Year: 2007

  • Nation & World

    HUHS flu vaccination clinics

    Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) is offering free flu shots to members of the Harvard community.

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    Happy anniversary!

    In a performance befitting the special occasion, Harvard quarterback Chris Pizzotti ’08 dazzled in the 100th meeting between the Crimson and the Princeton Tigers this past Saturday (Oct. 20) at the stadium. Poised and patient both in and out of the pocket, the senior completed 25 of 35 passes for a career-best 365 yards and…

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    Sports in brief

    The Harvard men’s water polo team will salute its supporters with fan appreciation festivities this evening (Oct. 25) as the club takes on visiting Brown. The Harvard women’s golf team shot a blistering 318 in the second day of action at the Gutshall Invitational at the Saucon Valley Country Club in Bethlehem, Penn., this past…

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    Title IX talk shows knotty issues are alive and well

    More than 30 years after its enactment, Title IX is still a topic of hot debate.

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    Blood drive in Holyoke Center

    The Office for Sponsored Programs is holding a blood drive Nov. 6 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Holyoke Center (conference room 704) for the benefit of Mount Auburn Hospital.

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    Over the river, through the woods

    For close to 30 Hyde Park preschool children, a recent trip to the Arnold Arboretum, the majestic 265-acre botanical garden run by Harvard University in Jamaica Plain, meant a journey to a world alive with natural wonders and surprises.

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    Improving child survival around the globe is key goal of United Nations

    Reducing child mortality rates for children under 5 — which in 2004 was 6.5 (per 1,000 children annually) in Latin America and the Caribbean, about 20 in South Asia, and 39 in sub-Saharan Africa — is one of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These goals were established at the beginning of this decade…

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    Steven Pinker’s ‘Ideas on the Fringe’

    Not long ago, Steven Pinker appeared on “The Colbert Report.” He managed to explain the functioning of the human brain to Stephen Colbert in only five words: “Brain cells fire in patterns.”

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    Panel investigates media reporting on science and politics of stem cells

    Stem cells, politics, “fairness,” and what one participant termed “the disintegration of traditional journalism,” were all on the bill at Thursday night’s (Oct. 18) public forum titled “Stem Cells and the Media,” hosted by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

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    Improving women’s health key Indian strategy

    Detailed research of Indian health disparities has revealed that significant differences in access to health care exist even within families, with the health and nutrition of women and girls taking a backseat to that of men and boys.

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    Field school brings students to Borneo

    Morning came in the middle of the night in the hikers’ hut partway up the side of Borneo’s towering Mount Kinabalu.

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    Hunn Awards bestowed for long service

    Six alumni/ae and one Harvard parent were recognized for their outstanding “Schools and Scholarships” work during an awards ceremony on Oct. 19 at the Charles Hotel. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons presented the annual Hunn Awards for outstanding longtime service at the fete.

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    Building stories: GSD helps some come true

    This summer, Ming Thompson learned a few things about telling a story.

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    Edelman pumps up Memorial Church crowd

    On Oct. 19 at the Memorial Church, while a heavy rain pelted down outside, Marian Wright Edelman pelted a near-capacity audience with facts about America’s social failings. An American child is abused or neglected every 36 seconds, said the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, and every 42 seconds a child is born…

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    Chidambaram talks about ‘rich poor’ India

    At 60 years old, India is a young nation. It is also a country that is both rich and poor.

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    Mayor Bloomberg receives HSPH’s Richmond Award

    Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City has been named the 2007 recipient of the Julius B. Richmond Award, the highest honor given by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

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    Remembering with the Memorial Church at 75

    When the 11th hour struck on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the four-year nightmare of World War I — “The Great War” — officially ended. The world awoke to find some 22 million dead and a like number physically wounded. Never before had any generation witnessed such concentrated death and destruction.…

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    The hunger for live theater

    Harvard President Drew Faust was about to cut the giant ribbon stretched across the stage of the New College Theatre when a shrill voice called out from the back of the audience:

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    This month in Harvard history

    October 1836 — In the “North American Review,” Henry Russell Cleveland, Class of 1827, aims a verbal wrecking ball at Harvard’s buildings:

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) for the week ending Oct. 22. 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

    The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston will host their annual celebration of the traditional Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Mexican holiday on Nov. 2. In commemoration of its 100th Lilac Sunday event (set for May 11, 2008), the Arnold Arboretum is now accepting…

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    Newsmakers

    Visiting scientist Frederick “Skip” Burkle, a senior fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), was recently elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM). New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd will deliver the Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics Thursday (Oct. 25) at 6 p.m. in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the…

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  • Nation & World

    Medieval renaissance

    Medieval history comes to lyrical life at Harvard as musicians perform an 800-year-old Ambrosian liturgical chant recently indetified in Harvard’s Houghton Library.

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    Humanities Center to welcome postdoctoral fellows

    The Humanities Center at Harvard recently announced the inauguration of a postdoctoral fellowship program. The first class of fellows, who will be in residence for the 2008-09 year, includes two American and two German scholars.

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    Redheaded strangers

    Ancient DNA retrieved from the bones of two Neanderthals suggests that at least some of them had red hair and pale skin, scientists report this week in the journal Science.…

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    It took a novel tack to discover an obesity gene

    The racing sailboat was small, and Christoph Lange wanted to be sure he didn’t capsize and plunge into the Charles River again, as he’d done half a dozen times that…

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    Massive microRNA scan uncovers leads to treating muscle degeneration

    Researchers have discovered the first microRNAs–tiny bits of code that regulate gene activity–linked to each of 10 major degenerative muscular disorders, opening doors to new treatments and a better biological…

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    Eating whole-grain cereals may help men lower heart failure risk

    Men who consume a higher amount of whole grain breakfast cereals may have a reduced risk of heart failure, according to a report by Harvard researchers published in the October…

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    New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to receive Richmond Award for promotion of public health in NYC and nation

    New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been named to receive the Harvard School of Health’s annual Julius B. Richmond Award for his extraordinary leadership in working to protect and…

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    Media can’t separate stem cell science from politics

    Stem cells, politics, “fairness,” and what one participant termed “the disintegration of traditional journalism,” were all on the bill at Thursday night’s Public Forum titled “Stem Cells and the Media,”…

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