advisers will help them choose their concentration.
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Campus & Community
New York City mayor to receive award, deliver remarks at KSG
Michael R. Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, will receive the Pathfinder Award Friday (March 2) from the Leadership for a Networked World (LNW) Program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Bloomberg will also deliver remarks before an audience of invited guests at the School’s Wiener Auditorium beginning at 4 p.m. and will be…
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Science & Tech
Jackson raps abundance of ‘experts’
In 1973, Shirley Ann Jackson became the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Decades – and 38 honorary degrees – later, Jackson is the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York. Her resume includes time as a university researcher (in theoretical elementary particle physics);…
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Arts & Culture
Tackling tradition and taboos
Mary Gitagno plainly remembers the pain of her traditional Tanzanian tribe’s female circumcision ritual. It is a pain she determined her own daughters would never feel. In the years since, Gitagno went far beyond sparing her daughters from female genital mutilation, beginning a nonprofit organization to lobby the government and educate the public about the…
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Nation & World
Rethinking Islam from Pakistan to Texas
Two Harvard professors are spearheading a new initiative aimed at defeating “a clash of ignorances,” a clash, they affirm, that perpetuates misunderstanding, prejudice, and fear between Muslim and Western societies.
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Campus & Community
Donella Rapier to step down as vice president for alumni affairs and development
Donella M. Rapier, vice president for alumni affairs and development, announced today (Feb. 26) that she will step down from her position effective June 30, 2007.
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Campus & Community
‘There’s Something About Ben’
In three decades of acting, Ben Stiller admits that he’s had some challenging roles. “‘There’s Something About Mary.’ There were some tough scenes in there,” he told a very young questioner at Harvard tonight (Feb. 23). “Don’t see it, though.”
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Arts & Culture
Boym turns chance errors into chancy art
Svetlana Boym leads a double life. Her faculty Web page identifies her as the Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature. She is the author of several scholarly books and teaches courses with titles like “Memory and Modernity” and “Russian Culture from Revolution to Perestroika.”
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Arts & Culture
Fishburne feted at Cultural Rhythms
The phrase “rich ethnic and cultural diversity” seemed like an understatement at last Saturday’s (Feb. 24) Cultural Rhythms extravaganza. This year’s event was energized by the appearance of the Artist of the Year Laurence Fishburne, the mightily accomplished actor, director, producer, and humanitarian.
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Arts & Culture
Urban design, strategic architecture
When Eve Blau speaks of Milan Lenuci, the city surveyor of Zagreb in the late 19th century, a note of reverence enters her voice. “He’s one of our great heroes,” she says. Lenuci’s finest accomplishment was the “Green Horseshoe,” a U-shaped series of parks and promenades surrounding Zagreb’s center and providing a refreshing refuge from…
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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 Feb. 26. 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
Arts of the Islamic World: A Workshop for Children
In conjunction with the exhibition “Overlapping Realms: Arts of the Islamic World and India, 900-1900,” the Sackler Museum is offering a workshop in Islamic art for children ages 9 to 12. Children will learn to recognize several elements of design in Islamic art including tessellations, linear repeat patterns, and arabesques. The workshop will include a…
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Campus & Community
MAC renovations update
Following the closing of the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) the week of March 19, MAC equipment will be made available to recreational users at the QRAC (66 Garden St.) and the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis facility (65 N. Harvard St.).
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Campus & Community
Daffodil orders taken through tomorrow
Daffodil Days, one of the University’s most popular and colorful fundraisers, is accepting orders through Friday (March 2). Bouquets cost $7 each and include 10 stems. For $25, the bouquet includes a limited edition, collectible Boyds Bear teddy bear.
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Campus & Community
Take a lunch break to ancient Israel
The Semitic Museum is sponsoring a free, docent-led tour of “The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine” on March 8 at 12:15 p.m.
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Campus & Community
Lemann Professor nominated young global leader
The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently nominated Tarun Khanna, an authority on strategy and emerging markets and Harvard Business School’s Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, as a Young Global Leader 2007.
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Campus & Community
NSP names Harvard senior Josh Bolian top volunteer
Harvard senior Josh Bolian has been selected Volunteer of the Year out of 550 candidates by the National Student Partnerships (NSP). The nation’s only year-round, student-led service organization, NSP works one-on-one with low-income community members by providing intensive on-site and referral services.
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Campus & Community
Kaplan elected to Accounting Hall of Fame at Ohio State
Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School Robert S. Kaplan recently joined the select group of academic, business, and government experts who have been elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame.
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Campus & Community
Sports in brief
Women’s hoops swoop up share of league title Men rock Yale at CSA consolation Above and beyond: Tracksters named All-Ivy